So What's Keepin Ya?

[kuroari]

Ok well i keep getting all these rants from ppl and we get all these atys skull avatars and what not.. but you know wat? most ppl with said avatars and comments are still around O.o !

soooo... since i think our main posters are still around and even though i havent been in-game a while (solely b/c of Uni and Work.. CURSE RL!)- many ppl are still playing - even complete anti-PvP ppl - i guess there must be soemthing keeping us stuck on atys.

and dont tell me you can't afford (or can't get yourself to stoop down to the lvl of) asking Jena for a ride in her pretty flying citadel to some new planet.

i dont mean to be destructive in anyway (esp after reading that troll thread O_O) but maybe if we focused on WHY ppl are still here - we could make a game that we would all ENJOI and not rant about.


me - its the people, and the awesome rpg with HUGE potential and breathtaking worlds where i DONT have to be completly involved and always grinding just to make myself useful - i was useful to my friends since day1 and i love that idea.

um.. so basicaly

WHY are YOU still here?

(someone start a poll? i wouldve but idk what options to put )

[triprech]

my sub hasn't run out yet.

[manya]

Two possible answers:

1. People prepaid their subscriptions and they didn't end yet.

2. Hoping that things will change for better.

But seriously, this looks like just the thread that will turn into another flaming battle. We had enough of that already, let us not do it another time.

[scarazi]

um.. so basicaly

WHY are YOU still here?

yep, waiting for my sub to run out also, thought it did, but was given a free month. So not to waste that free month, i thought i`d test the outpost`s, which i had been wanting to see since retail. Is that so bad? or am i not allowed to post anymore? `cause i havn`t been on the live server since the start of Ep2

PS. i had the skull, removed it a week before the trolling thead apeared, as did most

EDIT: Just re-read again. Basically you tell us not to post, then ask for us to post our opinions lol

[borg9]

They won't give me a refund!

[myseren]

For me, Im still here cos im still looking for that magical feeling when i first logged on back in beta. The graphics and scenery are fantastic, but kinda need more than that after a year of doing the same things.

Roleplay and friends go hand in hand for me, I like to RP with the ppl i know. Unfortunately, the list of friends i have in game is getting smaller and smaller all the time. Apart from my guild, which also seems smaller these days, there are very few of my friends left on atys so im very disillusioned atm.

I understand some ppl are happy with the way things are progressing but others are not, Im sure there are quite a few ppl like me who are just waiting for the last straw before they cancel their subs. Maybe this thread was meant to be positive, but ppl are entitled to make their opinions known. Are you saying anyone unhappy with the game direction shoud 1)keep quiet if they are sticking around or 2)leave?

With the population atm i would say option 2 should be the last thing ppl want.

[carrie]

Waiting on my sub to run out and having a really hard time saying goodbye to friends that I've shared this game with for almost 1 1/2 years now.

Don't worry...many of us will be departing very soon. December is just around the corner and I know of several subs that will run out then.

[vguerin]

For me, Im still here cos im still looking for that magical feeling when i first logged on back in beta. The graphics and scenery are fantastic, but kinda need more than that after a year of doing the same things.

Most everything you wrote I could have wrote myself. Tired of not being able to level anything I want to now and stuck leveling things just to feel a sense of accomplishment or a skill that has yet to get tweaked (ranged).

Just spent many hours for several weeks helping the story along and the rewards were all things that should be there so even folks with few points could purchase, but not worthy of major time input.

These are the type of things I should get with the honour points left over from getting the one good item my effort should have provided. Nothing high end (and the silly no-trade/bulk issue) really meant alot of wasted time IMHO. Outposts are seeming to be just a distraction if there is nothing else... they waited too long for them to make an impact in their dumbed down form.

I am not protesting PvP or anything about the storyline, I see it trying to move in spite of communities efforts to change it... I feel I am doing nothing worthwhile if I cannot level the skills I want anymore but biding time... Thats not worth paying for with so many friends gone.

[iphdrunk]

So what keeps me in game? some good things and some bad things. In no particular order:

* The fact that I like the background and the story. It was a nice break from the elf/dwarf/orc/dragon.

* The game graphincs and 'engine' is/was at the time of launch, advanced. I still like the graphics.

* The relatively small community, where I can meet and know players, know how they play, how they speak, and the subtle difference that they are true homins, not NPCs with player names and dozens of unknown Legolas111. In what other games there are server-wide real life meetings, etc. and we get to talk to guides, GMs, etc?

* The already invested time and the addiction I have developed. My character is pretty high level.

* The inertia. I find myself logging again.

* The fact that there is nothing else that I want to invest myself into. I haven't applied for other betas and other major titles are not out yet.

* I'm still curious about outposts. Although I don't think that they will be an awesome feature, but some kind of addon PvP minigame with buildings.

* Ryzom Ring.

[kuroari]

ahhh um heh i think i may have not given the right impression? yea im asking you guies why you're all still playing - because maybe if we had some more refiend reasons why we're still here, the devs might work on something thatll make us all happy...

that many of you are still here is b/c of your subs kinda hit hard.. i guess i just hope that you all have subs thatll last long enough to make u stay through whatll hopefuly be a good addition thatll bring you all back.

so yea - sry if i gave the wrong impression earlier - it was about midnight/later and i must not've been thinking straight when i wrote this thread