The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, because why even bother trying to get along?

[Aldurin]

Ok, so this ubisoft's attempt to grab at the free-to-play market with The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, and the idea is actually surprising. The (rather cheesy) video above shows it's a raiding game where you have to design your own dungeon to store your own loot to mitigate other people taking it, while you're out attempting to bypass other people's designs to get their stuff. I'm not really making this thread because I think it will be fun (it could be if done right), but because I can't wait to see it destroy itself.

The concerns:
1. RPG elements (mainly the leveling) brings in the factor of "well what can you do to stop them? they're too high of a level for your defenses to matter". Sure there may be countermeasures to make sure that level-grouping comes into play, that way you aren't able to farm level 1 players (oppress the lower class!), but it does throw a wrench into the whole skill-and-strategy aspect (imagine if a 1v1 fighting game had long-term leveling that carried across all matches, affecting things like damage and health).
2. Free-to-play, this means that there are things you can buy in the game without a doubt. This could very likely be pay-to-win, especially if it goes beyond something like an insurance policy if your own defense fails.
3. Metagame stagnation. Like any game with a high competitive focus, this will be picked apart until a few "perfect" defenses are found, which will quickly mean repeatedly encountering the same optimized layouts over and over after this game is finalized. If the defensive possibilities are too strong, it can render a layout completely unbeatable, driving successful raids to a halt.
4. The game may very well be bad. Like, Dungeonland bad. The character/class/item sides of the equation need to make sense and be fun to play, and the trailer indicates this may be going towards generic bland-flavor RPG mechanics.
5. Haters are gonna hate, even those who don't realize they're haters. I see this game destroying relationships, maybe even causing a few divorces. There are people that will take this too seriously.

I don't know, I might sign up for the beta later on, but this thread is more for speculation on how badly this will go. I'm leaning toward the "grab some popcorn and get a good seat" bad.