05-20-2012, 10:32 AM
tbh with you unless you can go back in time and blow up blizzard HQ to prevent the launch of D3 playerbase is probly screwed for a while.
i cant speak for anyone else but to me it seems like the drop in playerbase was pretty inevitable. the pb flew up out of nostalgia from a bunch of old IN players who for a couple of weeks were joining in droves eagre to reignite some old memories. and as often happens with nostalgia, it soon wears off as you realise why you quit in the first place. For me the reason is pvp, I never liked the rigid and frankly broken sphere system, and even Loki's changes which have eased it, cant change the fact that the system is just completely inflexible and lacks diversity. Having played IN2 and enjoyed the balance (which wasnt perfect, just a damn site better) the diversity and all the other new stuff that came with it such as More intelligent monster AI which work together (rather than regular ai with a special hue and stupidly high hp/str which you have to beat by summoning EV over and over again rather than just bashing its ****ing face in with a big shiny axe) and then theres the new maps, mounts, monsters. i donno...
Its like you used to own a ferrari and your feeling all low, so your partner/mother/best friend gets you all excited saying they got together to buy you a present to cheer you up. so you instantly start thinking woo ferrari...
... and its that ford fiesta you had when you were 16 dragged from the river you drove it into because the insurance payout was more valuable than the car itself -_-
I'm guessing that's what a fair few of us are feeling...others just have actual lives now and dont want to spend 12 months macroing.
i cant speak for anyone else but to me it seems like the drop in playerbase was pretty inevitable. the pb flew up out of nostalgia from a bunch of old IN players who for a couple of weeks were joining in droves eagre to reignite some old memories. and as often happens with nostalgia, it soon wears off as you realise why you quit in the first place. For me the reason is pvp, I never liked the rigid and frankly broken sphere system, and even Loki's changes which have eased it, cant change the fact that the system is just completely inflexible and lacks diversity. Having played IN2 and enjoyed the balance (which wasnt perfect, just a damn site better) the diversity and all the other new stuff that came with it such as More intelligent monster AI which work together (rather than regular ai with a special hue and stupidly high hp/str which you have to beat by summoning EV over and over again rather than just bashing its ****ing face in with a big shiny axe) and then theres the new maps, mounts, monsters. i donno...
Its like you used to own a ferrari and your feeling all low, so your partner/mother/best friend gets you all excited saying they got together to buy you a present to cheer you up. so you instantly start thinking woo ferrari...
... and its that ford fiesta you had when you were 16 dragged from the river you drove it into because the insurance payout was more valuable than the car itself -_-
I'm guessing that's what a fair few of us are feeling...others just have actual lives now and dont want to spend 12 months macroing.