Bj229, Nothing personal but I am not a stockholder of Hitech. You got me figured out up front. I don’t care to do anything but look through my windscreen. You are 100% accurate in your assumption. I am nothing more than a customer and have no illusions of being anything but. The ONLY benefit I will receive from my subscription is the opportunity to play a game. I can only comment on what has happened to the game in the last few months. Hitech wanted to spread out its customer base to additional arenas for what ever reason they found may be detrimental to their bottom line, game play, ect. Ok, I’m in. But what happened? After about a week of an 8 arena format the VAST majority gravitated to what? LW1. They had to up the cap to accommodate everyone in LW1 because of the complaints of not being able to get in. Well this didn’t work out the way they thought it would so now we will divide the more popular arena to get the result we thought would be self righting in the first place. I would be willing to bet you that if Hitech created a LW1 and (for lack of a better idea) LW1 light, you will find out that, again, everyone (or the majority) will gravitate to the more populated arena. Why would Hitech make a decision to the point that they force the issue (via splitting LW1) that is contradictory to the obvious request of the majority of their customer base? Just who is paying the bill right now? The future customer base or the present. And now I am to believe that this is a marketing strategy based on corporate projections or future earnings. As we speak you have had more customers leaving than you do joining over the last several weeks. I think all this talk about projections, stagnation, long term overgrowth, and neighborhood’s is a smoke screen. I think the real problem is the cost effectiveness of expanding their current server’s, work force, tech support, customer service, ect to accommodate their current customer base and the potential of expanding. Now that is a problem I could understand and would make sense with the current changes we have seen. And you know what. That’s Ok too. If it takes more money to provide the game we want, I would be more than willing to up my subscription rate and I think the game is good enough to stand on its own even if the rate were a little more. Where could you get this much entertainment for that kind of money. Or give us an additional server for just the war mongers and let us pay the rate for our heavily populated area and let the less guns and guts guys have their own place. You could have a standard membership for what we have now or for an additional X amount you could have an Ace membership that would come with 500 perk points across the board. Then you would give the noob a free two weeks to an Ace membership before they decide what level they want. What do you think?
