They seem happy tweeting about the fact their game is being abandoned so much that they’re having to combine worlds just to have worlds even be active.
That’s not a brag. A brag would be having to open new servers to cope with the demand. This is the opposite of that.
Just allow server transfers in the same way that you can change faction. Give it a 3 month cooldown and you’ll be set until you find some other way to ruin this game.
The problem is player population. Right now, AGS is catering to the hard core PVP players. They constantly whine about weapon X is overpowered, or weapon Y has been nerfed.
Let’s make one thing ABSOLUTELY CLEAR. They are complaining their weapons are not balanced to kill OTHER PLAYERS. From day 1, the ratio of PvP vs PvE weapon complaints is really 100 to 1. There are some legitimate PvE complaints about weapons, excessive cooldown, low range, etc, but it does not hold a candle to PVP.
We are starting to see bots abandoing the game. At this point, they don’t make enough gold to continue to be profitable. When you have a high population of 800 people right now, probably 100 or so are bots, 600 are members of a company, and 100 are PvE players. As someone who put in a lot of time before cutting back to 1 hour a week, I’ve seen the economic disparity between PvP players, who raped every PvE for gold with literally every house, every trade, every crafting. The PvP players constantly berate PvE players who complain they don’t have enough gold. Fighting high level mobs leads to damage, which requires parts (crafting, which gets given to PvP players) and straight up gold. Since you don’t GET gold from mobs, you only get a tiny amount of gold breaking down components, if you are PvE, it becomes unsustainable.
PvP ruined the game. The gall of AGS thinking the PvP players would compete on ‘low taxes’ is laughable. The fact that PvP players WERE raking in millions of what I call ‘rape gold’ every week is deplorable.
Amazon screwed up. PvP could work, really, but you would need to take the finacial incentive (i.e. free gold) from owning cities. You need to let factions upgrade cities, not companies, you need to ensure a single faction can not own more than 5 cities. That GUARANTEES that even the lowest population faction would control at least 3 cities. Give a benefit to the faction that owns the city, give a luck bonus to crafting, give a storage bonus to houses. Make it positive for a faction to control a city. Right now, there is literally ZERO BENEFIT for any PvE player in any city. They don’t get any discount, they don’t get any benefits, and they are raped for gold by the PvP companies.
To sum it up, Amazon has no choice but to merge servers. With the fallout of bots quitting, the ‘average’ number of players online at any given time is going to take a big hit. The peaks keep falling, and with the PvE players abandoing the game wholesale, we are already hearing complaints from PvP players that they actually have to GASP gather, and craft, instead of using thier rape gold to just buy what they want from auction house. Hahaha…
Can amazon recover? Probably not. Unless they are willing to do a Relaunch with fundamental economy changes, the population will continue to decline.
First the PvE players quit because it’s no fun to have no money
Then to bots quit because they can’t make any money.
Then the PvP players quit because they are getting no money, and have to actually go out and quest and increase crafting.
Eventually, and my guess is within one year, the entire game will be shut down. The question is, will amazon continue to support a game with just 1 server in every region. Does amazon actually have the wisdom to realize that the screwed up the concept with a ‘player run economy’. Hint: Player run ‘economies’ NEVER WORK. The game was massive fun from 1-40, a bit grindy from 41-60, and a complete mess over 60.
If amazon wants to keep the game alive, it’s really going to require a ‘version 2’ of the game. FFIV managed to do it, and it’s thriving now.
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