The Daily Grind: Is it better for devs to try and fail than never to have tried at all?

@Pewpdaddy

Trion has got their priorites all wrong tho. RIght now the cryout is for server transfer and mergers - not for appearance tab.... Those transfers are badly needed cause the servers are soo unbalanced in terms of population. IT can not wait another month... It can't even wait another week.

TRION is getting desperate right now. They see huge amount of ppl leaving -they try to throw out lists of stuff to come so ppl will stay subbed... but then half of the stuff added is not up to any standard to get into the game yet.

Trion has not got their priorities right - they have huge technical issues that they did not anticipate. Thats not acceptable and its costing them huge atm.

@Deadalon

So...where are the actual numbers you are citing or are you pulling this out of your arse? Either cite your sources with a link or your post doesn't hold any water.

@Deadalon
What are you going on about? Server pops are great, some servers have queues, no servers are dead.

On topic, yes its better to try and fail than do nothing at all. As to the Rift event... it was great. The problem was that phase 2 was blitzed on most servers so lots of people missed it. It almost would have been better, though no sense lore wise, to run phase 2 looped for the whole weekend. Phase 3 being a cinematic and in a 50 zone kind of made mass attendance not possible but then it was to open the new raid so really did we expect level 10 toons to be involved?

On Keenblade phase 2 and 3 were over in the time it took me to eat dinner. Ah well, next time.

@Daelen

Trion has been trying their best to silence ppl pointing out the population imbalance. Alot of topics closed but few manage to creep throught

http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?127563-ETA-on-Server-Transfers

Having 1 or 2 overcrowded servers and 8-9 extremle low on population does not mean everything is fine. It means that TRION is not handeling the balance of server populations.

@(Unverified)

It seems everyone needs to jump on RIFT hate bandwagon since it has surpassed most of the other titles featured on Massively in actual popularity.

@(Unverified)

Read more than one or 2 ?

"I would love to see more Guardians on Carion... it's pretty ghost-townie"
"Coming from a relatively low pop server (Dimroot) I would also pay for a char transfer"
"Yes, please so something!! I am getting lonely on Millrush!! So quiet, I feel like I am the only one playing. it is way too spooky for chat to be dead. "
"All the Euro servers are medium pop now at 8:30pm....... badly need merging asap. "
"And this is true. My servers population has dropped a lot in recent weeks. "
"This is a valid issue. Server transfers or server merging. "
"The server is pretty dead, its been that way for 1-2 weeks now, but this week was the death punch. I reckon 70 % of all players on that server cancelled alrdy and quit."
"Dimroot is on its way to being dead (guardian side).
Can't even put together a simple t1 expert group anymore. "
"Thank you for resurrecting this because it is a big problem that is being ignored, and more unfortunately subscribers are being fobbed off. Please just sort the low pop servers out. "

Like I said before - Some servers are full - others are empty...

@Rialle

Is that accurate? Whenever I read a Rift post it is mostly people arguing about Rift with equal love/hate. Sure, it's popular, but it feels like more and more the discussion revolves around what people don't like.

@(Unverified)

You have a point, but RIFT appears to be getting a lot more attention than many of the other games being covered on Massively. The comments on the RIFT articles are pretty high on average, comparatively. My point is that even when a lot of these comments are just baseless whining and hating on the game (few people seem to be pointing out the game's true flaws), people actually care enough about the game that they feel the need to comment rather than skip over the articles. I think this is a sign of the game being relatively popular.

@(Unverified)
I could not agree more on the pre-cataclysm events. They were not even close to the awesome wotlk zombie invasion they had before.

@Amara
I agree. It's (obviously, I think) best to try to reach higher, even if it doesn't work out, but it's a different story when there are easily-researched lessons to be learned before the attempt is made to do something that other people have done before. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that, and the postmortem analysis of the RIFT world event made it sound like they wanted to create something where people could say, "I was there when the big bad attacked that once!" and were surprised when players were much more concerned with getting to participate than knowing something big had happened or seeing it happen. But looking at something like FFXIV, it seems more as though they were trying to make an MMO from scratch, without even looking much to their own previous successful title for the good stuff--and that's kind of like insisting that you need to reinvent the wheel to build a car. I don't have much sympathy for that.