While dark age is still doing decent, it's still on the decline. One of the biggest reasons that drew me into the game was (apart from realm loyalty) was a sense of community. There were also huge numbers, but besides that, people wanted to group. Leveling up a healing class was pretty easy because everyone wanted one. These days, when you click on the Lfg tab, there's hardly anyone there (maybe a level 41 infiltrator). Raids are getting rarer to find and are often being run by macro groups.

While it would be nice for some patches to come up and perhaps a campaign expansion, what could we as a community do to improve the game overall? Is this even possible?

We can do nothing..


Since that's all that Bioware/EA or w/e seem to be doing

 

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1) Help create a positive experience for new users by refraining from bitching and fighting in region chat; discouraging farmers; and be generous with advice and coin.

2) Promote the game by word of mouth, forum post, and social media.

3) Make reasoned, well thought out pleas to Mythic to change specific things.

4) Edit, add to, and refine the wiki.

5) Buy advertising "in Mythic's name" so to speak, that promotes DAoC.

6) Get young hip celebrities or sports stars of each gender to tweet about playing DAoC.

7) Assemble a consortium of rich eccentric gamers to pony up the $5-9 million EA's going to want for the DAoC IP and code. Then badger the investors for an additional $1-2 million to make something workable out of the remains.

8) Convince a famous fantasy writer to write a series based on the DAoC IP.

9) Convince a famous Hollywood director to make a movie based upon the DAoC IP.

10) Take low level jobs at the Mythic support call center and worm our way into the organization until we can call the shots.

11) Bribe Mythic employees to allow you to make changes to the codebase.

12) Kidnap and threaten various EA executives until our demands are met.

If all else fails, lucky number 13:

13) Give the game a decent burial.

 

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Euthanasia.

 

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All cancel subs so daoc dies?

 

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1) Help create a positive experience for new users by refraining from bitching and fighting in region chat; discouraging farmers; and be generous with advice and coin.

2) Promote the game by word of mouth, forum post, and social media.

3) Make reasoned, well thought out pleas to Mythic to change specific things.

4) Edit, add to, and refine the wiki.

5) Buy advertising "in Mythic's name" so to speak, that promotes DAoC.

6) Get young hip celebrities or sports stars of each gender to tweet about playing DAoC.

7) Assemble a consortium of rich eccentric gamers to pony up the $5-9 million EA's going to want for the DAoC IP and code. Then badger the investors for an additional $1-2 million to make something workable out of the remains.

8) Convince a famous fantasy writer to write a series based on the DAoC IP.

9) Convince a famous Hollywood director to make a movie based upon the DAoC IP.

10) Take low level jobs at the Mythic support call center and worm our way into the organization until we can call the shots.

11) Bribe Mythic employees to allow you to make changes to the codebase.

12) Kidnap and threaten various EA executives until our demands are met.

If all else fails, lucky number 13:

13) Give the game a decent burial.

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What kind of god would admit to creating us?
-- Pyrrho the Skeptic

Lol when I started reading I thought you were crazy. It sure turned out right.

be friendly and help people in game. If everyone did this a bit more it would be a big difference.

 

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I agree 100% with this. You're not going to get new players flooding this game anymore with adverts or a lot of media (I'm sure you'll get a few, but how many times have you seen a new MMO advert on this or other forums and just been like... nah, forget that). Or with fancy endorsements.

The only thing we can probably do, is get the word out about this game and then treat new players in a friendly and helpful manner. I try doing this with every new player I meet. I generally give them some tips, help them get a few levels, show them a decent way to make some plat and maybe give them an item that is decent but not very expensive (since my experience with new players has been, they like swapping around characters a ton... like ohhh lemme try this, now this, now that.)

 

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i think the peeps from SWG had the same convo.

im not sure why DAOC doesnt advertise..all new MMO's advertise and end up sucking because imo, they dont implement some aspects that the player base wants...and that is good PVP system, not this WoW instant crap that most have been used too. hopefully one say someone will come along and make a MMO that has meaningful PVP in a update system.

 

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stfu and choose one realm and stick with it.