They need to get these mergers done. It’s delivering the finishing blow. 25k less players on Sunday peak compared with previous Sunday. On my server alone, Sunday peak was worse than Saturday and worst player count since release.
Busiest server on NW with highest Cap of 2250 now down to just 250 daily players. It is nothing short of scandelous this has being allowed to deteriorate so much as if they actually want to kill off the game.
Sorry If I sound depressed but I was hoping NW would be a success!
I know, I am not buying all this balls about introducing merge framework with these recent patches because they tested the systems last year and in last PTR they are just dragging their feet and I don’t understand it.
funny cos ive fortold this fate 2 months ago already.
it happened exactly as i said.
AGS caters to carebears → carebears do what they always do → come in and ruin a promising game → play till the next thing pops up on the horizon → and POOF, they gone.
2 months later, -800k players and still plummeting. what a fucking surprise (not really)
I consider myself a carebear but I do pvp with company and OPR now and again because there is nothing to lose and you cant really be humilated in a game where hacks and bugs are rife.
I mainly do PVE and I am still around. So no, it isn’t just carebears are leaving. Its anyone who hasn’t got the stamina to see this out.
If this game is to be my titanic, I will go down with this ship lol. Unless they finally fix that gd dm leak!
People need to leave. Amazon already got their money. If they are unhappy, they won’t be buying skins for cash. So amazon is not making anymore money with them, they are just running the “lights” now. In other words, they are costing amazon money. If amazon closes allot of servers, as it will with mergers, they will save operating money. If amazon saves on operating cost, then they will continue to support or rather invest in other areas of the game, like upgrading devs…
I still prefer NW:)
Anyway yes, they really have awful system that does not scale well. They need more servers for peak hours when they introduce new content to avoid queues and way less servers at other tomes so the remaining players have a game to play…
Servers with 2k+ players have a queue and on top of that there are barely any resources for crafting. Servers with less than 500 players have issues with elite runs and OPR, and there is not enough refining reagents on the market to process all the harvested stuff. Seems like that the ideal population is around 1k players, but that is quite rare and the game does not scale with player population.
The elite areas or portals could be easier with less players, and the resources should spawn faster with more players around… and there are many more issues. The TP needs a big and active server population for prices to stabilise.
Let’s talk about. The content to do at level 60 is elite route, dungeon and outpost rush.
Dungeons are expensive and the risk of failure is high. So people get paid to get in … Outpost rush in my server is a 10 vs 20. 1 hour queue to start one.
Elite routes are monotonous and boring, but the question I ask you is, what’s the point of having a high gear score? for what? There is no challenge whatsoever in this game. PVP is unbalanced and will remain unbalanced, nerf for one weapon and play another weapon. All this time for the merge, but the new content? The new update only adds daily of what already existed. We need content accessible to all, dungeons, raids, pvp arenas.
but I do pvp with company and OPR now and again because there is nothing to lose and you cant really be humilated in a game where hacks and bugs are rife.