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I actually came to the forums to post on this very issue. I don't care what time of the day it is. I want more than 5... yes 5 people on fleet. And during peak hrs, there used to be 120 or so on fleet, now you are lucky to see 75.
Why people are in such denial is beyond me. You cannot dispute the low populations we are seeing DESPITE all the talk about 1.7 million subs.
We need server xfers NOW
I think people get all defensive because they view your server's low population as a direct attack on their family (in this case the sweet baby SWTOR). They think people are doom-saying when all people are saying is that their server is declining, it could easily be migration causing it.
Of course there are those who are yelling doom and those who live to fight with them, but those people are just e-thuggin' and don't matter in the long run. If someone's experience is that bad they need to quit, the fighting is completely pointless.
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Naysayers will be just that. It's kinda sad how people want this game to fail so much... i don't get it myself. If you don't like something move on, 'cause no one cares you know?
*shrug* numbers prove the games doing fine... They'll find something else to moan about soon though.
You just have to read the WoW forums to realise that screaming doom is a full time job to some people.
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Wait a minute here.
At the end of January there was over 1.7 million subscribers and on March first the game is "almost up to" 1.7 million subscribers?
This is exactly why I never listen to market talk, I just worry about whether I'm having fun or not.
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Well that explains it!
Clam on the Half Shell Day is at the end of the month as well. People are busy; that's all that's happening here.
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The population is fine, Arbour Day is coming up and people are busy preparing the saplings.
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All of the threads in the world complaining about dead servers, asking for cross server LFG and server transfers are pointless.
You're from a server with a dwindling population? Don't complain on the forums, you'll just be attacked by the forum defence forces.
Vote with your wallet.
Join the exodus you are experiencing and be done with it.
All this fighting and complaining isn't accomplishing anything other than making this community look even worse.
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Cross Realm LFG brought the community together in Rift. It made the community game-wide instead of server wide. It's been a big bonus over there.
So why was it such a negative experience in WoW and such a positive experience in Rift? (as seems to be the general consensus). And what can developers learn from the success of a system like this in Rift and a seeming failure in WoW?
I think people fear it because in truth, Blizzard made instances cross server but not friends lists, or ignore, or chat. All to protect they pay for transfer market, Trion didn't bother with any such measures because they had no transfer market to protect.
I have watched some very good guilds form when players who were doing random instances together decided to all move to the same server to play together more. Though i would still like to see a more robust set of cross-server tools.
Of course I didn't move, I'm on Wolfsbane, the best server in any MMO ever.
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Here's the thing. I certainly would just ignore it instead of being a jerk like that guy was, but that's not what general is for. If you want to have a deep convo about rotations or builds or whatever, use /tell. No MMO general chat I've ever seen...and certainly never in WoW...tolerates people treating the entire server or location to a personal conversation between themselves like that. It's all LFG and trade spam and people telling jokes or blathering like fools briefly. THAT is what general chat is for. Truly...it's not a matter of being anti-social that people simply don't want to listen to your personal conversation with one or two other people. Form a group and talk in party or whisper each other. The guy had a point, but was admittedly a total jackhole about it.
There was about ten people in on the conversation. And yes, that's EXACTLY what general chat is for, that's what it was always for "chatting", topics are not restricted except by the terms of service.
Every single MMO developer I have ever played a game by, going back to UO, not only tolerates that kind of general discussion, but encourages it. This "clear chat I need to be listened to immediately" crap is an attitude that has always been seeping in at the edges of every single place for discussion on earth. General chat is for conversations. Sure it's also for trying to beg for attention by trying to one up each other with jokes or insults as well.
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If only an MMO at some point in history had instituted a short grace period one purchases that were made with tokens. you know, just in case a brief freeze or lag spike landed the wrong thing in your bag.
If only...
Oh well it's nice to dream.
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37.9216 fafilliongagillion?
This is a quality estimate I can get behind!
Let's organise a fafillongagillion man (and woman) march!
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I just checked with the hive mind and it seems that Blizzard do everything horribly and should all lose their jobs for killing kittens.
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US.
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I've been complained at for trying to carry conversations in general so
I got that one as well, and worse yet we were talking about rotations and then:
DarthBonghit: "STOP SPAMMING CHAT this games community is bad enough"
Me: "We're using general chat to chat..."
Darthbonghit: "ST-ehf-U spammer"
Darthbonghit: "LF2M tank and healz Athiss den GTG!!!"
I'm not kidding about the being accused of ruining the community either.
Has anyone else noticed that the ones that scream community the loudest are usually the cancerous lesions on the community?
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What if BW did the smart thing and created one huge server that everyone played on? I would support single server in this case!
Otherwise, why not utilize the opportunity to group with anyone and everyone playing SW at the time you are on?
Silly arguments against cross server LFG tools. No verifiable evidence of any destructive outcomes. Just conjecture and "urban myths".
It's internet group-think, it comes from the WoW-hate cult and its amazing ability to radiate its thoughts to the unthinking through catch phrases. Politicians use the same technique, gullible people will start to think whatever you tell them to think if you drive the thought home hard enough, repeat the phrase constantly and never deviate from topic.
Nevertheless, my heart goes out to those who get all excited to log on and get something going only to log off two hours later with an empty feeling. I recommend using the same technique, come up with a catch phrase and abuse it in every dialogue, every channel available to you. Bioware may take notice of you at some point, or you can lead with your money and let EA take notice before Bioware does.
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Do you think Mass Effect 3 will cause some problems...I do.
Generally the release of a game like ME3 will cause a drop in activity more than a drop in subs. I know that when you're playing the number of subs is irrelevant if no one is doing anything but a drop in activity like that is seldom permanent.
I have no real science to back that up or anything it's just what I have observed over the years.
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I love that Cracked Article. Thanks to the internet and now psychologist's amazing ability to disregard what BF Skinner was doing with his conditioning efforts, then take his work and twist every scrap of decent research he did into hackneyed pseudo-intellectual drivel every single aspect of human life since our first wavering steps on two legs can be referred to as a "Skinner Box". Excellent, the credibility of what used to be a legitimate form of medical study gets kicked in the shins again.
Psychologists: Expending great efforts to assure psychology is never mistaken for science again.
How hard did the psychologist work for his Ph.D? Hard enough for the Skinner box to give him one!
Paid for your days work? SKINNER BOX!
Conditioned to turn the key to make your car start? SKINNER BOX!!
Mowing the lawn so it looks nice? SKINNER BOX!!1!
Operant conditioning was so much more specific and targeted, Press button one get electrocuted, press button two and a speaker blares at you, press button three and get a food pellet. It was a study in learning action and consequence in animals that were perceived to not be self-aware, not a moronic, belittling, backhanded insult of intelligence for use on the internet by people who desperately want to sound superior.
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If you get to 10,000 / 10,000 he shows you where the mute button is.
The price of droid bobbles will sky-rocket.
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At least alacrity under-performs quickly though.
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Wait...
So crafting might be better than raiding for some slots but raiding might be better than crafting for some slots!?
That's AWFUL, I QUIT!!1!
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Khem Val is the worst, not only does he insist on touching your bum EVERYWHERE you go thus blocking any effort to interact with the world but his crazy space German lingo gets annoying as well.
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Well I'm impressed.
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I think they should just cancel all this Oceanic server silliness, it's a waste of resources.
Also I don't want to lose the Austrialaliens and Kiwistanians on my server.
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yeah!
That guy is also speaking with the truthfulness!
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That man speaks the truth!
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The cybernetic, stick-on eye wear industry is offended at this thread!
NO NO NO Cutsie Pets OMGoodness NO!
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It's totally not cannon, Star Wars is gore, and death, and blood! There's nothing cute in Star Wars! Think of the damage this is going to do to peoples..... IMMERSION!!1!
The empire wasn't brought down by a bunch of creepy teddy bears either.