Clearly there is something wrong with the game if so many people on the forums and Reddit are dissatisfied with IMC’s handling of the international servers. I participated in enough MMO communities to know where this is going. You listing “facts and statistics” on the population, no matter how true or untrue isn’t going to change the way the majority of vocal player base feels about the game. People are unhappy. People don’t trust IMC. If players continue to feel like this we won’t have any players left at all.
The fact is when people login, the game feels like a wasteland. Unless you play during peak hours, you aren’t going to find a dungeon or Saalus party. Most people you find in game are AFK or are shops. No matter how many players we actually have, a majority of them aren’t playing the game for very long or at all. At one point I only logged in for the attendance rewards, now I don’t bother at all. How valuable are players that only log in to do a few dailies and logout versus players who actively participate in a game’s meaningful content? iTOS mostly has the former which is why many players feel like the game is dead.
No matter how accurate or inaccurate steam charts correlate to the actual population of the game, you can at least acknowledge that from this chart players are declining as the months go on. Eventually those players who only log in for dailies won’t bother logging it at all. That’s the point we reached here in iTOS.
You can defend IMC all you want but the fact is that they are constantly putting up walls behind players through restrictions whether it be through content or the simple luxury of buying TP items without having to participate in a stupid gambling system. Normally when people complain this much I think it’s silly, but everything IMC is doing warrants all posts and negative opinions. All these factors contribute to why people aren’t staying logged in or aren’t logging in at all.
Every time someone has the tiniest negative opinion on the game or IMC you come hopping along trying to argue that they shouldn’t feel a certain way with a bunch of useless meaningless facts that no one cares about. You’re trying to rationalize and coach people to feel a certain way based on paper facts and call them a troll when they don’t give a rats ass about what you have to say. You can scream how alive the game is all you want, when a player logs into the game, they aren’t getting the MMO experience that TOS offered years ago. The game is in decline, and you’re in denial.
