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The Game -> RE: Locked Server Discussion (3/26/2011 3:59:22)
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While it is true that I haven't played ED in a few months due to my increasing discomfort with playing a game that I feel does not want me because I am a non-varium player, I feel like I have to give my two cents on this. I disliking being negative, but with that being said, all this does is lower my interest in returning to ED, which was already near rock bottom as it was. Personally, I much preferred playing in the lesser populated servers. As Ashari excellently put it, not all players log-in to duel, but to host meetings, converse with friends or random strangers, and the like. Playing 2v2 with friends was also mentioned as well.
I by no means profess to comprehend the financial benefits to such a move as locking down the servers, but from the vantage point of a former casual player, this move sends the message that "unless you are dueling, which you would then most likely have bought varium, will buy varium, or continue to buy varium because of the inflation of items that we are continuing to effect without end, we do not want you here." Right or wrong, intentional or unintentional, that is the message I am getting, and this merely further isolates players save for a singular, target audience that is willing to pay and continue to pay. I know that those who do not help pay for server costs and the like might be more expendable from a business perspective in relation to those who can pay, but news via word of mouth travels quickly. I'll let you guys figure out what I mean by that. I just don't think this was a smart move, neither from a holistic nor a long-term business point of view.
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