Quote Originally Posted by FeyFavilla View Post
Listen, I believe that this is your experience, but sticking your head in the sand and pretending the world is not extremely empty atm outside of the few hours of main traffic is not going to help. The general mood towards DT is rotten and while it is normal in any MMO for players to leave after launch many did leave this time for different reasons. The disfavor they garnered in the playerbase was significant and even just a whiff of 'this MMO is dying' will cause people to jump ship alongside others to move on to greener pastures. Most won't want to invest in something that might not be there a few years down the line.
If "this MMo is dying" caused people to jump ship, the game would have never launched, because that pathetic dooming has existed since the game started. It happens every single expansion. The "mood" towards DT feels worse because there's a particular section of the gaming population that it was definitely not designed for, and that segment is both more vocal and feels empowered in current society to tear things down. But being more vocal doesn't make you more numerous. It's why - as I pointed out - the *actual* population dip is nothing out of the ordinary - it just feels worse because the level of vitriol from a certain group is more pronounced.

Also, I don't always play at peak hours. Yet, regardless of when I do, queues tend to be fast, hunt trains stay populated, even when I do very specific random duties for WT, I get in quickly. Traffic exists well beyond just a few hours a day.

You do not need to run defense for SE.
I'm not - just pointing out facts that are "inconvenient" for the bitter and the doomers.

Going by your own logic, you’re basically saying your own circle = the current state of the whole game. Your circle’s fine? Cool story, I guess.
I just wish if you were going to quote my post, you'd actually read it. I pointed out exactly that flaw in the logic that would apply both ways, which is why I'm relying on much larger data comparisons rather than just our own little anecdotal evidence...

Kinda funny, considering you’re speaking as someone on Gilgamesh — one of the most populated, hardcore raid servers in the entire game.
I don't raid for the record. But yes, imagine joined a populated server and there being a lot of people! WoW currently has a couple million active players, but there are plentiful "dead" servers there as well that if I made a character on, I'd see nobody. Does that mean the game is dead? No - I just went to a dead zone within an otherwise populated universe. Same deal here.

I get that for some people this game is their whole life and they’ll cope as hard as they can to defend it, but posts like yours are just peak coping
Why is it that a certain segment of the population that hears a word and then thinks it sounds cool to keep using it even when it makes absolutely zero sense and has no real relation to its actual meaning?

If you want to talk actual coping - here's the reality: This game isn't going anywhere in the next decade. The only thing that would lead to SE to stop development anytime in the foreseeable future would be if they decided to make a new MMO, and given that we're well past the golden age of MMO's, the cost to make one compared to the potential return just isn't worth it anymore, so that's not going to happen. "Coping" would be thinking the game is going to collapse if people don't listen to *my* suggestions and do exactly what *I* want.