The loss of playerbase..
Posted: 11 Nov 2012 03:27
Greetings.
I am not out to flame anyone with this thread. I am merely trying to find answers.
First I want to praise everyone who has contributed to gaining players to Genesis, specially to Gorboth who has steared the ship of Genesis for some years now, put down a lot of sparetime into this game. I am grateful you did and still do. Without your efforts Gorboth, and the others, I could only speculate where Genesis would be..
Today I read Gorboth's note about the Donut.
According to Gorboths note regarding the Donut Status https://www.genesismud.org/forums/viewt ... =27&t=2029
And to Quote Gorboth "Clearly, 2012 has been a very real departure from the activity levels Genesis has enjoyed in prior years."
I would go as all the way back to 2011 where there are some serious concerns about the lowering playerbase since October/November.
I guess seeing that statistic would have made Gorboth or any other Admin react, perhaps earlier ? I mean the October month had 17 players in average, November dropped to 12 and December to 9.5. That is almost half in 2 months. I guess we can blame SKYRIM for that. (It was released 11th November 2011.) After that Genesis has not recovered to the higher numbers as it had before. Why ?
When a good game is released, all other games loses playerbase, that is a common known feature, it always happens.
But also, I do know, there were a lot of players who have left the mud at that time, before Skyrim was released, that was playing on regular basis, some of them daily, and never got back.
Why ?
What I wonder is if the AoP and/or the Keeper did some research behind why so many people left and didn't return?
Does anyone else know ?
I hope people can answer this thread without turning it into a shitflinging thread, perhaps that might be a reason why the players have left, who knows. You tell me.
What I would like to see is a "list" of the reasons why people left the mud and counter those reasons, if able, and maybe getting those players, who has left, back to the mud.
Gorboth, what are your answers to these questions?
What do you other think or know ?
Please keep this thread free from shitflinging.
I am not out to flame anyone with this thread. I am merely trying to find answers.
First I want to praise everyone who has contributed to gaining players to Genesis, specially to Gorboth who has steared the ship of Genesis for some years now, put down a lot of sparetime into this game. I am grateful you did and still do. Without your efforts Gorboth, and the others, I could only speculate where Genesis would be..
Today I read Gorboth's note about the Donut.
According to Gorboths note regarding the Donut Status https://www.genesismud.org/forums/viewt ... =27&t=2029
And to Quote Gorboth "Clearly, 2012 has been a very real departure from the activity levels Genesis has enjoyed in prior years."
I would go as all the way back to 2011 where there are some serious concerns about the lowering playerbase since October/November.
I guess seeing that statistic would have made Gorboth or any other Admin react, perhaps earlier ? I mean the October month had 17 players in average, November dropped to 12 and December to 9.5. That is almost half in 2 months. I guess we can blame SKYRIM for that. (It was released 11th November 2011.) After that Genesis has not recovered to the higher numbers as it had before. Why ?
When a good game is released, all other games loses playerbase, that is a common known feature, it always happens.
But also, I do know, there were a lot of players who have left the mud at that time, before Skyrim was released, that was playing on regular basis, some of them daily, and never got back.
Why ?
What I wonder is if the AoP and/or the Keeper did some research behind why so many people left and didn't return?
Does anyone else know ?
I hope people can answer this thread without turning it into a shitflinging thread, perhaps that might be a reason why the players have left, who knows. You tell me.
What I would like to see is a "list" of the reasons why people left the mud and counter those reasons, if able, and maybe getting those players, who has left, back to the mud.
Gorboth, what are your answers to these questions?
What do you other think or know ?
Please keep this thread free from shitflinging.