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posted by
galleri:
No all of us including you have gotten old.
And it shows.
We are all a bunch assholes :P
I'm not sure why you presume to know anything about me. To my recollection we've never had a private conversation, but please allow me to share why I think this game has failed. I'm ("an old asshole") of 33 with no children, which puts me in the prime gaming demographic. Gaming is a huge hobby of mine and I have time and money to contribute to the industry. I started playing this game when I was 15 and should be a shoo-in for revenue at this point. Yet I'm not, and even worse, the fact is that I can barely stand to run turns. Here's why -
- The game has slowly removed a majority of strategy and competitive play over the years. Bots and ghost acres pander to feckless "netting" players who can not use critical thinking to find balance between military, strat, market play and grabbing. This makes things uninteresting for a majority of strategic netters and has lead to many leaving.
- Some of the competitive netters looking for alternative play styles turned to war in an attempt to salvage the game for themselves. The reaction from alliance leaders was to further push the bastardization of netting through coalitions and anti-PVP policies like land:land land:land with % escalations.
-The end result is that netting became stale and has remained so for years. Wars have become (often) prearranged and uninteresting. There is nothing to lure in new players or keep anyone interested, outside of a nostalgic connection to the small community that remains.
It's time to accept this as a failed experiment. If the community wants to keep playing together, please go find another game, one that's actually worth playing. There are literally thousands out there which are more deserving of your time.