Game Development: World 16, with Steam

[BruThoL]

I'm thinking about all the new players that will leave a negative review on 0.3 hours playtime after dying to a boar or drowning.

If that was all...

The main issues IMHO are in the hidden mechanics.
Like "raw hide", you waste hours on taming a horse, and anyone can perma-stun you because you are riding what should be a strong creature.
Or sellable scented gear to track someone. You buy an item but it was "stolen" by the vendor and he will use it to track and kill you.

At least you can easily understand the cause of drowning...

[Mepp]

Man, we don't have ppl even for one server... The game already divides people according to who will go beyond the walls and who will never leave them.

Didn't W15 have around 5k players on launch? That's a lot. It's normal that the server is losing players over time. It happens in every MMO.

There are enough players but not many of them want to play catch-up on an old server. They would rather wait for a fresh start. World duration has already been shortened to six months for that reason.

I think one server alone will not handle the release on Steam anyway. Have another one. Small world. Faster progression. No hearthlaw. More PvP. Also cannibalism.
Give players the option to double-down on the hardcore perma-death sandbox meme.

[Halbertz]

Didn't W15 have around 5k players on launch?

No

[Mepp]

Didn't W15 have around 5k players on launch?

No

source?

[Nightdawg]

Didn't W15 have around 5k players on launch?

No

source?

https://brodgar.io/tracker/

[DonVelD]

What a retarded interaction.

"Didn't xyz happen?"
>No
"Erm, youre gonna have to prove it."

You were the one to imply something. What? You prove it.

[Pills]

wild though, i seem to remember seeing it go to like 2k at one of the resets? wasn't there even a post about it?

oh well, hope steam takes it so high that they'll need multiple servers to deal with it

[Halbertz]

Didn't W15 have around 5k players on launch?

No

source?

[Zampfeo]

wild though, i seem to remember seeing it go to like 2k at one of the resets? wasn't there even a post about it?

oh well, hope steam takes it so high that they'll need multiple servers to deal with it

W11 launch holds the current record with 1,680. It launched Friday, February 1st, which I think helped a great deal. Not many people have weekend plans in January or February.

[dafels]

I am very excited for w16 and the Steam release. How about you guys?