Rebooting PWI

HoloOvYoitsu - Raging Tide
HoloOvYoitsu - Raging Tide Posts: 10 Arc User
edited December 2013 in General Discussion
What will it take to get people back into this game again? I still rather enjoy the game myself and I've been playing on and off for 4 or 5 years now. unfortunately the game seemed to of died after the tideborn expansion. I now see almost no forums being made and absolutely no one in game. What can perfect world or the community do to bring back players?
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  • Lathyria - Heavens Tear
    Lathyria - Heavens Tear Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    It needs to be hard to level so people have to work together again and not just cash shop to the top.
  • Annabonana - Morai
    Annabonana - Morai Posts: 126 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    without cash shopping this game would die in an instant. please think before you write.

    the majority of players obviously want this game to stay easy to level. othervise we would see billions of people lvling the hard way. i see what 14? max? on the whole of a server.
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited December 2013
    I've tried a few times to push a revival, but I'm pretty much giving up on the game. PWE management refuses to listen to the player base and it's pretty much on a slippery slope downhill.

    I can count on one hand the number of times I've bothered to log in over the past two weeks. Once was for TW, and twice were for scheduled faction Delta runs.

    A lot of people have left because of the sheer incompetence of the in-game community. It's gotten considerably worse with the hyper-babies and the race to 100. Most of the server is now comprised of people who I wouldn't lift a finger to help if they were on fire.
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  • thatguy123456
    thatguy123456 Posts: 103 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I've tried a few times to push a revival, but I'm pretty much giving up on the game. PWE management refuses to listen to the player base and it's pretty much on a slippery slope downhill.

    I can count on one hand the number of times I've bothered to log in over the past two weeks. Once was for TW, and twice were for scheduled faction Delta runs.

    A lot of people have left because of the sheer incompetence of the in-game community. It's gotten considerably worse with the hyper-babies and the race to 100. Most of the server is now comprised of people who I wouldn't lift a finger to help if they were on fire.

    this...

    we keep saying that if pwe woke up they could bring it back.. but i think right now it's just the Cash Shoppers keeping this game alive.. server population is way down..
  • Euthymius - Heavens Tear
    Euthymius - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,162 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    -Game needs to be advertised much more

    -Older areas/classes need a graphical update to match up to the newer ones

    -More (inter)active GMs and support staff, and a better line of communication to CN/Wanmei's devs...(or even letting US devs handle the code for faster fixes...something!)

    -Regular bug fixes instead of stacking broken features upon newer broken/poorly tested features

    -Quests and non-instance based activities need to be more engaging and rewarding

    -Frost shouldn't be able to even be entered below 75

    ...and I'm sure there's a lot more to add.
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  • SarraLost - Sanctuary
    SarraLost - Sanctuary Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Annabonana - Morai wrote: »
    without cash shopping this game would die in an instant. please think before you write.

    the majority of players obviously want this game to stay easy to level. othervise we would see billions of people lvling the hard way. i see what 14? max? on the whole of a server.

    STO doesn't have cash shopping. It's doing just fine.

    You also can't buy endgame gear from the cash shop.

    It does, however, have packs, which do introduce broken mechanics (think, a level 5x unreborn cleric facerolling a 105 second reborn R9R3+12JOSD Barb because of something from a pack). Luckily, those are increasingly rare, and exceedingly expensive (660 BILLION credits, or about 5 trillion coins in PW money). There is no powerleveling, but with the level cap at 50, it should only take a few days to get there anyway.

    That game is about farming gear, upgrading your ships, and helping your fleet (faction).

    PW is about who spends the most money to win the fastest. Seriously. If they removed the cash shopping BS, this game would decline, but old players would likely come back.

    I ran into someone today that I knew from 3 years ago. That's the first person I've met that I used to know that long ago. EVERYONE ELSE has quit. >_>
    When the 11 and 12 star orbs were removed due to
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    Or the players?
  • HuntersPack - Raging Tide
    HuntersPack - Raging Tide Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Euthymius - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    -Game needs to be advertised much more

    -Frost shouldn't be able to even be entered below 75

    ...and I'm sure there's a lot more to add.

    Alright well this is something the community can do. If there is anyone that can make youtube videos about pwi again, and not just tw or nw but actual playing from level 1 to 100 giving tips to leveling and getting gear that would help the game. Also people can make factions for people who don't p-level in fc. I wish I could do the youtube videos but I don't even know how to use youtube and commentary would be much better then just a song playing in the background.
  • Selak - Dreamweaver
    Selak - Dreamweaver Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Proper punishment for cheaters and glitchers would help give this game a perception of being fair and this would go along way to bringing back most of the old players, who I know have left
    because every time they earned something, it was devalued when others cheated and then were not punished, but even kept their advantage which was illegally gained.

    No point in playing a game with rules if no-one follows them except a few, and the referees do not enforce, or at least be seen to try to enforce the rules, and no a ban is not good enough they need to take away the illegal advantage gained too for a real perception of fairness.

    I could even forgive and forget banning them, as long as their illegal advantage was removed at minimum.
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  • ObviousAlt - Raging Tide
    ObviousAlt - Raging Tide Posts: 655 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    a high percentage of the rule breakers are the cash shoppers.. and they wont harshly punish the people putting the money in their wallets
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