Some parting thoughts.
I've decided to take a break from this game. I'll hang around the forums as it is more entertaining than the game. You honestly couldn't make a lot of this stuff up, but I have just given up on the game.
I spent my last day doing a lot of different things and using quite a few different gearsets. I know I'm known for being negative (I believe with good reason) but I'm trying to make this non-judgmental and simply factual, based upon what happened in a normal day of game play.
I realized overall what a drag the grind had become and simply how unpleasant I found the grind to get Div Tech to finish off a build I was working on. It made the whole completion anti-climatic because I was drained and really just wanted to get off. I realized how little Rogue 2.0 had done to stop checkpoint camping and the DZ marathon and how comical the whole exercise really was.
I became frustrated with how sets that were centered around a core skill or gear piece like sniping or the ballistic shield were rendered useless by broken game mechanics that made all the work putting the builds together pointless. Initial sniper shots never register. I didn't miss, the shot simply didn't register. It alerted all of the NPCs who took off like scalded cats running for cover and diving like dolphins making any further sniping pointless. In front of me the Benny Hill Show unfolded as NPCs ran back and forth faster than I could track them in my sights, staggering me with blindfire whilst headshots did nothing to stop their rate of fire. Eventually I changed gloves and started using an AR.
Later I changed to a shield build which was mildly fun until the game decided for some strange reason not to allow me to deploy my shield. An entire build centered around one piece of equipment I could not deploy. Frustratedly I pressed the button over and over until my toon nonchalantly threw the shield aside and left me unprotected as 'Chains' descended upon me. I ran for cover but never made it as the shotgunner hot on my heels could run much faster than me. I turned to face him and would have prevailed had I not needed to reload, something that NPCs apparently never have to do.
I decided to spend my last remaining cipher keys and see what new vanity items I might obtain. I spent at least 10 minutes opening boxes to find one blue piece of clothing that I didn't already own. The rest of my purchases rewarded me with duplicates for which I was awarded key fragments that accumulated into keys that rewarded me with more duplicates and more key fragments in a never ending cycle.
I sold everything I had accumulated in hours of gameplay having obtained nothing of any use and spent my last 50 Div Tech upgrading a holster on a gearset that I realized I would probably never get around to fully optimizing, just like a dozen others.
I looked through every gearset I own and realized that the vast majority were no longer viable at all whilst others were only viable in PvE. I wandered around the BOO contemplating where all the players had gone that used to keep me company at the recalibration bench and vendors.
I ran one final round of the open world bosses and realized half way through that I hardly had the enthusiasm to finish this never mind consider completing a weekly or anything else.
But most of all, I realized I missed my friends. Sure there are people I still play with but there are others long gone who I miss dearly and were as much a part of this game to me as were LAU, Rhodes and Benitez.
I felt quite sad as I switched off, not because I felt I was going to miss the game but because I know I won't, something I would have never have believed a short while ago. And I felt anger, real anger at the people who let this happen through their incompetence, stubbornness, lack of accountability and pure indifference. I feel sorry that Tom Clancy's legacy has come to this, driven into the ground by a group of individuals more intent upon pursuing pseudo internet fame than actually doing their job.
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