5 Great Reasons to Wipe it Clean

[Samoht]

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

does a single one of these dipshits asking to wipe the server have a lvl 50+ character?.

no.

wiping is a terrible idea. you would alienate a large majority of your player-base. a roll-back would do the same thing. people have made a lot of progress and put in more effort despite the DDOS. if anything, accomplishments are more rewarding for having done it in spite of the lag.

starting a new server would just fragment the population, making the game worse. only the hard-cores and the just-started would move, leaving only the casuals with no interest in restarting on the existing server.

if this game were wiped or if the player-base were segmented, i would have no reason to continue playing here. i have such a huge back log of games accumulated on steam, some of which i've never played. the new borderlands 2 DLC dropped just a few weeks ago. shadowrun goes live today. maybe i'll finally play deep space or fallen enchantress. i don't have all champs unlocked in league of legends. has anybody heard about eq next?

the title of this thread is misleading. OP actually gives zero good reasons to wipe.

[daebak]

I'm 100% for a wipe of the server. I already lost a lot in these DDOS's so I'm okay with it. I can see why people would be against it though. A lot of people invest a load of time into their characters. I'm still for the reset, and I still would be if I didn't lose a lot in the DDOS's.

[Fountree]

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

no.

wiping is a terrible idea. you would alienate a large majority of your player-base. a roll-back would do the same thing. people have made a lot of progress and put in more effort despite the DDOS. if anything, accomplishments are more rewarding for having done it in spite of the lag.

starting a new server would just fragment the population, making the game worse. only the hard-cores and the just-started would move, leaving only the casuals with no interest in restarting on the existing server.

if this game were wiped or if the player-base were segmented, i would have no reason to continue playing here. i have such a huge back log of games accumulated on steam, some of which i've never played. the new borderlands 2 DLC dropped just a few weeks ago. shadowrun goes live today. maybe i'll finally play deep space or fallen enchantress. i don't have all champs unlocked in league of legends. has anybody heard about eq next?

the title of this thread is misleading. OP actually gives zero good reasons to wipe.

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[LordSterben]

Originally Posted by xCry0x [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry man, I am tired and in a bad mood =/

That was unnecessarily asshole-ish

It's okay, really. I knew it wasn't a solution...I thought maybe it could spark a better idea or new avenue of.approach to a solution. And the problems lately have everyone on edge.

[Kinlain]

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

no.

wiping is a terrible idea. you would alienate a large majority of your player-base. a roll-back would do the same thing. people have made a lot of progress and put in more effort despite the DDOS. if anything, accomplishments are more rewarding for having done it in spite of the lag.

starting a new server would just fragment the population, making the game worse. only the hard-cores and the just-started would move, leaving only the casuals with no interest in restarting on the existing server.

if this game were wiped or if the player-base were segmented, i would have no reason to continue playing here. i have such a huge back log of games accumulated on steam, some of which i've never played. the new borderlands 2 DLC dropped just a few weeks ago. shadowrun goes live today. maybe i'll finally play deep space or fallen enchantress. i don't have all champs unlocked in league of legends. has anybody heard about eq next?

the title of this thread is misleading. OP actually gives zero good reasons to wipe.

SoE will be livestreaming EQNext on August 2nd, so hopfully beta will be around dec 2013/jan 2014.

[Splitquick]

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

I'm 100% for a wipe of the server. I already lost a lot in these DDOS's so I'm okay with it. I can see why people would be against it though. A lot of people invest a load of time into their characters. I'm still for the reset, and I still would be if I didn't lose a lot in the DDOS's.

Looking at this thread it's pretty apparent that a wipe is extremely unlikely, and would also piss off every veteran of this server, which is understandable.

General consensus seems to be that a fresh server would be the answer, although there's a lot of vets that disagree with this also, even though it wouldn't directly affect them unless their guild left or friends left or something of that nature.

Even if the population were fragmented, 400 people on each server is hardly low population. I would consider 100-150 low pop.

And a fresh, clean server may start at 400... but I think that server would climb to 700 pretty quickly just because of the draw of a brand new server and no one being high level or geared up.

[rickjames]

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

starting a new server would just fragment the population, making the game worse. only the hard-cores and the just-started would move, leaving only the casuals with no interest in restarting on the existing server.

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

leaving only the casuals with no interest in restarting on the existing server.

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

leaving only the casuals

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

the casuals

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/pet-battles/

[Samoht]

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

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/pet-battles/

not touching poke-wow and it's pay-to-win model.

[Peener]

SoE will be livestreaming EQNext on August 2nd, so hopfully beta will be around dec 2013/jan 2014.

...Really? You're going to plug that here? The only reason this server exists in the first place is because SOE is a bunch of fuck ups.

[Splorf22]

There are two very good reasons to boot up a new server the day velious launches.

1. A huge number of people will come back for Velious. I have talked before about how insanely overcrowded it will be - I'm guessing we'll have 1500-2000 logged in at prime time if nothing is done. And while that number is not so terrible in and of itself, when 1000 of those players are L55+ you can begin to see the problem. A new server would draw off a significant fraction of players.

2. Nilbog is still working on Velious and doesn't know how long it will take to finish. Even if he thinks it is extremely likely to finish in the next two years (I certainly hope so!) he probably doesn't want to split his efforts between working on Velious and looking after a new server.