Originally Posted by little ninja  |
Ohh yeah lets believe what S.E has to say.
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Small increase an small decrease? Well what is that 1 player, 1000 players or 100k players. So basically what he is saying regardless how many we boot out every month. We manage to equal the same amount of players in. Something im finding hard to believe. |
lol. Are you paranoid or something? I don't see S-E having a strong incentive to lie about the number one way or another. (If not enough people play, they'd start shutting down servers. If too many, they'd happily add more.)
If you read carefully enough, you'd note that Tanaka attributed the small loss of NA client users to mostly RMT and cheater booting (though didn't specify why the JP subscribers' numbers went up)
Why is it so hard to believe that a mature, five years old MMORPG can have relatively stable number of players for a year or two? Although not every game is that way, Everquest basically had about the same number of players from July 2001 to July 2005,
for example.
| Originally Posted by little ninja |
| I mean this is the same company who talked about not forgetting about Bst, An yet here we are over a year+ now an yet to see a change. |
Um. Last time I defended S-E on this by saying that BST can level just fine, I think my sister's BST was Lv.55 and taking a break from leveling. A few days ago, she hit Lv.60, so I'll say it again: S-E did NOT break BST. Made some things harder, yes, but also made converting mobs to EM easier.
BST changed, and probably never going back to the way it was before. That doesn't make it the end of BST, though; people are still leveling it, and it is still an impressively powerful job. (Next time I make this point again, my sister will probably be Lv.65 or 70. heh.)
Anway, the point is that BST adjustment isn't a high priority because it's still quite usable and capable. I'll excuse S-E on that, and flog them or not doing something about SC+MB instead, since that's not so usable or potent in these days of WS-spam-owns-all partying.
Then again, they are pretty busy with a new expansion and whatnot, so maybe instead of complaining, I'll just wait and see what else they are adding to Vana'diel soon.