Display MoreNA is dead. There's only a handful of people who are on all day but that's it. Some of us log in to collect minimal dailies until new content but outside of that it's dead and Gameforge is doing nothing to help (they refuse to server merge and have provided shallow excuses why when the truth is that if they merge they can no longer advertise publishing in NA since it will all be merged to the EU server).
EN seems stable I guess. Player count is way down across the entire player base though and steam charts confirms this.
Honestly at this point with broken characters going weeks/months without a proper fix (something that 1 competent programmer should be able to fix IN A SINGLE DAY) what we're witnessing is deserved. When other games have issues like this it's normal and generally expected to see hotfixes deployed within 24 hours. Sad Gameforge just doesn't care. They probably meet only once a week to discuss for 15 minutes about the game then move on.
It also doesn't help we're a year behind KR on content now. We were actually catching up in the late winter/early spring and then something happened and they completely stopped pushing content patches. In the past 7(?) months the only meaningful update we've had to the game is the addition of Chii and she barely counts as content.
Not sure why things became so slow this year (at least last year it was a big update every 7 weeks to the T) but if something doesn't fundamentally change with the way Gameforge handles this title it's completely doomed. I've posted this before but here's an incomplete list of content we're still waiting on:
-Corrupted Records (SERIOUSLY WHERE IS THIS!?!?)
-Time Attack
-Level 65 cap, level 62 new skill for all chars
-Dipluce Horizon: 1st 4 zones
-Primal Hero
-Chii Advancement
-Dipluce Horizon: Hidden Hideout
-Abyss Lounge
-Innocent Daydream pt 2
-Desire Worker
-Lily, Jin, Erwin (and Stella?) re-balancing.
-Level 68 cap
-Dipluce Horizon: 3 more zones after Hidden Hideout
-Equipment refinement overhaul
-Energy Converter rolling overhaul
-Lunar Falls raid
At this point do we even have a chance at catching up?
Thank you for the detailed answer, I genuinely appreciate it. In the beginning I always felt like this game would have terrible management and seeing so far that it's not dead but very well going that route with such people leading it unfortunately displays this game as marked dead. RIP


