The question is how many people value a graphical update so much they'd rather quit the game than play it with it's current graphics? I'm betting it's not enough to make it worth the money, if it were then we'd see more threads popping up about how people are quitting because the graphic quality is so bad, thing is this just isn't happening and when quit threads do pop up the graphics are almost never mentioned. This is an aged/aging game, anyone who's been here more than a single month has come to terms with the fact that expecting this game's graphics to be overhauled is only expecting disappointment. All of that said I should address the first thing you really wanted to point out...I did address this remark when I said that they have nothing to lose. What I meant by it is that if they do nothing they're not going to really lose enough people that doing it would actually make them more money. Saying something along the lines of they've more to lose by not doing it implies that enough people care enough about the graphics of the game to truly impact the game in such a way.we should speak with our money by NOT giving it to them, because then they might realize they have more to lose by not doing it
I don't like ignoring points, but this is a terrible one. You're basically saying that 2500 people on each and every server would quit based on nothing more than making the game look prettier? That's just... I've no words that truly convey my reply to such a thought. I mean if you said 500 people quitting on each and every server I'd have thought it an insane idea but 2500?If everyone who plays told SE if you don't fix our graphics and our UI we will not pay next month, then actually carried through on the threat, SE would be back pedaling as fast as they could to give us batter graphics and a more modern UI, because believe it not, this game still brings in huge profits. There may only be 800-1k player on at any given time, but not everyone plays at the same time, and everyone has multiple mules, there may be as many as 4k paid accounts per server, we have no real way of knowing, but lets do a little guess work.
2500 active accounts per server, *that seems like a fair number) now lets guess each account has 3 mules, (Iknow people with more, and some with less) that's $15.99 per account, and 16 servers, so 2,500x$15.99x16= $639,600 SE would be hit for one month. I can't that of any company on the planet that would happily say "oh well it's just a little over a half mil we can deal with it." There would probably be an emergency meeting of the board of directors and heads would roll
I don't mean to come off as an ass but really I don't think you could find 2500 people between all servers that'd be willing to quit over the graphics in hopes that SE would break down and throw money at the graphics for it. Please, just give that argument up.