Okay, before we go any further, here’s a really short video to watch:
Go on, it’s less than 3 minutes. Anyone who’s hanging around these forums, discussing stuff like this, can spare that much time.
Alright, done? Good.
Now, knowing certain people around here, that little bit of common sense is far from enough to change minds, so let’s set it aside and treat this latest Doomsday Prophecy with seriousness it does not deserve.
And yet, that has worked pretty well in terms of population numbers. Yeah, sure, they release something, the population spikes up temporarily, then it goes down again. Guess what? If you look at the chart, you can notice a slow, but steady increase in the long run.
People have been crying for years about how the game is losing players and is surely dying, and yet this long-prophesied death rattle is always in some indeterminate future that never seems to arrive.
Ah, yes, the most populated servers will lose their population because of this, just like the game will die because it’s always losing population.
Forgive me if I’m not exactly inspired to trust your word here.
There’s a reason those servers are most populated. I’m guessing it’s because people actually have fun there. Which brings me to:
This is the crux of the matter here, and everything else is just trying to disguise this complaint: why, oh why, isn’t my server popular?
I know, it must be because you’re not offering a cash shop. Other servers’ admins are grifters, and players who don’t choose your server are dumb and naive.
Right?
Here’s an idea: try to approach the situation with less hubris. Your post reeks of it: hubris in thinking you’re the only one who can tell what makes this game’s population grow or shrink, hubris in thinking you know better than those who succeeded where you failed, hubris in thinking that the game will die because the only players left will be PVE and RP players.
Who knows, maybe your server’s population would improve if you spent more effort on trying to find out how to attract players and less on trying to get Funcom to get rid of your competition for you.
