How many people played on Fippy Darkpaw or Vulak?

[August]

Originally Posted by Valoril [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Played on Fippy from release to Luclin.
Had a Gnome Mage in <Austerity> but forgot the name.
Had an absolute blast from release to Kunark - hundreds of people in each zone, groups everywhere, plenty of fun at all hours.

Unfortunately the damn hardcore raiding guilds ruined everything by rushing to unlock the next expansion as fast as possible.
80% of players who were there to enjoy the ride , wanted to stay a long time in Kunark and didn't give a f... for raids were not voting and unable to unite to vote AGAINST unlocking next expansions so everything went down the drain.
The numbers crashed, at Velious there was hardly the half left, with Luclin only the large guilds were still there and that's when I left too.

Today's Fippy is just a pale shade of what it was in Kunark and in all aspects is quivalent to any ultralow pop server on Live.

In all fairness, it wasn't the hardcore guilds.

Three exploits ruined the economy

1) Alchemy (buy mats, combine for insane profit to sell back to vendor)
2) Fire Opals - purchaseable for 44pp, combined vendor prices had them @ 55pp so there was ~11pp profit per ring combine straight from the vendor
3) Eggs - some stupid item that shouldn't be in the game that 'laid eggs' that sold for insane PP

After exploited plat flooded the economy (we're talking FBSS is sitting at ~5k because it's only a month in and 5k is a ton of money - now it's a 25k item) , Anonymous hacked Sony and brought the game down for 3 weeks.

So, devaluing currency + forced 'no play' time is really what killed Fippy - I was there before and after the shutdown and it was definitely a ghost town once the servers went backu p. Raid guilds voted to go quickly, that's true, but the time-lock was longer than Combine/Sleeper, and by the time we were back and running it was mainly the people who were pixel-hungry that came back.