What the fuck is wrong with Armageddon?

Make Arm great again

yes, and i can't speak for others but i've addressed it several times. muds are certainly not a growing section of games, but arm's problems aren't due to the lack of mud growth. it's due to old mechanics which players in the year of our lord 2015 find dull. no one wants to spend 10 days worth of time on a video game to see the interesting aspects of it.

Week 42: 197.
Week 43: 184.
Week 44: 207.
Week 45: 231.
Week 46: 220.
Week 47: 229.
Week 48: 225.
Week 49: 209.
Week 50: 223.
Week 51: 231.

Happy Qwanza Armageddon! For Ghaati: Fire Nyr, get a 25% of your playerbase back.

Also up because some people burnt out on Fallout 4. Just wait until Roller Coaster Tycoon: Xtreme Edition comes out, those numbers will return to their previous lows.

I am pretty convinced, muds will not die for some time. Around 2000s I was sure they are dying and noone will ever play an extremely time-consuming game with no graphics what so ever in 5-10 years time. Now, I think and see I was greatly mistaken. As game tech advances, market grows and people's daily game play hours raise. So more and more people become more like to be hooked up in different, unorthodox games. I still can not believe the success of Minecraft for example. Millions play it and seem they will play for years to come.

This game once had about 71-73 players a night semi-regularly roughly before, during and a little after the last HRPT. Do you know what I think would have kept the population that high?

1. Remove lirathian templars (so that there could be no more qoriyas ruining plots for people up north) like the players were asking for.
2. Instead of shutting down the arena in the north where people would gather, interact, spar and enjoy themselves, open up one in the south just like the fucking playerbase was asking for at the time.

Instead of listening to the player base, Nyr and the rest of the staff during that time period thought they knew better. They saw the player-base having fun their own way and decided to shut it down,in order to tell the player base how to have fun instead. They player base would just need to take it the ass like they've always done right?

Next thing you know Lirathian templars were stream lined into one order, we had levies and some other bullshit no one wanted or asked for.

What?!? No one wanted to play Nyr's version of tuluk, players began leaving or stopped playing in Tuluk in protest. Perhaps, they should have listen to the playerbase then and made the changes the player-base wanted? Nope. Lets shut down tuluk, the player-base will just need to play in allanak from now on. Once again taking it up the ass as they've always done.

Oh shit?!? The player-base has decided to do other things than play a boring game? The player-base began leaving instead of playing something they didn't feel like playing, as is normal in this day and age. Thus dropping the population to about 50~ at peak. And it was still dropping each consecutive week. Well okay at least now they'll begin listening to what the player-base wants. With a retention thread starting because the population was already approach 40~ at peak fast.

Oh hell, that's a lot of feedback from the players in those retention threads. It seems politics are shit, economy is worthless, its time consuming to train characters over and over, in this grinding game that basically leads nowhere. Oh and yeah, lets not forget the staff are are seen as pricks. Well, they could listen to the player-base make some more substantial changes to the game....or they could just throw Nyr under a bus...after all these years of snark, after tuluk was ruined, the game's population was ruined, after much of the inspiration to achieve or do anything in the game was long gone.

When i last posted here there were about 40-ish people at peak and Nyr had been kicked out. And yeah some people were coming back after nyr left, but guess they didn't stay since I hear that peak is what apparently 30~ people maybe even less. After years and years of poison, the game was in really bad shape, with much of its player-base gone. As I stated before, the people going back were going to find a much different game then they probably remember. They would find an extreme boring game with nothing happening, the players remaining having no will to attempt anything anymore, and who could blame them, what was the point, it had been worthless to try for so many years. The staff has instead loved players who did nothing, contributed nothing, and tend to routinely stop other players from attempting anything remotely interesting.


Alright, I'm sure what was said in that retention thread will be taken in more consideration now at least. They will make sid and economy matter, add more meaningful politics to allanak, make the GMH's less static and more vulnerable, make it so people can have an impact in the game and actually feel like they can get involved. You know really bring Allanak to life as the last remaining city, because its really the only place left where newbies can log in and get introduced to the game.

That's what they are doing? Right guys? They are finally listening to their current player-base right? Not doing their own thing that no one really asked for, as they've done in the past and hope people will just go along with it? Heh.


I'm curious to see what the population like a couple months from now, it seems every time I stop by to check in, its dropped by 5-10 people at peak.


Happy Holidays Everyone.