Towel
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- Sep 20, 2015
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Disclaimer: this post does not target all old players. It's about positivity vs negativity.
For awhile now, old players log in from time to time for what seems to be solely to bash the game. Saying the game is dead, the economy is dead, and then leave after five minutes. Many do that, resulting in roughly one person a day logging in for that purpose. My point? Picture this: you're a new player today, casually playing, much like you did many years ago. Then you see, for a few days in a row, people logging in to bash the game, saying it's dead. Do you feel like staying or investing any time? Of course not, who would? So they leave. Positivity attracts people. Negativity drives them away. In the past week, I've seen a bit less people logging in to bash the game, and I've seen the online list get a little bigger, and seeing many more new names in the all channel talking to us. I don't think it's a coincidence (although it might be, I don't know everything, I'm not Towel Jesus).
I can now hear you in my head: ''But there is nothing to do, no new content or maps blah blah blah''. Yes, for you there isn't, but for new players it doesn't matter, the content is new to them. Before you felt this way, you logged in many thousands of hours, didn't you? For those many thousands of hours, you had something to do, the maps were still fun because you still had somehting to hunt. Well now the new players log in for 20 hours, they see you idiots saying this, and not knowing you have thousands of hours, think there is nothing to this game and leave. Do you understand how you people are extremly counter productive? I even will go so far as to say you are a big reason why the playerbase has reduced so much (again, I may be wrong, but either way, it plays a part I'm sure).
If new players see the positive community I see and work hard to maintain when they log in, they surely will want to stay. Please help us bring positivity in the public chats and in turn entice the new players in staying. I know it works. I'm not asking you to be like me, I'm simply asking you to realise how your negativity affects the playerbase, and make an effort into reducing it. You are free to make a private channel to complain though. Thank you for understanding, and I hope you will take this into consideration.
For awhile now, old players log in from time to time for what seems to be solely to bash the game. Saying the game is dead, the economy is dead, and then leave after five minutes. Many do that, resulting in roughly one person a day logging in for that purpose. My point? Picture this: you're a new player today, casually playing, much like you did many years ago. Then you see, for a few days in a row, people logging in to bash the game, saying it's dead. Do you feel like staying or investing any time? Of course not, who would? So they leave. Positivity attracts people. Negativity drives them away. In the past week, I've seen a bit less people logging in to bash the game, and I've seen the online list get a little bigger, and seeing many more new names in the all channel talking to us. I don't think it's a coincidence (although it might be, I don't know everything, I'm not Towel Jesus).
I can now hear you in my head: ''But there is nothing to do, no new content or maps blah blah blah''. Yes, for you there isn't, but for new players it doesn't matter, the content is new to them. Before you felt this way, you logged in many thousands of hours, didn't you? For those many thousands of hours, you had something to do, the maps were still fun because you still had somehting to hunt. Well now the new players log in for 20 hours, they see you idiots saying this, and not knowing you have thousands of hours, think there is nothing to this game and leave. Do you understand how you people are extremly counter productive? I even will go so far as to say you are a big reason why the playerbase has reduced so much (again, I may be wrong, but either way, it plays a part I'm sure).
If new players see the positive community I see and work hard to maintain when they log in, they surely will want to stay. Please help us bring positivity in the public chats and in turn entice the new players in staying. I know it works. I'm not asking you to be like me, I'm simply asking you to realise how your negativity affects the playerbase, and make an effort into reducing it. You are free to make a private channel to complain though. Thank you for understanding, and I hope you will take this into consideration.