New Players and The Free Trial.... A Very positive thing

[raynes]

Tonight I made two new characters. One was a Tryker and one was a Zorai. I then spent an hour or two on the noob islands talking to people and answering questions. First thing, there are new players joining the game and there are quite a few of them. So this idea that the game is dieing is full of it. I asked if people like it, and the answer was an over ruling yes. I asked if people planned on continueing after the trial was up again the answer was yes. I also made a point to ask them about combat and what they thought of it. Seeing as so many of the long term players insist that it's going to drive people away. Most thought combat was ok or pretty fun. I then asked the 50 million dollar question, do you think its to hard and are you gettiing xp... And the answer was an overwhelming, no that it wasn't to hard, and that yes they were getting xp. The comment was made that it was challenging but could be done.

So after my time on the noob islands helping new players I have much more excitement for the future of this game. No matter what people say on here, the playerbase is growing, people are trying the game, and they plan on staying. I'd suggest any seasoned player to take the time to jump in the new player areas and answer questions. Giving a harvesting lesson and a lesson on skill building was most appreciated.

[p46985]

Why not? We love the game and it only takes 5minutes to look at this forums and post replies to potential players. Nevrax has great customer service, another day 2 GMs were trying to help me out, one was trying to find out the trouble with my system, another was looking for drivers (!) for me. So this is a way to say 'thank you' for their effort. I recently started a char on Matis and i see quite a lot of new players who love the game and who are planning to stay as well.

[raynes]

Whats the point of this?. Who are you trying to prove it to?

Ok let me make this nice and clear for you....

This area of the boards is for new players and potential players to ask questions and to read about the game. There are a large number of people who spend time on here trashing Ryzom (even though they don't even play and never sign in as a registered user). I signed on as a new player and found the new player area and the people joining the game to be very nice and excited about the game. So I created a post to share what I found.

Found some good aspects of the game ------> share those aspects in an area where potential customers might look.

[p46985]

Raynes don't bother with explanations, those who are looking for information - find your posts useful, those who are here to thrash the game don't need any explanations, just ignore them