[Rithrin]

I'm always amazed as this genre of games is the only one where its "okay" to be buggy and unfinished as far as the product goes. It was like this with Shadowbane. The concepts were amazing, but the bugs from Day 1 were grievous and gamebreaking. People put up with it for months in hope that the developers would hear their pleas and get their acts together. I was one of them, hanging on to the game that I wanted it to be, ignoring what it actually was in hopes it would get fixed.

That's what's happening to Vanguard right now with a lot of the playerbase. I'm in no way trying to convince people to leave or anything. But currently the bugs are massive and inhibiting. A lot of people are just barely hanging on in hopes that Vanguard will indeed become the game it promises to be. If it isn't fixed, however, Vanguard will not work in the long run.

Certain bugs, especially grouping and combat bugs (Which is essentially the core of the game), are having a huge effect. I'm finding it literally impossible to start a group and make a pass through a dungeon in anything under four or five hours time. Between constant crashing for the majority of players, ressurection spells putting players on the top of the landscape above the dungeon, summoning spells dropping players through the world and then planting them 7km away, unlootable loot (usually rares and higher), dissapearing and warping mobs, heals randomly ceasing to affect their target, defensive targets resisting Rescues, and even more crashing, forming a dungeon group is a suicidal notion that will only end in hours wasted.

Anyone who thinks there aren't any problems or that those problems are excusable is fooling themselves. I'm like a lot of people out there now, I'm holding on for now, but if there's no sign that these problems are being worked on then I don't know how long I'll endure. I believe Sigil can do it, and we can only pray they do before the majority leaves.