@ Moderators and/or devs
I play Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and DLCs next gen on a PC gaming rig only and I have some feedback I'd like to bring to your attention
1. Why can I not start a new topic as a new user on the forum?
- if I join a forum, it is usually because I have something to say, usually something that I deem important from my vantage point
- I'm not on the forum to read and eventually post other 10 replies, to other topics, just to be eligible to create my own topic, I have no time, nor energy to do that
- I'd suggest, for us, new users, having access to at least a section of the forum called Feedback, or something along those lines, where we are allowed to start a new topic
since that's not possible looks like, I request the mods to start a new topic for me, as per your policy:
"Welcome on forums! As a new user, you can post freely in any open thread on forums, but you cannot create new threads until you reach 10 posts. If you'd like to talk about something and cannot find any existing thread related to that topic, please feel free to post in the
Welcome thread ā moderators will create a new topic for you." - which I am doing here and now
2. I only play Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, only on a PC gaming rig, as it's supposed to be played any game in my opinion
- I don't care for the combat, I have a physical disability on my left hand, and as such I have no dexterity on my left-hand fingers, and as such I am not very good at combat, nor I'm not aiming to be any good at combat
- I play the game, any game, for the story and the RP aspects, not for the combat
- I chose "story only" the lowest possible difficulty, exactly because I don't like combat, I don't want combat, but I want to take part in the story
- yet, at the lowest difficulty, at level 87 with relic all gear, I'm not able to defeat the last boss in Blood & Wine, the vampire Dettlaff, because of the triple stages we need to defeat him, and because of the critical hits he continually places on us, while again, I'm at the lowest difficulty for combat
- after about two very frustrating hours of trying and dying and trying again and again, somehow - I don't even know how - I managed to defeat Dettlaff and finally move on with my progression, and eventually complete the game to the end
as a side note:
are you somehow under the impression that to keep dying and to keep trying to defeat a boss is fun?? do you really think that's what kind of fun are we looking for in a game?? to keep dying and keep trying again and again??
3. Due to the multiple endings options, I've started a New Game + with my character being at around level 88 at the end of the previous walkthrough
- in my naivete, I've chosen once again the lowest difficulty "story only"
- yet, little did I know that now, the enemies are scaled up, so the basic simple monsters now start at level 90, while my character is at level 88, and so now I can't beat even a simple monster, any monster, because once again, I have low combat skills, I cannot improve my combat skills due to the low dexterity I have on my left-hand fingers, and that's not even my goal, I want to experience different options and different endings of the storyline, not to be the best at combat, I'm not sure how many times I have to say it, I don't care for combat, as such I don't play for the thrill of combat
- but now, I can't even pass the basic quests in the basic maps, in Velen for example, because now in the new game + the enemies are scaled up, and I can't beat them, at the lowest possible difficulty... I mean what difficulty do I need to choose to have easy and very easy combat??
Why is this happening?
I can't emphasize enough, I am not interested in combat, I am not that ambitious to be the best at combat, I don't care, I just want to experience the storyline and multiple endings, at the lowest difficulty possible for combat at "story only" level, yet, I can't progress with my character
- how can I beat the final boss the Wild Hunt in the base game??
- how can I beat the final boss in the other DLCs??
- why are you - the devs - not keeping your word, meaning if we choose the lowest difficulty in combat, well let us just progress to the story without bothering us too much with the combat scenes
- why can't we just skip the combat scenes if we realize we can't beat the boss, just so we can progress with the story?? we can do that in GTA series, and Red Dead Redemption, and Elder Scrolls, and I could go on and on... but not on Witcher 3... why not?
final considerations:
- take a closer look at ESO - Elder Scrolls Online - it's so successful, with over 14-15 Mil. users now, in 2024, after all this time, because the combat is accessible to everyone, even players with disabilities as myself, and they don't emphasize much on combat, but on story progression
- I pay an annual premium subscription - aka real money, real US$ - for ESO+ because I am happy with the combat, I can beat the monsters there, with no problems, even if I am handicapped on my left-hand fingers because they don't focus much on combat... they have areas where combat is very important - dungeons and trials and such - but whoever wants a bigger challenge will go there, and if we choose not to go, that doesn't mean we can't progress with the storyline and reach the ending/s
- just do the math, if only a minimum of 1-3% of users are paying customers, that's a huge revenue, so they must be doing something right, learn from them, and you do even better
- yet, in Witcher 3 wild hunt and DLCs if we don't beat up the bosses, and if we can't skip the combat, we can't progress with the storyline
did it ever occur to you guys - devs and decision makers - that some players have disabilities (like myself) and we also want to play?? or the game is not welcoming players like myself with disabilities??
I don't think I will ever buy Cyberpunk (unless will be at a really low price on sales via Steam or Epic) but I don't think I'll ever buy it, because I don't trust your judgment when it comes to setting up the difficulty levels... what good will that do for me, if I buy the game and at the lowest difficulty level I can't beat the bosses and I can't skip the combat scenes, and ultimately I can't progress with my storyline, because I'm not a combat player...
I'm just curious guys, are you aiming to attract just kids and teens on steroids that just want to destroy things in a game?? did it ever cross your mind that not everyone is after combat?? yes, I know Witcher 3 is a hack-and-slash and loot game, but even so, not everyone is after the combat, some of the players, like myself, are after the RP and storyline
to end on a positive note:
- you as a studio, have the potential to create great things, you have great talent, great writers, great concepts, great attention to detail, great music, great artwork, great coders, great ideas...
- try to rise above the Pole-Slavic mentality and European approach when it comes to treating your players - like a new user cannot post new topics because "we know better" - and you'll become a much greater name-brand in the industry if you continue to improve, even competing with other great names like Bethesda, Activision, R*, and you know the others...
- try to reach an agreement with Paradox and White Wolf I believe, or whoever holds the copyright for sequels of VTM - Vampire the Masquerade - and make the next sequel VTM2 better than anything else that is in the gaming industry, if anyone can do it, that is you guys
- keep in mind, not everyone is in for the combat
thank you for reading
