Bad Policies Ruin Great Games
VRising, has been supported by me and a large number of players for a very long time time. From vanilla to modded and believe it or not even one or two RP servers.
1.0 has been something we have been waiting for, for a long time, brutal being our main goal.
My discord server has several VRising players, and within that pool 4 of us decided to clan up and play on a vanilla official server. Two of us are very active, one is on a couple times a week and the other logs for the weekend raids.
The entire week before we finally beat Dracula in brutal mode, we saw people walking around with a red aura. We ganked and took their shards, and realized just how powerful this new blood was, it was rough but we brought them down, waiting for them to be alone, and struck then. Before this clan left to play another game we had collected ¾ of the shards, and we were practicing daily for Brutal Dracula (before the extreme nerf he just got, that’s another topic)
Finally on May 21st 2024 we did it, hours of grinding, hours of farming to repair gear, hours of memorizing. We got him down and we got this blood. It also has a cool red glow effect. We now knew why the blood was so strong when we looked at what it provided. Probably just an over tuned thing, that would get nerfed. You just got the blood, you didn’t have to do anything special or go around mechanics, you just had to play the game and you got it, you had to beat Dracula.
The very next day, the patch drops. People start talking about the blood on the server and we keep playing. I keep the blood full, we don’t attack players, we do defend ourselves in open world, we don’t raid as our server just has weekend raids. Me and the other active player log off to read the patch notes as people are telling us it was supposedly patched out, we try to log back onto the game and see that we are banned, not only that the clanmate that was not even on for the patch is banned and our final clanmate that only logs for weekends is also banned.
You had a bug, that you called an exploit, there was no exploit. That is disingenuous at best. Then in your patch notes you said you patched it out of the game, you didn’t. You created a mob of people with pitch forks because of that irresponsible label. Without context you banned a diehard group of people who play the crap out of this game. The timing was grimdark comedy, that we logged off to read patch notes and then return to a seemingly permanent ban.
Now we have 3 shards that are probably de-spawned, even if by some stroke of luck a dev decides to read this and do the right thing. We play each release in vanilla then move to modded servers. When context no longer matters, when shrieking mobs get what they want, we all know its time to move on. It is exhausting seeing great games slowly ground to dust, because of bad policies like this.
It has been real peeps!