We NEED To Talk About The First Descendant

The First Descendant is a new MMO Looter Shooter that should very much be a game I enjoy. It does a few things right, and checks a lot of boxes. But I'm just not loving the game, for a few reasons. Let's dive in.

[rallicraze]

Nexon is not a company a gamer can trust, they have been sued for manipulating RNG drop rates to 0 percent!!!!

[dantalion]

The first boss's name is GREG...i was very intimidated, it was a solid name, unlike GREGARIUS or say GREGORIA, yea those names dont give gravitas to a boss. GREG is where it's at

[jonathanstrock]

My rage over not having a 20% drop rate item drop over dozens of attempts feels justified.

[isa_lim]

3 orbs mechanic becomes better, it becomes 5 orbs later

[Clovhis]

The game should be named "The three orbs"

[Backout_]

Hearing someone else talk fondly about defiance brings me joy I miss the hell outta that game

[Blair.G]

the crazy thing about monetization is that if you made a fair monetization system you would get more people to spend money. you cut out an entire group of people by being predatory. if you make a fair system you will get my money and the whales because they are going to spend money regardless so the focus should be on getting me to spend money

[rikku]

I'm going to enjoy the game till I don't, they aren't seeing a dollar from me with those crazy ass prices.

[Galf]

9M USD is such a pitiful fine... what's the point? They should be fined for like 5% of the yearly revenue in the timespan considered... like in this case, 10 years, fine them 5% of 10 years of revenue from that game.

Like to put it in perspective: Nexon made 2.5 BILLION with a B USD in revenue in 2022. approximately around 20% of that (conservative, probably) is Maplestory. That's 500 hundred millions a year.

Let's just say for the sake of simplification that that's what they've been making with Maplestory for 10 years: that's 5bn dollars. 5% of that would be 250 million dollars. THAT would be a reasonable fine.

9 million? May as well fine them 50 cents, that's how much it matters to Nexon. Would you stop stealing from people if you only get fined for about 0.2% of the total revenue you made? I know I wouldn't. I'm making 99.8%, they can take the 0.2.

[WhiteWolf-zlwj]

Honestly, the grapple reminds me of my favorite capcom game Lost planet. MAN... I miss that stupid game so much.

[MrShivshank]

So.. like ... shes the energizer bunny?

[Rage-_-Quit]

In the Beta there were no enemies outside of active missions. People complained the worlds were too empty so they now added random roaming mobs of enemies that do nothing but disrupt you while you're trying to sort your drops between missions lol. Still having a great time working through hard mode bosses rn.

[mars]

"Nexon has promised they will eventually look at possibly adding trading" rofl, that was a mouthful

[madcappx]

I really liked Outriders too. You're not alone <3

[SilverWoIf]

One thing I've noticed about the world feeling alive, is they added these little groups of enemies that just wander the world. Now they did this based on feedback and I'll admit I'd rather enemies only spawn when missions are active. The reason for this is I can't sort or look at the loot in my inventory in the open world because of the wandering enemies just killing me while I'm doing so which does get old when you have to look at loot a lot

[lordmed]

The biggest problem right is the dye system...
You can't paint anything default, you can only paint skins, and the dye is one time use...
In Warframe you can paint everything and you have unlimited use of colors

[fredwilliams]

Oh boy Defiance those were the days, man I'm old😅

[SootytheMagicalBear]

you can tell this game was designed as a store first and game second

[Spartacus]

Also getting caught on your team mates as a bunny while running

[itsporter]

Nexon: pay us 100 dollars to see some cheeks

Gamers: Yes