Dogeared: their fix will probably eliminate the 'sploit that allows you to pass through ''doors'' from one playfield to another. <-- zomg, she was right!
Not sure what you expect ... FC to pay people to play on RK3? #1 issue is that it's a German server. You're already limiting your potential new players through that alone. It's unreasonable to think that allowing the server to die out isn't actually an option. Many games, many CURRENT and popular games do it, why is it so wrong for AO to not do it? Go get hit with the reality bus please.
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well, this maybe selfish but im kinda glad they're offering rk3'ers a transfer.
why? (here's the selfish part) at least some of them are gonna end up on rk2, and we need people too.. not as badly as rk3 does but lets face it they been dying a slow death for a long time at least now they can boost numbers on rk1 and 2 and something good can come out of it.
the only thing that really sucks is not everyone on rk3 can speak english and it may be a game ending move for that group.
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Rumor has it they got a thing for FRUIT CAKE over there
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AO is an MMO, age doesn't matter really much there.
Everquest 1 is from 1999 and they just make a major expansion(the 16. IIRC) for it:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/9/feature/3773
SOE is of course bigger, but whatever.
Your formula is "OLD = WTF, we won't invest **** in it, you can pay and play, but don't expect us to invest!"
If funcom really wants to revitalize AO they have to invest initial up-front costs.
BTW RK3 is run by FUNCOM not a third party.
I expect honesty, and every other company that sees a servers population is too low reacts in a timely manner no 5-6 year later lol.
The reality is Funcom will invest as much as is needed to milk the rest of the population, but they don't invest anything to really stabilize AO.
Once again, WHAT could they do? There's nothing that is going to magically make the population raise they already have the game free to play so thats not going to do it. So WHAT could they do?
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They arent in the position to atm. If u want ppl to come to AO now, then ur looking for ppl who dont care about graphics. But nowadays thats almost the only thing ppl look at. After they have the Engine up they (atleast thats what i gathered) are up to promoting AO again. Thats the time to do it. Not now
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"I know who coded pet pathing... and when I see him I say "/follow" and I start waling in to walls :P"
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You will find idiots like that in any game, any server and IRL. They are ignorant, stunted people and they will attack anyone for any perceived differences. You can't change them but you can ignore them/report them. ARK/FC take harassment very seriously but cannot deal with it if it goes unreported.
I think its sad DNW is closing. RK1 and 2 have their own population difficulties atm too. An influx of folk from DNW may alleviate that....but for how long?
This unique/crazy/wondrous game deserves to live, the scope, complexity, quirkiness, setting and community(apart from the aforementioned children) knows no equal. The current GD and his team have my full respect for their efforts and obvious love for their job. The title of this thread is scarily apt.
The folk I know in game will welcome all transfers from DNW, be they pvpers, pvmers, rpers. Whatever your reasons for being here we all share a common interest.
Your english is fine btw
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Many Thanks for that.
As I sad, I don´t wanna offend anybody, I just can tell my experiences. Ok, that happend 5 years ago, and at that time, I wasn´t relaxed enough to take actions like that.
I just wanted to play the game, and the only thing I wanted is a nice community without that nation-****.
So, if there is a org without any doubt I would be joyful to hear of that
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first of all, it's their job to come up with something clever -but anyways:
1)
They could make Shadowlands and AI F2P and display ingame ads for theses players.
Not with these imho not so good billboards but with ads that get faded in in a save place so that the player doesn't die because of the ad. Or the can display ads after and before every zoning.
2)
Like someone mentioned, they could make a onetime fee, you pay for example 99,9$ and get a Lifetime Shadowlands account etc.
3)
They could rename RK3 to something general and make a Global OOC for every major language, so that a german can speak german in the germans channel and an english speaking player in an english channel if they wanted to.
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They already have SL for 5$ a mo, and doing a 1 time fee would not pay for the servers month to month and the game would go splat.
This one doesnt make any sense what so ever, RK1 and 2 have population problems, making it easier so english speaking players can play on Rk3 would not raise the population when Rk1 and 2 are already english speaking servers.
"A whole new place to run around for ages in then die suddenly without warning."
"I know who coded pet pathing... and when I see him I say "/follow" and I start waling in to walls :P"
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From my experience, there's quite a few people on RK2 who can't speak English. So long as people transferring from RK3 can manage "<insert buff acronym here> pls" and tab-q they should be all right.
Plus, there is nothing to stop like-minded people who have trouble with English from forming their own orgs after transferring.
The real trouble here, in my opinion, is RK3 orgs losing the cities and tower fields they've earned.
"A whole new place to run around for ages in then die suddenly without warning."
"I know who coded pet pathing... and when I see him I say "/follow" and I start waling in to walls :P"
The "Trolls" option is incorrect. The term trolls is not used to describe the gathering of information on the Internet.
<@Kintaii> L2P