Re: Merge the servers?
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:25 pm
kind of like Matis baggy pants?
So imagine the merge of servers.
What will the english community will do when the big french and german guilds will own every valuable Outposts ?
Aniro is the most populated server, Leanon is second. Do you imagine that the french and german communities will let the english one own the best outposts ? You will be outnumbered, even if you merge several guilds.
And about language, if you expect that english will be the main language you are wrong. French peoples will continue to speak french and german peoples will continue to speak german like they have always do since 5 years. And the english peoples will be surrounded and outnumbered by players they doesn't understand. What will you do then ?
You cannot compare to Eve Online or DAOC.
Eve online (I play this game) since the beginning has one unique server. All the game is in english. And the biggest community (by far) is the english one. So if a foreign player wants to play this game, he MUST be able to speak english. All french players on Eve can speak english because every french players not able too has quit the game after a 5 minutes trial.
The french community on Ryzom is not the same. They are few to be able to speak english. They will continue to speak french and you will be submerged by french blabla on all channel. The same (at a less extent) for the german players.
Do you really expect that the english players will be fine with channels submerged by foreign languages ? No. Very very few english speaking peoples are fine with games where english is not the main language.
If you merge, you will see for sure a massive exodus of english peoples. That's the fact.
Note : for DAoC when the french servers by GOA were closed, very very very few players had transfered to the US one. You talk about a disaster like a good thing...
For sure, Ryzom need more players. But if you merge servers, you will only loose players.
- all new english players will quit because of the permanent foreign language on the channel.
- the existing english community will fade away because becoming a minority is something they are not used to in a MMORPG.
- a noticable part of the french and german community will quit because of the loss of RP.
before = 3 servers for 4000 subscribers.
after merging = 1 server for 2000 subscribers, that's my prediction. Why Winchgate would loose half of their customers ?
