Topics about people leaving, devoting a lot of time summing up reasons why they leave, and most of the time forgetting that Nevrax hooked them for months to its game, that they had a great time playing it and had many hours of fun.
First I want to adress the pvp Nevrax has introduced. A few months ago Nevrax told the community that they were gonne focus on rebalancing pvp in order to implement FvF and GvG wars. It was something they already had planned and announced 2 years ago. I don't expect for everyone to believe me, but here is some proof, check out teaser 03 >> http://www.ryzom.com/data/video/teaser3 ... V_high.avi <<
It shows late alpha testing or early beta 1 testing (beta 1 still was an internal test by the devs only in beta 2 the first few public beta testers were invited). Small note here: you probly will notice in that teaser Ryzom used to be a class based game like every other mmo around.
When Nevrax announced the PvP strike team, the community cheered! I didn't see a single post about people worried about PvP or any of the related things. Everyone was glad pvp would finally be rebalanced and would become more interesting.
Anyway, time to make a point: PvP, GvG and FvF was already planned years ago, the aim of Ryzom allways has been towards these futures. During all the months of beta testing and during the first months after release, Nevrax focused on balancing and stabelising the game and the code. To be honest I think they have done an awsome job there. Ofcource there are still a few bugs and some things aren't balanced that good (ranged combat for example), but there is nothing that is really annoying (its actually pretty hard to find a bug).
After the little strugle Nevrax had short after realease (I don't recall any mmo who hasn't had a few problems after release), they strated to push forward and making thier story. The devs are giving us more things to do, giving us new goals, new targets. As mentioned in previous posts, Nevrax has listened closely to the community and makes options available for players who don't wish to participate in pvp and/or the story. Currently you can just choose wheter or not you port to the new terretory where the fraction war is going on. In the upcoming updates, pvp will be brought right at everyones doorstep but you will be able to choose if you participate or just stand by and watch. Ofcource you will be affected by the outcome of wars over outposts and various terretories, its a dynamic world .. duh.
I also have a little message to the players leaving, complaining, ect ...: Its normal you grow tired of a game after a while. An update can make you leave, it can be one or more of your friends leaving the game, ... Sooner or later you will leave.
Every single update I see people leaving, but this time I noticed something different, there also are lots of people coming back! I for example have been inactive for the past 3 months, I played some other games, not really any worth mentioning or remembering. From time to time I showed my face again, but I got bored real fast when I was playing. But a few days ago something happend, it was like lightning struck me, it was episode 2
It gave me new goals, new things to do, more options to choose from, ... it made the game more fun (at least for me 
). I'm pretty sure lots of other people feel the same way, at least in my guild they do. I see lots of old/inactive/less active members returning, wich gives me the feeling something good has happend to SoR ..nuf typing .. gonne play now
bump !
