Is there really a problem with player retention

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@Blackmage2015

I guess I’m mostly referring to long time players

if we are talking about long term player retention then yea there is for sure a problem there too…hell just look at the portal seekers discord most of the people there that used to log 6 or so hours into the game only really play now to maintenance the network…my self i only ever log into do the hunts if it was not for that i prob would never log in at all.

@Sterbehilfe

I also agree with the OP. This game is far from dying

my self i find that i subjective term it kind of depends on your definition form a development stand point the game is live and well…form a playerbase standpoint if you compare it to other MMO’s it flatlined about 3 months ago 130 players average (pc) compared to say FF online witch is at around 8,513 given they are 2 totaly different games but if we where to cheat and say minecraft servers count has a MMO shard the top servers on there are clocking in at around 200 average (pc)

Edit: re reading FF online was a bit of a bad example cuz it has been out way way longer and is a established IP

@Nevioni

I cant remember what thread but I did read a quote from a Dev stating that they expect this game to be a slow burner, so I wouldnt be concerned

i think it was the launch thread they know this was going to happen cuz they did not drop any ad rev into it cuz at the time if they did a legit launch it would have been sim city all over agian with no one able to log in due to full servers and crash’s…hell im not 100% sure even now the servers could handle 500+ people in one data center

nvm it was just a little befor launch

@Steggs101

I think the most important thing to get out there is, if the game doesn’t attract millions of players (which we’d be surprised if it did!), we will still be continuing development on it; we’re not going to shut down after launch if the game isn’t immediately “successful”. In fact, we’re anticipating the game to be a slow burner which steadily grows as the year goes on - hitting a real stride next year.

@Xaldafax

I think that is outside of their control. They sit on Amazon hosts and it really comes down to internet traffic to their servers. That is out of the control of the developers. I like in Los Angeles and can connect to any server most of the time with minimal issues.

saldy i think this is going to hurt the game long term AWS was not ment for what they are doing when i took the student course’s they made it overly clear the service was built with web services in mind not a video game with 100+ consists connections to database’s