Your nostalgic feelings on the subject do not represent the SK playerbase as a whole. When I was new, I ran JK all the time for profit, so I could progress. Obviously back then there were more players in the Arcade but the playerbase as a whole still does the same things it used to; run dungeons, make gear, run more dungeons.

With the Party Finder, you should be fine for finding good parties running missions you like. Don't begrudge players because they don't enjoy the game the same way you do.

Many players enjoy "winning": using optimal gear to beat things as best they can for optimum reward. Most people enjoy their games this way. That's not wrong of them.

Other players like myself enjoy playing with nonstandard weaponry, exploring for kicks, trying to get good at using horribly gimped equipment, etc. Often this means I like to play with like-minded people. From what I can tell you fall more into this category than the former. If that's the case, I'd suggest building a strong Friends list and running with them rather than randoms.

Have fun!

Play how you want.

Lead your own parties.

Kick out the particularly obnoxious.

Consume excessive amounts of almonds.

Honestly this game would be better to be rather relaxed on these missions would be if OOO would remove all of these extra data that does not support our equipment and help remove the lag which severely affects everyone. It becomes less and less fun with the increase in lag and all of these unnecessary data simply making it worse. Who else agrees? No one likes lag DX. Lag simply kills us faster D: . Even with a high performance lap top the lag is severe. Now I know I'm not the only one since I hear practically everyone complain about it. We should start an uprise and make sure OOO gets the message to remove any extra junk that does not support us in the arcade/missions and attempt to increase maximum efficiency and not make more junk.

Kitty, you are absolutely the best at finding subtle ways to advertise your videos. <.<

"boo shiver boo"
"boo easy boo"

Yea, totally sounds like you play for fun and you totally seem like a friendly person I want on my runs.

Since I have to got access to KoA recently, I haven't done pretty much anything in-game, except spam that mission . I used to play about a year back when I actually used to run the clockworks with friends I actually knew, had fun dying with. Now, for the few new people that I play with, it's basically become a race for who gets better and more diversified gear faster, which isn't bad imo, but the only option that leaves me is to maximise my crowns earned per CE/ME so that I don't fall behind in this "race"; which in turn means I have to keep spamming Vana runs, and so as to avoid reviving, having a shiver increases your chances of survival quite a bit.

I miss the days when Hector didn't post on these forums.

EDIT: Hivemind.

Kitty: Didnt you say you never going to make threads like this? i remember a post you did saying that.

Well The point its: dont expect people to play or do whatever you like, people are different not same as you there people will consider fun things that you dont and viceversa and you cant make them obey to do whatever you want thats no right. you have friends or a guild? and they like the same things to you? then do it with them but dont start to blame people because the stuff they like to do or they like to use thats no right.

i agree with you that i miss the old time arcade spiral where people just do runs for fun and meet other players, but now missions only make players Vana Zombies just looking for profit and joining guilds to take them only to vana runs. so yeah thats pretty messed up. but i dont agree with you that blame players just because the stuff they use and you dont like for that you have a friend list and guild to avoid those kind of troubles.

Back in my days we used leviathan blades on trojans and argents on Vanaduke because no one knew what a blitz needle was. /oldman