Game Getting DULL

[Peptaru]

Up until 2.1 there was an obvious decrease in players lol.

22 people on my list of peeps haven't been on for over 40 days. Not even 2.1 brought them back. They stopped. Poof. No mas. FC's and statics are constantly having to fill slots because of these incidents.

Well 22 is not a lot! It's over half the list of people i talk ... see: talked, to.

To the folks pointing at the influx of fresh meat, yes there are new players. Always will be. Give them 3 or 4 months and many will already be gone. This thread has the perspectives of people who've already been here that long, or longer.

[Hyrist]

22 people on my list of peeps haven't been on for over 40 days. Not even 2.1 brought them back. They stopped. Poof. No mas. FC's and statics are constantly having to fill slots because of these incidents.

Well 22 is not a lot! It's over half the list of people i talk ... see: talked, to.

To the folks pointing at the influx of fresh meat, yes there are new players. Always will be. Give them 3 or 4 months and many will already be gone. This thread has the perspectives of people who've already been here that long, or longer.

Mn. I don't agree with your assessment. 22 people may seem like a lot, but to the game itself it's a drop in the bucket. We've more coming and going by the hour in those numbers than you noticed in that span of time.


Now, do I believe the population is in decline? Yes. I believe the initial swell of people who leaped to a new thing hoping to find a home is finally deciding the game is not for them and are moving on. Is this unhealthy for the game? No. It's the natural flow for any MMO. We just not got over the point where our servers were buckling under the strain of the number of people we had, and SE predicted far few numbers than we are currently maintaining. I feel we will continue to decline for perhaps one more patch cycle before our numbers stabilize again and the signs of a slow climb or slow decent will be made clear.

Someone just joining the game now? Is going to have a lot to do. And when the backlash from the Housing fiasco settles, we'll see a good number of players return with new content down the line.

Your assumption about how I receive people in the game is incorrect. I spend a lot of time helping new players through their content. I'm always welcoming and offer my assistance to random people in need, and I am almost never rude to any fellow gamer unless they are extremely rude towards me or my companions. The part that frustrates me, is that I've seen so many good people quit this game because of the elitist attitude that is dominating the landscape of the current community. If you say I am indignant towards the social climate in today's gaming community, perhaps I am, but I am this way not because I no longer 'feel special' for being part of a niche, I am indignant because the cooperative, inclusive atmosphere has been replaced with a colder, competitive attitude towards fellow gamer.

I can't say that I haven't noticed that as well, and it is disheartening, as I've stated before. And knowing now what you shared with me makes me feel the sting of you leaving the game, as we would need more people standing as pillars of the community.

If I may go so far as to presume once more - would you say it is hardship, in that the mechanics being as unforgiving as they were in games like Ultima Online, Everquest, and FFXI that caused the communities to bind together? If so, I came up with a much different assessment, watching those communities through the years becoming increasingly narrow-minded in scope, creating a very homogenized span of opinions as players began to bleed out of groups.

Regardless, should you reconsider, I do know of a few welcoming communities on different servers I would recommend joining, if you are interested, which may serve to better your experience in the game.