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New players! How is the population?
Hey guys,
The two of us have recently got into both playing (and recording) Vindictus, and wanted to know if it was worth investing time into learning. Is it a game that we will be able to play long-term? i.e., is it a game with a healthy enough population to continue playing long-term? Or should we just give up on it all together?
We were looking around in our latest video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzZYIsKwpc and saw that there were a decent sum of people around (most seemed AFK), and each channel had a decent amount of people online (totaling maybe 100-200? in the town), while I'm sure there were a lot more out in dungeons.
Thanks for your time! Hopefully we get the opportunity to play with a few of you guys in-game if it's worth sticking around!
Regards,
Stix.
http://www.mmobyte.tv/
Comments
I can't imagine how bad it is for someone getting into the game now.
on east
Or in more direct terms, 100 out of the remaining 240 players that play this game.
How do I know this?
Because back in the day I could run the same boat at the same time 30 days and never see the same person.
Now I host a boat and have to alt/tab for 10 minutes before it even begins filling up. Or I host a boat and it's only the SAME people joining because there is no one else on.
All these years of people going, "will Black Desert be the Vindictus killer?" Aion? Tree of Savior? ArcheAge? etcetc
In the end, what killed Vindictus is the rancid attitude that Nexon continues to employ.
Merging the two servers isn't even worthwhile now. All you're doing is putting band-aids over the holes of a ship that is already underwater.
Not to mention that it probably isn't even easily doable or else they would've done it already.
This reminds me of what happened in Dragon Nest.
Nexon took this really bad stance of enforcing no gold sellers in Dragon Nest.
Within 6 months the economy had collapsed on itself as the population shrank to nothing until Nexon finally was forced to just give up Dragon Nest. Now it's not a Nexon game anymore.
Vindictus already faces impossible issues with player retention due to equipment progression thanks to the stupid break upon enhance system. Then it forces users to use a stupid launcher which no one wanted and throwing in BlackCipher. Now we have lost the only TWO fansites while Nexon cites really stupid reasons. More people leave. More and more...
It's sad but I am over 6 years into Vindictus and I'm pretty sure the end is near now.
I have never once in the past advocated for others to leave Vindictus (if you browse other sites where no one even knows about Vindictus but someone keeps posting about how it's a game that you should try out then that person is probably me trying to perform CPR on Vindictus) but at this point in time I am telling you, and any new player, that Vindictus is not worth your time until Nexon listens to us and fixes the issues we currently have. The saddest part is that now it feels like Vindictus is so far gone that any move Nexon makes to try and make the game better will just result in more players leaving as they will see the ship as simply drifting into the abyss and all of Nexon's actions from now on will just seem like desperation.
However, this should have been done when the players were still present.
Almost nobody on the AU server uses the official forums, which is why the AU marketplace subforum is dead. They prefer to use megaphones/etc instead.
The game is pretty dead unless there are very good events running. Compare the number of players during the scroll shop event to now, its a massive difference. There are many veterans who only come back to play when there are good events on, otherwise they will just say they "ceebs". Many more have quit permanently for games like BDO, Tera, etc.
We definitely plan on sticking around for a little while to see how things go! We look forward to (one day) playing with some of you! :^)
We can always use more exposure. I'm always surprise when I talk about vindictus and people still haven't heard it before.
But we still hope they can fix this, I personally spent a lot time on this game, and it makes me feel really sad about this situation.