103309-is-merging-servers-really-a-bad-thing

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The status "low" doesnt bug me, i know the caps are high, also i did make a thread on reducing the insanely high server cap, but i was shot down and basically called an idiot a number of times


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I would gladly pay to switch from exile to Dom as I know many other exiles would. Allow this and there would be no need to merge servers


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I am not sure why you keep referring to FFXIV. FFXIV and FFXIV: ARR are two different games. They shutdown FFXIV for a reason. I mean it's a different name, different director and development team even went through an alpha and beta stage. Now FFXI was pre-WoW and it actually did very well I think at once point it had about 500k subs which was pretty good for a game that stood on the verge of being themepark and sandbox and was released back in 2002. I realized (why I didn't respond to your other post) that you constantly bring up your experience and not facts. You say Wildstar is better than FFXI and WoW but you know the facts state that FFXIV:ARR and WoW are performing much better in terms of sales and player retention. We don't know how much subs WS have but we probably will find out in August. I am pretty sure WS doesn't have as many active subs as FFXIV: ARR which last I checked had 2 million subs, I even doubt there's 500k or more subs in WS today. But the jury is still out for WS. However, since we don't have official numbers we can look at things such as xfire and realize that the trend for wildstar is in a decline where as the trends for FFXIV: ARR and WoW are steady. Not to mention there hasn't been a new server launched since launch which also indicates that the game is not growing.


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The average gamer is 30+ so that makes a lot of sense that most people wouldn't be playing during work hours. I'm not saying that population isn't a problem, just that your particular evidence isn't sound.


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True, though you aren't taking into account CREDD sales for Wildstar. As far as development goes, they could very easily already have made that back with boxes+buying CREDD. If you have a box and sold a CREDD on the CX, you dropped eighty dollars, making you worth about 5-6 subscribers for a month without ever renewing. It's why WoW makes such huge profit jumps at every expansion, them boxes pay for development, usually. I forget what my box of FFXI cost me at the time. Do you remember?


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