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Originally Posted by RuthlessSamael
*Hellaciously informative post snipped*
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Although I fail to see how 'shutting 3 servers down' would help CoX, funnily today the WoW clone announced a server merge. I don't know if that's a 'doom' move since making this when it's less than a year old might not affect players as much as doing it to an older game like CoX. Also, maybe they went overboard on the server stuff, the game has 27 NA servers and not sure how many EU ones.
And that game is pretty popular and imo deserves the good reviews - awesome graphics, interesting class system, fun pvp, community was very helpful when I asked about builds and stuff in the forums - well those were my impressions from playing it for 2 months, I gave up because I don't like the slower WoW game style (although it was a bit faster than WoW imo). Now Cox... even with the awesome graphics from all the newer games (including single player ones like Skyrim), Cox is the one I like the gameplay the best and the only one I still stop to look at another toon and am still wowed by another player's design/costume after years and despite the dated graphics. I'm not a big spender but the game has goten more money from me with the new system and I don't regret my purchases (Except for beam rifle, hate that set lol, but it happens).
I still think that CoX's marketing is the worst anyway since nobody knows the damn game, I have to show the website or screenshots I took when my friends, brazilian or american, ask about it since I mention CoX sometimes because it's the only game I play (I'm totally against server merge and I mostly play on the two 'big ones'). Especially when, in the link I mentioned in my previous post with the top score MMOs of all time on MMORPG.com, Cox is second and besides the first and third ones (WoW and EVE), they are the only three 'old' games in the top 10 - Evercrack II comes in 14th.
(I like that site because they do re-reviews and expansion reviews, they are MMO-focused after all, so it's not a 'I played 10 hours and etc' kind of review you see there except maybe for new releases).
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Originally Posted by Stormbird
I think they call it "Asia."
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For our purposes, though, it really doesn't matter whether the game is profitable because of 100,000 people making $5 impulse buys every week or one guy who is spending $500,000 on the game every week because he is insane and also stupidly wealthy. In both cases, the servers stay up and we keep playing.
You know, I was at the extreme northern end of Boomtown the other night at 2am, and I stood there spamming "petless MM looking for farm" in local for like a half-hour. Nobody responded.
This game is doomed.
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My philosophy is thus. Why use a stapler when a nail gun is so much more FUN!|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Disgruntled players shouting "merge the servers" is a staple in every game in the industry.
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Oh you poor schmuck! Whatever shall you do?|
Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
You know, I was at the extreme northern end of Boomtown the other night at 2am, and I stood there spamming "petless MM looking for farm" in local for like a half-hour. Nobody responded.
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I was thinking I'd go with "demand free server transfers."
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Oh you poor schmuck! Whatever shall you do?
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Don't forget to close that server on your way out!
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Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
I was thinking I'd go with "demand free server transfers."
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Well, obviously. What, was I born in a barn?
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Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
Don't forget to close that server on your way out!
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Do you want the NICE answer?|
Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
Well, obviously. What, was I born in a barn?
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Or do you want the HONEST one?
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Oh, like you'd know.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Do you want the NICE answer?
Or do you want the HONEST one? |
Unless....
...Daddy?
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So ?|
Originally Posted by Godless
I live in America, that makes me an American with freedom of speech and the right to have my own opinion.
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I live in Canada, that makes me a Canadian with freedom of speech (*) and the right to refute any of your arguments to my heart's content...
** stands on soapbox with my right hand tucked in my shirt ** O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command...
(*) which, as some pointed out, is totally irrelevant to this discussion
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You, sir, owe me $1.25 for a cup of coffee and $150.00 for a new monitor...|
Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
Oh, like you'd know.
Unless.... ...Daddy? |
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Every response was also our opinions, to which we are equally entitled. Well, okay, not every post - some people also had facts and evidence that directly refuted your points.
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Originally Posted by Godless
I live in America, that makes me an American with freedom of speech and the right to have my own opinion. Every post in this tread was my opinion of CoX.
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Heheheh.
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Oh, like you'd know.
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Yeah. But you're one of those francophone *mumble*.|
Originally Posted by Archiviste
So ?
I live in Canada, that makes me a Canadian with freedom of speech (*) and the right to refute any of your arguments to my heart's content... ** stands on soapbox with my right hand tucked in my shirt ** O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command... (*) which, as some pointed out, is totally irrelevant to this discussion |
So it's not like your opinions matter, oui?
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Only Quebec is francophone, right? So his opinion might matter if he was born in one of the other provinces.
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Yeah. But you're one of those francophone *mumble*.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
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Yeah. But you're one of those francophone *mumble*.
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Only Quebec is francophone, right? So his opinion might matter if he was born in one of the other provinces.
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** couldn't find a clip of Bugs Bunny saying "Of course, you know, this means war!" in French... **
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So here we are. It's Friday night/Saturday morning on Pinnacle and the OP claimed he was going to check the population during the peak NA gaming hours.
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Originally Posted by Godless
Like I said Saturday night Eastern Time I'm going to go server hoping, that used to be the peek time for Pinnacle.
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Could it be because of this?
67 players online and unhidden spread across three factions with at least 72 players unhidden in Pinnacles 2 most popular global channels.
The time? 2 am Eastern Standard.
So much for the server being dead.
Edit: Meh posted day early. That's what I get for sleeping days.
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Uh. Forb. 1:11 AM Central (the time you're posting) is early Saturday MORNING.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
So here we are. It's Saturday night on Pinnacle
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Uh. Forb. 1:11 AM Central (the time you're posting) is early Saturday MORNING.
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Let me start by saying: No
For all the reasons listed in this thread.
Anyway, if the OP needed convincing that server merges are B-A-D, they should look no further than Warhammer Online.
What used to be a great game is now pretty much in its death throes.
-BECAUSE- the Developers made decisions such as merging servers.
I know that a lot of people were outraged, and rightly so. Their guilds were dismantled, their characters had to be renamed. The works.
Its bad decisions like -merging servers- that kills a game, not a low population.
I was doing some playthroughs of City of Heroes. Now they will serve as memories of a better time ...
Okay so now it's the correct day and time, 10:36 PM EST Saturday.
108 players unhidden to a Search. Half of whom are on the very faction the OP claims is dead and 125/80 players showing up in two of Pinnacles top global channels.
And even if you assume that everyone who is a member of Cozmic's Playground is also a member of Pinnbadges, the population of the global channels show as being higher than the number of players showing up Searching all three factions.
That means at least roughly 15-20% of Pinnacles population is /hidden from searches.
(I need someone whose good at math to confirm my rough guesstimate)
So once again Pinnacles not a dead server.
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