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Sounds like a great idea! Just have it so you can change the flag if you want but it has a 24 hour cooldown or something. What this game definitely doesn't need is new players joining dead servers.


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{| style="width: 100%;" In a game with only two servers having a fee, even for a free to play game, is just inappropriate.

There's a very good reason why PvP servers are dead.


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There were ways to "bypass" the queue, but it required hopping between servers. Wasn't the ideal situation, but it was a way to cut that 8 hour queue down to like 5 minutes if you were persistent. I am in no way saying that it was a good thing, but the trick I mentioned above wasn't well known or distributed.


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It's not obvious. First it wasn't "well advertised". I read posts all the time of payers complaining about the lack of advertising of this game. Other than a few MMO/gaming sites it wasn't advertised at all. Carbine increased their Mega server farm from 10 to 15 with an expected X amount of players. The amount of players that actually tried F2P at launch took Carbine by surprise. That's why they revved up the second set of temporary servers to begin with. To handle the unexpected influx of players the game received. The population is completely fine on the one PvE server(s) that currently exist. Now we are at the designated amount of servers (1) without a population problem (other than the PvP servers). If you think it failed miserable because the open world PvP servers are dead I would say your delusional for thinking they would be otherwise. Open world PvP just isn't fun. Only a handful of players think it is. Many games have tried it and failed. This game isn't the exception, it's following the same pattern as many before it. I'd like you to find 20 players steaming nearly any MMO, even WoW. Streams of an MMO are not something many people watch because a MMO is about the Story. How many MMO streams do you watch regularly? BTW, I just checked and Wow, the most played MMO in the world currently has 3 streamers going right now. Does that mean it is failing miserably, no. People don't watch MMO streams, they're boring.

Edited December 15, 2015 by Equa1ity


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I'd love to see some screenshots of this. Aion has...what...MAYBE possibly a handful of streamers at any one time and even then almost all of them are exclusively PvP-focused with the lone 'new person derp' female streamer trying to Twitch-blurb for cheap subs and views. Happens with every game, really. Aion Online PvP is now 100% worthless due to extensive hacking (in both factions) via AS and without any action against them by NcSoft (despite hundreds of reports against those players) and even with evidence from the hacker themselves WHILE THEY STREAM nothing is done for months. So either viewers don't know, don't care, or only tune in for the streamer entertainment themselves (rather than the game they play), I don't know exactly which reason it even has so many supposed viewers (in any region). As for TERA? Loli jailbait in fetish outfits. Enough said. But even that doesn't get as many viewers as they'd like. Most I ever see is maybe ~20 or 30 viewers across the handful of streamers each weekend. So screenshots would help cause I'm calling BS on both of those (having had my GPU go kaput on me barely a month ago and forced to watch Twitch Streams for several weekends till it was fixed).


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