Look at the historical record. Virtually every patch has had problems, including this most recent one. And that’s with small, incremental updates. Here, you’re talking about a major expansion with more changes than any previous patch, so I think it’s inevitable that there will be problems on launch day. It’s difficult to disagree with that conclusion.
So this policy give AGS two weeks to deal with any extraordinary issues they must, so that when the fresh start servers launch, they have the best chance of succeeding. Clearly they won’t have everything fixed, but hopefully enough to have a good fresh start launch.
A lot of players are waiting for a fresh start, that’s obvious from the posts and from the talk on the street as reflected in media coverage. A significant foundation for the future base of this game is being built on these fresh start servers, and AGS needs to get them right.
Yes, they will lose some players who want it all now, but as pseudomuse said so well above, if players aren’t thinking in long terms about this game, they aren’t likely to stick around no matter what.
People need to realize AGS has to strategically set these launch dates so they don’t coincide with the DF pre patch and launch date. These dates allow for a more lucrative draw.
They need to monitor the loads. A lot of people are waiting for Brimstones to drop to start playing more actively on their mains.
Then, there are all those waiting for the FS servers (myself included). If both those groups were to get going all at once, it probably be chaos. I’m more than okay with waiting 2 extra weeks if it helps getting a more stable/bug free experience. (Notice I said “more” not “entirely”, obviously servers will still be unstable and bugs will still be there, but it hopefully won’t be as bad).
I’m glad they announced it, but are they going to be doing updates on fresh start servers later or same time? All it takes is one dupe or exploit to be in an update to ruin the fresh start as well.
So your friends who presumably never played (since you said they’d be buying copies) are so disappointed about an expansion coming out (of which they know no details since they don’t play NW) two weeks prior to FSS are no longer going to play?
One good thing about this time schedule is also that as a vet who got bored of his main, you can enjoy Brimstone Sands for 2 weeks and start a new toon on a server where everybody is your level.
If servers will be closed for 6 months old players will not join cuz for what… if forever like @Kay said. Old players will maxout they characters in these 2 weeks and jump to fresh servers to check it to start all over, with fresh economy … fresh everything and there will be no boring. IMO lock forever is bad idea but this 6 months is prime time
Your take on this is a joke. Ita better to wait 2 weeks and fix any gamebreaking bugs that might potentially appear than rush it and imagine if some gamebreaking shit happens would just cause a shitshow that could have been easily avoided.
Im just testing things on ptr from start. Too bad there is no exact items and level on ptr when u want to test it from lv 1. You got weapons, 2 skill points for each weapon, gems, etc. They should add pure fresh start on PTR. How it really looks like.
You are right, FS servers need to come after the update, all this returning players would create so much drama if one major bug comes with Brimstone. So making sure everything is ok before releasing them it’s the right call. Also 2 weeks are nothing and the complains are ridiculous
I hope fresh servers will be as good as they are ‘on paper’!
Still the excuses with previous dupe or whatsoever are totally wrong! All consumables are gone by long time and it did not affect the game as majority bought them crazy cheap. It affected more the crafters who could not compete with the low price sell.
Fresh servers will be dominated by players who are playing on other servers. As they will reach lvl 60 in 1-2 days while those returned and new players will struggle 1 month to reach lvl 60.
Actually might be even worse on fresh servers if to many current players are going on fresh servers as they will monopolize all or nearly all territories.
But this is only my opinion, so far now we can only do assumptions.
Community asked for fresh servers, Amazon gave us fresh servers! Let’s have fun.
50% of players returning based on what statistics? The ones in your head? It’s their date and if what you’re saying is true then leave, or you must be the other 50% you’re talking about huh lol.
They’ve also said the territory wealth changes will be in place when the servers launch. Between that and shell companies not being a thing, I’d say we are in for quite the treat.
And this idea that its to prevent problems on launch day the 18th is a joke. It would be no different than the problems you would run into on every other server.
Not really. If new dupe appears, fresh start servers will be safe and thats the only reason why people want to start fresh, right?
