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Monday, June 8th 2015, 10:45pm

Returning Player Question

Hello, i am a potential returning player to the world of RoM but i had 1 simple question. Is it worth it, by this i mean how many people are still playing this game? is it worth me putting in my time and effort or are there only 100 people still playing on a good day?

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Tuesday, June 9th 2015, 12:04am

It might be a good-ish time to get back since All of the US servers will be condensed down to 2; so more players on the servers.

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Tuesday, June 9th 2015, 3:34am

ya they will merge the servers by the end of the year or 2016 or 2017 whatever comes first, lack of players or shutting servers down.

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Tuesday, June 9th 2015, 6:05am

Unfortunately, if population is your greatest concern, then the answer would be, no, it's not worth it.

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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 6:40pm

Game popularity?

I am about to start the game up for the first time in a loooong while, and I was curious what the in-game population is like.

Also, what is the most popular server?

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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 7:09pm

Population is slim to none. Most "popular" server population wise is probably Artemis.

There are so few people that they're merging all the servers into a total of 2 servers. However the population is so watered down they really should make it one server.

I say they're merging servers, but it was supposed to be done months ago. And who the heck knows if and when it'll happen anymore. No one tells us anything about anything.


But again, if you are gonna play abd want the most people right now, I'm pretty positive Artemis has the highest population.
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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 7:13pm

Quoted from "acypcar90"

Population is slim to none. Most "popular" server population wise is probably Artemis.

There are so few people that they're merging all the servers into a total of 2 servers. However the population is so watered down they really should make it one server.

I say they're merging servers, but it was supposed to be done months ago. And who the heck knows if and when it'll happen anymore. No one tells us anything about anything.


But again, if you are gonna play abd want the most people right now, I'm pretty positive Artemis has the highest population.
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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 7:24pm

It depends on what you want. Govinda and Artemis are the two servers I'd suggest you join if you were to come back. They are merging Reni into Artemis and the rest of the servers into Govinda whenever they do the merge. The game still has plenty to offer, but the population is dwindling.
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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 8:04pm

Quoted from "Zerienga"

but the population is dwindling.


This gif can explain the current status of the population...

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Friday, July 3rd 2015, 8:48pm

True, the population is declining, but responding like this to players who want to start playing or want to come back certainly isn't helping our situation. Artemis is the most populated US server, and no matter what you are looking for in the game, you should defiantly be able to find a guild to fit your specific niche here. :)
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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 12:52am

For me game is doing ok, depends what you want, there are still players out there great guilds declining population maybe but it's the players that make this game, negative attitudes to current status I understand but don't help. we make how well we do with RoM :) I still have a positive attitude to this game.
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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 4:27am

Quoted from "poisonarmadillo"

True, the population is declining, but responding like this to players who want to start playing or want to come back certainly isn't helping our situation.


How else should we reply? The population is scarce and it's only getting smaller. It would be different if we just started a doomsday thread. The OP asked, so I told him the honest truth, which you admitted yourself. To not answer at all would make the game seem even MORE dead if the OP was left unanswered just to avoid the truth.
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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 6:07am

I was mostly referring to the post with the gif. It seemed overdramatic to me. Sorry I forgot to quote it lol. Kinda new to forum posts here xD
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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 8:50am

Game isn't dead for those that are well established or only do events/minis. New players starting out will need a ton of help if you're trying to get to the endgame part of this game. If endgame isn't your style, the current status of the game does not affect you as much as others are affected. Current status affects mainly people that run in a group or people like me that like to buy/sell stuff and stimulate the economy. That's rough to do atm due to the lack of players in this small group that is still left. Tons of my guildies, still check in from time to time to check in on things, as do I, but it feels more like a chore than anything.

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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 9:11am

Quoted from "docdesertor"

Quoted from "Zerienga"

but the population is dwindling.


This gif can explain the current status of the population...


oh geez, that is a lil over dramatic O_o lol
Depends if you wanna stay on US servers, then Artemis is and has always been the most popular one for whatever reason... EU servers might be doing a lil better ... just really depends on the server you're on, that is if you wanna stay on GameForge ones. Runewaker has various companies putting out RoM for them, GameForge only runs RoM for US & EU I think...
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Saturday, July 4th 2015, 8:42pm

blah blah blah "don't tell people joining the game the truth so that they join and it solves the problem" logic needs to stop. like, 6 years ago.

It doesn't matter if all over the forums it's peaches and cream. There is no group of people who have been wandering for 40 years in the desert to try and get to runes of magic where some miracle population growth will happen. Saying that the game is underpopulated in the forums is only saving (very few) people the time downloading, installing, and a few days in-game (until they realize the situation everyone would be miraculously avoiding in the forums). not hurting the game.

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Saying the game is underpopulated and has been at a steady decline for years on the forum IS NOT a problem. Quit living in never never land peter, you have to grow up some day
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Monday, July 6th 2015, 10:13pm

My response to the original poster would be to look at the recent event that they did were we competed against ourselves to see how many dailies we could do compared to the average number of dailies we've done in the past. Osha came in just over 80% and I know that I bought daily resets during the event.

Now some servers did get over 100%, so they aren't all as bad off as Osha. Just saying pretty sad that we can't even win against ourselves.

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Tuesday, July 7th 2015, 1:02am

It's not fair to anyone, the current players or new players, to lie about the state of the game.

As for what that is... it's not pretty. The game is hemorrhaging players and the servers are dying. The hope of a merge seemed to breathe some life into the games dying carcass but now that hope is gone. Many players are fed up with the way that the publisher treats the players and the game as a whole.

0/10 would not recommend. The players that have been here for years are still holding on and hoping that their investment will make a turn around, but I would 100% never recommend anybody new to put their energy and resources into this game in the current state that it's in.
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Monday, August 17th 2015, 2:56am

Thinking of returning...possibly

I haven't played this game in around 5-6 years, and recently thought I might consider seeing how things have changed and whatnot
I also noticed my other account is blocked sadly, so I'd 100% have to restart since my primary character was on that account

I have noticed things about there being not many people anymore? if so what server is probably the more populated one?

also kind of curious if anyone I do know is even still around

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Monday, August 17th 2015, 3:06am

Your account may have been hacked we had a rash of that a few years back. Or maybe check the region setting,mmy client went back to default settings after win 10 upgrade.
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