124220-a-little-hope-people-rising

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The last time someone posted a screencap of a "dwindling population" they forgot to crop out their timestamps and only proved they were lying. So, with all due respect,  you'll have to politely excuse me if I decline to play into that game.


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Personal observations are not cold hard facts. Please show me a statistical chart containing the amount of open connection, concurrent users and registrations versus actualy paying customers since drop 4.


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Hmmmm... I think we might have a different understanding of facts. For me, it is factually correct that my guild's recruitment and active population has increased. I have arrived at this fact by counting the amount of people joining the guild recently (ignoring alts) and by the average number of guild members online at different times per day It appears you take and assume reddit as fact. Reddit right? The mash up of opinionated folk talking as if they are experts right? I will clear away from proclaiming reddit as fact or assuming they are an accurate representation of general opinion.


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( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Every day Wildstar players ignore the cold hard facts. Together we can stop this. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


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If I had to hazard a guess, it's probably two things: -Ten days would get anyone playing more than one day a week at least to fifteen, so ten days is probably a little more generous in that department -The places where it isn't as generous gets them access to housing, but housing level restrictions are largely nonexistent on decor. So, especially in that instance, they probably don't want people to just sit in location for free, satisfied with what they have.


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Yep, but Stormtalon and KV are more fun :) If there were people staying at 20, it provides more of a pool for levelers to pull from to get those dungeons queues popping. And I think experiencing those is a good incentive to sub.


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No, you've got numbers on the subreddit (which we rarely frequent), conflicting with numbers in towns where the population is rising, and further conflicting with people whose guilds are recruiting without any difficulty 10-20 new players a day, and I just assumed you imagined that the decrease in the popularity of the Wildstar subreddit directly equated with the game, which hardly seems true. As far as your numbers are concerned, I don't even exist. I'm more responding to this...

Why on Earth would you assume that reversing the trend would stop NCSoft from trying to improve their situation? You said pretty directly this would be the case, and I find that highly questionable. Even with fifteen million subscribers, are you assuming that there would come a point where NCSoft or Carbine would no longer be interested in trying to improve the game and increase their population? Are you under the impression that it is only due to a loss of subscribers that they would try to answer player feedback? How would the reversal of the population trend in any way affect them attempting to improve their financial situation? They'll be doing that no matter what their growth figures looked like.


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I was a dick to Ashreon because his/her only defense to an argument was asking someone to post evidence that he/she KNEW that poster didn't have. That's not a proper counter, that's just misdirection for the sake of bolstering their own ideas. I don't ask people for evidence I know they don't have, because I know they don't have it. That's not a counter point. It's not even a good method of debate. There's obviously nothing more I can say to you, or anyone like you, that will sway your view unless I have another financial report for you to talk about. So I'm going to go back to playing. More and more and more, these threads are just people waving a financial report in the faces of current, new, and returning players. Nothing gets through other than "Q4 2014 report." Nothing. Nothing. So that's that. If you so desperately want to be proven wrong, one would think you'd be more open to ANY evidence that'd disprove you, but you won't take anything but one single source. That's lunacy and I'm done with it.


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