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yeah i’m sure that was the reason

the bans don’t seem to have had anything to do with GMs, so there’s that and honestly, yes - as we’ve seen over the years players are perfectly “happy” to create new accounts even after being “falsely” banned

hi i’m sadira

and that’s why ur not DDOSing apb altho if you were this would be a good cover to throw investigations off the trail

good talk bro i’m glad you brought such a well thought out response to the table

2fa was intended to replace the trade lock at one point, this obviously hit some sort of speed bump and i don’t think we’ve gotten an update yet

i’m not sure where i said this, considering it’s obviously untrue as nearly every non-cosmetic item can be reached for free in any case, yes i do consider this game worth more to me than a fully fledged AAA title but that’s obviously subjective it may or may not be anti-consumer, but that has very little bearing on how it adds to the gameplay experience, which achievements and “grinds” are fundamentally designed to do how would you reward players if not with progressively better (to a point) items that they can actually use, it’s the easiest and (imo) best way to have physical proof that their efforts are a positive action “endgame” players vs new players shouldn’t factor into any of this as its not something that should happen unless it’s voluntary and steps are being taken to reduce/eliminate it i would argue that the arbitrary wall is more entertaining than the content behind it in most cases, regardless of knowing it’s a psychological trick or not apb was a good game with rewarding mechanics and a high skill ceiling, 2011-2012 was the peak imo, and the game barely surpassed 7k concurrent players making the perfect game and players deciding to flock to it is a great idea in a vacuum perhaps in reality the gaming industry (just like literally every other industry) relies on money and that money comes from consumers - perhaps you feel differently but i would much rather get into a game for free and find out i have to pay for small conveniences over handing over $60/$80/$100 up front and finding out the game is crap

a bit of good news, perhaps all the naysayers/whiners will be quiet for a while now that there’s public proof that accounts are being banned

ok? at some point everything will be debundled, if orbit is smart

"for pennies on the dollar" is not a strawman, you've repeatedly (even in this very quote) said that you want access to all apb content for a fraction of what it currently costs removing "grinding" and thus many achievements will only lessen the gameplay experience for most people, here's a link that breaks it down fairly well and provides several sources http://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/07/why-do-achievements-trophies-and-badges-work/

nice duckwrth

so your entire argument boils down to “i want everything for pennies on the dollar” why even bother playing the game? i can’t think of a single similar (fps/tps, mmo, rpg) game that can be purchased for x dollars and every single piece of content is available immediately after logging in, all the achievements are unlocked and completed, etc it really astonishes me that you’re somehow surprised that an opinion going against the majority of the gaming industry and actual scientific studies is met with criticism

yikes

i can’t tell if you did it on purpose or not

updates are good, even if it’s not “everything’s fixed”

prolly got deleted cuz u went on a weird tangent rant

sights used to work on shtoguns just like they work on every other gun (besides explosives), it was changed in the last big balance update that g1 did iirc

no sight mods affect shotguns sprint/run/walk modifiers iirc

orbit doesn’t seem fond of sales, the armas revamp is nearly finished/coming soon as of the last info dump

the gold rush only exacerbated the issue by encouraging silvers and bronzes to join the gold districts, forcing some golds to either sit in an empty gold district hoping for it to fill up or simply not play

no

yeah it should tell you a time frame on when the tradelock is lifted

i believe this is a known bug? i thought it had been patched out tho

might not happen until after the engine update, since it seems to be so close to a truly playable state i imagine they're going full force on that also iirc the current log in screen took g1 quite a bit of work, no way of telling if going back to the old one is even feasible with the current code