proof that this game is no where close to dead

The game will never die as long as I have a taco, wait someone stole my taco b:surrender

Personally, there's little doubt in my mind that HT, Sanc, and possibly LC are the only populated servers left. I played on Arch for awhile and that place was more dead at its peak than HT is today. But even HT is slipping, I'd say.

I made a new char the other night (one of those "mystery alts" people have dislike, admittedly), and I was amazed to actually see people out at Broken Bow Bluff after 90% of the quests out there have had the training wheels put on them. My char was approached by a seeker with a random faction invite (after begging for buffs... from my lv24 wizard >_>) and I witnessed a sin get up from death only to immediately attack a mob without bothering to heal. The newbish stupidity made it feel like old times, there. XD If only for a second. But in general, HT's questing fields are as barren as any other server.

So I think at this point it's kind of moot to discuss how "dead" the game is. We've long since reached the point where they only way they can stabilize this game is to completely gut out the systems they've set up to attract the twitch-kiddie crowd that now composes 80% of their customer base. Otherwise, it's just going to circle the drain for awhile (like it's been doing for the last year or two) until most of the kiddies leave and only the vets are left... those who know exactly how and why PWI got so dysfunctional. The only true unknown, IMO, is at what point PWE/Beijing will decide to pull the plug and leave us to the arbitrary nature of pservers. I'll tell you one thing, though... if and when it happens, you can bet I'll be on the evening before shutdown to see all the nostalgic people get on one last time and troll WC. :P

EDIT: Cimon, I like that sig image (even if you didn't make it). Short and to the point. Makes me wish we were back in 2009-10 when there was at least the illusion of the staff here being able to do jack. >_>

People still blowing $$$ out of their rears, so it's basically not dead... Old PWI is dead though, or should I say close to dead? Questing areas are almost dead, zhen squads are almost dead, some events are almost dead. Crafting system is a bit dead. Worst of all, skill is nearly dead unless you're playing a caster class.... If there is R9 recast, there might be a weapon that have the instant kill proc on every weapon, watch even casters user accuracy gems on their weapons to auto attack till proc comes to instantly kill anything they touch.

_MonoxidE_ - Sanctuary wrote: »

People have been saying the game is dead for so long. We are all still here though.

Maybe. But because we are all here doesn't mean it isn't dead... unless of course "death" for you means nothing less than the servers finally being switched off for good.

I'll just leave this riiiiiiiiiiight here.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/xyz_02/20676478.jpg

_Petal_ - Harshlands wrote: »

I'll just leave this riiiiiiiiiiight here.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/xyz_02/20676478.jpg

Correction:


You've clearly never seen this game before Raging Tide Expansion*



Which is somewhat faulty since the game was at it's best before genies, but even with them in the game wasn't worse since they helped in some manner with their skills for HP and/or shields to absorb types of damage/deal it out.


Sin's though....Sin's came in and things went to hell.

Euthymius - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Just what sort of sorcery is keeping a bearish thread alive? b:shocked

I blame the ponies. b:chuckle


@SS The meme is sarcastic, therefore, the response was sarcastic.

"Clearly you were here before Raging Tides" insinuates, being that it was sarcastic, that they actually weren't there, which is why they say the game isn't dead, because they hadn't seen what was there before things went to hell----which was my point entirely.

The game was fine the way it was. Hell, it would have still be fine, if there hadn't been such a big d!ckup when it came to Tideborn. (As a Psychic, I admit my class is ridiculous, but ONLY at R9. It's not hard to kill a R8 Psychic....unless it's that Longknife character.)


I honestly enjoyed the game when genies came out. As a former barb, I found them useful as all hell when I went out grinding. (I know, it's a new concept for you people who don't think this game is dead, but there was a period where we actually went out into the map and did things besides FC.) I also liked how I didn't have to rely on someone else to lure mobs.

The developers have had NUMEROUS chances to fix this game. We've had (going on, after the 23rd,) THREE expansions to fix what they've managed to **** up.
They've taken advantage of none of them.

I'll make my point on that with the following:
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/xyz_02/20676570.jpg


@Olbaze
I do concur that Pack gear and Rank sales were the final nail in the coffin. Once I saw the stats on R9, I lost all faith in this company. My last glimmer of hope is that 3rd recast is what they say it's cracked up to be.
However, nobody QQ'd about bosses being too slow before RT, because the enjoyment came FROM bosses taking long, or PvP fights lasting several minutes. That's the point. APS became more popular, and people demanded instant gratification. Then people saw how quickly others were progressing, and the numbers multiplied. It's quite disheartening.