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Constructive Criticism

What is it?
Constructive criticism is being able to process and offer your own thoughts and opinions in order to give courteous and friendly feedback. This is done by explaining what you like and dislike, while at the same time providing feedback that is useful. This is what separates constructive feedback from ranting/complaining and flaming.

Does it help? How?
Yes! Constructive criticism helps because not only are you giving feedback about what you don't like about a quest/event, but you're also giving feedback about what you DID like in the quest. Feedback could include on such topics as statistics, more dialogue, more explanatory cutscenes, more fights - everything that quests or events would normally include. This gives the game staff a better idea on future improvements.

Example of Constructive Criticism:
"I didn't partularly like this war because it felt too empty. To have made it better, I think the staff could have had a 50% cutscene to unlock rather than just a shop to progress the storyline. As it was, I personally was a little dissapointed that this war felt more rushed than previous wars, however I do understand that the staff had a lot on their plate when making this release.
That said, I greatly enjoyed the boss fight, the animations and art fit perfectly with the song that was playing in the background. So while not one of the best wars AQW have done, I still enjoyed it. Thank you, AQW staff!"

Example of Unconstructive Criticism:
"I didn't like this war at all. What were the staff thinking? The items in the shop were ugly, overpriced and were bugged!! No cutscene? That was never done before and it is not how it should be done ever. Seriously, doesn't the staff ever listen to us?! The boss fight was too hard and took forever to beat :( And there was no sound. I don't think the staff even care anymore. Best war ever /sarcasm I hate this game D:<!"

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An in-born monster in the flesh of human, a mass murderer in the field of war, and an idealist for the sake of selfish reasons because he/she has the power to do so.

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A simple scene of our hero saving the people from a dragon and in the end, the hero got treated as a monster for slaying the dragon.

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As a player who tends to join games because of the story, that's exactly what my main focus in AQW is: Storyline. And I used to be so enthralled with the storylines of AQW, the humor, the wit, the parodies, the fourth wall breaking, I loved every second of it. I especially enjoyed the Doomwood sagas, the AQW Zombies saga, the Xan storyline and the earlier Chaos Lord storylines, although the later ones weren't too bad either, except for the last one, in my opinion. It seemed very shoehorned and rushed, and full of inconsistencies and plot holes, and we already know that the AQW staff had to rewrite the Queen of Monsters storyline, and after around a year, they've decided to rewrite it yet again. The point is, the AQW team are very creative and have a lot of good ideas, they really do, but they aren't very flexible when it comes to the story. They can never seem to make up their mind about certain things, such as the aforementioned Queen of Monsters storyline and how it should go. Also, I'm relatively surprised us being the

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Eternal Dragon of Time/Champion of Balance hasn't had more of an impact on the story, either. Or when we did a bunch of crazy stuff as the 13th Lord of Chaos and don't even seem to be that remorseful about it.

Of course, I don't think that the story shouldn't be nothing but laughs and giggles (it'd probably be out of place, actually), although I do wish more of the "old" humor from the past sagas came back in a side storyline or a couple of cutscenes or something. I know that I, and lot of players, really loved AQW and their games for their humor, and that the story was more consistent and the writers were a bit more cautious with plot holes or at least tried to address them more often, and there were more realistic character reactions, such as

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feeling remorse and guilt for our actions as the 13th Lord of Chaos and perhaps even have other characters reacting to us negatively due to our past actions as such and the whole Eternal Dragon of Time/Champion of Balance thing being more of a plot point.

Also, I think it'd be pretty neat if alignment had a bit more impact on the storyline, although I am not entirely sure if that's possible, but it'd give more meaning to joining an alignment instead of doing it just for something like the alignment exclusive items. And the Book of Lore's appearance in the Doomwood saga was absolutely golden. I wish we had seen the book show up again after that. The book probably could be used as a good plot point and seemed to have a lot of interesting features, to say the least.

I have more, but that's all I'll say for now. I did not mean any offense in my post, I just wanted to offer my thoughts on what I feel AQW is not doing so well at the moment.

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becoming Death thing. Yeah, we sacrificed our powers in the Chaos Portal, but since Death is now dead, and we're not doing it, who is? Wouldn't there be problems with the dead escaping and such without anyone to manage the situation? This could be a good plot point, and really should be one, actually.

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Drakath/Chaos and Queen of Monsters factions are released.

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Champion of Balance, and that our hero probably will be rethinking their alignment after the whole chaos thing, especially if they're on the side of Good.

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I felt like Scarletta's part of the Throne of Darkness Arc had some things left unexplained. There was this big reveal that her tower was in the MIRROR REALM! And then it never came up again. If Scarletta's Tower of Mirrors was in the mirror realm, what happened to the mirror realm version of Scarletta? Shouldn't her tower/underground cavern/whatever the opposite of a giant tower is be in our world?

Our hero is the Eternal Dragon of time. Why don't they use their time pausing powers to pause time more? I don't think it was ever explained why they don't use it more. Maybe it could be mentioned in one release or another that they can't use their powers too much or they'll overload themselves or the fabric of reality will break or something.

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Defeat most of Kezeroth's minions, Karok wins, he binds Kezeroth. This was the intended outcome. However, there needs to be better plans for what if Kezeroth won:
Defeat most of Karok's minions, Kezeroth wins, but Karok still binds Kezeroth.
There should be a "why" and a "how" here.

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Maybe a snake like map starting from tutorial up until today event (including every side story/quest) .

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this Glaceran war is my most disappointed war/release ever