Is it deja vu or what? I know personally I have lived through what is happening with Badlands. I don't see it being good for Warhammer Online. If I saw this pattern repeating itself I would be doing some damage control pretty quick to stop the bleeding. What am I talking about? Let me tell you my story.
Initially I started on the Reikland server. It was dead from day one. I had to pve all the way to 40. This was before they changed the way scenarios queued, and stuff. It sucked, and basically everyone left the server, and rerolled. This was before server mergers so there was no other option.
I had this crazy idea to make another Bright Wizard on Magnus as they were offering an xp, and renown bonus. Everything was good, and than the bonus went away. Once again I had to basically pve the rest of the way to 40. Initially taking keeps, and bo's were easy. No one was really 40 so you could get alot of renown real easy with a group of 12 people or so.
Times changed as more and more people reached max level. It seemed like it should be a good thing, but it eventually just caused every zone to be stalemates. The losing side would stop queuing for scenarios,and zones wouldn't flip ever. This was before domination timers. After months of no successful fort takes, or city sieges everyone decided to do a mass exodus from Magnus, and go to the highest populated server Dark Crag.
It was a dream come true for most of us. We had big plans to dominate the server on the Order side. Sadly as each day passed most ended up quitting the game. Not only the players who went to Dark Crag, but also other players on Magnus who felt like they got deserted. I think in the end only about 5 out of probably 300 players stuck it out on Dark Crag.
At the time it was insane. Order would constantly have the city locked down for 18 hours, and destro would be bored out of their minds, and soon order would be too since everyone had gear for the next 20 renown levels.
Being on the most populated server was great with around the clock pvp, scenarios, and etc. Eventually Destro stopped playing. One by one most probably quit, or rerolled to a lower pop server that had a destro advantage.
We all know what eventually happened. Order had no one to fight, and Dark Crag closed. I see the same thing happening now, and I am still skeptical that the rvr packs will fix it. Everyone is flocking to Badlands.
This means the other servers are going to feel like ghost towns. It gives players a few limited options. Reroll to Badlands, keep playing on your current server that is now a ghost town, or quit the game.
I would just cluster all the servers now, and save all the heartache. I think if domination is being removed in the rvr packs than maybe it will be possible. I think players would be willing to help each other cross server more than having to gear up a fresh 40 on a new server.
I just think something needs to happen fast. Eventually one side or the other will dominate Badlands, and people will quit the game after losing day after day, night after night.
Initially I started on the Reikland server. It was dead from day one. I had to pve all the way to 40. This was before they changed the way scenarios queued, and stuff. It sucked, and basically everyone left the server, and rerolled. This was before server mergers so there was no other option.
I had this crazy idea to make another Bright Wizard on Magnus as they were offering an xp, and renown bonus. Everything was good, and than the bonus went away. Once again I had to basically pve the rest of the way to 40. Initially taking keeps, and bo's were easy. No one was really 40 so you could get alot of renown real easy with a group of 12 people or so.
Times changed as more and more people reached max level. It seemed like it should be a good thing, but it eventually just caused every zone to be stalemates. The losing side would stop queuing for scenarios,and zones wouldn't flip ever. This was before domination timers. After months of no successful fort takes, or city sieges everyone decided to do a mass exodus from Magnus, and go to the highest populated server Dark Crag.
It was a dream come true for most of us. We had big plans to dominate the server on the Order side. Sadly as each day passed most ended up quitting the game. Not only the players who went to Dark Crag, but also other players on Magnus who felt like they got deserted. I think in the end only about 5 out of probably 300 players stuck it out on Dark Crag.
At the time it was insane. Order would constantly have the city locked down for 18 hours, and destro would be bored out of their minds, and soon order would be too since everyone had gear for the next 20 renown levels.
Being on the most populated server was great with around the clock pvp, scenarios, and etc. Eventually Destro stopped playing. One by one most probably quit, or rerolled to a lower pop server that had a destro advantage.
We all know what eventually happened. Order had no one to fight, and Dark Crag closed. I see the same thing happening now, and I am still skeptical that the rvr packs will fix it. Everyone is flocking to Badlands.
This means the other servers are going to feel like ghost towns. It gives players a few limited options. Reroll to Badlands, keep playing on your current server that is now a ghost town, or quit the game.
I would just cluster all the servers now, and save all the heartache. I think if domination is being removed in the rvr packs than maybe it will be possible. I think players would be willing to help each other cross server more than having to gear up a fresh 40 on a new server.
I just think something needs to happen fast. Eventually one side or the other will dominate Badlands, and people will quit the game after losing day after day, night after night.
