Decline and effects

[Draenin]

Over the past few months, I've seen a lot of people quitting Kingdoms. A lot of really awesome people, and a lot of not-so awesome people, too. But regardless of what I may think of each, people are leaving, and I think that soon, if the population shift on Graal's servers doesn't wind up settling, there may be one of two different futures for Kingdoms.

Kingdoms: Dark Future
The first future would be the darker of the two. Eventually, due to a lack of updates and fixes, Kingdoms may eventually die in terms of playercount. I am not saying this as a statement made toward administration, but more as a concrete fact. Newer, better servers with the same basic principles as another that actually recieve frequent updates quickly overshadow old ones, (as has been seen with 2k1) and there is nothing to keep the older server's community intact. Right now, from my knowledge, 2k2 is in control of an administrator who does not have the full capability to fix major problems that may arise, as well as creating minor changes to things as well, such as archetypes and other things of the sort. Unless something is changed in that respect, Kingdoms may not have much of a future left.

Kingdoms: Light Future
The second future could possibly be the better of the two, but that all depends on just how much the entire playerbase of Graal cares about Kingdoms within the next few months or so. As I've said, older players keep quitting, but that doesn't necessarily stop newer players from joining. What may happen is that the inequality between players will begin to shrink, as long as no abusable bugs arise. A former GST once told me, the number of individual players may steadily fall, but the playercount will continue to rise, and that phenomenon might happen sooner than we think. But again, it really depends on how the reaction to something new will drive things.



The point I am trying to make is this, and I'm mainly addressing Stefan:

Kingdoms can be dealt with in one of two ways; either keep things as they are and let nothing but fortune have its way with the fate of the server, or give it guidance by bestowing permissions on the people who have been put in the position that is supposed to make a difference with the server, but instead cannot at the moment. I know that things were sort of like that in the past, and that there were some issues, but it just might be the thing that boosts the number of people who decide that maybe (just maybe) the Gold servers are actually worth upgrading for.