News Item: : Rohan - Server Merge
(Category: Misc)
Posted by Telperiar
Thursday 01 October 2009 - 11:45:44
I am sort of late with this News, but Rohan is not really in my Focus anymore. Some days ago Rohan USA did a server merge. To get behind this its interesting to have an eye on the history of Rohan.
In 2008, after a short hype Rohan was creating a huge population. Sadly over the half of these "players" have been bots. When the "company" behind the bot program started to charge for their "service", Rohans player population got halving down within a few days.
At higher levels Rohan became hell of a grinding game. Without free boting the majority lost their motivation for the game. YNKs official answer was the Item mall, containing fraudulent overpriced items, having either an heavy impact on the balance, or even sometimes no noticeable effect at all.
As a result the game community dropped slow but constantly, as shown in this example for Torian:
Officials tried to counter it by introducing new payed content on a weekly base. But people complained about the game in general, like horrible refinement rates and eternal unfixed bugs. Without faith in quality, people are not motivated to invest, but YNK failed to recognize this simple reason, running for maximizing short profits at all costs.
In January 2009, YNKs technicians messed up parts of the server load measure and player counting code. These days the servers denied players to login because they assumed to be packed already. It took YNK several days to resolve the bug. They made some realm wide server resets and increased the server capacity a few times to trick out their own machines. Because of this theres no valid server load data present for this time.
But YNK also took the chance to silently "adjust" the server capacity to a way lower value than before the problem. In other words, fewer players causes a "higher" population value. But it didnt help, the server load kept dropping. The average load was not affected that hard anymore, but the peak load was, signing a dropping communities interest in general. People play lesser during main times but stall and chat over the day.
Now YNK decided to merge the five existing servers into two. Marea, Syrephis and Torian merged into Ohn, while Ahkma and Silva merged into Shielyn. Additional they started a "new" Server called Tempest.
YNK "managed" to drop the interest in their game to a fraction of it, within about one year. Just because of mislead mall policy and bad game management. It will be interesting to keep an eye on Rohans future development.
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by Telperiar
Thursday 01 October 2009 - 11:45:44
I am sort of late with this News, but Rohan is not really in my Focus anymore. Some days ago Rohan USA did a server merge. To get behind this its interesting to have an eye on the history of Rohan.
In 2008, after a short hype Rohan was creating a huge population. Sadly over the half of these "players" have been bots. When the "company" behind the bot program started to charge for their "service", Rohans player population got halving down within a few days.
At higher levels Rohan became hell of a grinding game. Without free boting the majority lost their motivation for the game. YNKs official answer was the Item mall, containing fraudulent overpriced items, having either an heavy impact on the balance, or even sometimes no noticeable effect at all.
As a result the game community dropped slow but constantly, as shown in this example for Torian:
Officials tried to counter it by introducing new payed content on a weekly base. But people complained about the game in general, like horrible refinement rates and eternal unfixed bugs. Without faith in quality, people are not motivated to invest, but YNK failed to recognize this simple reason, running for maximizing short profits at all costs.
In January 2009, YNKs technicians messed up parts of the server load measure and player counting code. These days the servers denied players to login because they assumed to be packed already. It took YNK several days to resolve the bug. They made some realm wide server resets and increased the server capacity a few times to trick out their own machines. Because of this theres no valid server load data present for this time.
But YNK also took the chance to silently "adjust" the server capacity to a way lower value than before the problem. In other words, fewer players causes a "higher" population value. But it didnt help, the server load kept dropping. The average load was not affected that hard anymore, but the peak load was, signing a dropping communities interest in general. People play lesser during main times but stall and chat over the day.
Now YNK decided to merge the five existing servers into two. Marea, Syrephis and Torian merged into Ohn, while Ahkma and Silva merged into Shielyn. Additional they started a "new" Server called Tempest.
YNK "managed" to drop the interest in their game to a fraction of it, within about one year. Just because of mislead mall policy and bad game management. It will be interesting to keep an eye on Rohans future development.
This news item is from load-O-meter
( http://9d.freeonweb.com/news.php?extend.29 )