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How am i supposed to succeed as a new player? am i even supposed to? do i have to wait until the stars align to do so? what do i mean? well, let's talk about the new player experience. You download the game > grind to max level hyped about the mid game > farm gold and buy your set (after spamming chat for a week+ someone will sell it to you, but overpriced, because he/she knows you've been trying to buy it for a week) > end of the road > keep farming gold until the end of time while waiting for a trial opportunity that will never come > uninstall What should come after or before farming for the set would be joining a guild or asking for a trial carry to get your equipment, but the game has around 200 active players and most of them are afk farming 24/7 on their guild towns and only play when their friends on discord ping them, the guilds left insta spam trials/dungeons with their already established and already set in stone parties as soon as the reset happens and then log out, so no trials or equipment for you bro, have fun with your +14 Temple Knight Weapon! (the only new-player-friendly content in the game by the way, the Temple Knight equipment boxes) Let's say we're giga tryhards and want to squeeze as much content during our painful stay in the game as possible so we make an alt account, invite ourselves to a party and solo farm Lvl 95 trials with an extremely specific build everyday.. congratulations, you've wasted hours of your life farming for weapons that are, at most, 50% stronger than your Temple Knight weapons yet completely irrelevant if you ever wanted to farm the weakest Dragonside Ridge mobs (Blade Acrobat sword being the only exception and not because of it's raw power) I was wondering why is the playerbase so low when there's actually so much attention to the game coming from the development team but now i know why, it is because there's no future for new players, sure there's a lot content that has been introduced quite recently, but that content is all hyper-late game content made to keep old players and whales hooked. I don't know, i can tell that the development team is pretty talented because you really can't pull what they pulled by being clueless or half-assed, but come on man how can't you see that the player retention is non-existent? sure you can keep whales and old players hooked by constantly releasing hyper-late game content so they have something to do, but there will be a time when even these people will quit, then what? Seriously, if you used 30% of the attention you give to the late game content to improve the new player experience, maybe the playerbase wouldn't be in the hundreds. TL;DR: Unless you mindcontrol 3+ of your friends into playing and grinding Eden Eternal with you for weeks, this game does not welcome you. inb4 someone posting about how they got in a guild first day and that they were carried everyday and also got his full awaken set/weapons in a week, good for you bud, hope you had fun, because i certainly didn't.