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What has changed?

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Sep 16, 2013 Dr. Lecter link
Hey Tram, welcome back. Not that much is the basic answer, still no endgame or ability to meaningfully affect the universe through your actions. Gauss duels remain great fun, however.
Sep 16, 2013 Snake7561 link
Don't mind Lecter. He doesn't play any more.
Sep 17, 2013 TheRedSpy link
"still no endgame"

^ This
Sep 17, 2013 Pizzasgood link
Whether or not he plays doesn't change the fact that he is correct. No real endgame content has been added since player-owned Tridents were implemented.
Sep 19, 2013 TheRedSpy link
Well, there is an endgame, but it's player driven and requires a small group of players (10-30) i.e the leaders of guilds to take certain positions against each other and to play at certain times.

If you engage those players they keep everybody else interesting and going. It's all fairly well established stuff if you go read the standard mmo community building literature.

At the moment i'm actually engaged in a different online community. I'd rather be here now that my arm is healed and I can play again, but nobody else is around so it's a bit weird. <.<
Sep 19, 2013 Conflict Diamond link
a different online community? How are the people over at Hello Kitty Online?
Sep 19, 2013 TheRedSpy link
They are n00bs.
Sep 28, 2013 Captain86 link
@Deathspores LOL

"They have to ask where you are to get pirated"

As far as people mentioning why the noobs don't seem to leave the training is probably various reasons:

*Their 8 hours ran out then realizd it was a subscibtion game in spite of the facts.

*They were never noobs but actually alts who stopped playing but then later stopped in to be a nuicance in chat.

*Or perhaps they thought it sucked. (I mean it's entirely possible they just didn't like it)

It does seems quite odd that out of 500k downloads you would not see thousands of questions being asked and major chatter on 1 and 100 continously.

Not to say there has not been some increase in player activity but still what about the math.

I mean if only 100k per year in downloads were actual that is 277 appox. noobs per day or about 11.5 per hour

and 500k downloads per year is appox. 1388 noobs per day or about 57.8 per hour

WOW thats a lot and I can only dream of such a year.
Actually that might even be too many.
Sep 28, 2013 Pizzasgood link
Those are mobile users, who are very unlikely to actually chat. Also, download != log into the server. A bunch of those might be people who played around with the offline training mode for a few minutes and then decided they didn't care.