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Chimera Doll · #16 10-01-2010, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

More importantly, why haven't they taken servers from toontown? There's one of two things happening right now to explain why.

Either POTCO has lost so much money that they've had to throw out servers to save money, or... wait a second, that's the only reason!

Toontown has millions of players, around 50, and while not all of them are active, that's a lot of players for a game not as popular as WOW. If the toontown developers keep up the good work, they'll have no problems keeping the game alive.

POTCO is losing money, let's face it. How many people are upset that lag has increased because of the reduction of servers? Me!!!!! Dang it, now my graphics are down to medium because of the high amount of players. I WANTED the quiet servers more than anything, and they trashed them!

Disney, get off your lazy butts, and give the POTCO developers ten million dollars for development. Cry all you want, but when they start making billions from a single game, because they have 200,000,000 players, you'll be glad you spent that money on game development.

Disney is the laziest, most undedicated company when it comes to video games. Epic mickey is one of the ONLY good games that they look like they're working on, and that's only the developers hard work, not the big CEO and bosses.

This is the WORST thing they've done since I joined in beta 2. First they lowered the graphics, took away holes in sails, and now this! The people holding the developers back NEED to be fired IMMEDIATELY. There is NO excuse for server reduction, EVER,.

Amen to that!

Midhav · #17 10-01-2010, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Chimera Doll

Aye it was earlier but they have it all back to normal now.

Oh they put back all the old servers?

Chimera Doll · #18 10-01-2010, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Midhav

Oh they put back all the old servers?

Not all of them, I meant just Abassa.
Sorry I should have said that!

Midhav · #19 10-01-2010, 05:19 AM

It's okay. I don't feel anything different about them removing their servers...

Tiberius Fireskull · #20 10-01-2010, 05:24 AM

Its silly. The whole reason us players liked the quiet servers was exactly why they are called that, they are quiet! If I wanted to be in peace, train alone, or just sit and relax, I would go to a quiet server, and because of the large amount of them, I would almost never have to switch servers. But because they got rid of all those servers, its going to be a lot harder. And Mac, I will quote what Chimera said. Amen to your post! Couldnt have said it any better! They really do need to put more money into this game. Just watch Disney. Just give POTCO some good money, and more devs. Then just wait a few months, and watch as the money rolls right back in. As they say, when you put money into something, you will get it back.

Davy Darkrage · #21 10-01-2010, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

More importantly, why haven't they taken servers from toontown? There's one of two things happening right now to explain why.

http://www.toontowncentral.com/forum...e-project.html - happened a while back. Might seem like they took away less, but Toontown had fewer to start.

JM Ohara · #22 10-01-2010, 09:30 AM

Sigh, they took 2 of the 3 main servers I play on. An if today is any indication of what we have to look forward to... I HATED today. It was next to impossible to get ships or enemies alone. I prefer to play where I don't usually see other people unless I want to. Now everywhere I go even on quiet servers, there are people all over the place. *sighs again* I think it stinks. Yes, the economy isn't great. Yes we should expect cutbacks. But geeze Louise. Kinda would have been nice if they gave us warning. *sniffs* Where are we gonna play poker now?

MacIronhawk · #23 10-01-2010, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Davy Darkrage

http://www.toontowncentral.com/forum...e-project.html - happened a while back. Might seem like they took away less, but Toontown had fewer to start.

It's perfectly understandable for a game like toontown to do this, because many toons only get things done in the game when they're on full servers. The game takes nothing but team work if you want to get to 137 laff, so it's understandable, but POTCO is a solo game, why are they pushing us closer together? I don't want to have to tell people, "No, I don't care if you were here first, I'm fighting this boss anyways, because I don't want to jump servers."

I'm just upset that they did this, and it's obvious they lost some money if they had to do this, because even games that are almost dead have more servers than POTCO.

***The Skirata Clan*** · #24 10-01-2010, 06:35 PM

Well, now they can't use "Play in a Quiet Server" for an answer when it comes to questions on Lag.

Eliza Creststeel · #25 10-01-2010, 07:17 PM

Monos is gone - where the ETC would schedule events. So, our events are moving to Camaros.

Captain Del · #26 10-01-2010, 08:58 PM

I really think this has nothing to do with the economy. If they were losing money, how is it possible their speed in fixing glitches and releasing content has increased drastically over the past few months? If anything, they may be GAINING money.

Captain Sureshot · #27 10-01-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

It's perfectly understandable for a game like toontown to do this, because many toons only get things done in the game when they're on full servers. The game takes nothing but team work if you want to get to 137 laff, so it's understandable, but POTCO is a solo game, why are they pushing us closer together? I don't want to have to tell people, "No, I don't care if you were here first, I'm fighting this boss anyways, because I don't want to jump servers."

I'm just upset that they did this, and it's obvious they lost some money if they had to do this, because even games that are almost dead have more servers than POTCO.

I understand what you're saying, regarding that a solo player can presently level up and complete most quests in the game. And it would be so great if Disney maintained enough servers so we all could go to a quiet server where we wouldn't have to see anyone else or just a handful of friends if we desired. To me that seems like an unreasonable expectation, since POTCO is a Massively Multiplayer game. Plus, I'm not sure I am willing to pay as much as it would cost for that privilege to continue, especially since I prefer busy servers. Though, I can relate to where you seem to be: I still haven't, and probably never will, recover from now having to play mini games to repair a ship in SvS. Deal breaker. Reason I went Basic.

While cost probably was a factor in closing down some servers, it is more about reasons like revenue (number of subscribers), the amount of active players, and the amount of time players spend per month playing the game. Regardless, maintaining servers which are not getting used certainly isn't going to solve any money problem. And throwing 10 million at POTCO isn't, in and of itself, going to do anything except postpone the inevitable demise of the game.

The popularity and/or success of ToonTown has virtually no affect on the decisions made about POTCO. And while doing good work is what developers should aspire to, successful business models are what multi-billion dollar companies live and die by. If POTCO is losing money, the business model gets adjusted or the game gets closed. Would you rather play POTCO with an increase in lag / lower graphic quality or not at all?

I think Disney/DIMG does comes across as lazy when they produce junk titles, or fail to realize the potential of an IP like they have with POTCO, but to say they are "undedicated" would seem to contradict the sheer amount of titles they have available and continue to add to, or the fact that they do things like acquire IPs (Club Penguin) and development studios (Junction Point, devs for Epic Mickey). That Epic Mickey sure looks swell.

Hang in there.

Roger Sharkshot · #28 10-01-2010, 09:41 PM

Losing servers has nothing to do with money its just that there will be more room and you wont get that much lag anymore we should be happy about this so what they took out 7 or so servers out of 25 or so big deal the game runs a lot smoother now.

***The Skirata Clan*** · #29 10-01-2010, 10:18 PM

The questions is... Is the game smoother and less laggy?

Jack Shipsteel · #30 10-02-2010, 02:26 AM

I can understand losing quiet servers, it's just the way of life. But losing an ideal server like MONOS? That used to be ideal half the day! I don't know if Disney is making a good choice or making it much more laggy for many players.. only time will tell. Until then, take some quiet servers for a spin. They may have eliminated a good dozen or so, but you still got others out there.