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[Minsyy]

Maybe they want to compete with private servers there? You know, Gravity does not get anything from private servers. It's only reasonable to sell a product you have created.

oh i totally agree with you. but to be honest. my guild already lost people to private servers who are pre renewal only. this whole new legit pre renewal server will drain a lot of players from the currently existing servers. I think its a shame that players that already are around are seperated so much.

just face the facts.. RO doesnt have a lot of players and on valkyrie 75% of the online players are bots and vendors... 25% real players and I see a lot of that 25% leave to the new server..


its all bleeding dry

[Breeg]

This new server attracts players from other official versions of the game too, though. There are plenty of people from bRO, fRO/euRO, idRO and ruRO waiting for this server to open. Of course it is a shame iRO's other servers will "lose" players for classic but it's all more money for them anyway.

[Naida]

oh i totally agree with you. but to be honest. my guild already lost people to private servers who are pre renewal only. this whole new legit pre renewal server will drain a lot of players from the currently existing servers. I think its a shame that players that already are around are seperated so much.

just face the facts.. RO doesnt have a lot of players and on valkyrie 75% of the online players are bots and vendors... 25% real players and I see a lot of that 25% leave to the new server..


its all bleeding dry

I think I agree that the population will be very thin, but this really is Gravity's best option. As far as losing people, you can replicate the game, but you can't replace the community. People should join whatever community they like most. Pservers are also not "other RO servers". If renewal can be considered its own game, so can Pservers which tend to run things so differently it's funny they still call it RO. We lose players to other games, that's how it works. All games do, and sometimes they come back. Imo bringing people back from Pservers wouldn't be a good sign for Gravity. If they're gone because they wanted pre-renewal and they value the iRO community enough, then they'll come back. If not, might as well have lost them to WoW.

Edited by Naida, 23 June 2012 - 12:37 AM.

[TheSquishy]

iRO has been like a town hit by a natural disaster.
This is the first serious step being taken to rebuild the community. People will comeback on there own once it starts to resemble the place they loved.

Renewal has been no place to come home to.

[ValheruWolf]

To address the OP, I'd like to know about the Super Novice.

They keep listing the expanded classes as Gunslinger, Ninja, Taekwon Boy/Girl, Taekwon Master, and Soul Linker......but I haven't seen any mention of Super Novices yet.

Am I to assume that these will be implemented after trans, also? Or will these be avaliable from a different point in time.
(I'd totally appreciate Super Novices being avaliable from the launch.)

Probably, sadly didn't think of this until just now >< so much for starting on a super novice. Guess I'll have to choose something else.

I think I agree that the population will be very thin, but this really is Gravity's best option. As far as losing people, you can replicate the game, but you can't replace the community. People should join whatever community they like most. Pservers are also not "other RO servers". If renewal can be considered its own game, so can Pservers which tend to run things so differently it's funny they still call it RO. We lose players to other games, that's how it works. All games do, and sometimes they come back. Imo bringing people back from Pservers wouldn't be a good sign for Gravity. If they're gone because they wanted pre-renewal and they value the iRO community enough, then they'll come back. If not, might as well have lost them to WoW.

Other downside to Pservers. As I played on a lot mostly because I couldn't pay the subscription for RO and used them to get my 'fix' heh. But none of the pservers I ended up playing and even looking for ones that seem familiar don't exist. They go down and all that progress is lost. Come back here and my 2004 account still exists! with my level 43 swordy heh. So if people learn about pre-re server coming up official I could see a lot of those players that play more casual but still prefer the old system to com and join and bounce in and out depending on life and how their mood takes them. Unless the server totally fails they'll always be able to come back and to me that is worth more then getting on a 5x or 10x rate pserver.

Edited by ValheruWolf, 23 June 2012 - 01:30 AM.

[Yud1]

Just a question guys, Is the pre-renewal classic server going to be paid ??

[Sammier21]

Just a question guys, Is the pre-renewal classic server going to be paid ??

I am not completely sure since I haven't been keeping up with all the Pre-Renewal threads but from the Closed Sticky thread by Heim it seems that it is not going to be paid.

I don't think they really have come out and confirmed that yet but initially at the launch of the server [ unless this chances ] there will be no VIP since they have to do something to get it to work on the server.

So really I would wait till its closer to the server launch for the P2P or F2P questions to be answered completely