WW2OL meltdown??????

[Tango]

At least thats what I've heard.

They've done away with the HC forums and both sides can't even fill a fraction of the HC positions and a big operation consists of half a dozen players these days.

Anyone know for sure?

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Tango
At least thats what I've heard.

They've done away with the HC forums and both sides can't even fill a fraction of the HC positions and a big operation consists of half a dozen players these days.

Anyone know for sure?

My subs expired (last week). But when I left the numbers 'felt' like the were way down on pre-xmas numbers. Plus a lot of things were getting promised for 1.27.... just like stuff promised for 1.26 that wasnt' delivered. But many have predicted the iminent demise of ww2ol before and it has pulled through so who knows.

[eskimo2]

So how big did WWIIOL get and when?  How recently have people been bailing?

[Tango]

It peaked 2 or 3 years ago and slowly started downhill until they brought in heavy fog. Then it fell off BIG TIME. Pretty much killed off the air war.

They had a good idea just not the right people to do it. Problem is it was a combined arms war game but they only listened to the "Quake" infantry players and did everything to please them. Even if it meant POing the tankers and pilots.

[Fulmar]

I tried WW2OL when it first came out.  At that time I had a P3 800mhz.  I think the intial load time was around 5-7 minutes.

[hyena426]

it was a great idea..i played it when it first came out...i really thought it was a better tank game..but aces high had a better flight sim over all...but i liked the tank part..the real roads with the ditches on each side....and when you shot a tank you could see were it punched a hole in the tank and target dif systems a little better....and i loved when the tanks did go up..they would flame out..lol..big flame out the top hatch...now if they could of combined both these games..it would of been somthing special;)

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Tango
It peaked 2 or 3 years ago and slowly started downhill until they brought in heavy fog. Then it fell off BIG TIME. Pretty much killed off the air war.

This time the brought back the old infanry predictor code, now infantry warp all over. Some people seem to like it, but I think about 80% hate it, and I'm fairly sure thats caused another drop. The air war hasn't recovered from the fog. The tankers got fed up with the super sappers (which crs have begun to address).

Dunno if its just me, but they excel in pissing off each segment off the community one at a time

[Yeager]

but they excel in pissing off each segment off the community one at a time
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Reminds me of what SOE did to the StarWarsGalaxies community.  Was a great experience for a short while.

[Tango]

Yup tanks were fun in there until they put in sappers. Then all you saw was tanks running away from the sappers. Then what do the Rats do, they make the sappers run faster so they can chase down the tanks.

I doubt very much they will be afloat much longer.

[Furball]

It is a shame, because it could be a very fun game when everything was going, you could find a fight.

Good news for HTC though.  Hopefully we will see people like Manx come back to AH.

[Charge]

At least last night there was good numbers of players.

I have seen lots of pilots groundpounding recently or they have just left the game. My squad was once a very successful Stuka geschwader but nowadays there is only five members and I'm lucky to see even one them in game once in a month...

-C+

[Mickey1992]

I read one of the dev blogs occasionally.  It's always good to get info from one of the grunts and not just from some talking head.

http://kfsone.wordpress.com/tag/wwiiol/

[FBplmmr]

i was on ww2ol when it first came out.  it took 2 days to actually download the patches for it!  I liked the tanks but could not get a good enough frame rate to fly.

I wanted that game  to be bug free so bad ... but I finally couldn't take the pain any longer and quit.


thankfully after several years of wandering around I stumbled into AH2.

[Ripsnort]

Westy will be by soon to tell us how wrong we all are about WW2OL.

Originally posted by Westy

 AH and WWIIO can stand or fall all on thier own merit, or lack of, whichever may be the case..  I rooted for AH for a LONG time but I no longer feel it's worthy of that effort on my part any more.  On the other hand while I am very much enjoying the ground warfare in WWIIO I definately don't have any warm fuzzies for the CRS crew and they can do thier own PR for all I care.  I simply pay to play.   Nothing more (outside of squad comeraderie).

  Westy

[68ZooM]

WOW i remember buyinh the game at K-mart downloaded it and man it was like an old atari game at first very basic, Ive been with WWII online from the public launch till 3 months ago, ive seen the game come along way then all of a sudden they total Messed the game up with 24Hr Fog and made it to hard for new players to use all of the equipment then came RANK which started the slow killing off of the game

My WWII 0nline name was Motley  Squad Allied Government