MO hits 1000 simultaneous accounts logged in

Slapshot1188

http://steamcharts.com/app/287920

Will be interesting to check back in a few weeks to see retention.

Toferio

Unsurprisingly, their shitty server can't even handle that - I can't login. 

mmoesports

Server is getting much more stable, but I never understood why a game in 2015 have so much problem handling 2000 players at once...

Daikuru

This game is crap imho.

mgilbrtsn

If everything I read is true, their code isn't very efficient.  Also, since the game has been so underpopulated, I imagine that they haven't spent their effort in fixing those deficiencies and using effort elsewhere.  They will have to correct that if they are to move forward I think.

Anubisan

It is already a lot more stable than it was last week. The devs are constantly making changes to enhance server stability and fix the login issues and it is getting better. The steam player counts just keep going up during peak times too. Good sign for the game!

Toferio

Anubisan said:

It is already a lot more stable than it was last week. The devs are constantly making changes to enhance server stability and fix the login issues and it is getting better. The steam player counts just keep going up during peak times too. Good sign for the game!

Not really, according to steam charts it been around same peak all the time: http://steamcharts.com/app/287920

And honestly, the game been out for six freaking years and the server still was not prepared?

YashaX

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Copperfield

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Because the combat system in mo is a mess.. animations are way of.. glunky ass combat..

I think MO is a good game tho.. lots of sandbox features.. but the game simply dont feel right in the combat department..

angerbeaver

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Yet people keep saying it is a niche not being catered to. Although I enjoy the typical theme park MMO it does not mean I enjoy every game that has them. So it would probably be the same for others and their preference of Open World PVP Sandbox games.

Slapshot1188

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Because it's a 5 year old bad game?  Simply read the forums for this game and you will see hundreds of legitimate reasons.

YashaX

Slapshot1188 said:

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Because it's a 5 year old bad game?  Simply read the forums for this game and you will see hundreds of legitimate reasons.

Yeah it looks really good in theory, but the reviews are generally pretty harsh.

Loke666

YashaX said:

Slapshot1188 said:

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Because it's a 5 year old bad game?  Simply read the forums for this game and you will see hundreds of legitimate reasons.

Yeah it looks really good in theory, but the reviews are generally pretty harsh.

Inexperienced devs is a huge part of the problem. Of course it is hard to learn unless you do it but they really should have hired in someone who had worked more with MMOs. Wouldn't have been impossible to get a Norweigan who worked at FunCom or something. Yeah, FC doesn't really make the same kind of MMOs but the experience is still very helpful.

Of course some people who state that they want hardcore games tend to be less than hardcore when they actually get what they ask for...

Burntvet

1k logins? So what?

A certain not really to be mentioned EMU for a game ending in "galaxies" can run with over 2k concurrent users and is still in "development" by "amateur" devs,  and has been able to handle that many people for years. It can handle up to 3k, and it is not even "finished" yet.

And they are not charging money for that, and it works 10x better than MO ever has.

MO has had 1k concurrent logins for the first time after running for 6 YEARS. That should tell you all you need to know about this POS that still charges a sub fee (unless you want to play with crippled stats).

This game is a joke and so are the people running it.

kaiser3282

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc. 

Same reason as Darkfall. Bad dev teams incapable of updating and fixing their own game properly paired with lots of promises that go unfulfilled and bad decisions.

Meowington

Anubisan said:

It is already a lot more stable than it was last week. The devs are constantly making changes to enhance server stability and fix the login issues and it is getting better. The steam player counts just keep going up during peak times too. Good sign for the game!

Thats not true, the server population decrease alot already since the 2nd steam release week.

Loktofeit

Slapshot1188 said:

http://steamcharts.com/app/287920

Will be interesting to check back in a few weeks to see retention.

What was the reason for the spike? New update?

EDIT: Looking at the steam charts, it looks like it's been up in that range for a while. Not bad!

user547

FFA PvP will always murder your game.  That's why "old school" players don't really get into any of these titles. 

When this latest gimmicky round of PvP offerings finally peters out, we may get people sitting down and saying, ok what can we do to take things to the next level.  In the meantime we get this fantasy belief that PvP can fix a game's population.

Slapshot1188

Loktofeit said:

Slapshot1188 said:

http://steamcharts.com/app/287920

Will be interesting to check back in a few weeks to see retention.

What was the reason for the spike? New update?

EDIT: Looking at the steam charts, it looks like it's been up in that range for a while. Not bad!

No spike.  That was the steam release.   They have been pretty steady with a peak of 1-1.2k each week.
Around now the free trials should be realizing their characters are forever gimped. So over the next few weeks we will see if it drops or maintains.

Octagon7711

I'm surprised.  This looks like everything PvP'ers have been asking for.  Open PvP. Take all their stuff.  Sandbox.  Subscription.  No hand holding.  No such thing as the perfect game but it sounds like most of what hardcore players want.

Burntvet

Octagon7711 said:

I'm surprised.  This looks like everything PvP'ers have been asking for.  Open PvP. Take all their stuff.  Sandbox.  Subscription.  No hand holding.  No such thing as the perfect game but it sounds like most of what hardcore players want.

Except that it is broken as all hell, and is run by a corrupt company who allow player GMs to help their friends/guilds.

Not things you want in a FFA PvP game, or any game for that matter. Not excusable.

Great game on paper, one of the absolute worst games ever "delivered" in reality.

Xeno.phon

LOL hardly a commendable milestone for a game with this budget and amount of time on the market. Hell RPG MO, some little pixel grinding mmo, had 1500+ 2 weeks after launch and consistently keeps easily 600-800 people online at all times.

LacedOpium

Burntvet said:

Octagon7711 said:

I'm surprised.  This looks like everything PvP'ers have been asking for.  Open PvP. Take all their stuff.  Sandbox.  Subscription.  No hand holding.  No such thing as the perfect game but it sounds like most of what hardcore players want.

Except that it is broken as all hell, and is run by a corrupt company who allow player GMs to help their friends/guilds.

Not things you want in a FFA PvP game, or any game for that matter. Not excusable.

Great game on paper, one of the absolute worst games ever "delivered" in reality.

The only consistency with OW FFA PvPers in OW FFA PvP games is the excuses as to why all of them fail.  There is no such animal as a good OW FFA PvP game.  It's not the game that fails because as you have so eloquently stated many of them offer exactly what these hardcore OW FFA PvPers want on paper.  The obvious cause of their failure is the inherently flawed foundational game play mechanic and the toxic communities they ultimately breed.  

makasouleater69

LacedOpium said:

Burntvet said:

Octagon7711 said:

I'm surprised.  This looks like everything PvP'ers have been asking for.  Open PvP. Take all their stuff.  Sandbox.  Subscription.  No hand holding.  No such thing as the perfect game but it sounds like most of what hardcore players want.

Except that it is broken as all hell, and is run by a corrupt company who allow player GMs to help their friends/guilds.

Not things you want in a FFA PvP game, or any game for that matter. Not excusable.

Great game on paper, one of the absolute worst games ever "delivered" in reality.

The only consistency with OW FFA PvPers in OW FFA PvP games is the excuses as to why all of them fail.  There is no such animal as a good OW FFA PvP game.  It's not the game that fails because as you have so eloquently stated many of them offer exactly what these hardcore OW FFA PvPers want on paper.  The obvious cause of their failure is the inherently flawed foundational game play mechanic and the toxic communities they ultimately breed.  

The toxic community does have something to do with it, but this game wouldn't of failed if it wasn't bug infested, gm corruption ext. It was easy to avoid pvp, if you didn't want to do it;minus the bugs, the crafting, and animal taming/breeding were some of the best. I quit because I got sick of bugs. I fell through the world, more times then i care to remember, as I was almost getting a good horse. The last straw was some guy exploited some bug, and threw me off my horse, like 1000 feet, and i smacked a wall and died, as they were tanking all the guards in the city........... 

The community was one of the straws though, they are all literally insane, or the large majority. I joined a one of the major guilds there, they literally wanted me to sit in their team speak all day, and listen to them cry and moan, about their personal days, and problems in life. I could understand being in team speak if we were doing something, but the 2 days I was in their guild, all they did was bitch and moan, then they told me I had to talk to them or I would get kicked out. I told them what i said here, I am not going to sit here and listen to you bitch and moan all day......

The guild was imperial dreams, and they remind me of a seriously dysfunctional alcoholic family, of retards. Then you got the random person, who thinks it fun to run around seeing how many people he can upset in a hour. If hard core in the MMO, guild world means, psychopathic, egotistical, elitist, scum bags, then you people who fit that have fun lol. When you sit around and wounder why no one likes you, and your games fail one after another, you only got your self to blame there. Each to their own though. 

If you want to sit there, and listen to some insane person who thinks the game has more meaning than life it self, and take orders like your in the military, more insanity to ya. 

Caldrin

YashaX said:

I don't understand why old school hardcore mmo players don't seem to get into this game. It seems to have all the elements I see on peoples wish lists here- sandbox, harsh death penalties, deep crafting/customization, meaningful world, best played in groups, etc.

Mainly because people dont usually give MMOS a chance if they have a bad launch.. some people played it beta ended up in the sausage lake or whatever it was called and never went back.

I have tried on numerous occasions to get my clan to play it but they always come back about how its full of naked men eating eaach other and so on..

Its hard for an MMO that has had a bad launch and other bad rep to dig themselves out of the pit no matter how hard they try and no matter how much they improve the game..


As for the numbers on steam.. that is steam numbers only other people play with the standard client as well i am sure.

Caldrin

LacedOpium said:

The only consistency with OW FFA PvPers in OW FFA PvP games is the excuses as to why all of them fail.  There is no such animal as a good OW FFA PvP game.  It's not the game that fails because as you have so eloquently stated many of them offer exactly what these hardcore OW FFA PvPers want on paper.  The obvious cause of their failure is the inherently flawed foundational game play mechanic and the toxic communities they ultimately breed.  

That might be your opinion i happen to like OW FFA PVP games more than any other type of game.. certainly when it comes to MMORPGS standard themeparks make me go to sleep.

Yes OW FFA PVP will never be as popular as themepark MMOS but that does not make them a failure. thats like saying a Seafood pizza is a failure because more people like a standard cheese pizza..