Now, assuming that a person that hates the game has enough accounts to log in to four different servers at exactly the same time, why would he do that? Who else thinks that 1am EST is Prime time for most of the USA? It is midnight in Central, 11pm in Mountain, and 10pm on the West Coast. Now, if we say that this is in some small degree accurate, we need to ask which zone he was in? We also need to find out which tool he used? I suspect that it was the ingame Search for Players too. Again, this tool only brings information up about the specific zone, like Lacheish Plains. So, if we had 350 people milling around one zone, that could actually be very good.
It takes 5 minutes to count out 350 or whatever players so 20-30 minutes is pretty realistic, but 1 am would IRL be a full hour or 15 minutes to do a server tally, which is close to peak time. Am I the only person who did inventory and bean counting as the principle is pretty basic? You can do a full search from any zone. Look I'm not saying the data is accurate, but that and the many other posts are reporting that servers are dying and or dead.
As the AoC coorespondant, you above all others should know about this game and the players, you would know that the playerbase is calling for server mergers OR more players while the developers are saying low population servers are fine. AoC Isn't getting new players anytime soon because advertising and viral marketing will not bring back the people who quit, didn't like the game after free trials, or know another gamer who tells them how fail the game is. Empty servers will not keep the few players that try AoC. AoC continues to lose players rapidly for many reasons so the only solution I see to these ghost servers is server mergers. Also, what happened to the "REVIEWS FROM THE FRONT" thread? I rather enjoyed it.
This thread can't be called a hate thread...I'm advocating the player bases need to have other players to play with and Funcom be hating on the player base and saying dead servers are AIGHT....AMIRIIITE?
And no those are bad numbers for a MMO as it would be prime time hours for 3/4 the the country and that those are ALL the players spread out over 80 levels....and because level 80s quit or reroll according to the game director, most players are not 80 yet.
Litigator is one of the biggest trolls on the official forums. So to quote is totally ridicules and proves nothing. I don't think I've ever read a post by Litigator that had anything substantial in it.
if I remember correctly Ltigator was spending a more than healty number of hours claiming that funcom would go bankrupt before 2009....
Second; why does Fanaticd and his boy Lordbonzey feel so much of a game they dont even play? Is it to defend their quitting they need to spend their lives making "OMG everyone is quitting not just us" post over the internet?
Now my question is, since these are the most populated servers and are no where near the 4,000 players logged in to a server at release. When are server mergers and what happened to the 1,000,000 + or so players who bought this game or participated in the free trial? Look, if a game I played had only a few hundred players per server and it had multiple servers I would demand mergers....of course I'm not a solo player, I prefer groups and enjoy PvP with other players.
I'm concerned that the very few players left that seem to be undying fans support Funcom so much that they think Funcom was right when it said that low population servers are fine....those players should also know the population is decreasing as Funcom reported lower earnings next quarter. IDk, if I was on a dead server, which is all of them..I would want more players.
Interessting read. For us that are able to read more than our own posts we see that most is saying; hey they came to our server cuz its more then enough players here.
tbh usning 1 server whining for someone like Litigator to prove a point(he has been proven wrong so many times you should not belive anything he says); its just sad...
I just recently came back a few days ago, and I'm pretty much regretting it. I'm on Cimmeria, and the population is horrid. Anytime of the day, most of the regions I frequent will provide 1-6 people. That is abysmal. I'd give it a pass if there were many things to do, like player hubs and activities, but there isn't.
I've been back for several days now and haven't been able to get into a mini-pvp game because not enough people join. The closest I got to starting a mini was 7/12.
I doubt I'll extend beyond this month. There just isn't anything to do. Why do developers make a game with total vertical progression and absolutely nothing else to do on the side? So fucking sick of it.
On my server two large guild just left to go to another server (or 1.5 guilds really) and so it is getting quite lonely because individuals are doing likewise to follow the group, reducing the server's numbers. It is unfiortunate that people dont stay to hold their position (personally i think oneof the big guild left due to their keep being razed)
Personally I am willing to hang tight till they merge the server. I am not paying to move servers.
Because AOC has the ability to create additional Instances of every Zone on the fly there really is no reason to have more than one Server Per Rule Set.
I'm not going to argue about numbers, all I can say is there are more than enough people on MY current server to enjoy every aspect of the game. I know that there are several Servers where this is not the case.
RP PVP
RP PVE
PVE
PVP
Again, because the way AOC works and it creates multiple Instances of the same zone when X Amount of people are in it there is no reason to have more than one server per rule set.
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It takes 5 minutes to count out 350 or whatever players so 20-30 minutes is pretty realistic, but 1 am would IRL be a full hour or 15 minutes to do a server tally, which is close to peak time. Am I the only person who did inventory and bean counting as the principle is pretty basic? You can do a full search from any zone. Look I'm not saying the data is accurate, but that and the many other posts are reporting that servers are dying and or dead.
As the AoC coorespondant, you above all others should know about this game and the players, you would know that the playerbase is calling for server mergers OR more players while the developers are saying low population servers are fine. AoC Isn't getting new players anytime soon because advertising and viral marketing will not bring back the people who quit, didn't like the game after free trials, or know another gamer who tells them how fail the game is. Empty servers will not keep the few players that try AoC. AoC continues to lose players rapidly for many reasons so the only solution I see to these ghost servers is server mergers. Also, what happened to the "REVIEWS FROM THE FRONT" thread? I rather enjoyed it.
This thread can't be called a hate thread...I'm advocating the player bases need to have other players to play with and Funcom be hating on the player base and saying dead servers are AIGHT....AMIRIIITE?
Funcom has reviewed all of its assets relevant for
impairment testing. This process has led to
recognition of an impairment loss of around
3,1 MUSD for Age of Conan due to a decrease in
numbers of subscribers for the game. Funcom Q4 10 report.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2926123&postcount=7 500 mains/alts on Tyranny in past 30 days - instead of merge servers let's open a new PvP server, again! http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=106427
Litigator is one of the biggest trolls on the official forums. So to quote is totally ridicules and proves nothing. I don't think I've ever read a post by Litigator that had anything substantial in it.
if I remember correctly Ltigator was spending a more than healty number of hours claiming that funcom would go bankrupt before 2009....
Second; why does Fanaticd and his boy Lordbonzey feel so much of a game they dont even play? Is it to defend their quitting they need to spend their lives making "OMG everyone is quitting not just us" post over the internet?
So the update is 10:30 pm est and Tyranny has 260 players and Cimmeria has 471 players per this source forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
Now my question is, since these are the most populated servers and are no where near the 4,000 players logged in to a server at release. When are server mergers and what happened to the 1,000,000 + or so players who bought this game or participated in the free trial? Look, if a game I played had only a few hundred players per server and it had multiple servers I would demand mergers....of course I'm not a solo player, I prefer groups and enjoy PvP with other players.
I'm concerned that the very few players left that seem to be undying fans support Funcom so much that they think Funcom was right when it said that low population servers are fine....those players should also know the population is decreasing as Funcom reported lower earnings next quarter. IDk, if I was on a dead server, which is all of them..I would want more players.
Funcom has reviewed all of its assets relevant for
impairment testing. This process has led to
recognition of an impairment loss of around
3,1 MUSD for Age of Conan due to a decrease in
numbers of subscribers for the game. Funcom Q4 10 report.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2926123&postcount=7 500 mains/alts on Tyranny in past 30 days - instead of merge servers let's open a new PvP server, again! http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=106427
Interessting read. For us that are able to read more than our own posts we see that most is saying; hey they came to our server cuz its more then enough players here.
tbh usning 1 server whining for someone like Litigator to prove a point(he has been proven wrong so many times you should not belive anything he says); its just sad...
I just recently came back a few days ago, and I'm pretty much regretting it. I'm on Cimmeria, and the population is horrid. Anytime of the day, most of the regions I frequent will provide 1-6 people. That is abysmal. I'd give it a pass if there were many things to do, like player hubs and activities, but there isn't.
I've been back for several days now and haven't been able to get into a mini-pvp game because not enough people join. The closest I got to starting a mini was 7/12.
I doubt I'll extend beyond this month. There just isn't anything to do. Why do developers make a game with total vertical progression and absolutely nothing else to do on the side? So fucking sick of it.
What level range? if 1-20 or 50-80 this is flat out lie.
On my server two large guild just left to go to another server (or 1.5 guilds really) and so it is getting quite lonely because individuals are doing likewise to follow the group, reducing the server's numbers. It is unfiortunate that people dont stay to hold their position (personally i think oneof the big guild left due to their keep being razed)
Personally I am willing to hang tight till they merge the server. I am not paying to move servers.
Here is the deal...
Because AOC has the ability to create additional Instances of every Zone on the fly there really is no reason to have more than one Server Per Rule Set.
I'm not going to argue about numbers, all I can say is there are more than enough people on MY current server to enjoy every aspect of the game. I know that there are several Servers where this is not the case.
RP PVP
RP PVE
PVE
PVP
Again, because the way AOC works and it creates multiple Instances of the same zone when X Amount of people are in it there is no reason to have more than one server per rule set.