Poll - do you prefer a hardcore or casual experience for COTW? Read first.

[Xanton]

I've created an online poll to determine whether players prefer a hard/core or a casual experience. To clarify my definition of casual/hardcore...



Hardcore/realism - The focus is on realism. The game may be unforgiving in places, and require more time and investment on the part of the player in order to reflect a real life hunting experience as accurately as possible.

Casual - The game sacrifices realism for a more user-friendly 'pick up and play' experience. It will be more forgiving.



Let me know in the comments if you've voted or have any issue with my descriptions of casual/hardcore. I've tried not to restrict people's vote by making the definitions too narrow.


Link to the poll - www.poll-maker.com/poll994108xe34D4258-42

Okay.. the link should work now

[jeff1963]

I always vote for hardcore on the TheHunter forums, but this game is not the hardcore offering from EW, TheHunter Classic is that game. I am OK with the fact I can hunt a Bear with a .270 in this game. If I want restrictions then I put them on myself, or just play the real TheHunter Classic.

[steven777]

More realism and no HUD option please.

[Xanton]

引用自 DamZe：

Xanton I think most people who bought CoTW lean towards more realism because they either prefer that or they tried out or played theHunter classic and like it.

Yeh I think a lot of the players here have come from classic, or wanted to play classic but didn't like the payment model. I think EW have an opportunity to bring back a lot of these '4.5 million reigstered players' that they love to talk about. We all know 99% of those registered players never played the game past their first day... for this reason, EW should be focusing on fixing the things that classic did wrong. The biggest thing by a landslide was the payment model, which im pretty sure cost EW/avalanche more money than it made. Well, the payment model has been fixed but the game is still recieving massive criticism because they haven't stuck to the things that classic did right. Things like competitions; things like realism and things like trophy shots/placable equipment/truRACS etc.

Oh and just to demonstrate this... so far 50 people have answered the poll (thanks so far to everybody who has taken the time to answer btw, I didn't expect it to get this much attention). Currently 45/50 have said they value hard/realism above casual/less focus on realism

[Markus Kruber]

Its true and the number 1 complain of people that were trying to play that game, they absolutely didn't like the payment model and that made them leave, not the game or the gameplay itself, but I think they know that, they know it better than we do so I hope they act on this knowledge and make this the best hunting sim ever created, a lot of the players that left theHunter classic will come back once they find out there's a new game like that but without the requirement of a membership or pay extra for guns to fully play everything the game has to offer, with other words the just want to buy and own the game they bought so they can play any time they want to

[HUDoff••|972]

hardcore

[Lymark]

If competition and truRACS system are inculded in hardcore/realism, then I vote for that.

TBH, The devs seem to be headed to hardcore/realism part with the 1.1 patch. However, they're headed to that direction without having the core features implemented yet(as said system). Thus, lessen the replayability and realism of the game.

Once(I hope) they've added that, CoTW will for sure be a better version of Classic, most likely surpass it as well.

I checked there're 29k owners of CoTW, which is surprisingly good for a niche game like that.

[Willem]

I voted Hardcore.
TBH what i really would have loved to see them do is just port The Hunter Classic to the new engine. (but keep the cotw tracking system ;) )
The Hunter Classic gamplay wise is just a perfect hunting game.
The competitions are so much fun i cant imagine this game without it ever reaching the level classic did.

[SmokeyTheGoat]

I was quite OK with the idea that this might be a bit more casual than Classic. I like that the actual hunting is kind of realistic, but it needs more time and frustration saving options. Like more fast travel spots for one thing. Even realistic simulators like Microsoft Flight Simulator, etc, offer the options of skipping time, restarting in different locations, so the argument that this is a realistic hunting isn't a very valid one.

[Xanton]

I'm actually surprised that more and more people are choosing casual now ^^ it'd odd that the first few hours, people were almost exclusively voting hardcore, but now about 20% are saying casual