Tynon, really need to re-think your player retention plan

[Kissy]

After having played and even enjoying this game site ...
I have noticed some things that are disturbing ..

First ....
The creation of new servers ... without any thought to previous servers ..
What you are doing here is really unfair to players who have been playing on some of the older servers.
All the time and monies invested to build up levels only to see a new server started and watching more then half
leave in hopes they can build levels faster and become more powerful on a new server... only to have the old server be left like a ghost town.
Making sailing or GW either boring as hell are impossible to complete ...

Need to add some incentives to have new players or existing players want to join the old servers ...
purge some of the players who obviously havent played in a long time ...
add or change tasks on some of the features to encourage people to join or stay ..

The failure rate on several things are seriously out of control...
take the stars .. we already take a chance adding medals for more stars and then on top of that we take a chance of losing stars we already have?
talk about a double edged sword ...
even if it says you have a 70% and above success rate .. right? lol .. failure is actually a lot higher then that ... I don't care what the % says...
I think the success rate is more like 5% at any given time ...

BOTH of those issues above .. make players NOT want to invest money into the game....
Seriously what is the point?
Invest $ and then watch players leave realm for new ones ....
Invest $ only to have everything you do fail majority of the time...

I have only spent a little and there is no way I can justify spending anymore for the things I have mentioned ... and after talking with some other players
they feel the same way .... it is just not worth the investment ...

I really do like this game .... but starting to view it as a waste of time if in the end the servers I play on will be worthless as they are close to now

[hisgrossness_6169614]

I agree entirely. I almost spent some $$ once and ended up not doing it - now I'm thinking my lucky stars I decided against. It seems to be a decent effort of a game but now gone to waste since they're just wringing money out of people who don't think about what they are spending on too much.

Perhaps they are working on bigger and better things? there is a lot of potential... a lot of things i like and appreciate but ultimately it's FAAAR too much pay to win with no real rewards for "winning".

Looking at my guild - out of 33 players: 19 haven't logged in in over 12 days, 10 have only logged in once in the past week, and only 3 or 4 appear to be active on a regular basis. THAT'S TERRIBLE! and what's even more terrible is that's i'm fairly sure that no one who matters is going to see or read this at all. (meaning devs and such... no offence to you fellow gamers)

[stefaanapers_9006475]

yup servers are full!!! ofcourse they are full but with a bunch of - 1000 power ones^^that didnt log in more then once loller

on my server s67 i think there are less then 30 active people over all 3 realms, i spend monney for vip 3 at the start and wanted to go vip 4 but i see no reason^^ so i stop spending monney on the game

[Snubear]

Agree with ya,I started on s94 when it came out and guess what?
It's actually pretty deserted like s30 :/,I easily maintain arena rank one/ragnarok(30streak) with only 150k power in the first day and the whole arena?Max five players in my realm lol(the first day,the second day were actually better..more than 30 players log into server).

World boss,
Three different realm,only about 1-3 players in each realm participated world boss.
Still max we got were seven players that successfully kill Baal at the second day .

Pirates,
Hm,worst.....
20players in my guild,only three players were actually active chatting with me or sail with me..others either afk or offline.
It's so damn hard to get a sail partner on new server. :/

[Kissy]

On server 3 I actually belong to a pretty good guild ...
but in our realm most of the other Guilds are pretty much dead ...
There is no way for them to be able to complete the sailing or have a chance in any GW ..
even though my guild is active and has some high powered players, sailing is still a joke..
it is basically a battle between high powered and everyone else gets robbed ...
But that takes us back to the investment aspect ..
Why invest when most will leave and go to other servers? I just cannot justify the investment ..

[avalontracer_3661413]

Servers are full...of tumbleweed.

I play on a pretty active server and im noticing a sharp decline in activity. Sailing is becomming increasingly more difficult since theres hardly anyone to rob. Pvp is a joke, i comb the wild and heroics about 20 times a day and only on occasion do i fill my 10 pvp limit( and im by no means the strongest player)

It seems That the emphasis is on trying to make a quick buck on the poor sap who joins a new server hoping to become king of the hill, instead of keeping active players on the older servers and encouraging them to spend.

[Herby]

It seems That the emphasis is on trying to make a quick buck on the poor sap who joins a new server hoping to become king of the hill, instead of keeping active players on the older servers and encouraging them to spend.

Ditto indeed

[Kruize]

Well it works? People on server 98 (opened less then 24hrs ago) are doing the 15 gem invests.

[Herby]

Well it works? People on server 98 (opened less then 24hrs ago) are doing the 15 gem invests.

They might be just spending all the free gems from the beginners rewards.
The total gems is around 700 free for the first week.

[Klepto]

They might be just spending all the free gems from the beginners rewards.
The total gems is around 700 free for the first week.

You have to be VIP to contribute gems, I believe. VIP1 for 15 gem contribution, VIP2 for 100 gem contribution, so people are spending money if they're contributing gems.

As for spending more money than I already have, probably not. I've been hemming and hawing over picking up VIP3 for auto-collect, but the money doesn't seem worth it to me at this point. Honestly the value just isn't enough given that I don't honestly know how much longer I will continue to play as things stand (this also isn't me saying I'm quitting, just that I'm not investing more cash at this point).