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Ryzom I salute you,

You where my first MMO Love and so far if i'm honest my only MMO love every game since i've compared to this and they have all fallen short.

The mighty have fallen, all the old hero's will be lost the victories, the defeats the pain and suffering all the good and bad times will be wiped out of existence because all your old dedicated players who have spent time, lashed energy and love on this game will quit when their years of effort is wiped out for nought.

Hail and goodbye Atys the final death blow has just been dealt.

Waylanda
Very saddened by this turn of events

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reset characters? wipe everything out? are you kidding? dumbest idea ever. i cant ever see myself logging back in after this.
you were my first love ryzom. it will be so sad to see you go.

i´d like more explanation about why it would be impossible to give the toons their skill levels back,
couldn´t csrs do it after the servers are merged, maybe not all at once, but ppl would be patient i think,
what´s technically hindering them? maybe iam naive

Is this some kind of a sad joke ?

after playing for 3 years and took a break for 2 years i came back to Ryzom 1 year ago because my toon was here ! I had something to come back for.

I wont stay if my 4 year investment is purged. and to think off i took Ryzom as the good example in other MMORPG's i played and was presenting it as the good example. I am very disappointed !

Wont be back if i loose my progress ..bye

You guys are a joke of a company... MIght aswell just close up shop and turn off the lights. I have worked since beta to achieve my masters all for nothing. GOOD JOB!!

I want a refund for my accounts that just resubbed.

For the name of all good, Mah-duk and the world of Atys please TRANSFER our avatar (at least the payed sub ones) to the new server !

please, the only alternative to death.

When they merged before USA with EU we kept everything why can this not happen again, is it just a case of to much effort?

You are going to lose a masive amount of what little player base you had left from this, many people are subbed and do not play but stay subbed to suport the game and to pop on and say hi once in awhile, with everything deleted what will be the point of subbing anymore, people will chose to FTP only and all subs you once relyed and counted on will be gone no one will pay just for double exp when we never had double exp to start with and still got lots of masters.

By doing this you kill the comunity, the extremly loyal player base and most of the long tearm subs you once had.
We know you are able to merge and keep the skill lvls and items so just do it that way once more. people with names curently in use get Free name change (which has also happened on a merge)

Dont make this huge mistake think about what you will do to those loyal paying fans of Ryzom.

-Basic

I'm just a noob with 30 levels, so I won't lose much, but this is SWG all over again. Prepare for closure.

On the other hand, I'd still choose a wipe over total closure. After all, It's the people that matter, not the levels.

Unfortunately, I also fear that this transfer will deal a final blow to the playerbase. Ok, I'll be there after the restart, but I know too many who won't. Losing apartment, packers, guildhall, lots of items of memorial value, that is pretty hard. Sad also for RP players to lose all the witnessings of their deeds on the bark. Yet that is considered sustainable by many.
The loss of all the experience is a different matter. It cripples players who have won it over years and now, while lacking time as a professional or parent, may still connect, e.g. take part in kicking Aen's and her mates' butt every once or twice a week. They are maintaining their subs, therefore. I doubt they'll do in case they have to relearn everything from scratch because they simply lack the time for.

Please rethink ways to preserve experience in some way while keeping the advantage of clearing old overblown data structures. I cannot imagine that this is completely impossible or an unmanagable amount of data. Maybe you could preserve players' values for some time granting restore to anybody subbing or so. That might give an incentive for many to renew their sub, be it only to preserve their achievements.

Possibly you could just wait with that until a newly connected player has left Silan or even until she owns a full set of capital porters.

Have been running around Atys since beta,watched the attacks on Pyr by the kittins and the [what was then awesome magical graphics of the mages and guards,which i think was reduced due to server lag } .Have seen the game rise from strength to strength until being dropped in the mire by Nevrax.But all through the following years the community stood by the game supporting in any way possible,until we were ressurected once more again the community pulled together to rescue the game,have looked at many games during the bad times but always drawn back home to Ryzom.Still see many old payers have supported this game over the years and this is nothing but an insult to the ammount of work [ not to mention subscription fees they have invested }
I wonder if any of the devs have ever played the game,and realise the ammount of time/work invested in creating a master lvl.Perhaps if they had they would not consider destroying 8yrs of history and rare items which will never be regained.Or perhaps all they can see are $ signs ,if money was the answer to the problem perhaps they should have asked us { have millions of dappers spare } again this just shows contempt and a lack of intrest in the community.Merging databases a difficult task {not impossible } or even the possibility of toons being given skills/lvls back individually on a new server.Sorry to have rambled on but is such a shame to see the death of so many toons,who i wonder deserves the new title '' Master Toon Eradicator '' one more afterthought perhaps we are being dumped again,new server no more WINCHGATE ??

In Atys we dream of real life only,but are we ready.

I fail to see why you would need to clear out all levels for this to work. Guilds, outposts, items etc I can see why you'd want to wipe, but for Jenas sake don't clean out our homins.

If there are naming issues, just bloody send a mail. I'm sure one of the parts will agree to change name, much rather than have their toon deleted. This is just plain out stupid! (edited out quite a few of the words that got me muted on uni over the last year, hope this is good enough)


Sod off. Don't kill Gaskette. Seriously, Wintergreen will beat you silly if you do.

Btw, in the Leanon forums one of the moderators posted that the characters will be reset/wiped, but their looks, race, and the name will move over to the new server.
So at least no one looses his/her character name and exact looks.

I sure hope that I can keep some of the presents I got from crafters, the fireworks I got during the marriage in Matia (on Leanon), or some mission mats that I dug just to decorate my appartement's inventory, or or or.... - And I'm only a low level char at <60. Still it took me more than a year to get there.

On the other hand I also hope that the devs will not go through with their plan to hand over special stuff like the "Marauder Q200 armour" if you're doing something or other now on the old servers. That's again an inflation of some other sorts. People are supposed to work hard for that on the new servers. If you want incentive, then invent a few new items, similar to the flowers and eggs. Unique stuff that only folks surviving the migration will get. Titles even!

Let's hope the devs will change their minds about the xp & item wipe because I also fear that we'll see a drop in payed subscriptions. The danger is that this drop will come slowly: People may change their subscription settings only when a re-sub is due. So the true quality of result of this wipe decision won't be visible immediately.

Those who do consider leaving, I can only encourage to think about this: What's really causing you to have fun in Ryzom? If it's more the people than the levels, then the game is still good for you. I'm looking forward to meeting a bunch of folks I've silently read in the forums but never could meet on a server (not enough time for a server twink). And I'm looking forward in huge treks of low level folks while we're all trying to rediscover the world with the limited abilities we have at the start.

Ryzom is capable of hosting a hundred players on a battlefield. Let's make the first treks of level 30 players a mass-trek. Let's do a big announcement, a big congregation, and try to get through with the mass of low-hit-point folks that we'll all be.

Many years ago I heard a song on the radio, it went like this;

'Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men! This is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!'

Listen Devs, these people have been slaves to the betterment of Atys, and now you spit it back in their faces. There are so many ways of doing this better. Please, I beg of you, read this page before it's too late.

I said before, now I say again

Atys is dead! Long live Atys!

What a sad day. I dont have the time to play Ryzom currently, but some happiness was always in my heart knowing Jezzer was there, one day, if I returned. It looks like she will no longer exist, all the time effort, history, everything will be gone.

I completely understand the need to move on, if population is low, if running the different servers costs too much, i get it. I just dont think this is a smart move. Maybe there isnt an easy way to transfer over accounts, maybe it is just not even an option, but know that this really is a death blow. You have people playing for years getting their toon where it is today, if you delete their toon, what is the point in starting over? If anything its a slap in the face and a feeling of regret for putting all that time in effort into the game in the first place.

Extremely disappointed.

I can't believe this decision to wipe out all players characters. I've been playing just over a year and it's hard enough to take, but this is a kick in the teeth for your most loyal players. The people who lose most are the best of us - the ones who've spent THE BEST PART OF TEN YEARS building their character(s).

You seriously think all your more experienced players (and let's not forget, subscribers) are going to carry on after this? I don't think you'll keep more than 10%.


So I've got to rush to re-register my character before someone else takes the name? What if someone else registers the name and runs around passing themself off as me?

I can't believe you're being so stupid about this.

There MUST be an alternative way to merge the servers without killing everybody off.