Fact are facts. When ywain came togther there was about 3500 players prime time. Remember the serious lag issues? Under 2 k at prime time now.
I fear they won't come back with out some stimulous. But what the heck, just buy Rift and blend with the mass's.

Like it or not, population has droped my 1500.

 

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Facts are facts. Pick anytime after WoW was launched and the population numbers have been dropping, and dropping, and dropping. . . .


Also, there are free DAoC servers out there and those free servers are not flooded with players. It is not just the price that is keeping players away. The game has been twisted into a psychotic mishmash that most MMO players just do not find fun.


I have said this on many threads now, look at the WoW forums and count the number of angry posts, and remember that WoW has over 10 million subs. Then compare that to the number of angry DAoC posts found on the VN boards back when DAoC had 250K subs. The number of angry posts is about the same for both games.


Back when DAoC had 250K subs, based on percentages, DAoC had about 40 times the number of angry posts as WoW.


Games should be fun; they should not something that has a red-faced player periodically pulling their hair out and yelling at the computer screen because of unfixed game problems. Games should be fun, they should not something that motivates players into spending late nights crafting voodoo chants to damn Mythic.


Unfortunately DAoC/Mythic has always had far too much of the PITA factor.


The only way to save DAoC is to untwist it, fix it, remove the stupid OP garbage that Mythic put in the game in an attempt to sell Xpacs, fix the PvE, fix the questing, fix the drops, fix the downtime, fix the UI, fix etc. . . . . .


Lowering the price of DAoC will not save the game. Even a free PITA is still a PITA.

 

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Cost is fine, leave it be!

the cost is not fine. It's been a bad idea since they implemented the increase of cost.

 

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There was certainly a population hit when Mythic announced the cost increase - but over time it probably helped keep Mythic afloat that much longer.

As Semi4 says though a key part has been the response to customer complaints.
Mythic have never come across as being able to respond to them.
Almost certainly because there was very little class balance testing done.

CoH devs, WoW devs, EQ devs, L2, lots of games were the devs come and say: this shouldn't happen, we have the test runs, but e.g. multiple low probability boss resists may happen so we have introduced a decay. Or from Blizzard devs - yes we know X happens it is by design and compensates for Y. Not always a popular response but again they come across as knowing the game mechanics and appreciating what a change might do.

I have never had this feeling from Mythic.

omg, I lol'd so much just thinking of miltons voice saying that.

 

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The cost IS fine.

There's not enough subs to keep this running at a reduced rate.

in other words

No I for one am glad.It will be interesting to see how low the pop gets.

 

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Instead of cheaper monthly fees, Call it "our Friend Plays for free", So people can either have their bot account for free, or actually let a friend play for free.

 

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