Att. Jorbtar : Let W16 live!

[Granny]

What seem to be the potential options:

1) They start a 16.2 world (with some additional minor new stuff). Which would leave 16.0 world as is.

2) They start a 17.0 world (or perhaps even test start a 17.1 world first). Which would include major new stuff.
Here they still could:
2a) keep world 16.0 alive ... in case they might need to test how 2 different (code wise) game-servers workout. (16.0 & 16.1 are probably both using the same main server/game code, with some time tweaks ofc.)
2b) Kill world 16.0. (new world would than be a 17.0 case)

3) This is an option that makes no sense at all. They start both a 17.0 and 17.1 world.

Time will tell. ... I bet they take option 3.

Good list of options there. Since they now have tested two worlds running simultaneously, they know how to do it going forward. They have already tested your pt 2a. It all comes down to cost of course and what they might gain from it. I am not sure what the results are from 16.1 and 16, or how many players there have been on each one. Was W16,1 successfull? I dunno - I never set foot on that world. Did you all had fun?

Keeping two worlds running at the same time solves so many problems. Far too much work perhaps to spawn two new worlds. Since we already have W16 I do not see why it could not continue.

[Regulus2424]

I wonder what it costs to keep W16 running for those few players. One player on a bronze sub would be enough to make it profitable, right?

Indeed. It is probably an easy calculation. Keep players happy so they keep paying in a forever home as W16, or risk losing those players all together.

Do not tempt Jorbtar with an opportunity to lose even more players.

[boshaw]

It deserves the axe instead of being shoehorned into a forever world by 10 people who will cry about it non-stop because jorb gave them a little rope to play with and then failed to deliver on his other goals.

[SnuggleSnail]

Primary world + expedition worlds makes a lot of sense. It's basically the META for other MMOs at the moment with OSRS having leagues, WoW having SoD, and seemingly every other MMO having something similar.

As expected, seatribe can't do anything right so instead of that we just got two deader than normal worlds with no unique selling points

[Robben_DuMarsch]

Seatribe truly excels at rage baiting a few people.

[dUmbins]

The Forever World is Haven and Hearth, legacy edition.
Does anyone play it? And how often do people ask for wipes over there? Please express your answer as a Proportion, comparing the total active players to those who want world 7 reset.

[Zephroze]

If they're gonna run parallel worlds, make one of them PVE just for the sake of seeing how fucking griefed it can get.