The real reason there are even subscribers in 2024

[AnnRam]

Yush.
I said before many times, like 80% of the player base (PC players) are""""""""""""" playing""""""""""""" this game like Skyrim with 25000 mods installed, dedicated plugins / addons that leave clients like Second Life in pampers. Those are the whales that keep SE happy and doing the minimum effort.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yush.
I said before many times, like 80% of the player base (PC players) are""""""""""""" playing""""""""""""" this game like Skyrim with 25000 mods installed, dedicated plugins / addons that leave clients like Second Life in pampers. Those are the whales that keep SE happy and doing the minimum effort.

80% huh, Ima need a source for that. No one I know plays for that reason.

[localareanetwork]

80% huh, Ima need a source for that. No one I know plays for that reason.

it's a common jaded take, the game has problems but people saying that mods are the only reason it's not dead are pure coping. no one i know plays only for mods. mare(the zone i promise) only has like 26k users online at the time of writing this, compared to.. what is the active player sub right now?

[VoidsentStatus]

compared to.. what is the active player sub right now?

I've always been curious to see the number of console users on this game considering every cross-platform game that I knew in the past, PS dwarfed PC in population. Like my last MMO, the PC side had died on its own, and they had to merge with the PS server just to stay alive and a bunch of us got pissed off because we got introduced to speed hacks and modded duplication stuff. CoD I know is majority console as well dwarfing PC.

[Sivante]

Yush.
I said before many times, like 80% of the player base (PC players) are""""""""""""" playing""""""""""""" this game like Skyrim with 25000 mods installed, dedicated plugins / addons that leave clients like Second Life in pampers. Those are the whales that keep SE happy and doing the minimum effort.

I mean, I don't know about 80% but I will say a cursory meandering through Limsa Lominsa on Crystal makes me inclined to agree.

Then again, whatever makes them happy. Not like I'm some kind of puritan. I do wish the game was updated more closely in alignment to better mechanics and gameplay over story and crutching on RP, but RP keeps games alive so I'd say CS3 is damned smart to appeal to those types of players. The players get to enjoy themselves, CS3 gets money, and I can always go play something else when CS3 can't put out the same way Limsa can.

That's right, CS3, I hope you're listening. I expect you to pack as much work as those miqo'te wearing nothing but belts with aspirations of being clothing. That's the bar. Ain't no reason that Au'Ra should be packing more interesting interactions than a world-reknowned game dev studio. You have inspiration on tap from the folks who aim to tap.


(I'll see myself out.)