Server Status Thread

[jordancoles]

886 people on right now and I'm lagging worse than when we had 1500 online

Did you guys break something?

[shubla]

[Robertzon]

not good

[shubla]

Remove kebab.
It is the root-problem of the server crashing?

[Saxony4]

kebab too powerful for the server, somebody call the Armija Srpska

[Winnfield]

Not sure what happened after the last reset but all discoveries are crashing my client for some reason.

[Burinn]

Turns out the server can't run unless oysters spawn in rivers.

[MagicManICT]

MMOs that are still in beta

Haven is in alpha.

Star Citizen is still in alpha and people have ponied up an average of like 80 or 90 USD each if I recall the article I read right. Been a year or two ago.

[Agame]

MMOs that are still in beta

Haven is in alpha.

So it is even cheaper ? Lol, man, you made my day

Star citizen was a sort of a scam. Give me your money and I'll try to make a game, see how it works out. If not, you paid, I tried.

HnH is a game. It's developers did not ask for money first, make the game later, so at least, it's not a scam. It's an Alpha, priced like an Alpha. (Give some cash if you like it, try for free.) So, who likes it, should give out of honesty and decency. But when deciding how much to give, people should think of a fair price, decided not by me or by game developers, but by market prices.

For example, Minecraft was a fine moddable game written in Java. About the same size on disk or bigger than HnH. (I mean just total size of all its code plus textures, as a rough and inexact measure of the work that went into it.) 5 euros in Alpha, then 10 euros in Beta, with all updates (subscription time) included.

Starmade was 10 euros for ever (total price of the game, all updates included, no subscription fee, not mandatory) and it is a good sandbox game. Still in Alpha or Beta.

WoW at his 5 dollars a month was about 8 Gb of a game when started, a few years later it had the same price at 17 Gb and continued to grow. And for my taste, it had better graphics and combat mechanics than any sandbox ever

All these examples had or still have their own server paid for by the developers. MC had an official server for a year or 2 then chosen to go the private servers way. Starmade was private servers from the very beginning, with only 2 servers belonging to its developer, but there were alwais at least 2 servers paid for by developer. WoW alwais had only official servers, but its players chosen the private server way

Of course, financial success of a game depends on millions of players. But that is up to midget swarms and promotion campaigns to decide, not to us, its players.

[MagicManICT]

Star citizen was a sort of a scam. Give me your money and I'll try to make a game, see how it works out. If not, you paid, I tried.

people have been saying this for 5 years. It's takes a lot of money for the goals that have been set, and Roberts is a legitimate developer. If you choose not to invest in that game or this one, it's up to you. People must feel their getting their money's worth there or they'd quit investing all together. People must feel they're getting their money's worth here, too, because it seems there's more than a few gold subscribers. (I don't have access to numbers.)