Side note for WG and the people that are advocating for the wipe.
I can see quite a few veterans and probably some nonvets that are not pleased with a wipe creating a new game server (nonclone to keep legal with the opensource rules).
Player created content can be updated and created far faster and has far more eyes on it than a commercial product that takes payroll resources to sustain. If a community based game server is made due to the frustrations of this event, I can see that being a threat to the longevity of Ryzom proper. Especially if the new game based off this engine and code becomes popular.
The game itself is already loved for it's being unique and new innovations just based off the resources that were released as opensource. A player server will not really need advertising to be successful in getting numbers. I am sure you can come up with other reasons that driving off player devs could be quite bad for you if they make a server for themselves that draws in a player base that migrates from Ryzom itself.
I can see quite a few veterans and probably some nonvets that are not pleased with a wipe creating a new game server (nonclone to keep legal with the opensource rules).
Player created content can be updated and created far faster and has far more eyes on it than a commercial product that takes payroll resources to sustain. If a community based game server is made due to the frustrations of this event, I can see that being a threat to the longevity of Ryzom proper. Especially if the new game based off this engine and code becomes popular.
The game itself is already loved for it's being unique and new innovations just based off the resources that were released as opensource. A player server will not really need advertising to be successful in getting numbers. I am sure you can come up with other reasons that driving off player devs could be quite bad for you if they make a server for themselves that draws in a player base that migrates from Ryzom itself.