bumping for visbility.
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No thanks.
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Great idea
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If blizzard are serious about helping oceanic and wanting to find a solution to address the player population this along with other suggestions in the other thread is certaintly the way forward.
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At this point it is undisputed that SOD lost a large amount of players
Ya couldn’t of been because P3 was awful.
Aussies mad they can’t RMT
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Player loss was 1 week after ban was announced (which was right before p2 launch) P3 obviously further contributed to that loss later on but was not the single largest factor in causing player loss.
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Largest loss of the player base was P3, validated by logs and ironforgepro.
Stop coping. You have to get a real job now instead of gold selling, poor thing.
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Phase 3(and to a lesser extent Phase 2) almost killed SOD and this weird insistence that it was the GDKP ban(or some other dumb pretentious reason) all the way back halfway through P1 is just strange when there’s no real evidence for it. Also Phase 1 had this huge novelty/curiosity factor because it was a uniquely new version of WoW(not just your run of the mill retail xpac) that was inevitably going to subside which is also conveniently ignored to push narratives.
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Perhaps for NA for shadowstrike (which is what this thread is about) we lost 11k players 1 week after the gdkp ban was announced validated by ironforge pro.
It’s undisputable that gdkp ban caused players to quit sod.
No GDKP. GDKP bad for the game. Great for gold sellers and sweats though. Would bring back more players but at what cost. You are selling the integrity of the game world / economy for a small temporary bump in numbers.
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Considering the entire server/region is potentially going to be shutdown because of so called population problems then you admit it brings back players.
It’s perfect situation to test if it does bring back players and the impact it has on the economy with all the other economy changes sod has implemented.
The first issue is that you were already aware of how this impacts oceanic because it was a similar situation in season of mastery on swamp of sorrows.
It’s crazy to me that you didn’t have any plan or preparation for the exact same event that happened 3 years ago knowing the impact it had on our region.
1.Penance should be able to transfer to shadowstrike or wildgrowth give them a choice.
2.Shadowstrike should stay a pvp realm what you should do if your serious about addressing population problems here is open FCM’s to shadowstrike from all NA/OCE realms and let people have the option to come here.
3.This is unacceptable because it force kills our server splits the oceanic community further and isn’t really giving people who want to stay on oceanic any choice its essentially go to NA play on 240ms or quit the game. (Same situation in SOM i was forced to Jom Gabbar and quit 2 weeks later)
4.Tailor solutions for shadowstrike that promote people transfering here and promote player growth.
a.Unban gdkp’s will bring back a lot of players
b.Look at potential xp increases or even boosts whether its to lvl 40,50 or 60
You’ve admitted that oceanic is naturally a smaller region so the solutions/game design you implement for NA does not work always with OCE this is why the gdkp ban had such a negative impact on our servers population. (We know you have the data that supports this)
If you want to be transparent and honest then do so but saying a billion dollar company can’t provide any acceptable solution to a problem over 3 years old to an entire region of paying customers isn’t an acceptable thing.
Then why not take steps to help the server before making a decision ?
GDKP Proposal for Shadowstrike
Thank you.
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Why not give it a shot, SoD is all about trial and error anyways.
Many players have plenty of gold, and a main in some sort of raid group anyway. This would help incentivize alts and returning/ new players
Ultimately, I am for xfer to US servers if no measures are put in place to bolster our population on SS so let’s give something a go
As of right now since p1 gdkp ban announcement and severe player loss the amount of things they’ve done to try to rectify this has been 0.
Yes that’s right they have not done a single thing to attempt to resolve any of the poor decisions and player drop off they directly caused.
They’ve been completely silent on gdkp’s as well because its the elephant in the room its a lose lose for them and a win win for the players.
IF they unban gdkp’s anywhere in sod the overwhelming amount of players who would come back would be a testament to blizzards failure.
Elron and his army of bots are back again to make ANOTHER thread on how much he loves GDKPs.
This time we’ll change the developers minds… surely??
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We already have that’s why transfers didn’t open.
Post on main or be quiet.
Yikes. No way GDKP immediately ruins the game. The GDKP ban has been the BEST change to classic wow in all of sod.
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So good there shutting down all servers and forcing them into 2 mega servers cause of the population loss.
So good man best thing ever.