Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180804055750/@comment-31265343-20180815134837

No, I felt that my days as a Kancolle player were just over. With the E-4E map of the last event, it really felt like I was getting relegated to some lower division, even below much newer players. I was just getting less and less satisfaction from a game that was competing with my real-life responsibilities for a slice of the daytime pie. A game that was getting more difficult to play on easy mode as time passed, even though my shipfus were nearing the maximum possible levels.

The game was also at odds with how I would design software - why does this thing have hidden stats that could actually block the player from completing maps? Imagine playing the game without a viewer and the knowledge of how LoS worked.

Obviously, not everybody will understand my position and I could go on ranting forever. If I really wanted more salt, I could just spend more time struggling with my real-life stuff. At least I would know that I did all I could and things just did not work out because I just wasn't good enough... rather than just failing for unknown reasons, just because a random number generator working on unfavourable inputs.

On topic: KCV may be dead, but there are other ways to play the game. Other than switching browsers, there is that old trick of using a VPN to connect to DMM. It can be disconnected after the connection is made. I used to do that a lot, before I switched over to KCV for the convenience and hidden-stat help (LoS, fuel levels, taiha, morale etc).