Make sure to subscribe to Josh Strife Hayes! Heres his original video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9lln9qKycummas.html Ill be uploading another video on Deca's response to the videos on Reddit and their livestream!

I feel like he doubled down on the games true flaws, one of which everyone seems to agree upon is the lack of cohesion and activity for new players.

To me, realm is a vice. It takes up the same space in my heart as slot machines. I hate it, but i can't stop. Whenever someone asks me what it is I answer its a bad habit and an addiction. Realm at its core is fucking beautiful, but I can't avoid paying money, and every purchase is SO FUCKING PAINFUL. I wake up from nightmares of my characters dying. I think about it constantly in my waking hours. I need help, and I doubt any veteran who plays this game doesn't. TO BE HONEST, I am FUCKING GLAD this game sucks at onboarding, because the thought that new people are introduced to this game is heartbreaking to me.

This video he was way better informed about the game. His first video was overall very ignorant. Seb says with the soulbound thing, Josh made it seem like it's better than it is. But if you're concerned about pay to win mechanics, keeping your items after you die, defying the whole mechanics of the game with paid armor, that would be much worse in terms of pay to win mechanics, it would make the game worse, not better. 22:20 I agree so much with this. There's barely any people in realms anymore. Stumbling upon dungeons and doing them was so fun. Now it's Discord of the Mad God.

7:41 homie was spittin facts

Love all the controversy and interesting conversations/memes around this video and in general, the new player experience. I really wish Deca would try to get new players into this game and try keeping them. Even though I run dungeons a lot through discords, I would fully support a bazaar removal if that meant reviving the realms.

josh : it's bad because of this ROTMG community : Nah bro what are you talking about ? This is not why it sucks ... *This is*

**laughs in 14k spent** Love that Josh has always been very good at taking criticism, and that he made an update video. Edit: Would love to see Josh experience Discord raids. I personally find it to be the most boring way to play, but for someone that does play other MMOs with "Raid Leaders", he might enjoy it.

He’s right in that the game is definitely rough for new players with little guidance in any direction. For one, how would someone know you could turn off ally shots to free up visual space?

let it be known i was timed out for 3 hours for (rightfully) bullying the "british people" (ew... Britain!)

as a coming back player, i think it is cool that deca remade all the dungeons, they also re made the game in unity...

Was waiting for this video

Personally, the first vid wasn’t that bad, he just got some things wrong which did deserve to be fixed but when it came to his first experience with the game, it was pretty accurate imo

My first time playing Realm i wasnt into it and took my friend wanting to play and also my laptop not being able to run anything else, only after playing for hours did i start enjoying the game. The new player experience sucks as i recently introduced my bf to the game but had such a hard time learning, mostly watching me play the game and explaining things he slowly understood the game. In short being new to the game sucks, so i found his first video to be fair and honest with how bad it is for someone jumping into the game without someone to walk them through.

The main point I want to make as someone who isn't good at the game in the sense of skill is that if I don't know something or want to know something it's an easy KZfaq search or Realmeye search away. Before anyone replies with new players don't know about Realmeye, well type in the item or boss you want and write Realm of the Mad God next to it and you're almost guaranteed a search result that leads to Realmeye anyway. I will say Discords are very harsh to the new player because of requirements but Discords unfortunately aren't really meant for the new player, now hear me out the new player should achieve at least a few stars on every class to see if they enjoy the class enough to want to exalt it anyway.

what do you mean by removing the bazaar being a good thing? i didnt quite understand that

His first realm ever was an O3 realm in his first episode

Best way to Level Up is. Level to Level 5 wait for oryx, boom Level 20. Super easy, super fast, super chill

small ideas for helping newer players I would petition for lower level dungeons could drop stat potions, like finding pots in pirate caves, spider dens, etc. (not life, but MAYBE mana? Mystery pots would also be fine) Maybe a ring with XP boost on it? If you get 1 early, you could re use it sensibly forever as a newer player. Could also be for sale in the nexus. Beyond that, I think maybe helpful tips could be added into chat that could help newer players find their feet, make them aware of settings that might optimize performance later down the line. perhaps adding ‘tips’ you can read when you die that are geared to helping you know why you died. Like if you die in tombs, it could say "did you know its much easier to just fight 1 boss at a time without waking the other 2 up, you can just kill bes, then nut, then geb". Newer players are not learning how to solo tombs is a great example, especially because the experienced players do not need to run through tombs anymore! These tips would also be very useful in end game dungeons, so that people who arent using discords, could learn some tips that will legit help them overcome endgame bosses, like “try using a defence tincture during xyz phase". I dont exactly blame Deca for every problem we have with realm, they have done a stellar job reworking the garbage kablam put in the game, the changes have substantially improved mid + late game for remaining players, plus they also rebuilt realm getting off the flash platform, these accomplishments have done realm wonders for the health of the game. We shouldn’t have put such ‘perfection’ expectations on deca’s shoulders. I only hope that with more help we can find solutions deca are willing to implement that will lend more encouragement for the newer players, without the need for us to become toxic towards the dev’s who are still busting their nuts off to work on this great game.

Not sure how you can say deca hasn’t been catering to endgame players. Oryx 3, Exaltations, (every month long event) Shatters update, UT Forge all primarily focused on endgame players

i know this is probly a bad take but for someone with thousands of hours in the game personally i wish i could go back to first starting the game mybe 8 or 9 years ago when i started playing it was alot better of an experience but saying that alot has changed and i have no clue what it would be like now

DECA should take 2 pages from overwatch, the workshop and looking for group systems

deca did literally nothing to the game and really keeps saying "here's a 20$ skin, take it or leave it"

Very gud vid yes

I also was thinking the new player experience was not great and they prioritize end game content and game players too much. Things like the shatters rework and the ddocks reqork for players who are newer or medium skilled changed those dungeons too drastically to the point that it doesnt feel quite like a rework and more like a complete overhaul, previously i would rank those dungeons at around 5/10 for ddocks and 6.5/10 for old shatters which might be difficult but doable with groups and you didnt need to fully understand everything about the dungeon to be able to do it with a group in the realm. Now because they scaled the dungeons to make so much harder, I never see anyone go into a ddocks ever, and because the dungeon is harder now its almost impossible for those same players to be able to do it now, and shatters was made so hard that the only feasible way to do it is discord runs. The reworks imo should have kept these dungeons around the same difficulty instead of turning the difficulty way up to the point that they essentially killed any interest for people in the realm to do these dungeons now and i think it just keeps getting more and more worse since they only seem to care about making the game harder to challenge the existing player base. When was the last time a medium level dungeon that just drops a BASIC stat pot as its main reward added? Last i can recall was Magic woods which was so long ago I don't even remember when they added it. Since then every dungeon that has been released or reworked has dropped greater stat potions and there hasnt been any dungeons around the skill level of mwoods since, which is more of a clear sign that they are only caring about endgame players

this guy is mad he gets skill issued so much

Sebchoof: "Deca should get rid of the grand bazaar" Also Sebchoof: "1.2k USD those are rookie numbers, you should have paid to win more man" 🤣🤣🤣

i think realm should make the tutorial start you on a maxed 8/8 char with a good pet, and then it should throw you into a dungeon that a new player can play through that actually shows mechanics and stuff, but then at the end is a boss that kills you pretty much guaranteed shows up to show the death mechanic, it should also give you like 1000 fame or smt as a start and maybe a basic pet with only 1 of either heal or magic heal at a low level (not both)

2:06 thats me POG? i pmed him 3 times and i made it in :O

Nothing at all to do with the video, but *hugs* for you Sebchoof and I hope that you're having a lovely week so far ^.^ x

Choofin'

Someone should tell him to press the H button too see health bars

You said the people they prioritze are whales...int he video he says that the end game players are the whales...no need to disagree with him, and also most of the patch notes and dungeon additions are aimed at more advanced players than newer players

if you dont know the kendo stick story you cant have fun from this game he is playing the game wrong he need to kendo stick history

outro song?

In the future when making these videos pls up the volume of the video. Thank you. I like your videos

23:50 they should just make all in-realm exalt dungeons drop 20% more loot

when youve played enough rotmg you forget how weird this game truly is then you see an average person play and you realize you are an alien on this earth

I hope Josh Strife Hayes does a 3 hour reaction to this video

Why you cut at the end, I wanted to see deca response :(

Hello from stream!

i have almost 700 hours on rotmg, and so i stopped playing about 6 months ago, never once got a doom bow, never once completed a dungeon harder than the main pot dungeons (excluding life + mana), literally never been able to complete a hive, LoD, Cdepths or anything like that, i either die because 2 shots land on me that do half my health (with max tier gear, 6/8 and usually a UT or 2) or because other people cause my death, the amount of people in dungeons that can somehow tank every shot from everything but because of that will DRAG 20 minions onto you so you just flatline instantly is so annoying, my pet doesnt heal as much as theirs, my DEF seems to block ALOT less damage than theirs with the same gear, its just ridiculous that i can play so much, get good at boss attack patterns and dodging AND STILL just die to undodgable attack, moronic "allies" or just nexus button not F'ing working, doesnt help that i cant get good gear that would make it easier to complete the dungeon because i cant complete the dungeon on hardcore mode in the first place

Seb if they removed bazaars there would be no one popping keys in them which means no money for deca.

Where am I?

I hate myself. I should have applied myself more.

The problems with the game have always been the same and always will new players should be introduced to pets right away and given a starter pet with gauranteed heal on first ability. Forge and exalts basically ruined the game for me forge removed the excitement from white bags and exalts just added unnecessary power creep and an insanely long boring grind that nobody really wants to do. I really agree with no more bazaars as well.

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Ah yes 3.9k spent 1800+ keys popped, 5000hrs+ over like 9 years and i still love hate this game and how p2w. Only thing that's even kept me playing is the friends ive made along the way. Wouldn't be surprised if realm only has another 2-3 years in it before the money printer runs out of ink and it eventually rolls over and dies.

Proof that this game hasn't really gotten any better since the WildShadow days.

I wish he never posted his second video. It was exactly what you said, an unnecessary apology video. His first video was perfect, but so many toxic RotMG fans had the audacity to write harsh comments to him telling him that he got so much wrong when in reality he only got one single thing wrong.

Ah yes deca decides to finally take their head put their asses only because a big KZfaqr finds out about rotmg

sus

Rotmg troller is just on top of you the whole stream lol

What's exalting???

What does 4/4 mean? This isn’t abt music

sebchunf

“This game is shit just admit it” Meanwhile Sebchoof has been uploading since I was in med school and still uploading after I finished residency 😂

11:00 The pain on sebchoofs face for letting this game sucker him so hard🤣 capitalism is GREAT for game design!

post deca response and interview now.

As so Some who’s done multiple react videos it’s better to just play the video once through have your notes at the end ready to go and talk about what he’s saying

His settings and gear are so bad xd

with the new 500$ campagin and the lack of good updates im starting to feel like rotmg is just a big cash grab for deca :/

how can he say this is the worst mmorpg when trove exist

How dare you say that you will show us a funny reddit post after the vid and then not do it. Expected better, now go make apology video

Dude crying for lvlup tp 20 and here i am making 1 8/8 char per day for exalts smh

dude getting a heal mheal is easy as shit just go post on realm eye buying eggs

Bro vid too long im too busy dying in rotmg

the worst part of the game is that if you want to do end game stuff you have to be in a discord

I saw you on US East. You don't sound like you belong there, so, stay out. Also, Dimitus scales to the difficulty of the dungeon.

His review is just that he has skill issue. He wants to be a nerd and play skyrim but his subscribers wanted him to try out a REAL game so he was coerced into it. Now he is soying out and crying. Thank god he actually asked some players for advice this time and realised its an MMO and actually interacted with other people. >My new player experience is bad because I don't have npc elves telling me what to do that gives me deep shitty lore I can be a nerd about Oh the misery

Tba I'm hot garbage so I'm not even able to do end game content but I still liked to grind fore maxing caricters through trading and running ez dungeons so I could host some harder dungeons with my guild. They focused on end game content it killed the new player base so realm eye is dead and I have to go through the slow prose's of maxing the hard way. I still hope on from time to time but I played to trade up most the time... Watch my in game wealth increase. Dosent matter any more cause theirs so much end game content that a def pot is the same value as a life pot and u can't even give mana pot away. Used to have value in doing harder dungeons but now more risky dunjons such as tombs are just as worthless as a snake pits. Sense when was the easiest stat maxing dungeon more valuable than the one your more likely to die in