vguerin wrote:I am catering to me and those I play with... None have them have left, not a single one. Actually some are popping back in now.
To have all the 1 man, RP and neutral guilds making noise about something that effects them as little as this new part of the storyline is sickening. Nobody is forced to do anything, yet you act like you were all put into these zones against your will. It's like going into the neighbors yard and whining that his dog bit ya...
Stay on the porch...
So...without going into the new zones, how are we to get at the new content that is a reward for high Harvest or Craft(not fight, if someone has taken the fight mission, they presumably want to PvP), and bought with honor points? Content that we have been waiting for for over a year?
Why didn't they introduce the non-PvP stuff first, so that everybody would have a chance, instead of satisfying the less savory inhabitants of Atys?
I mean, they are the minority, not just on the forums, either.
I did the /who+count thing several times over the last few days. never got a number higher than 124. If that is indeed the majority (and that number includes at least a handful of us that have no interest in PvP, myself, Jyudas, and whoever orangutaun avatar is, and probably a few others), that means a server population of 247, at maximum. Go ahead and double that, heck, tripple it because not everybody is on at the same time, and they have been weekdays. You get 741 as the maxmum possible population, if it's actually the majority that want PvP. That's a pretty pathetic number.
We've seen this coming for awhile. I've voiced concerns about it, I've railed against it. I've also secretly hoped that I would be proven wrong. That this "mature" community would be the one to be different, the one that
could actually handle non-consentual PvP without the vindictiveness, name-calling (1PWNDJ00N00B), and childish behavior that has always gone with PvP. As evidenced by region-chat, by intentionally pulling agro on the defenseless to not only kill them but give them DP, even by killing those who are defenseless yourself, and then actually
bragging about such behavior, this is not the case.
I'm going to sleep on it, but from this trend that started when they made the first areas PvP till now, and have repeatedly made more and more in-roads into decent behavior (actually rewarding people who gank with "honor" points, that still pi**es me off), it may be that I have wasted over a year's worth of free time on a doomed project. Ryzom has nothing to offer that any one of a dozen gank-fests can't do better (although I do still like the 3D modeling, that is done well).
