Promised content
- Thread starter Kuthara
- Start date
Wow thats almost 2 years ago! Coming up with the next cape skin must be more demanding that I originally thought...
yeah, sebs, too. He really only posted that one thing when the alt servers came up.
It was a rhetorical question haha.
I don't have that screaming at the wall feeling simply because what we are saying is recorded, for now. I bet dude has seen some stuff? Maybe? He just might not log in. April was before I quit afaik ( oops, no it wasn't ) and back then you could still @ him, again afaik.
But yeah, yikes. I dunno why people disagree with me when I say it's such a bad look that he has been mostly absent for the whole game's life (in regards to places outside of Discord and Streams.) It doesn't instill confidence from the player base.
Conclusion: Henrik stopped coming to the forums after I quit
The facts support this.
Its a real shame seeing a large part of the original games soul was actually in the forums.
myman!
And yeah, there were close to 100 (right?) people who were unique, interesting personalities that posted there. I can rattle off names, and maybe it's more like 50, but I dunno. People came and went, they went at each other, and you wanted to log into the game and see what they were doing to each other haha.
Add in Henrik to that, who would stop by. Sometimes people would say some cute shit to him, and then sometimes Henrik had some moments where he had a pretty good comeback. Sebs was generally well regarded. I don't understand why they left!
I was talking to Slarti on Discord and I made the joke, "I dunno why everyone hates me!" And he was like well they don't hate you, but I don't think they like it that you offer feedback and aren't playing the game, but I mean, why should I be held to a different standard than HENRIK. Dude is the lead dev and he doesn't play the game haha.
A little levity! I haven't given up YET.
The only way for this game to be successful (and it never will) is for Henrik to either sell the company or hire someone who actually has the passion and drive to take control and put the game on the path it needs to be. Henrik can then go sit on his Yacht and perhaps more people can enjoy the game. As someone else said, he's just obsessed with dumb shit like "first MMO to do this or that" or creating things like a 1000 player per match Battle Royale (lol).
MO1 was only good because we had Mats (the lore guy) who created an awesome game world and Paratus/Seb together doing some shit tier coding but fun for its time. There is no excuse why the game is in the state its in when they've been working on it for this long.
Fire Robmo, seeing as most of the community dislikes him, which is ironic seeing as he's the community manager. Hire a lead game designer and more coders and get to work. Also calls Mats and pay him a large sum of money to add some life to this massive soulless/empty world SV has created. Then six months later get an NA server up and apologize to all the people you scammed at launch by giving them a month free subscription.
Sadly, none of this will ever happen. The game will sit here and stagnate and just be wasted potential as Mortal Online was for years and years. You can thank Henrik for all of this. And yes, this is all falling on deaf ears because SV doesn't even interact on the forums. Can't blame them really...there is nothing good to say.
MO1 was only good because we had Mats (the lore guy) who created an awesome game world and Paratus/Seb together doing some shit tier coding but fun for its time. There is no excuse why the game is in the state its in when they've been working on it for this long.
Fire Robmo, seeing as most of the community dislikes him, which is ironic seeing as he's the community manager. Hire a lead game designer and more coders and get to work. Also calls Mats and pay him a large sum of money to add some life to this massive soulless/empty world SV has created. Then six months later get an NA server up and apologize to all the people you scammed at launch by giving them a month free subscription.
Sadly, none of this will ever happen. The game will sit here and stagnate and just be wasted potential as Mortal Online was for years and years. You can thank Henrik for all of this. And yes, this is all falling on deaf ears because SV doesn't even interact on the forums. Can't blame them really...there is nothing good to say.
I'm going hard on every level. It's unfort right now cuz Henrik is GHOST because people can't log into the game. Haha, but it's funny when I finally decide to take my missionary work to discord that Henrik is like pops on for one sec then dips.
I mean, he can probably even still keep some control of development, but he needs someone else. If you think about it, all of the good stuff about MO (imo) is old. It has only gotten worse as time goes on. The graphics thing was big, fixing the mesh of the world, but all of the systems and such were just better. Stuff like AI isn't... really better, considering.
- Remove 95% of the guards in towns
- Remove 100% of guards out of towns
- Weaken the guards so that they wont insta kill
Do these three things and the game is saved. You will see 5 thousand people playing again.
Add thieving and you will see 10 thousand people playing.
Easy.
Oh... and revert rules to what we had on february 2022.
Granted. Best game ever
- Remove 100% of guards out of towns
- Weaken the guards so that they wont insta kill
Do these three things and the game is saved. You will see 5 thousand people playing again.
Add thieving and you will see 10 thousand people playing.
Easy.
Oh... and revert rules to what we had on february 2022.
Granted. Best game ever
"Do these three things and the game is saved. You will see 5 thousand people playing again."
Somehow I doubt that, however I don't think you'd be willing to admit to it if you were found wrong.
First the game server could not handle 5000 players. Second all these are your opinions. The population is not jumping off a cliff because of guards and thieving. It is because the game is no where near any sort of polish, the QOL is nonexistent, and the mechanics in game are mostly beta level development. Also most of the "sprints" are little more than copy pasted items from the asset shop.
My friend, believe me, I know what Im talking about.
I have been there, years ago... Same thing happened with Ultima Online.
That game was PERFECT... Then World of Warcraft came and UO tried to make something different to be able to compete with that garbage... They created Trammel, to protect people from pks, and it simply destroyed the game 100%.
Its always the same story for these full loot MMOs... The beginning is always cool, exciting, full of players.... Suddenly, people start crying about pks... and the devs do something to cater them, creating restrictions.. And guess what happens after that ? The game dies.
Have you ever wondered why these great games die ?
Its because of the LACK OF EXCITEMENT...
Go back to february 2022 in Mortal Online... Why was it so crowded and full of people everywhere ? Because we had DANGER everywhere in the game... We had the feeling that we could be killed anywhere if we distracted...
Hell, there even had town invasions in Fabernum... Red players used to go in group INSIDE towns, causing havoc... The guards would fight them biut not insta kill....
Everybody had fun.,.,
There were snipers at the roofs inside towns, killing people and their mounts... Travelling between towns was SUPER DANGEROUS and exciting.
I used to be at maximum adrenaline when I travelled from Fab to Tindrem carrying gold or something valuable...
I once travelled from Vadda to Fabernum carrying a house deed.... It was SUPER EXCITING as I ran accross a group of PKs and had to flee to the colored forest to be able to flee from them.,,.,. THAT is excitement !! Not those ridiculous pathetic Guard Towers on the roads that we have today,..,
Nowadays, what do we have ? 6546734783428743298324 guards that insta kill you EVEN OUTSIDE towns...
If I was to transfer a KEEP DEED from Fabernum to Tindrem Id feel ZERO RISK !!!! Because I simply go following the guard towers on the road..How lame is that ?????
I reiterate : Remove 100% of guards outside towns and 95% of guards inside towns and you have a great game again.... And if you add thieving, EVEN BETTER, because not even inside towns we will be safe !
Just compare the number of players in February 2022 and on October 2024.
The game is much more polished in 2024 than in 2022,.., Who gives a damn about it ?
People want good gameplay, not good graphics !
This is so obvious.,.,,. Please, Henrik, hire new Devs
They really wasted their only shot when the game launched, all they had to do was launch more servers like any normal MMO. How in his right mind could Henrik believe he could fit everyone in just 1 server. If he really wanted his global server bs then buy a couple continents from the asset store and put them on NA.
He will never have that exposure and potential players ever again, all its left is for the game to slowly die like we all saw with MO1. All I can say is I'm glad I didnt spend too much time on this game like the first one.
Yea, the game was doing OK with alts. I think if he had a server that could hold a more 'normal' amount of people like 10k, it would be fine, tho, to be fair. I dunno how that is in terms of the realm of possibility regarding server capacity, but he didn't need that extra 0. 10k is fine. If it's 2k limit then yeah they should have split it up.
I really think that the fact that the game isn't good is the biggest problem, though. I don't think he needs exposure beyond all of the players he already reached. There are many thousands of people even just on MO discord and that's not to mention their friends + people banned. The game just is bad and it took a bad path. The current server issues are definitely messing with the pop, but it's more to do with the game not delivering.
Another bonus of an alt server is maybe they could start over sort of. I really wish they would roll back some content. I really wish they could roll back to UE4 tbh haha. There are just so many things. I don't understand why they aren't scrambling more.
I really think that the fact that the game isn't good is the biggest problem, though. I don't think he needs exposure beyond all of the players he already reached. There are many thousands of people even just on MO discord and that's not to mention their friends + people banned. The game just is bad and it took a bad path. The current server issues are definitely messing with the pop, but it's more to do with the game not delivering.
Another bonus of an alt server is maybe they could start over sort of. I really wish they would roll back some content. I really wish they could roll back to UE4 tbh haha. There are just so many things. I don't understand why they aren't scrambling more.
I strongly disagree.
The game was destroyed the moment they filled the wilderness with guards, especially inside Medulis graveyard.
They killed a lot of excitement by doing that.
Im sure the game will fill up again when they return to the hardcore mode, without all these ridiculous guards everywhere.
Plus, the idea of a Global Server is amazing... Everybody on the same Server is the best. They need, though, to be able to deliver a way to keep a decent ping for everyone... Thats a tech problem they need to invest and solve.
But the Global Server idea is great. Thats absolutely not the problem.
I think they could right the ship, but with them doing stuff like making it so everyone can tame horses, it seems they are intent on making the game easier for no reason. That's not the right direction. They want people to be able to ride over their huge map to complete new daily tasks. MAYBE on spiders.
I lose faith every time they announce an update.
I lose faith every time they announce an update.
I landed on the first page from a year ago with the list of things promised. Checked off about two since then. Only hundreds to go. At two a year? Hmm... at least 50 years yeah?