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The fair thing to do is to delete all the f2p accounts and somehow transfer all the p2p accounts. People are paying you to keep this data save on your servers afterall....

This is at the moment really lousy customer service in my honest opinion and I cannot blame people cancelling their current subscriptions. You will loose quite a bit of trust from the customers as well, I mean; can you promise them that this will not happen again?

Resetting all characters. Absolutely insane.

Not only will I quit playing forever, but I demand a REFUND for my last payment.

Hello all.

It's a sad day for me to come back to read these news.
I'm not sure if i continue to sub the game. Actually if I think all the long time spent here to gain my masters my reaction is not to resub. Anyway my yearly sub lasts in december, so i have time to decide.

I think it was a hard decision from the devs and I'm sure they are not happy same as most of us, considering they don't know if this decision will really bring new life to Atys.

I hope for the best, still I can't believe my character will die soon.

Anyway, i wish to thank all the players I have met that contributed to my fun, all the old and former members of Legion of Atys, all the csr for their hard job, despite some mistake, and obviously, the devs.
I was one of the players that often criticized (but also welcomed) the devs decisions in the past, but I consider myself a true lover of Ryzom, and I am.

I can't name all the people i met in 8 years, but i wish the best for all of them.

Thank you all. Maybe I will be back.

I can't believe Sarifina will die September 22, 2012.

I will not return since Ryzom is killing my character, that will be the day she dies. I cannot re-do what I have done in the last 6 years, and I won't. I am a master of all armors including having a full NPC crafting ability......I won't get that back will I? It's heartbreaking that there is no way to merge servers as they have done in the past and not delete us. As mad as this makes me, I would never give up that last 6 years....but I will NOT give Ryzom another minute. Who's to say I put in more time and money they don't delete me again? Thanks to all who have helped me over the years, I will miss you all so much. Goodbye Anifiras and Jaslene as well (almost forgot to say goodbye to my slaves)

Pop goes Ryzom. Good i've completely moved to Eve year ago.

Ty all for replies on the achievement system.
It does look sort of nice but doesn't really add anything to the game as i see it.
I displayed my characters on the Armory for 3-4 months a year or 2 back but just never seemed
like that much.

Sort of wondering how resetting NPC prices will really change economy much.
Seems to me if you want dappers to have value then they have to be able to purchase something of value.
Such as more guild house or apartment storage space with recurring rental fees.
Or Merchant mats up to say Q250.

The 2X exp thing sort of bothers me a lot. And will it also apply to getting Occupation exp?

Just saw this post and I'm thoroughly disheartened, disillusioned and disappointed. I've spent 6.5 years developing my toons on Aris, including being instrumental in the institution of a previous un-installed player government. All of my masters were hard won, and my titles all for naught. I've been sporadic in my subbing habits due to financial issues over the years, but knowing Aeralin was always there to return to kept me coming back. Now, I'm not sure what I'll do. Atys and Ryzom have been home for so many, many years, but I doubt I'll feel the same now.

While I understand that you'd not be putting forth such an edict without reason, it wounds the veteran player in me deeply to hear that all of our collective work on Atys over the years will be for nothing at all.

So your fantastic idea is to anger your loyal veteran players who've worked SO hard at gaining their skills and items, by erasing their character data, ultimately causing them to leave Ryzom permanently.. And somehow that translates to "more players playing together?"



Translation: It looked like more work than we felt like doing, so we didn't try. We will simply deem this task "impossible" and hopefully our players don't remember that character data HAS been retained during previous server mergers.



Obviously, it will be much easier for you to say goodbye to those players.



But you don't care enough about them to find a way to save their character data. You'll cause those friendly, mature players to quit playing in frustration caused by the reset. Perhaps then, you'll find a small handful of new fresh players who will not have the opportunity to be influenced by the mature veteran community because they've quit playing. You realize the community is the best part of Ryzom, yet you plan to destroy it. Brilliant!



You've completely lost your mind. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I think you got the wrong idea, they're not resetting it all because of "technical difficulties", any software engineer freshly out of any college would solve this in less than 50 lines of script code. Hell I could do that in 1-2 hours tops (and not bragging one bit, I think more competent script writers would be done in 20 minutes).

The reason they wipe all is because they "feel" that the entrenched old timers guilds have too much power, which scares off some newcomers that just want to make a name for themselves. Look at all the "new" guilds that have come and died before gaining any traction because the old guilds had much more to offer (including above all a lot of nice and helpful old timers that would bend over backwards to help newer players).

I think they just want to bet on new players rather than on the ones that have been around forever. Sad and misguided, but the pretense of "technical difficulties" is utterly laughable (which is why they will never tell *what* these difficulties might really be about).

I decided to not come back if this happens. Dont want to put in the effort again doing the same stuff i already did for hours and hours. Hoping all people i hang out with now will come back and rebuild the same social structure i feel good participating in.

I apologize to my guildies and other in game friends. I will not return after the wipe.

Thats 2 subbed accounts less for you to not care about.

I felt upset about this announcement at first. It seems like a bad decision, a wrongminded decision, and I still have some objections to it. But soon I realized that Winch Gate has a choice between certainly closing Ryzom now and probably closing it a little later. They have gone for the second option, taking a huge risk by dumping the current playerbase in favor of a new one that may or may not exist (or be sufficient to sustain Ryzom longer than 6-12 more months). Maybe they're aware that the chances of that idea working are slim, but they make their decision in the spirit of desperate hope.

In my opinion it's silly to mourn skill levels because of cold numbers: time spent, money spent, numbers raised. If it were about the history attached to those numbers, e.g. "friends I've since lost contact with helped me get this master" or "how am I supposed to play my character at all when they've lost the skills that defined them", all this rage would be more justifiable. But the latter is not what most people here are talking about; most seem to be concerned only with the former.

My main objection to Winch Gate's course of action is that, for all their apparent focus on live events and community and supporting RP, they have said nothing about how the different histories of the servers are going to be combined, about how the player governments will work from now on, etc. For a tangible example, one server built different Kami/Karavan temples in different places than another server did.

I'm sure it's all been said, so I'll just leave my trademark summary:

You're a tool, tool, great big tool.

I'll meet you all on the other side(tm)

- arc

LOL classic Jay!

I know I haven't played in a long while but this still breaks my heart as badly as it was broken when I left. I can make a toon that looks just like Eris and I can work my pigtails off getting my 3 masters back but I'll  never get back the items that were gifts from long gone players. It's not the forcing the vets to start over, it's the fact that every homin that's walked across Atys will be wiped clean from it. That's what makes me the saddest.

::imagines 3 servers-worth of players competing for PR-dug Sup mats::


Yup, obviously, 2/3rds of those players must go away to keep PR digging viable.


Mission: accomplished


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