ok i got to admit american imc was DUMB as ■■■■ come on they were on haste to release a game that was still on tests, first they did the almost kill the game on release which was the stupid pay to play BETA plan for 50$ then they lowered to 10$ but still is a pay to play a BETA game with a lot of possible bugs. Right that was just the beginning of fall, then even thought the game still had bugs they didn’t care about it and started right away the cash system so you need tokens to play (let’s be frank you can’t enjoy this game without the token) so yeah now it has less than 3k players active 6k peak with 6 servers active which was 53k few Months ago good job IMC you just wasted a big chance now you are going to have a bad time while less and less players could be at least 400.000$ monthly now you can pray to get at least 30.000$ because your haste, because you wanted fast money even with the 330.000$ start was it really worth…
At least in my server it doesnt seem to be dead.
When i see people complain how dead it is, it is people from other servers.
And i wonder if it will die as people say due to the people waiting for practonium gacha.
Back when I played you could queue within minutes when the instance server didn’t take a dump. Then all the popular grind spots were absolutely filled with people. It was to the point if you didn’t come in and control the camps you were just over camped. Now from what it looks like you have to compete with some AFK scripter for one of those camps because IMC can’t come up with better content other than farm billions of silver. So when you say seems is that because you play prime time for groups/queues or with friends?
I would say it’s an empty shell of it’s former self self and on it’s last leg. New players are going to see that stuff instantly and get turned off. After you hit 200+ that’s your future staring right at you of pseudo botting silver. That or you P2W gacha and RMT. Without a constant new blood flow of new players then it becomes a domino effect for anything which you don’t solo. Once atrophy hits from the current players getting bored since they’ve farmed everything and topped the PVP chart it implodes.
It’s dying and has been rapidly this is a fact. If people want to be stupid and say “well you’re just doom posting” that is fine with me. Those numbers continue to drop regardless of forum posts because IMC can’t code, make good content, and actually reach out to players without lying.
If you don’t see this bitch is going down you are crazy.
67 flipping canadian dollars for some lil piece of chit digital content that doesn’t even last 2 hours.
These mother fuckers are crazy.
They’ve stopped trying to gain money in bulk (not that they really ever tried) and are just throwing up jacked up prices so they can get as much money out of those who don’t care about their money.
They can’t hook you up with content because they have a deal with Nexon.
They can’t balance content because the playerbase asked for Ktos balancing.
The playerbase asked for Ktos balancing because they didn’t make good on their statement that they would due balance patches for Itos (outside of the initial founders release changes, Itos got nothing new skill wise except for following the korean model).
Instead of complaining about prices, just close your wallet.
Simples as breath.
Oh i see now.
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I actually quit a month before that and logged back in to find out what a guild mate was doing. Problem is this company has already made out like bandits from founders like myself. They try to say that their time and that money isn’t going towards mobile but seriously does anyone believe it at this point?
Marks when I got really mad and quit after the Julie leaving/firing thing.
It was then me and tons of other people started to realize this company was not going to do anything to fix problems. That’s when you start to see the numbers drop off on Steam too. These things are all buried on the forums over time of what happened and anyone who came late to the party wouldn’t understand.
Apparently Julie left because she got sick of IMC. She cared way more for the game and the playerbase than any of the people in charge. Almost everything she tried was ignored.
Any sane person with a heart would get sick of this sooner or later.
Ofc, besides John, none of the gms here have a heart anyways. They are just bots.
They are buried, if they are still there.
The whiteknights tend to flag everything to hell that goes against their nonexistant ideology after all.
Like the TP exploits? We almost all left after that one because people were able to make millions of silver off enchanting hats right at launch. If you did that back then and bought all the cheap tokens people had up for like 5k and held them all this time you’d be set for life on silver.
The channel crashing stuff was pretty bad too with people monopolizing and preventing anyone farming bosses.
Julie actually told you that? lol things must be really bad
I brought years of tokens for 400k each :3
hah?
john?
lets try summon him n say something
how do you feel about current itos n can you give any words to calm/reassure the saviors ?
afaik, aside from the obvious issue like fps/optimization/balance/bugs/content/pricing/gacha etc
another big let down is the constant breaktainance and subpar compensation…
its like i go service my car but breakdown anyway, n i dont even get a 7days warranty or anything
meh…
That’s a direct screen shot of my message in box.
They had lots of money. More than 60k players purchased early access packs, actually lots of people purchased multiple packs. Do the math.
IMC didn’t fail, IMC never even tried. They raised funds but never planned to use them for iTOS. Honestly I think they never expected for iTOS audience to be such rich airheads and raise this much money so they didn’t come up with anything better than milking even more money from bots.
I made this statement 7 months ago and it still holds true today! As for being a “rich airhead” you’ve got that one not quite right. Ragnarok Online had a huge following and this IS supposed to be it’s “spiritual successor” from the great Mr. Kim himself. Everyone wanted to believe it would be good which it COULD…but they just…I really don’t know to this day still. If I were Kim Haku I’d be really ashamed of myself to plop out such a stinker in this state as a game developer. Maybe they really are greedy shameless monsters?
RO following isnt huge. It might have or had decent numbers in certain parts of Asia and S. America.
But yes, IMC has dun messed this up.
Edit: I did some research. It was huge in certain parts of Asia and S. America. Also noticed certain things about RO, which confuses me more about this community.
Was about to post some documents about how big it was not just there but everywhere. Those demographics of the majority in SA don’t exactly fit the “rich airhead” statement made previously. The private server community was pretty huge when it was booming. A server could have 1000’s of people playing on them and there was tons of them. I’d also like to think 50,000 active people is kind of a lot for a game which has seen no advertisement or anything too. If I remember from the betas they gave out over 100,000 keys which obviously people got multiples of but still a lot considering everything.
Would have been more if IMC didn’t go full retard.
I guess IMC didnt expect the game to draw so much attention at all. I bet they thought of itos as a little ktos copy published by themself, giving them a bit of cash while concentrating on ktos.
Then these tousands of ppl came and IMC was faced with the fact they totally misjudged the situation and wasted a big opportunity by hastily publishing it and limiting the itos budget that much.
Now you have it, IMC. A wasted opportunity. Congrats.
This game needs more than words of encouragement and white knight flower power from staff or players. Doesn’t suprise me they would not answer because what ever the internal underlying reason for these problems is something really bad.