Games with variance success:

[Musetii]

Rift.

2011: 22 servers worldwide.
2014: 13 servers worldwide, all classified as medium population (>500 people)

nuff'sed.

Tear down this anti-variance wall, Mr. Rogean!

[Mac Drettj]

so variance slowly dwindled away their pop?

[Kergan]

You mean that game with 98% instanced content?

[Not_Kazowi]

This is the dumbest thread I've ever read. Says a lot.

Variance = dying game. Cool story

[Zalaerian]

They haven't shut rift down yet?

[Musetii]

Naw. Free to play bro, Nightstalker build for rogues still viable. Better pvp than Red99 atm. Second only to GW2.

[Kergan]

Best PVP game is CS:GO imo.

[Musetii]

Best PVP game is CS:GO imo.

It got variance?

[Kergan]

If you play deathmatch your spawn location is varianced. Not spawn time though.

[Musetii]

Best PVP game is CS:GO imo.

If you play deathmatch your spawn location is varianced. Not spawn time though.

There you have it. Variance is FTW.

[Tewaz]

I am pretty impressed Rift is still around.

[Brynnag]

i just started playing on rift lol.

Seems pretty fun so far. Havent gotten to do world pvp yet. Warzones are kinda meh

[Ghostly]

Rift is garbage...

Instanced everything... Repetitive PVP is disgusting..

[R Flair]

Rift.

2011: 22 servers worldwide.
2014: 13 servers worldwide, all classified as medium population (>500 people)

nuff'sed.

Tear down this anti-variance wall, Mr. Rogean!

Not that it matters, but the reasons I "supported" variance at the time no longer apply. The server pop was half, Nihilum was raiding with fewer numbers, sim repops didn't exist, and Nihilum members were threatening to quit over it.

It was a way to grief Nihilum into quitting / giving up, and thus strengthen my own guild.

Aka it was a selfish argument not based on lasting server health, but based on momentary gain for my own guild.

I was also building my guild to be a poopsocking pve guild who could stand to benefit / exploit variance as opposed to a small crew of pvpers who would get wrecked by variance's requirement that you zerg [see: blue]. Thanks!

The only honest post by someone who was pro-variance that ever existed on this forum

[Musetii]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

R Flair.