R.O.H.A.N. Facebook Likes

[Yurneroo]

People got more critical towards private servers, sure - though one can only wonder how that comes. Perhaps because the first big promise turned out to be one big disappointment and to be exactly the counterpart of what it wanted to conquer: corruption and rip-offs, aside of improving general gameplay of course.

1. I acctually dont bother with how it came or what happened since im simply not involved with it. I admit there were lots of private servers just wanting to do fast and easy money. However, im more interested in the acctual result, namely players being more critical towards random servers which pop out of nowhere and go like the same way. Therefore, nowadays money grabbing servers simply dont work anymore, which is more than fine. Even tho they still exists from time to time, they dont work out.

2. If you mean zRohan/XorRohan by that, I've gotta say I've enjoyed the time it was up. It was more fun than all the years I've been spending on iRohan, regardless of the fast shutdown of course. Still, it was fun all over.

The people developing a game might not have money as their greatest motivation - the ones running the game/servers, however, usually do. I have yet to see one that is different. Is this one it? Who's to tell? The ones running it this time? That's hardly an objective answer.
The first rohan server with purely players content at heart? Possible, but not probable.

Well, believe it or not but its true. Previous servers were simply hosted by people not involved with development at all or at least ones which were just money hungry. We are not since we are all developers and we acctually want to do a change in order to provide the best experience possible. Developers which always dreamed about a professional balanced server/game wont go down the PWi path.

Like I said before, a private server isn't bad per se - the idea's are usually good since it builds from what already existed. It's always easier to improve something than to build something up from scratch. Not to mention that, over the course of several years since OBT, there have surfaced enough other mmo's from which certain idea's can be integrated. The only issue here is that, whereas the idea's are good, the management usually isn't. Which brings us back to iRohan or Rohan in general.

Agreed.

But you're saying that the comparison of the facebook likes, followed by a post which contained a link to said forums was not there to differentiate this server with private servers nor that the need exists to inform people in order to gain more viewers (and thus possibly clients) and, by pointing out the serious lack of facebook-likes on iRohan and the above comments do not hold any intent to persuade people to go for (actual free to play) private servers in
preference to the 'heavily pay-to-win, grow money on your backs' kind and to specifically induce on this certain aspect of it?

Im not seeing it as advertisement, those were simply troll posts. Why aint it advertisement? Simple, there is no audience over here to speak to. There wont be players turning their back on iRohan just to join a private server because some pun or backlink to a forum section which generates more traffic than PWi's facebook. After all the people around here just sank way to much money into this game to just leave it.
Take it as troll posts.

[EaglePhoenix]

Im not seeing it as advertisement, those were simply troll posts. Why aint it advertisement? Simple, there is no audience over here to speak to. There wont be players turning their back on iRohan just to join a private server because some pun or backlink to a forum section which generates more traffic than PWi's facebook. After all the people around here just sank way to much money into this game to just leave it.
Take it as troll posts.

The reason I'm disagreeing with this is because there are still over 100 people browsing these forums on a daily basis. At the Isen -start, that audience reached over 200 people. Granted, not all of them play rohan (e.g.: Seal Online) and some of them are (google)bots - deducting those, still leaves you a 'fair' amount of possible viewers.
That there really won't be any current players turning their backs on this is stretching it quite far. If, so to speak, I decide right here to quit this and join this private-server once it opens, since I can now easily track its progress through said link.. then this whole assumption just become moot.

There are, indeed, people who've spent enormous amounts of money, albeit irresponsible. Though, I'm quite certain there are also the ones who never did. Taking me as an example, I've played for a very long time - but never invested all that much. Sure, if you count it all up through the course of the years, it might get past the 3-400 dollars - but given the timespan, that's hardly a lot. Some people spent that on a monthly or bi-weekly basis.
But just look at Jin - countless of those BIG moneyspenders - and it is now deserted. Why did some even get back on Isen or why did they ever leave Jin to begin with? Considering their expenses over there?

I'm from the opinion that the least you 'root' yourself into something - the more fun it gives you as you don't feel 'forced' to continue what you are doing. This, of course, doesn't go for all things in life but imho suits well for mmorpg's.

One could regard me as a special person - or with special needs if one insists - but I'm fairly certain that I'm not THAT unique that I'm the sole person (still) around, who hasn't spent all that much.