Revive zone!

ffcmike · #1 10-14-2012, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Everyone who is interesting in helping for the new Zone please contact me at [email protected]

Perhaps if people hadn't needed to upgrade to Gold every year to be able to both play and develop the server, and staff's concerns about the subscription policies had been acted upon, there may have now been available staff/developers for the new project who could not only help you, but turn it into something that resembles Zone, rather than a re-branded pillagement of an entirely different server.

scriptless · #2 10-14-2012, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ffcmike

Perhaps if people hadn't needed to upgrade to Gold every year to be able to both play and develop the server, and staff's concerns about the subscription policies had been acted upon, there may have now been available staff/developers for the new project who could not only help you, but turn it into something that resembles Zone, rather than a re-branded pillagement of an entirely different server.

I dont see why there is even a GOLD tab anymore.. new accounts have ot be gold for playerworlds, too.. o_o

Programmer · #3 10-21-2012, 11:51 PM

Zone is in no position to be revived now due to the stubbornness of the management of Graal. In their greed-filled eyes, iZone is the better way to go while they allow ZonePC, once glorious, to rot on the wayside. Get it through your thick skulls, Stefan and Stephane. Instating new restrictions on a server is not the way to convince players to subscribe -- It only drives them away. It seems as if you have completely ignored, or simply misunderstood, the effect this restriction had. This was clearly evident when you, Stefan, on Zone Debug, levied a head image restriction -- something I WATCHED you make, and advised against. You went against my advice and pressed forth, losing the support of many of your long-term players.

Now, it appears as if you are not even listening to your paying customer's opinion. They want Zone PC back, so why are you ignoring them? Not all of these people are capable of playing iZone. Why are you abandoning these players who have been loyal to your game since they started?

ffcmike · #4 10-21-2012, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Programmer

Get it through your thick skulls, Stefan and Stephane. Instating new restrictions on a server is not the way to convince players to subscribe -- It only drives them away.

Sadly it seems a new maniacal restriction is being implemented as part of the client when V6 is fully released.
Maybe they want to drive players away.

Admins · #5 10-22-2012, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ffcmike

...rather than a re-branded pillagement of an entirely different server.

Glass house?

Zone has weapons! Just like Era! It's really absurd to say it's just a copy of Era. We have even delayed the release for a full year to be able to improve it more.

Fulg0reSama · #6 10-22-2012, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Glass house?

Zone has weapons! Just like Era! It's really absurd to say it's just a copy of Era. We have even delayed the release for a full year to be able to improve it more.

I don't understand your retort very well.

Crono · #7 10-22-2012, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Fulg0reSama

I don't understand your retort very well.

Stefan was making fun of the "IT HAZ GUNS SO IT MUST BE ERA!!11" mentality of some players. But what Thor was saying is that the current Zone that's being worked on isn't really Zone...it's more like Shangri-La mixed with Era. I haven't played it yet so can't comment, but I don't like the way it's looking right now...we'll have to see.

Fulg0reSama · #8 10-22-2012, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Crono

Stefan was making fun of the "IT HAZ GUNS SO IT MUST BE ERA!!11" mentality of some players. But what Thor was saying is that the current Zone that's being worked on isn't really Zone...it's more like Shangri-La mixed with Era. I haven't played it yet so can't comment, but I don't like the way it's looking right now...we'll have to see.

I get that, but I would think that he would actually try to make the sting not so hit and miss... was hoping I would be wrong on the assumption.

As for the Zone thing, Stefan, you've screwed up again, you're not even worth ranting at for as to why.

dude2020 · #9 10-22-2012, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Glass house?

Zone has weapons! Just like Era! It's really absurd to say it's just a copy of Era. We have even delayed the release for a full year to be able to improve it more.

Yes because we're sitting here saying that Zone is a copy of Era because of guns.

The screenshots in this thread just screams iEra with Shangri La mixed in with Zone's "battlegrounds"

ffcmike · #10 10-22-2012, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Glass house?

I'm not sure if that analogy works differently in other countries, but to a developer who's been working on what is their home server for 5 consecutive years (*), and has remade/reintroduced/expanded upon far more original material than any other developer had post NPC-Server, it really doesn't make sense.

*Yet you still want built-in to the client trial restrictions beyond our control, which simply do not work, instead of allowing us to implement our own scripted restrictions and currencies as a micro-transaction, to the server we rebuilt from scratch.