Only Sense Online - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Beta Tester and Beginner

[MangaDex]

 

[C3PO]

Good thing this bullies left trap mc alone. Bullying is not funny.

 

[Kaarme]

Stupid broads thinking a game company that could develop total immersion virtual reality and artificial intelligence is so incompetent they would fill their game with useless skills. Although that being said, according to the old wisdom the dude would be even more stupid if he listens to those women and believes what they say. There will always be players who think their playing style is the absolutely best and others don't know what they are doing. He should read the net or just keep playing to see it for himself. And get rid of the girls. They will only hold him back since their style and especially attitude doesn't suit his chosen skill set.

I guess I'll check a couple of more chapters to see if this story works or if it's insufferable. I've to say the other series with a vaguely similar setting had a much better beginning.

 

[Glomoro]

@Kaarme It's not really weird at all for an MMO fresh out of beta to have terrible balance, though. A lot of people might have looked at how these skills were faring on their own during the beta and thought they should leave them alone until they get some balance tuning. Like, the difference between magic auto-aiming and archery not having any assistance like that right at level one. That seems like a balancing oversight that makes archery more trouble than its worth when you could just have picked one of the attack magics and still fight at a distance.

I'd assume the devs weren't exactly vocal about the ways these skills could have been better for the players since it would take away from the whole discovery aspect of mixing and matching skills to see how they interact and find unique character builds for yourself. It's a pretty predictable problem to be honest, though. The devs wanted customization freedom to be a huge drawing point, but an enormous number of gamers are just going to min max or follow the advice of min maxers. Anything that seems less efficient won't necessarily get experimented with as much as it deserves because people need to devote their time into grinding multiple skills. A lot of games I've played have started out like "We want you to be able to have a very fine tuned high level of customization," but then would later dumb things down because everyone was using the same builds anyway to reach certain minimum levels of being effective. They just couldn't actually find a way to properly balance everything so nothing was ever less ideal than the other options.

 

[Kaarme]

@Glomoro Yeah, but since it's a game, if there was a glaring problem, it would get fixed soon enough. Especially since it's a game like you described. You can't have a game advertising itself for its freedom if in fact it practically enforced a certain style of playing with the rest of the options being useless. Such a thing would have never passed beta testing. Not even the alpha stage. Of course in the group mentality Asia there might be less people trying to be different, but humans are humans everywhere in the world, so there would always be outliers.

 

[Kenidashi]

...So you just leave someone behind knowing that they may have a bad experience with the game? What kinda jerk players are these girls? You don't want him to restart (to the point you blackmail him), but you also make fun of and insult him for picking "non-meta" skills and then leave him behind instead of helping him get some levels to get past the rough part of the game. And I bet they still expect him to play with them...whenever he catches up.

Yeah, no, this could be a one-shot and he stops playing, and I would be rooting for him. And I bet we're going to have to like these characters later on. Wonder how long it will take to get an apology.

 

[kyoya66]

Hm.... its more like the protagonist play hard game and the other play easy game from the start.
they leave him, so they can learn their ability faster rather divided when together or experiment things

 

[nightcore34]

Ah, I see. I've read this before but never got why they said "you can't play as the opposite gender in this game" on pg 22 when he clearly is. It seems the game thought his gender was female to begin with. Even if he did re-try it'd probably be exactly the same.

 

[kawaii123456]

You'd think he would just reroll

 

[BusinessGL]

F-U-T-A

 

[SoullessVoid]

Ive read this a few times but never got what it meant by the goal being "to become only"...

 

[The5thSeraph]

What kind of stupid MMO doesn't allow you to play as either gender freely?

 

[Kshatria]

in a world where you can freely gift a VR gear, it's either cheap enough or just 2nd hand
meanwhile in 3rd world country, we pay MORE $$$ just to own its

 

[Fari]

It's so funny that every manga is like "THE TRASH SET UP.... THAT'S ACTUALLY OP" is always fucking bows. What do manga authors have against and also for bows to treat them like they're both perceived as garbage and actually eventually near definitely great?

Honestly though, I would absolutely hate any game that made one specific weapon type need ammunition you need to buy and NOTHING else have that mechanic. That genuinely does just kinda suck even if bow does turn out to be super OP.

 

[Monmaker]

Did... Did I accidentally start reading an alternate universe of Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki?

 

[Doomquy]

only sense online more like only sex online