Is WH dead?

[Cali]

Well it seems Mytic has reached it's goal of driving all Destro from the lands. I got on this morning and checked all the zones. Order controlled all but one keep. Praag and Dragonwake where counting down to a flip all BO's in each zone where taken. Seeing a chance to take some BO's I tried to get a WB going. The force I could muster was myself, one Zealot and one choppa that was it. There was a time not to lone ago I could raise a force of 2 full WB this time of day. I do not see way of stopping the tide that is sweeping the land. Mytic has driven the fight out of Destro with their refuseal to fix major problem with the char balance and flaws with the game. What do others think!

[Chaelyn]

I think it's summer, and the School time is quickly approaching, and if most parents are like me, they're trying to get their back to school shopping done BEFORE the big rush in late August.

[Fhuul]

The balance issues are a nuisance but they aren't all that terrible. Order has the edge but it's by no means insurmountable. The problem is the rest of the game is pretty buggy and runs terrible in any kind of larger scale fight, which magnifies the perceived gaps in balance by a huge margin.

Try to kite away from an incoming BW bomb and you get stuck on a rock for a second, or there's a big fight nearby so your defensive abilities take a few keypresses before they fire. Chances are most smart players would've been able to counter the incoming attack and keep trucking if it weren't for the lag.

The thing with WAR is you eventually get used to the "UI Grind" and learn to try and fight through it, but the problem becomes really apparent when you take a break from the game and come back to it with fresh eyes.

If Mythic plopped this down on an engine that could handle it smoothly, I think you would see much less outright quitting during the rough patches, and more people just taking a quick breather before hopping back in. End game is still poop, but if you can take some pleasure out of the general fighting in a responsive client, the game can be a lot of fun. Classes are great, artwork is decent, general ORVR gameplay is fun until the fort and city stages.

[Scarr]

I am playing a Postman in Free Realms. Sorry for my absence.

[Warseth]

Truth here not assumption negative stuff:

One of our members checked out warheap which measures active 40s who have gained 1 rp in the last week....

The numbers are drastically down badly. Check for yourself.

Doing /who 40 the numbers were stupidly low... age of conan low...anyone who has played that knows what I mean.

It seems the death blow has been dealt. I have not seen any game recover quickly from a mass exodus of activity. Only one game I heard of came from the death brink was AC from what I heard. Never played it.

I have had many chances to beta, or core beta test (alpha)...and I have been on many sinking ships before. This is very apparent we are on a boat that is sinking ...

There is only one thing I can think of that will bring back population: Drastic change. And Quickly. No way in hell I can see that happening because I don't know what would bring back an already fed up player who makes the leap to stop. I know what its like to be so fed up and quit. It's near impossible to bring one back after they made that hard decision to give up all they worked for on.

To be very honest. WH is done for when it comes to being a big popular game it was early this year. Only the niche die hards will stick around.

Major server consolidation to up population thats left is in order to at the least to keep populations up on servers.... Retaining that group is another ball game ...

The probability of this game taking another huge blow to activity is *HIGH with AION , Champions Online, and Dragon Age: origins around the corner.

Fact is I think its safe to say ... Good bye to those who are leaving. Wish you all well. Those that hold out..I wish you the best...For me this game has reached the back burner category. It will join my other games I distract myself with on short bursts as I wait to see what happens.

[Vasan]

Well, let's see how tonights rvr goes, and also check the weekend's rvr activity.

We'll see where we are then.

Oh, and it's all fort and city seiges at this point. Has been for awhile.

[Vydor]

I hate to say "wait til we see how this patch impacts the game", but well.....it just seems like we are being dragged along by the "wait and see" promise.

Things are definately NOT good for the realm. Order players across all servers seems to be healthy, and out number destro. That should tell you something.

However, I know I am not going anywhere and will continue to be in the game and here on the boards doing whatever I can to make a difference.

[Trul]

we have like 700 destruction 40's who gained 1rp, i dont call that low. Order has 900, closer to 1000. Our server is the only WAR server where Order just outnumbers destruction significantly.

Wareth your entire post is misleading. The activity on our server is nothing like Conan. We have a lot of people here. There is not a high chance of mass exodus. There are just a lot of destruction players who are frustrated by getting their arse beat by order who outnumber us. The main problem with our server is population imbalance, not population.

[Dall dies to much]

we have like 700 destruction 40's who gained 1rp, i dont call that low. Order has 900, closer to 1000. Our server is the only WAR server where Order just outnumbers destruction significantly.

Wareth your entire post is misleading. The activity on our server is nothing like Conan. We have a lot of people here. There is not a high chance of mass exodus. There are just a lot of destruction players who are frustrated by getting their arse beat by order who outnumber us. The main problem with our server is population imbalance, not population.

when we were in the order city every other day the numbers were around 1400 for order and 1480 for destro

you know... 2.5 months ago

so ya, for PT... in 2.5 months or so we have lost 1/2 our active lvl 40 population

[Vasan]

Well judging by this weekend, I believe the server is on life support.

Very empty, very dead.

It's a medium/medium at the moment, but I just don't see where the population is.