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Reply #630 on: February 01, 2011, 01:43:06 AM

Additionally, an advantage of a sub-based business model is that you can pretty accurately chart your future income once you have some historical data to work with.

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Reply #631 on: February 01, 2011, 03:27:07 AM

Nowhere in a Venn diagram does this game, fun and profit converge.
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Reply #632 on: February 03, 2011, 03:30:01 AM

Andy has gone.

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Reply #633 on: February 03, 2011, 03:33:43 AM

A new European CM has joined and I suspect that I know who it is. If I'm right then it's one of my former GOA colleagues. The introduction is supposed to happen next week.

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Reply #634 on: February 03, 2011, 03:20:37 PM

More server closures (source)

NA:
Iron Rock
Volkmar

EU:
Carroburg

edit:
This brings the live server counts to 2 NA, 4EU.

« Last Edit: February 03, 2011, 03:25:40 PM by fuser »
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Reply #635 on: February 03, 2011, 03:23:44 PM

That leaves just two servers for the US now, doesn't it?

Edit:  Looks like Gorfang, and Badlands.  Isn't it about time someone took this game out back, and put it out of it's misery?
« Last Edit: February 03, 2011, 03:28:51 PM by Cadaverine »

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Reply #636 on: February 03, 2011, 03:31:19 PM

That leaves just two servers for the US now, doesn't it?

Edit:  Yup, Gorfang for the free server, and Badlands for the paid folk.  Isn't it about time someone took this game out back, and put it out of it's misery?

The EU ones are needed for the languages only (English free/paid, French, German). It's an amazing bleed-off of the population from a game that started at ~80 servers down to half a dozen in a little over two years.
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Reply #637 on: February 03, 2011, 04:25:33 PM

Oddly enough, Gorefang had my warrior priest and dorf and the Badlands had my Chaos and Greenskin.

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Reply #638 on: February 03, 2011, 05:46:14 PM

They never had a clever guy come in and stop the bleeding. 
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Reply #639 on: February 03, 2011, 06:40:56 PM

Has anyone ever had that much server attrition? I know EQ2 had a bunch of servers but I don't think it was anything close to 80 and they're certainly not down to two NA servers.
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Reply #640 on: February 07, 2011, 01:56:26 AM

SWG had some pretty drastic server closures, but I don't know the numbers or timeframes.



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Reply #641 on: February 07, 2011, 06:14:21 AM

SWG initially cut about half their servers.  I'm not sure of the current state of things.  I don't think anyone has come close to matching WAR.

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Reply #642 on: February 07, 2011, 06:20:45 AM

The new EU CM is who I thought it was. Former German CM for DAoC and WAR and later the head of the WAR CM team in Europe after David Petit quit.

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Reply #643 on: February 09, 2011, 02:49:50 PM


    "...At that point, players will need to transfer their characters to Gorfang (via a free transfer) or another server (via a paid transfer) to access them.  ..."

and by "another server" we mean "Badlands".

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Reply #644 on: February 13, 2011, 03:40:56 AM

Nice.

Last time I played, I wound up quitting due to a problem with armor I had acquired, the shield was backwards.  I lost all will to play when I spent like weeks to get an item and it was backwards and no fix was in sight.

I mean I submitted reports for months.  How hard it is to flip a 3d model 180 degrees?  I imagine it can't be that difficult.  I just checked the forums and there was a post recently that its still backwards.

I think its been like that since the item was added which was like a year ago.  I swear they can't fix anything.
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Reply #645 on: February 13, 2011, 07:03:52 AM

With the constant hacking away at the dev numbers on WAR, this isn't a surprise.

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Reply #646 on: February 20, 2011, 10:57:19 PM

Just read up on this thread. The Ratama period was  why so serious?

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Reply #647 on: February 21, 2011, 03:26:16 AM

I wonder what Rift pvp will do to the population of pvp die-hards on WAR.
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Reply #648 on: February 21, 2011, 08:27:32 AM

I wonder what Rift pvp will do to the population of pvp die-hards on WAR.

All of my DAOC friends that are still playing WAR have no interest in Rifts.  Right or wrong, they see it as another PvE WoW clone.  I think Aion was the game that was the biggest WAR killer.  GW2 may steal the rest of them. 

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Reply #649 on: February 23, 2011, 01:10:35 PM

Rift launches tomorrow and the unsubscribe button from Warhammer disappears on the mythic account management page.

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I log into account settings and my account which was previously cancelled to avoid rebilling now says Active with no Cancel button and no Start - End date showing. ...little help please.

Kai Schober (bioware)  Created about 2 hours ago
I have no information about any changes like that.
Let me check and come back on this.

Kai Schober (bioware)  Created about 1 hour ago
The maintenance today was just a simple hardware issue - a memory module needed to be replaced - so this can't be the reason.
Also, the reports started after the general maintenance yesterday.

Comedy gold timing!
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Reply #650 on: February 23, 2011, 01:58:39 PM

 ACK! ACK!

I'm glad I uninstalled this shit long ago. 
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Reply #651 on: February 23, 2011, 02:10:38 PM

Well that's one way to have a lifetime sub!
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Reply #652 on: February 23, 2011, 04:15:19 PM

Well, it's Mythic, so it might be ten or twenty lifetime subs...

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Reply #653 on: February 23, 2011, 04:59:25 PM

Well, it's Mythic, so it might be ten or twenty lifetime subs...

I think I'd rather have the electric chair please than a lifetime sentence...er...sub.

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Reply #654 on: February 24, 2011, 01:36:51 AM

Rift launches tomorrow and the unsubscribe button from Warhammer disappears on the mythic account management page.

Heh. I'm sure these guys can be trusted. KOTOR Online? No thanks!

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Reply #655 on: February 24, 2011, 06:03:35 PM

I wonder what Rift pvp will do to the population of pvp die-hards on WAR.

All of my DAOC friends that are still playing WAR have no interest in Rifts.  Right or wrong, they see it as another PvE WoW clone.  I think Aion was the game that was the biggest WAR killer.  GW2 may steal the rest of them. 

We shall see. My WAR guild just started playing RIFT for the head start today. We're hardcore PvP. Did nothing but RvR in WAR. Have multiple RR90+ in the guild. In any case, if it proves to be popular enough with everyone and the PvP stays exciting as it has been, then WAR will lose our guild. If not, we will be back to playing WAR until GW2 comes out and then we'll probably see how that goes.

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Reply #656 on: March 01, 2011, 05:43:51 AM

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Reply #657 on: March 01, 2011, 06:20:56 PM


Well, that was a fantastic use of an official Twitter account.  Ohhhhh, I see.

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Reply #658 on: March 04, 2011, 01:25:02 PM

February Producer's Letter

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Reply #659 on: March 04, 2011, 01:52:29 PM

Remove stealth.  Remove CC.  Remove having to level to 40 before you can play the game. Balance classes. Flatten the RR vs power curve. 

I'd go back if those things happened.  I enjoyed my shaman and squig herder.

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Reply #660 on: March 04, 2011, 01:58:56 PM

And make it F2P.  awesome, for real

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Reply #661 on: March 04, 2011, 02:13:32 PM

Remove stealth.  Remove CC.  Remove having to level to 40 before you can play the game. Balance classes. Flatten the RR vs power curve. 
The CC is about right now.  Most classes felt more balanced.

The level 40 thing is more of a problem, because now you have to be level 40 and renown rank 100.

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Reply #662 on: March 31, 2011, 08:23:01 PM

Remove stealth.  Remove CC.  Remove having to level to 40 before you can play the game. Balance classes. Flatten the RR vs power curve. 
The CC is about right now.  Most classes felt more balanced.

The level 40 thing is more of a problem, because now you have to be level 40 and renown rank 100.

This

RR100 gear is crazy powerful. If you aren't RR90+, you're in for a long ride.

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Reply #663 on: December 17, 2011, 12:54:23 PM

Apparently they are down to 1 server in the US and 1, maybe 2 in the EU.

Upcoming Free Server Transfers
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As part of our ongoing efforts to maintain an active, competitive, and engaging experience in WAR we have decided to open free transfers for players to specific servers. WAR, more than many games, only gets better with more people. These transfers will enable players to experience more action during all hours whether fighting in scenarios or Open RvR.

To make this process easier we have provided specific details concerning these new transfer options below, please read and follow any instructions carefully. We are currently targeting next week to enable the transfers, for now please use this time to organize yourself and your friends to ensure a smooth transition to your new home.

US from the original thread post I dug out the dates when they tombstoned the last ones, Dark Crag - 11/24/2009, Phoenix Throne  - 11/24/2009, Darklands - 19/08/2009, Ironclaw - 19/08/2009, Gorfang - 12/09/2011, Iron Rock - 02/03/2011, Volkmar - 02/03/2011, Ironfist - 07/13/2009, Vortex - 07/13/2009, Monolith - 07/13/2009, Magnus - 07/13/2009, Skull Throne - 07/13/2009, Ostermark - 03/31/2009, Praag - 08/07/2009.

Which leaves Badlands as the sole US server, I can't be arsed checking the EU.
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Reply #664 on: December 17, 2011, 04:13:38 PM

How can they stay open with one server?  What is that, 2,500 average pop?  So sad, I really wanted this game to be good.
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