Remember the arguments during beta?

[Gilthas]

If the only players they wanted were the ones that were playing 1.0, they wouldn't have remade the game.

While it is obviously true that a lot of people have left, changing the game to be more similar to 1.0 would only make them lose more subscribers and roughly go back to 1.0 numbers. At that point they'd just shut down the servers.

Regardless of what you're saying, at the moment at least, there are certainly still a lot more people playing the game than the number that was playing 1.0 at the end of its life.

[JillyBean]

I played 1.0 for 2 weeks at launch in 2010. I never looked back. One day I got an email the summer of 2012 for Welcome Back look at the improvements and an invitation to qualify for Legacy account status. Guess what? I came back and never left again. ^^

[darthkyron]

I played 1.0 for 2 weeks at launch in 2010. I never looked back. One day I got an email the summer of 2012 for Welcome Back look at the improvements and an invitation to qualify for Legacy account status. Guess what? I came back and never left again. ^^

First you are NOT legacy.
Second you left because you probably tried this game because you were burned from WOW found out it wasn't as EASY as WOW and left.
Third you liked this version of the game because you feel most at home (WOW CLONE) and is as EASY as a 80's handheld game.

Shall i continue?

[Nenin]

First you are NOT legacy.
Second you left because you probably tried this game because you were burned from WOW found out it wasn't as EASY as WOW and left.
Third you liked this version of the game because you feel most at home (WOW CLONE) and is as EASY as a 80's handheld game.

Shall i continue?

[ROOTFayth]

First you are NOT legacy.
Second you left because you probably tried this game because you were burned from WOW found out it wasn't as EASY as WOW and left.
Third you liked this version of the game because you feel most at home (WOW CLONE) and is as EASY as a 80's handheld game.

Shall i continue?

come on lol, the UI in 1.0 was absolute utter garbage

PS: MMORPGs aren't hard

[CYoung187]

So you are upset that SE is trying to get more people interested in the game? Even if only a few percent of people stick around, that is a success. Hell maybe some of my crafts will actually sell this weekend.

Probably would have helped if there were actually some houses in the housing districts for the free weekenders to check out instead of ghost towns.

[Colt47]

They have an audience diffusion crisis at the moment with how the content is being handled. If they want the game to cater to the number crunching raiding hobbyist they are half way there with the current set up, and if they want to cater to the sight seer they are failing by walling bits of lore and story behind impenetrable content, such as Bahumuts coil (for them, not the raiders). To top it all off, they need to address the lack of development on the gathering and crafting, because while they did deal with the adventuring slump and leve quest grind on the adventuring side they left the other end out to dry. There's definitely developer passion somewhere behind the game, but it feels like it is getting muffled.

[gintoki88]

I just read on another thread that lots of players have left and there is going to be a free weekend to try to get people back? This cracks me up!

The game was modified so much to cater to those type of people that already left. Those people would have left anyway no matter what was done to this game because that's what they do.

So now that they left (lol), how about catering more to the long time loyal players? Us so-called fanboys?

I reckon i want some hardcore content that you have to be a long term/hardcore non casual player to do, (no offense to casual players, but there are some of yous out there that are giving you a bad name)