Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum

-Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account

Hey guys

Yes, it’s me again.

I’m curious, why do people buy games? It’s to play, to escape the normal life we live as accountant, baker, teacher or whatever else you are. Ultimately, it is to have fun, right? Do you know what’s not fun?

Standing in some medieval shaming device for a good ten minutes, because the Log-Out timer is increased in the pillory, knowing that for the next day, in real life, you can’t play - that is not fun. At least in my opinion, maybe there are people who disagree but I think, or rather, I hope, that the majority is with me on this one.

And the system seems to be biased, I mean, yes, we attacked someone in town, but only because that someone killed my buddies and me multiple times, twice in towns, once outside. So, for once, we got the drop on them, only to have the game-system itself step in, truss us up and punish us. On the other hand, when we were attacked, did the system intervene? No! Not even when we were attacked in an Inn, which I had considered truly safe-zones.

So, what is your opinion on all that, in-game punishments and even jailing your character and some strange bullshit system that protects some, while punishing others. Yes, I know, some people are valuable to the company, due to the content they generate, the clicks, the advertisements, all that jazz, but still, there shouldn’t be blatant system-bias in their favour. That will kill the game faster than anything else, other than health-risks while playing.

And with that, I’m out.

Ghostblade

-Do’rodra, confirmed Beta-Account

Sounds like bullshit. Bullshit, all around.

-Tarrin, confirmed Beta-Account

Not quite sure what you mean by blatant bias in favour of content-creators. Granted, I’m no big celebrity streamer but I do generate content, pulling in a solid number of viewers every week.

But I doubt that my character is marked in the system, I’m just playing like everyone else, only that I post my recordings from time to time, after editing them.

-Ghostfire, confirmed Beta-Account

No offense, man, but you get what, five k viewers? If that? I looked and the most you got was with that crippled, creepy forest and that video got sixteen-thousand, nine-hundred views and change.

Let’s be real, you are a small fish, if you are even a fish at all. Pond-Scum, would fit better, you just don’t matter.

Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account

Dude, no need to be an ass. Growing a subscriber-base takes time, effort and luck. You know the old joke, that monday morning, everybody is a star-quarterback? Believe it or not, until you have more viewers and better content, you should sit tight and shut up. And yes, I know that the three of you uploaded a few videos with more views, but let’s be honest, those got the views they got because of the one kicking your ass six ways to sunday.

That doesn’t make you famous streamers or content-creators or something like that. That makes you parasites and people take joy in watching someone squash you.

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-Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

First of all, I doubt that Pantheon overtly puts their finger on the scale, so to speak. They might give out hints, so that famous streamers are in the right spot, at the right time, to generate awesome content, or they just take who is in the right spot at the right time and publish the stream from them, like they do in the highlight-reels.

And yes, I know that some players are in them too often for random chance, but consider this: Those players are the trailblazers, those who invest insane amounts of time into the game and have since the beginning.

Is it surprising that they are ahead of the curve when it comes to awesome things happening to them? Not really, at least in my opinion.

And now, getting back to the other topic.

I’d need some more information before I can even start to pass judgement, I’m guessing that you tried something with Morgana/Titania again? Let me further guess that it went bad and, once again, you have no idea why, thus your assumption that the game-system was involved?

How close am I?

-Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account

Semi-Right, Harms.

Yes, we went after Morgana, or rather, we lucked out and ran into her and her party when they weren’t paying attention.

So, what do you do when someone you want to kill isn’t paying attention?

Exactly, kill the caster first, mop up the rest, so we went after Morgana, managed to get a solid hit in and suddenly, before the rest of her party managed to do more than get their weapons out, we are trussed up by some magic effect that, according to tooltip, lasts indefinitely, preventing us from attacking, moving, using magi, everything.

And it wasn’t Morgana herself, she went down quite hard after the first hit, so I doubt that she had a hand in it, especially because the chains we were caught in were made from rock or something.

-Tobiuno, confirmed Beta-Account

Not cool, guys. Spreading misinformation is not okay and insulting someone for the size of their channel is just pathetic.

There is no ingame-reward for streaming, making videos or any sort of content-creation. The fact that I’m a content-creator, streamer and general promoter of the game has no effect of my performance ingame and devs don’t give me any heads up, I only get those via ingame-channels I cultivated, something anyone could do.

-Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account-

Ah, so close to self-enlightenment, and yet so far away.

But, fret not, I will grant you enlightenment, as the zen-master I am.

First, however, I want to share with all of you, the newest martial-art style I managed to master, it is called “Way of the Pigeon”. most would class it as an Art of the Open Hand, which, in this case, is used to deliver a resounding slap to the metaphorical face of another person.

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Darkness reigns and in the background, slow, almost mournful, music plays. Then, the camera slowly zooms out and light shows that the darkness had been a dark slab of wood, the upper half of a pillory.

On the pillory, a large, black raven sits, looking away from the camera.

To the music, words are added, a tirade of insults, curses and expletives, stemming from the person in the pillory. The movement of that person’s mouth and the words are not in syinc;, the mouth moves slowly, making it obvious that the video is in slow-motion.

Suddenly, the camera zooms back in, not completely, but the focus is clearly on a glob of whitish goop, dropping from the raven.

As the goop drops, the music slowly swells, towards a crescendo and right as the glop splatters into the bound person’s hair, the music reaches its triumphant crescendo.

Ah, yes, now, where were we?

Right, you wanted to know what happened, considering that I was apparently out of the action. In that regard, you were right, by the way, though not for the reason you think you are, but on that, I’m not elaborating.

But consider this. You attacked me, right in the town of Kolyug, out in the open. Now, I’m not sure if it is a racial trait of the Trolls on Mundus or a local trait but those guys give Control-Freaks a bad name. I could add some video of the town and the whole town is an obsessive-compulsive nightmare. Clean, each brick measured, every corner exactly ninety degrees, even the magical field or whatever you want to call it, is bound into the architecture.

And in the town of such control-freaks, you started trouble.

Now, take this with a grain of salt, I’m not certain how correct I am on it, keep that in mind.

The whole town seems to be a magical artifact, created some time ago and kept in the hands of the Kol, which is the mayor, noble, whatever you want to call the big cheese. There might even be some sort of elemental intelligence bound in the thing, I’m not sure, but it is basically a huge surveillance and control-system.

Mind you, we are not talking game-system but in-world system, similar to CCTV in the real world. Just magical with automatic enforcement.

You might say that we fought in towns before, and we did. What you ignore are two things. Our previous fights, if you want to call it that, took place in Yaksha, a small hamlet without a town-guard. And I managed to kill you without witnesses or even anything truly pointing at me. If not for your ability as Travellers to come back from the death, nobody would truly know that I killed you. Suspect, maybe, but not know.

Despite that, the rumours you spread caused a mob to form, running me out of town and I don’t want to consider what would have happened without the threat of overwhelming power holding them back.

Yet, despite those facts, you dare to play the victim?