Archeage

Eidal_sl said:

You're essentially arguing for dev time to be spent on content inaccessible to the playerbase until some indeterminate time in the future. Why would I ever want that as opposed to content me and my own can donow? Especially since you're in a leadership role, I'm somewhat surprised to see you say something like that. New and interesting content is probably the #1 weapon against churn-rate in a guild.

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It's just an argument for depth and variety in a game which a lot of MMOs (but not archeage haha) lack. I hate being spoonfed content, and I like the portion of Dark Souls that puts a nearly unbeatable monster in front of the player early on and lets the player get wasted if they mess with the wrong dude.

For those who didn't play ArcheAge, Halcyona is a zone that has a huge factional war every ~5 hours. The winning faction gets a few tokens for a good necklace and a 1hr buff.

For those not actively playing on Kyrios, the East basically dominated Halcy for the first month and a half of release. At some point I believe TWO and a few other guilds worked to change that and went in force into Halcy and turned the tide. Most eastern guilds didn't really care because they were tired of halcy and I know PRX didn't care because at that time we were 100% focused on preparing for Auroria. Personally I was glad that the west was turning the tide.

Since that time the west dominated halcy in turn. After Auroria we were focused on sieges and largely ignored Halcy. Then when we realized that sieges were a bit of a joke because they favor the defenders heavily we turned our focus to Halcyona. We've been going into halcy in force around 3 days a week and mostly been getting massacred because it'll be ~60 of us against ~200 people. We've adjusted to this by trying a bunch of different strategies and also reaching out to Eastern guilds to go to Halcy when we do. On Friday we geared up again and got wiped by massive numbers at the flag. They easily took it and attacked our base. We lost all our NPCs except one but were able to hold them back. We then flanked the west over and over at our base until they lost heart and we had the number's advantage to beat them in an out right fight and won.

Since Auroria's release the east has won Halcyona twice during EST primetime. I think I posted screenshots of the first time, here's a video of the second time on Friday:

Anyone hear of any good sieges happening today?

Yeah. Only reason they are interesting for us is because it is fundementally different from the small group and naval PvP we are in every night.

Kyrios is super active still. Halcy has 100+ westerners on at us primetime. Freedich gets regular shipments from both sides. Peace time halcy and hellswamp have trains of carts. Hasla has a bunch of very frustrated people in it. Fishing spawns have tons of people.

There are still a lot of problems in this game but on kyrios population isn't one of them.

Vandyn_sl said:

Since auroria and sieges are a bust, I'm curious what keeps players, especially larger guilds playing this game. Maybe not on Kyrios but ive read a good number of bigger guilds have dissolved since Auroria.

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Oh yeah, Kyrios has definitely lost a lot of the big guilds. But this happens in every game to some degree, whether it's ESO or even WoW. 2-3 months there is usually a huge shift in guilds where the leadership in some guild either quits or doesn't recruit to fill the release attrition and they die off. Only in a few cases did a big ingame event happen that really stops a guild (A good example would be Phobia who was having serious problems but not getting a castle they had a good shot of getting really annihilated them).

So far it's pretty stabilized. The current active guilds on Kyrios East are:

and some of the guilds that went poof since release are:


Obviously not all of those guilds are big. In fact only a handful are big.

In order to survive the first few months a guild has to continuously recruit and maintain an active leadership structure. After ~4 months the game stabilizes and so does the population. Fewer people are quitting now than in the first week of release. People quitting probably peaked around the Auroria release, the big apex dupe or the second siege when the game was down for three days. Now I think the active people will generally stay active. Guilds will continue to shift but more due to ingame drama, failures events etc instead of leaders and members quitting the game.

Vitality when is the last time you logged on?