DeletedUser
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I don't understand the decision of Grepolis to close off Beta and other older servers from newer players joining. This type of game has no true "end game": only when a player chooses to quit, does he/she ever truly "end". These "worlds" (servers) are designed to be truly HUGE: one single ocean can easily support 2-3 alliances of 50+ members in earlier stages of the game (3-5 cities per player), and each server has up to 100 oceans.
Each new server started, the initial player-base is usually started towards the center of each "world", around the 40-60 oceans. The fringe oceans are typically mostly devoid of many players, cities, and alliances. So even with the older servers, there are TONS of islands and oceans within the "worlds" that are largely vacant of players.
Not too long before Beta was upgraded to the 2.0 system, I seem to notice some other, smaller alliances that were forming in the fringe oceans like the teens and 20s, 80s and 90s. By the size of the players and their cities, I could tell that they hadn't been players from the earlier days. I can't find their alliances now, as I think the most of them have quit.
It's a shame because after 2 years, many of the older players are growing bored of the game and are quitting. Alliances are ending and wars are petering out. Some new blood and activity could serve proud old Beta well, and keep her thriving. Keep pumping new blood into the older alliances that still exist, but are regularly losing members to quitting.
I just don't understand the business practice of constantly starting up newer servers that are just like the older ones that are still around, but are being closed off.....
Each new server started, the initial player-base is usually started towards the center of each "world", around the 40-60 oceans. The fringe oceans are typically mostly devoid of many players, cities, and alliances. So even with the older servers, there are TONS of islands and oceans within the "worlds" that are largely vacant of players.
Not too long before Beta was upgraded to the 2.0 system, I seem to notice some other, smaller alliances that were forming in the fringe oceans like the teens and 20s, 80s and 90s. By the size of the players and their cities, I could tell that they hadn't been players from the earlier days. I can't find their alliances now, as I think the most of them have quit.
It's a shame because after 2 years, many of the older players are growing bored of the game and are quitting. Alliances are ending and wars are petering out. Some new blood and activity could serve proud old Beta well, and keep her thriving. Keep pumping new blood into the older alliances that still exist, but are regularly losing members to quitting.
I just don't understand the business practice of constantly starting up newer servers that are just like the older ones that are still around, but are being closed off.....