Pankreas PorFavor
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I'm sure there will be people who will find this post pessimistic, whining or something along those lines, but I still need to write it because I am worried. I know, I know - there have always been posts like this, with every change there is a lot of posts that claim that The West is dying, but this time the numbers are really low.
I play this game for 4 years or so, and it has been a lot of fun - and I want it to continue in that direction. In 2012 we had at least 2 big changes - migration, and v2.0. The result was supposed to be a game which will be more fun and exciting, and attract more players, make the worlds more active. Is this achieved?
I play in 4 worlds.
W1 - 3952 players. W12 - 2785 players. AZ - 4137 players. CO - 5572 players.
These numbers look the same as when migration was introduced, don't they? Did we get worlds with more activity? I am sad to say - no.
Maybe Dakota is "the place to be", but I don't have the will power to start from 0 again. I invested a lot of time, and some money, in characters I play in 4 worlds mentioned above, they should not go to waste (if this game survives).
All in all, my conclusion is that migration didn't really make a difference to the players, it just helps Innogames to close some servers and free up some hardware resources. Maybe I'm wrong, that's why I write this - to hear other opinions.
And then there's version 2.... A lot of complaints - many players left, and some are in vacation mode since it started. I am learning to live with all the good and all the bad that the new version brought, but I agree with many complaints posted in this forum, and again, I am sad to see that not a lot has been done regarding these complaints.
The major one being work times. Crafting is, IMHO, now much harder, collecting materials for forts takes forever etc.
Chat is awful. Maybe just because I'm used to previous chat, but I feel a huge drop in chat activity compared to previous version. And chatting keeps the players involved and active. Interaction is the key to this game, at least for me.
Anyway, if the goal of v2 was to attract new players - I haven't noticed that. I have seen some new faces join the game, I invited some to my towns and I've tried to get them involved, help them with equipment etc. It didn't help. The ones that have not deleted on their own are inactive, turned red and are waiting for the system to delete them.
So - what are the plans for 2013? And I am not talking about the development road map. Where does Innogames want to take this game? I hope there is someone from Inno here who can answer this, or that our forum mods can get this answer. Beacuse, as I said at the beginning - I am worried about the future of this game. I have seen commercials for Grepolis, but not for The West. Maybe I missed them, maybe they're there, but I, personally, don't see the result. Maybe it's just .net, maybe it's different in other servers, but I seriously doubt that...
Lets hope that things will soon pick up, because as it is now, I don't think this is going in the right direction. What do you think?
I play this game for 4 years or so, and it has been a lot of fun - and I want it to continue in that direction. In 2012 we had at least 2 big changes - migration, and v2.0. The result was supposed to be a game which will be more fun and exciting, and attract more players, make the worlds more active. Is this achieved?
I play in 4 worlds.
W1 - 3952 players. W12 - 2785 players. AZ - 4137 players. CO - 5572 players.
These numbers look the same as when migration was introduced, don't they? Did we get worlds with more activity? I am sad to say - no.
Maybe Dakota is "the place to be", but I don't have the will power to start from 0 again. I invested a lot of time, and some money, in characters I play in 4 worlds mentioned above, they should not go to waste (if this game survives).
All in all, my conclusion is that migration didn't really make a difference to the players, it just helps Innogames to close some servers and free up some hardware resources. Maybe I'm wrong, that's why I write this - to hear other opinions.
And then there's version 2.... A lot of complaints - many players left, and some are in vacation mode since it started. I am learning to live with all the good and all the bad that the new version brought, but I agree with many complaints posted in this forum, and again, I am sad to see that not a lot has been done regarding these complaints.
The major one being work times. Crafting is, IMHO, now much harder, collecting materials for forts takes forever etc.
Chat is awful. Maybe just because I'm used to previous chat, but I feel a huge drop in chat activity compared to previous version. And chatting keeps the players involved and active. Interaction is the key to this game, at least for me.
Anyway, if the goal of v2 was to attract new players - I haven't noticed that. I have seen some new faces join the game, I invited some to my towns and I've tried to get them involved, help them with equipment etc. It didn't help. The ones that have not deleted on their own are inactive, turned red and are waiting for the system to delete them.
So - what are the plans for 2013? And I am not talking about the development road map. Where does Innogames want to take this game? I hope there is someone from Inno here who can answer this, or that our forum mods can get this answer. Beacuse, as I said at the beginning - I am worried about the future of this game. I have seen commercials for Grepolis, but not for The West. Maybe I missed them, maybe they're there, but I, personally, don't see the result. Maybe it's just .net, maybe it's different in other servers, but I seriously doubt that...
Lets hope that things will soon pick up, because as it is now, I don't think this is going in the right direction. What do you think?