

Subscriber loss surprised some


Source: BBC

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RE: Not Just Casual
By mulethree on 5/14/2012 7:56:50 PM , Rating: 2

So they dropped > -400K subscriptions +addition of Asias = -400k

Maybe thats accurate since they don't post how many were added in asia.

Players online was way-WAY down by March to the point that you had less than 10 players per planet and couldn't make a PVP warzone except during prime-time.

The number of on-line players in March was off at least 50% vs early January - tho presumably they didn't all cancel their subscriptions and some of them are still being charged despite not playing any more.

I knew something was wrong the minute the game - which included 30 days in its purchase - wouldn't let me play until I provided a way to charge me for the 31st day.

I played EQ for many years - alts, raiding guilds, pvp guilds and it takes a lot of content to carry users thru a year and most of it is max-level content. This game had been hyped for 4+ years yet was still missing vital systems like voice-comms, guild tools, charachter-look customization and LFG tools. Stuff other games have had for years and years. Its 16-players-at a time engine limit and lack of a combat logfile are very revealing that they never intended to have end-game content or support hard-core players.

These guys put 80% into the first 49 levels and 20% to level 50 stuff - they needed 4x the level50 content - or better repeatability of the 1-49 stuff. More locations to go at level 20? Some way to bypass the grind (repeated questlines) when you level an alt?

There are like 8 main questlines which were the best part of the game. I only saw 2.5 of them because the quests outside the class questlines were so terribly boring. I leveled one Imperial to 50, then one Republican, but subsequent attempts ended up with needing 4 more levels before I could continue the class quest but the available questlines and broken PVP just made me want to logoff instead of grind out the levels.

And of course the first Imperial toon put a lot into his crafting but then couldn't make stuff for the republican 2nd character? The 2 sides can't mail or message each other or belong to the same guild - bad.


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