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Post by shin00bi on Mar 5, 2010 17:38:17 GMT
Yeah, Dafeon's farewell note was kind of a nail in the coffin.
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Post by Notanalt on Mar 7, 2010 21:10:41 GMT
What are the chances the place has more then 20 people regularly logging in by this time next year?
The admin needs to realise that it's like pulling teeth to get people to play AA at the best of times let alone when Law feels the need to .... well ... be Law.
Seriously, the place is probably best served by just turning into an almost Anarchy style setup so that people can just have fun while it's twitching away through the last of its days.
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Post by sinister on Mar 10, 2010 15:44:41 GMT
20 people logged in at the same time? Zero percent.
20 different people logging in once per day, for at least one second? I'd say that's still very likely to happen, >70%.
The AA admin isn't really made up of big picture type people. Like most people in bureacracies they're pretty insular in their thinking. The fact is AA isn't likely to ever gain a single new player. It can only lose players through attrition, how quickly depends on how fed up the individual players are with the mud as time passes.
With regards to things like Law, it's not going to work well for those guys. When players, where a newbie has played for 7+ years, vs 15+ for old timers, runs afoul of Law, they're not going to take any form of punishment well.
The thought being, just by logging into AA, they are supporting an obviously failing institution, so any form of punishment is going to be considered a form of disloyalty/poor customer service by AA to them. It's like being scolded for talking too loudly in a empty restaurant seating 500 where you're one of only a few customers. "Are you kidding me? I'm outta here," seems a pretty logical response in these circumstances.
AA really needs to think of itself as a business and the players as customers if it wants pay for the annual upkeep let alone maintain the playerbase.
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Post by Notanalt on Mar 10, 2010 18:28:26 GMT
bang on.
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