PVP makes up a small minority of the player base.
The game is losing players because of crap broken updates that take weeks to months to fix.
The game is losing players because funcom just wont leave battle mechanics well enough alone.
The game is losing players because old players don’t like the direction of casual the game is going in.
This game could lose all it’s PVP players and not suffer any worse then it has from broken launches of the new ages. If the nemedian{sp} foundation “fix” didn’t tank this game, I’m not sure anything will.
But this issue you point out isn’t limited to PVP, mass over building is common because funcom simply can not or wont do a proper job of managing their own servers.
Which is; in my opinion, why you will never see funcom doing a proper job admiring there servers. The worst ToC violates on the public servers are probably the biggest spenders in the game. One person on the server I’m on adds a new neighborhood every time new building pieces are added to the bazaar.
I’ve tried dfferent PVE servers they are all pretty much the same. You take servers running for years, add players that have been on them for years, encourage them to build and hand them new building pieces regular and what you end up with is servers that look like central Europe during the age of expansion not some tortured wast land people have been exiled to.
No. I’ve played games by incompetent devs. Ones that have just tossed together game engine content the bought and turn around and sell it as an early release and…
I will continue to point out funcom stuck their foot in a meat grinder going to this set release date thing. You have no option but to put out the update in what every shape it is in, no matter how bad, on time. And that is bad for both player and developer.
There are 2 solutions, and funcom wont do either. I’m sorry but if you run a server you are responsible for managing that server, but funcom simply wont make the expenditure to solve the issue. They need to hire active server admin.
I don’t see private servers as an option either. My experience they are either so mod heavy i spend more time waiting on updates then playing; when they work. Or here today…