Love the game few criticism...

1. repetative enemies - not enough varying designs [I am only up to Kryta]. Each land has 4-5 kinds. Needs double of that.

2. Laggy server at times. No good if you are in a team. [but thanks for the free online game

3. The online trade dialogue posting is too much spamming. Needs a seperate infustructure for it.

4. A little more control on the Hench. Sometimes there are situations I don't want to attack...

5. head up display [map, party list, skills, etc] need transperancy option. There are too many information being flashed at you in the heat of the battle. We need to simplify it and add some transperency].

etc.

But in general I am loving the game. PvE is fun especially with a team [even if your team sux], PvP rules [so far 16 games in a row is my record].

Free online game rules!! [just like BNET ]

thanks

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While I do agree with some of your points, this should be in the Sanitarium.

But I am inclined to say "Thank You" for remaining civil

Sorry about that. You can close or move it if need be.

I haven't been on lately, so I wouldn't know if they've declined, but I have never had a lag problem. I do agree with your other points though.

for #3, you can turn off the trade channel if you're not intented to trade. but i guess they should setup a market place or some sort. however, there'll always be idiots who use the main chat to say anything.

Thank you for making an informed and thought out post and not a rant.

I agree with your concerns but It dosnt really matter to me about #5

While true, they now just type WTS and spam trades in general public chat so if you turn that off you can't form or join groups in towns.

I have to agree on all points, except the lag issue, too. And I have played for more than 400 hours since release, so, no matter what I'd say, I enjoyed the game so far and I still do so

at #1:
Yes, some areas can be really boring with just about two types of critters. Also you regularly encounter the same type of enemies, again, just somehow stronger ( for example devourers ).
In my opinion one of the best maps is Lornars Pass. Mainly because of the different monsters ( you encounter ice imps, pinesouls, ice wurms, avicaras, stone summits, grawls,... ).

#2: Except for the day of release, I never had any real lag. If I dropped out or it got laggy, it always was my own internetconnection.

#4: A little bit more control would be nice, but I guess, henchmen are supposed to be a bit dumb. It's a multiplayergame and this way you get encouraged to play with other players
But I have to agree, that the Henchman AI should get fixed a bit. It's a bit annoying to see Alesia planshing with raising fun in poisoned water or Stefan camping in lava

#5: That would be great, I'd love to make my partywindow more transparent for example.

Got to add some points:

#6: Maybe for the expansions: open areas. Until now, most of the maps are limitting the movement. Most of the time you are forced to move a defined path. Some more open areas, with woods or something, would definately not hurt. Maybe paths like now, with a few enemies, but the farther you leave the defined path, the more and stronger enemies you'll encounter.

#7: Tooltips. An option to turn off popupinformation like "megahyperattack, hit all adjacent enemies for +23 damage with a spinning attack" while fighting. If you know your skills etc, it's just blocking your view, esspecially on lower resolutions.
Please excuse me for having brought up this old story again, I felt somehow forced to do so

#8: A chatfilter for messages like " xyz drops a zxy, your party reserves it for.." etc.

#9: Some better rewards for hunting down bosses in remote (!) locations. Currently it's like, "Look, there are 2% morale boost waiting to be collected" and not "Uh, cool, a boss, I'd really want to know if we can kill him and if he drops something usable".

As stated above, this is not a rant either. It's just a small and brainstormed listing that expresses what might be an improvement for my (!) gaming experience. Others might think different about it though.