What is making Regnum die?
 

Home TV News killed Radio News....
Nintendo64 killed Nintendo(original)
Xbox360 killed Xbox(orignial)

Regnum 1.5 killed Regnum.....

Many of the changes to Regnum were good, but many of the changes to combat and skills have killed the original player base.

The cries of the old and new players about all that is going wrong have pushed away new players from Regnum.

The reduction of xp has pushed players away from Regnum.

It would be nice if all casting times for non mage based players would not exceed .5 second cast time. Global cooldown adds additional casting time. Instant casts for some skills should return for archers. Mage should be able to cast barrier while running.... Repetition Shot should have a lower casting time. Pets should do less damage and have skill attacks that do nice damage.

There are alot of things that slowly sufficated my regnum soul.
But the new, static gameplay is what killed it.
Invasion was a smack to the forehead.
All nerfs was suffication.
Ximerin madness was kicking a fallen man.
Further nerfs was stabbing a corpse with a knife.
The global cooldown was not that bad, but a combination of all this KILLED my fun.

Everything started with Horus, then Invasions and the huge wave of nerfs and inbalance.

Regnum is dying?

Every game has its up-times and its down-times...I remember in Runescape when Jagex completely changed the pvp system and hundreds of thousands of players quit in a single day. But Runescape is still going strong and still the most populated MMORPG in the world. Why? Jagex had the guts to make changes that would take the game forward, even though they ticked off a lot of the existing player base. Granted, some of the bugs and nerfs that NGD has run across aren't the greatest thing for RO. But once the new character models are in place, hopefully the team will quit procrastinating and focus on getting balance taken care of and bug fixes worked on. Regnum has that unique appeal of not being like any main-stream MMORPG, and it will stay that way.

Need to spread more karma mumble mumble...

This is pretty much how I feel, most class's are a shadow of what they were. Wz was far more tense exciting and difficult to survive in when focused fire under DS could kill you in a second, when a barb could kill a mage in 2 hits, when knight auras were acctualy good (heck I remember people waiting for knight aura CD's before charging)

NGD made the mistake of thinking balance = reduction of powers.

Balance should of been slight adjustment upward or downwards and leave what was working spell wise alone.

Well Invasions on Horus lost its lustre long ago. Being from Ignis and having invaded with the troops several times, I can easily say I can't really be bothered to go anymore. If the realm is making an effort sure I will go but it holds very little interest for me now. The most I am up to now is grinding alts, running in to get our forts back and lurking around and grinding in other realms for that extra special shield.

Right now, I look forward to any open field or bridge fights or even test myself against hunters etc. Ya I lose a lot but at least I give them a run for their money.

Hopefully something other than eye candy is on the horizon. I would rather new warzone objectives than pretty armour anyday.

Errr I not play regnum for so long, but I wish to NGD to be the year 2010 of big rise, anyways I dont know about any better F2p game then Regnum is. There are f2p games which force you to buy for real money stuff or you will not progress there are games which have nice graphic and shit gameplay there are games which have crap graphic but good gameplay. Imo problems in RO like that is OP and that need nerf.. It is the most common problem of ANY MMORPG and I mean even the best of the best, all of them have issues, also cheaters, hackers, glitchers the first two I never saw there and thats great ! Lag.. tell me one game which dont have lag or crash ... or buy the best server for all of us to play on it for free ! I dont see anything dying just a forum where people only want all day 24/7 something and all around again and again...
Complaining this suck, that suck Alsius is the problem, Horus is the problem, Invasion are the problem, Knight is hard, Barb suck, Lock is OP !... whatever.
Anyways when the forums die than it is a dead game also look on which way you all your opinions putting in, I see lots of NEGATIVITY...

I wasnt aware that Regnum was dying.

Although NGD have made a lot of changes in the past 12 months, a lot of
which people have not liked (myself included). It is human nature to dislike changes as it puts the person out of their comfort zone. the only way around
that is to learn to adapt.

Also we must remember people simply stop playing as they have moved no to
something else, for no real reason than they want a change.

Ill stay on the roller coaster ride known as Regnum Online, as I enjoy it

I started making a post very similar to this - beginning that IMO Regnum isn't dying - the opposite in fact because it is growing and growing.

I had to log off quickly, but the above says approximately what i wanted to say.

I dont believe that Regnum is dying, but its not going too well either.
If I was 100% sure that Regnum was a lost cause, I would have left this forum months ago.
But im here because I believe in it.
No, wait. I dont. Not anymore.
Im here for the people. I do not longer care about the game itself =/

It died long ago for me, by the time NGD decided to screw around with the knight too much.