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Oh, I know, was just letting you know our process. I can only speak for Overwolf due to being their Community Manager.

This isn't how statistics work and is an impossibility. How many of those gamers who play Leisure Suit Larry also play Wildstar? Probably a good amount, meaning they most likely have one of those programs, meaning the data would be collected. This is much more complex than that as many gamers cross game over multiple genres and games.

For us, since it is unique games played, it dropped by numbers of people who play the game, which I think is a little more relevant to the discussion if we want to talk subs/people playing. It was number 19 on our lists as far as unique games played and now dropped out of our top 20 into number 24 or 25 so the number of unique players dropped. It's still very high up there though.


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I doubt any company would give you the hard actual numbers. You can have this though http://www.newzoo.com/insights/wildstar-falls-hearthstone-rises-top-20-core-pc-games-rankings-july/


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I 1) don't even watch stream 2) do not consider W* even remotely dead.... it isn't by a long shot


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Its not unacceptable if Carbine doesn't adopt a solution i (or others) suggest, but it is if they fail to simply respond to so many ppl's worries. Its also unacceptable if the only info we have about this matter, comes from players who "thinks" and not from Carbine itself. These things are totally unacceptable. As for Raptr now. Go to: Your profile-->games collection-->discover games-->top games being played. Just for the record i have more than 15k total mmo played hours. Almost 800 (797) hours of them at WS.


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I will wager $50 you are wrong. Now kindly pay up, as Aug 1st has now come and gone.


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None said WS is dead. Many ppl left due to bugs and the rest problems. There is no need for more ppl to leave because of the low pop of servers too. As i said before, many of us can wait (we already waiting for 3 months) for fixes, but not in ghost towns. Give us a solution, so in the meanwhile we can play the game as a mmo intended to be played and not as a single player game.


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And, to be fair, more people track them via reddit and twitter. While I like the ability to type as much as I wants and on official forums no less, I'm well aware of how antediluvian they are. Frost can fire tweets on the go. He'd have to sit at his desk and hammer out text here. Also, as you said above, the forum crowd is a much less pleasant than the twitter crowd. The flames on here, even when they do something popular, are hot and bright.


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I absolutely agree with you, but at this point I'm just happy anything was said. Maybe this was their plan all along. Make us suffer so long that even a tiny scrap of info feels like a huge relief. :P


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I ll take any of those 2. Either 2 megaservers or connections like WoW sounds pretty good to me.


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BTW. I take this back a bit. I remember now that the reason it was so bad in WoW was that you wouldn't get credit for joint kills and stuff like that, and it took way too long for named mobs to re-spawn. With the way WS is set up, it wouldn't be too bad, although resource nodes may be hard to find.


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Both, to be honest. Exile-side has more folks, no lie. But the Domside is very friendly and active, every time I've been over there. (About twice a week, evenings, for an hour or two) If you like Dominion, go there. I don't want to say something ugly like "they need all the help they can get" ... but all the warm bodies they can manage would certainly make our server events more entertaining!


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Hey, maybe it'll be something so innovative and awesome we haven't even considered it! Not that people won't complain regardless. As I've said already, I'll reserve judgement until I see the details.


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H A R D C O R E
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I dont see how maknig amp/ability points accountbound would make alts less punishing? If i find an AMP on my main that i need on my alt i just mail it to him lol. However, yes. The main problem isnt that the servers are empty. The problem is that the servers are not getting more populated. Normally you would se a steady stream of players joining the severs. Atm we see maybe a few new players but a lot more who leave. Fixing the game is more important than transfers. But the population is also a part of the problem why people dont buy the full game. They get a free 1-20 (7 days) trial and dont buy the full game because they feel the game is empty. Removing a few servers or opening transfers would make more new people buy the game and then feel obligated to play to 50 (since they have a month free with the gamepurchase).


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I was following the topic from the first post, reading every comment and I can tell there were no more than a couple of hundred forum members posting. Lets say there were 4-5 times more silent viewers not posting anything and just reading. All that would mean that posting here would immediately reach a thousand or two players at best with all the rough calculation. Stephan Frost has almost 10 thousand followers in Twitter. Simply because of that a Twitter post may spread across forums, reddit and other platforms significantly faster.

I see no problem posting important messages on Twitter, even though it is less convenient for me, since I am not among those 10k followers. Hell, those are game news, they matter, but not all that much to worry about hearing them a day or two later.


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Thanks, Folsarc. Without going into too much detail (I'll watch this tonight when I get home) ... what was said?


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