What is making Regnum die?

[Envy]

Originally Posted by drunk_harlot

I find myself tearing pieces out of it on chat in the game we've all moved to. And I don't like that I do that, it makes me sad, but I'm bitter that it all went so very wrong out of the blue.

Originally Posted by drunk_harlot

I find myself tearing pieces out of it on chat in the game we've all moved to.

Originally Posted by drunk_harlot

we've all moved

[craiyzee]

What is making it die?

Possibly greedy developers that can't figure out for the life of them that all the class nerfs they are doing is not because the spells are overpowered but because their items are overpowered. But of course, why make the game any good when you can just rip people off by providing uber expensive items which you are forced to buy if you want to keep up with premium players and in return they nerf everything they can just to make it seem like they care for balance, community, the game or anything other then the money. Oh yeah, the scam with 1:1 dollar to euro conversion is not helping either.

Imo, the NGD in 2009 is easily comparable to Gollum looking from the aspect of their enormous greed that is completely making them stray off course and that they can't see how much they ruin the game because of it. Good product sells itself. Tyr closing down only few months after it started is a sign that Regnum obviously isn't a good product anymore (since it attracts less and less new players).

Now, I can already see NGD fanclub rioting about this, repeating (along with NGD) the already immortal sayings like "Somos Pocos", "You are not forced to buy xim" or even brilliant gems from people that got their head stuck too deep in dev's asses like "This is a free game, stop whining". Well newsflash, to a lot of people this game is not free (xim buyers) and they have every right to whine and demand whatever they want.

xoxo,

[backe]

Originally Posted by craiyzee

Possibly greedy developers that can't figure out for the life of them that all the class nerfs they are doing is not because the spells are overpowered but because their items are overpowered. But of course, why make the game any good when you can just rip people off by providing uber expensive items which you are forced to buy if you want to keep up with premium players and in return they nerf everything they can just to make it seem like they care for balance, community, the game or anything other then the money. Oh yeah, the scam with 1:1 dollar to euro conversion is not helping either.

This, TBQFH.

[makarios68]

Originally Posted by craiyzee

What is making it die?

Possibly greedy developers that can't figure out for the life of them that all the class nerfs they are doing is not because the spells are overpowered but because their items are overpowered. But of course, why make the game any good when you can just rip people off by providing uber expensive items which you are forced to buy if you want to keep up with premium players and in return they nerf everything they can just to make it seem like they care for balance, community, the game or anything other then the money. Oh yeah, the scam with 1:1 dollar to euro conversion is not helping either.

Imo, the NGD in 2009 is easily comparable to Gollum looking from the aspect of their enormous greed that is completely making them stray off course and that they can't see how much they ruin the game because of it. Good product sells itself. Tyr closing down only few months after it started is a sign that Regnum obviously isn't a good product anymore (since it attracts less and less new players).

Now, I can already see NGD fanclub rioting about this, repeating (along with NGD) the already immortal sayings like "Somos Pocos", "You are not forced to buy xim" or even brilliant gems from people that got their head stuck too deep in dev's asses like "This is a free game, stop whining". Well newsflash, to a lot of people this game is not free (xim buyers) and they have every right to whine and demand whatever they want.

xoxo,

At the risk of being accused of ass-licking - the NGD staff need to make a living - just like the rest of us. No money making, no game.

Or maybe you don't know much about the financial facts of life yet, because you still live at mommy and daddy's house.

[WhateverUSMC]

I have been playing RO for over a year now. I stuggled against it at first, since I'd never played anything like this before.

The people I've met on here (on all three sides, I might add) have been awesome, helpful, and a blast to get to know.

My frustration with this game comes (in part) from these great memories I have of playing this game, and seeing the state it is in now. A large number of the people I used to play with have left due to their own frustrations with the game or their subclass, not that I blame them. After spending so much time and effort on a character, and seeing them stripped to a shadow of their former selves, people are just getting fed up.

I used to get a sort of rush from playing this game. It now feels more like being pinned under a burning couch.

EDIT: I was gonna mention the lack of communication and the nonexistant customer service, but it looks like it's been mentioned anyways. Not like NGD is gonna read this anyways...

[DkySven]

Although I do agree that there are some flaws in this game, the fact that Tyr didn't make it could also be caused by lack of advertisement by the company responsible(UnitedGames) or a too small target-group.

[Inkster]

I have already said, that I wasn't aware this game was dying, but if it was, a huge
factor would be the eternal winging that goes on here on this forum. I am sure that has
put off many a potential player to this game.

Not only do we have the eternal gripe masters to contend with but also comments like this

Originally Posted by craiyzee

Now, I can already see NGD fanclub rioting about this, repeating (along with NGD) the already
immortal sayings like "Somos Pocos", "You are not forced to buy xim" or even brilliant gems
from people that got their head stuck too deep in dev's asses like "This is a free game,
stop whining"

This is a free to play game, remember NGD have outgoings ie Utility bills, serverbills,
wages etc. You have quite correctly pointed out that we are not forced to buy xim.

Before you accuse me of having my head up a devs ass, I don't, If NGD make an error,
i do inform them of it THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS and not whine on here like This Creature!
(shame some parents didn't follow the advice in the video)

As you said

Originally Posted by craiyzee

to a lot of people this game is not free (xim buyers) and they have every right to whine and demand whatever they want.

Newsflash..



I demand you STOP WHINING!

[trakker]

EDIT: This reply goes out to Inkster as well, at the time of writing this I didn't see he replied with his usual bullshit post that contains no argument. Fortunately enough this time he didn't open a topic or write here to tell us that farts smell.

Originally Posted by makarios68

At the risk of being accused of ass-licking - the NGD staff need to make a living - just like the rest of us. No money making, no game.

Or maybe you don't know much about the financial facts of life yet, because you still live at mommy and daddy's house.

First of all, I, Nightchill, have posted that from kaelee's account. I'm mentioning this so you wouldn't think bad of her or think that's her stand on Regnum and NGD.

It is true, I still live with my parents, I go to college but I also work in my spare time so I can be as much as independant I can and I can say I'm familiar with financial facts of life as well. Now, let me ask you, since it seems you're a professional when it comes about financial facts of life. Have you ever conned people to make a living, or needed to con them? I would like you to use your own head, and think of an answer while you also read my explanation below (or you could just read my first post on this topic and maybe get all the pieces of the puzzle on your own since I don't think you're that dumb that you need me to draw it out for you).

First of all, let's take a trip down the memory lane. Update 1.0 is released, bringing invasion and soon to be controversial premium content in the form of lucky boxes. As you might know, you could get incredible items from those boxes with just few mouseclicks, all you needed to do is fork out a certain amount of ximerin. Those items were (and still are) almost impossible to attain to non-paying player who instead of paying for items decides to grind for them. The attainable items created (and still do) somewhat of a gap between paying and non-paying players and that gap keeps increasing over the time, long with general imbalance in Regnum. NGD obviously noticed that but instead of taking a harder route and nerf the existing items and provide some bonus cap for them they once again opted for easier route and ingeniously came to a conclusion that it's the existing spells who create the aforementioned imbalance and make a series of dumb moves. If I remember correctly, first in series of those moves was claiming Bless Weapon is imbalanced and nerfing a perfectly fine spell just because you could get insane weapons from the boxes that would allow you to stack up to +100 damage on a weapon (with gems and socketing possibly even more). And while players who pay for their items most probably won't feel a thing, people with not so deep pockets (or simply refusing to fork out insane amounts of money to be competitive in a video game) find themselves in status quo - wall in to NGD's ninja tactics of money extortion and finally buy that premium content to stay competitive or watch how their skill and ability to play the game matters less and less with each update since their spells/classes are no longer being that much useful due to constant nerfs in NGD's holy mission to attain balance. All this in the end causes dissatisfaction to non-paying players and feeling of no longer making a difference in wars (the feeling I still remember from early Horus days, which is almost gone now due to wars being terror-rush-mod-area-area-wait for opposing team to respawn). I hope you get my point, over the last year the F2P in Regnum's case became Forced2Pay instead of Free2Play. And while this kind of money extortion is still somewhat legit way of making money, my second paragraph covers something outrageously wrong. Please continue reading Wudy, it might help you understand my previous post.

Currency conversion. I have never seen in my life, in any video game, such an outrageous con. It is literally a slap in the face for everyone in European Union. While Americans and countries not in EU still pay dollars, EU countries pay in euros. That itself wouldn't be such a big deal if there was a proper currency conversion. Unfortunately, everyone knows it, NGD's currency conversion system is 1:1, meaning 1 dollar counts as 1 euro. They are robbing people of their money, and despite it being a topic for numerous threads for over a year now, NGD did absolutely nothing to fix that. They just continue to throw empty promises and con people out of their money and forcing them to pay more for the same thing other people get for less money. I won't be writing about this anymore because it makes me lose my temper and makes me write all kinds of insults. Instead, I will just present you with two screenshots for you to figure it out. Is this a legit way to make a living? Robbing people you live off? Maybe in Argentina, and maybe in country you're from since you defend them for doing that.

Picture 1 All prices listed in dollars, country: Croatia, everything seems fine so far.



Picture 2 Paypal for my account, country: Croatia, prices still in dollars and still no traces of a scam.



Picture 3 Things start to get weird, country: European Union, prices converted to euro on a 1:1 conversion principle, wtf moment #1.



Picture 4 Wtf moment #2, prices really are in euro and I have to pay 11.42 kuna's more (1.58 euro more) for same xim pack just because I live in EU?! Smells like scam, looks like scam and sure is one since I just got ripped off. It's not a big sum, but a rip off is a rip off, and more importantly - it makes me (and every other normal person) not trust them one bit, and if your customers don't trust you anymore then you won't have a successful business in the long run.



This being said, it's time for a conclusion. I will keep it short and simple. It's not about them making a living, you are correct - no money, no game. It's how they make a living. In a completely criminal and morally wrong way.

Regards,

Nightchill

[Inkster]

sorry, I DONT SPEAK CHAV.


-Regards

[Mattdoesrock]

Originally Posted by trakker

...Regards,...Nightchill

As much as it pains me ( ) you put forward a good argument, in a great post NC.

Sadly though, it'll fall into the ranks of the thousands of great posts gone unheard and falling on the deaf ears of NGD.