Runes of Magic US / AU

Artemis is fine too, way more player than i imagined! The problem is that some server can't even play the game to it's fullest like Grimdal! I think the best solution would be a merge. At least like indigo and grimdal!

was on reni for yrs, now on govinda, smaller population, but still doing just as fine as other servors. Nice and quiet less trolls XD jkjk

I think this is more a question of, how much time does YOUR server has left? And maybe not even because they shut it down, but simply because, there are so little people left on that respective server that nothing can be accomplished. And this is the point Lilpacker I believe was making with this thread, since I really don't know if Indigo even has much time left honestly... And then he posed the question to everyone else, how you do YOU thin it has left? So if you could respect a thread and not try and request for it to be closed every post you make, that'd be wonderful, cause there are obviously still many people who wish to discuss on this topic. It doesn't have to be a whinny thread either, it's a legitimate question, if you think a long wonderful 5 years, then great! I hope so too! But all these posts that are simply trying to change the name or close the thread, are what brings this thread down, if you don't want to partake in real discussion, I believe that's when you exit that thread, and go read another.

As for my own answer to this question, I think there is hope for Indigo still, from the current players on it, but without a little help from either new players or GF, the finish line seems quite out of reach atm. While other servers are striving on multiple guilds and pugs groups each day, all contributing to the servers economy, which will hopefully help push them on running just as smoothly, for years to come.

tl;dr

combine all pve servers (sorry aussies)
combine all pvp servers

man it'd be like mmo population then.

Server merge +1


Always worry though about character names on both servers. Which player do you screw and force a name change?

I will say that offering server transfers from lower populated servers to higher populated ones is a more important of a move. Cause then inactive players names don't get conflicts with active or inactive players. This is why server merges are sticky.

In another game I picked lower pop servers on purpose.. I was forced to change servers twice, lost my guild name, and half of our character names in the first one. However on the second one, picked back up our guild name, and all but 2 names out of 10 chars.

With inactive vs inactive characters is isn't a big question. Active would take precedence. Players with inactivity dates earlier than others take priority. The dirty part becomes... They could do P2P vs F2P characters, where paying ones would get priority. Major problem becomes two active, paying players, with the same name... How do you choose? Least populated server gets owned?

Better to offer one free server transfer per character/account/guild. If you move servers you may have to change name, guild name, etc.

I don't know this why I hate when they have to consolidate servers... however it is needed.

Honestly, if they were willing to merge Indigo into another server, I wouldn't mind picking a new name/guild name or anything like that at all, I think most of Indigo would agree with me on that. I'd also be fine with re-farming thousands up mats for a new guild with all the same guildies, if they couldn't transfer guilds themselves.

Merge of servers has been asked before, ya it would bring more people for those who play on servers with less population. Could be good for the game as a whole and more entertaining.

3 PVE servers and 1 PVP server could work, don't want to over burden our wonderful servers, i heard they upgraded them to Pentium 2 last week ;-)

This thread reminds me of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs&feature=kp

This game is doing well and there are many happy players here but inevitably someone starts a thread like this to try to beat the life out of it.

The rumors of RoM's demise are greatly exaggerated. The game is what you make it to be. Be a positive force in the community and support the game instead of constantly heralding it's demise.

Quoted from "kali"

This game is doing well

but not as good as it used to be doing. thus, decline. however, decline =/= doomsday.

Well tyvm Kali for this awesome post, i totally agree with you

Also for the PvP server, from the few times i tried creating toons there, then get ganked by endgamers that starts laughing at you and calling you names, that could explain why not a lot of people joins PvP servers, sadly. Not meaning that it hasn't changed in the last 2 years or so i've tried, surely hope it did.

But it still remains Gameforge resposability to make the game seen, known and show it still exist and huge improvements have been made, not just on the forums here, Facebook page, e-mails, ads etc would help a ton, if they would be willing to do so. Bring more people, bring more money, i just don't get the people at the promotion or sales departement.


Gameforge should tell us the priority that ROM has for them in their company.

Quoted from "zidlef"

Well Mammony, i am sorry to say you have no clue what you are talking about, we have support, we have GM's, bugs have been fixed, great sales, great diamonds sale, diamonds cash back. Also the game was made to be up to level 200, so ya ways to go. As i recall you do not play the game at all for the last 2 years??, you made a short come back in our guild but decided to leave the game again. We've had quite a bunch of new and old players come back to our guild.
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Funny how people who do not even play the game, comment on things they have no clue about or knowledge. They come here to rant and how the game this and that. If you can't play it, don't want to play it, come here to whine and complain on things you have no clue of, well restrain yourself from doing so, you serve no purpose.
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The game on Reni is doing fine, the population is growing, people are having fun etc. A lot of people try to give ideas on how to improve stuff and GM's are trying to pass the info and some do get implemented. Being negative gets nothing done for the game.
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This thread should be closed and should have been a long time ago or edited at least.

Somehow I feel lack of empathy. Perhaps I may not have been playing the game for a few years now, however it does not discredit my -opinions- nor does my short return to the game. And that's a problem in itself, that my views still hold value towards this game (for my views on this game have been quite invoking for a period of time). People all have different perspectives, some are very conflicting, always caused entirely by shrouded judgement and knowledge. And I am no exception to this, I may yet be proven wrong. But to my knowledge, with my judgement, I feel this game is descending. And I do not say this without proper cause, to toss it away like it is trash is more harmful than you may realize.

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I'm uncertain if you are directing this towards me, but i'm going to assume you aren't for lack of meeting any of your descriptions aside from me commenting about the games' status and not playing it. Which still holds purpose, because having the game installed and playing it frequently is not a required indoctrination to relevancy on its forums.

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While this surely isn't directed at me, perhaps I can alter your point of view on the subject to meet a more rational state of mind.

There's a series of things that I find not necessarily wrong, but out of place in what you say here. Firstly being that you are arguing the game revolves around how well your server is doing. Last I recall there is 6 servers, making yours 1/6th of the game. As well as, there is other Region's the game is in (Germany and such) where the game is separate. Let's take into consideration the German servers are doing well, but the US servers (ours) are losing value and becoming a loose end. They may continue the game to a cap of 200 in Germany, but may decide the game has lost it's revenue in the US long before that.

The weight of one server can be easily outweighed by another.

As well as I noticed a bit of "trying". And I feel you were being a little modest with the amount of effort they are really putting in. There has been a lot of trying for this game as far as I can remember playing it. I still played it during times of dissidence. But there is a breaking point, it can only be held for so long. You may say it's narrow minded, but I leave my primary example of this game's lack of "trying" to the scout class. There are many more examples, clearly, but I'm not going to take that time out of my day.

And as for the last 2 statements,
"Seems like a pretty popular topic as well, with a lot of common forum goers replying in plenty. It's on more minds than not"
Positive or negative, neglecting to discuss and resolve the issue is worse than not. Choosing to ignore a problem does not make it disappear. This is not imagination land.

As well as the pessimist (negative person) decides more times than not something should be fixed, enhanced, or replaced to be more suiting.

And the optimist will often do with what is available and make little to no effort to improve upon.

We've (humans) gotten further off of the discomfort of pessimism than the putting up with of optimism.

It's funny, the more people I talk to that have or are still playing have been actively looking for other places to play rom (not just other servers) or other games to play. The biggest issue I hear, population. This is followed by the sales and all the other issues, but the first answer is almost always "there's nobody on". When active players are looking for other places to play or other games entirely, there is no population to be had. Yes, the can change servers, but since GF won't move anything from your toon, why would you want to start completely over with a game that is already struggling for players? Why wouldn't you and your friends all move to a more populated game? A newer game that shows potential for a long term product.

Without a serious influx of people, GF can sugarcoat it all they want, the game is going downhill quick. It has been for a long time. It's to the point on Govinda, some guilds don't even recruit, because it's at the point all the guilds are just recycling players between them with no new players coming in. I had one person tell me today in a new game, they had more fun basically doing nothing, than they do with anything in rom, and they aren't even looking forward to a level cap/new content. This should speak volumes when new content isn't enticing enough to get people to play.

Not to be rude Kali, but that is very frustrating to hear. You are suppose to be a helper or a regulator, this thread is not trying to beat anyone down, it simply asks a question, and what people made of that question took it this far. And you obviously have not been to a PvP server for a visit in quite a while, as Dpack stated, we can barley, if at all, do hard mode runes anymore, that is far from a thriving game. I understand this thread may shed a bad light, however we've also seen good also, new player visiting see, "Well Reni seems to be a good sever to start on, maybe I'll try there." And you know what that's great! Always great for new players to join this game regardless of the server, however when it comes to the condition of the game, that is very different among server, and it seems you've forgotten to take that into account.

Quoted from "kali"

This thread reminds me of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs&feature=kp

I might not of gotten the sarcasm the same way you seen it but if the players/posters in this thread are at any way represented as voiceless, lifeless bodies just being piled up, over and over again, then I would have to say the guy at the end who joins them and finally sees and understands what is going on might just be yourself or whatever you represent or are trying to.

Either way you corrected yourself with the humbug about the game being only as awesome as you make it, while that is true..and while I try to make the game awesome for myself and others around me. This thread is mainly (it should be) about the concerns of longevity and the attrition rate we face on our servers. If you don't want to take it seriously and just white wash 6 pages of collective thought then why not just remove the thread entirely as it pretty much becomes a band-aid issue every time we see one of "these" threads.




edit: oh also add the irony of these instances working "elsewhere" yet provides for FORCED longevity on the game at the risk of boring the player base (see attrition rates)...loopy loop?

This thread has well outlived its purpose and will be closed.

As Kali had mentioned, the game is only as fun as you make it. Me? I've started up a new character completely from scratch, see people in the lower level zones all over the place on the couple of servers (no, not Reni) I've started new characters on so I do not believe we need to have a thread around that takes the life out of the game by titling a thread "How long do you think we have left" which without context and reading the entire thing would seem to spell potential doom and gloom, which Runes of Magic is far, far FAR from.

/closed.