Lonesome

[fjolnir]

I was lucky to find my copy in Kansas City. As far as I can tell, there were only 12 copies sent to the entire metropolitan area. None of the EB's had received a copy, but four of the city's Game Stops got exactly three copies each, and I snagged the last one at the store nearest my house. So I played for several hours last night. I remembered how many people there were playing in the beta, and I thought that it would be ok to go to the Firos mainland as a level 20 warrior. There was nobody there! I shouted around trying to find somebody to team up with, but nobody would respond. There wasn't even any chatter in the regional channel. I hope things pick up after all these distribution woes are resolved. I hope that people turn out to buy the game! I chose this one over WoW, and I won't be able to afford both!

[jackovas]

Hmm odd. There are many many Trykers. Should really pick up now since they allow us to download the game now.

[m3zcl4n]

yeah, give it a few days. From what i can see, there are still quite a bit of people on the noob islands. Perhaps people are waitin till theyre good and ready before they take off.

[shundley]

Hmm odd. There are many many Trykers. Should really pick up now since they allow us to download the game now.

Many, many? The most I've seen online at once was last night. There were 56 Trykers... and that was during the event. Some of them had made a Tryker alt just to see the event. I do hope you're right and population picks up significantly.

[plarfman]

I chose this one over WoW, and I won't be able to afford both!

Im very glad to hear you picked this game over WoW as WoW is very lame. You can expect the amount of people playing to pick up as many got there copys late and with being able to download it now you can deff expect player numbers to boost. The game just started give it time for word to spread on how great it is.

[ayne31]

´For my own reasons i play on the US server although I am european and I can only say thay the Fyros desert and some underpopulation fit well together.

i rather enjoy that there is no quarreling over mobs or harvesting spots - it will soon enough be the case that everyone will wish the times back where he had a whole pack of Gingos all to himself ;)

[svayvti]

Maybe you need to make the mad dash to a more populated civilization?

I suspect Tryker and Matis will end up being the most populated on the U.S. server. Matis probably more than Tryker.

[jackovas]

Ok maybe not many many, but it was ALWAYS populated and there was always constant chatter in the region chat.

[raynes]

Give it time. There was no one in Zora last night. Tonight I started to see players.

[fjolnir]

Im very glad to hear you picked this game over WoW as WoW is very lame.

It's just another *******ized Tolkein world. I love playing WCIII, because it's a great strategy game. But Blizzard's writers (and artists in the case of WoW) really dropped the ball. Have you read any of the Warcraft mythology? I've seen some B movies that weren't as cheesy.

[fjolnir]

It's just another *******ized Tolkein world.

Haha. Ok Mr. Forum server. Baztardized isn't a very nice thing to say about something, but it isn't a curse word.

[lyrah68]

I plan to stick around the newbie areas for QUITE a while because of this trouble as well. I VERY much like the community of both the Tyker and the Fyros newbie islands. I found ALOT of people with bits of knoweldge that truly enhanced my enjoying of the game (and I was thrilled with the little bit I learned in beta, so I thought I was as happy as I could get, but this game just keeps getting better for me!).

I understand the desire to hurry up, I am an explorer, and did ALOT of that during the crash test beta, we got a level boost for one weekend so we could go forth and look and see what there was. I didn't get to see much because that weekend my ISP went down for most of it.

And as far as distribution, Kansas was NOT the only area that got so few copies. Dallas Tx metro area got so few that I called more than 20 stores from Misquite in the east to far west Ft Worth before I found ONE copy at the EB games in Arlington's Park's mall (he is expecting a small shipment on Wed. should open the box that night and shelve them on thur. if you are in the DFW area and looking).

[lyrah68]

Haha. Ok Mr. Forum server. Baztardized isn't a very nice thing to say about something, but it isn't a curse word.

Some think that word is, and they are aiming at a teen audence, even if they missed a tad and hit the 25 to 45+ age group instead...which is fine by me since that is MY age group *giggle grin*

I tend to disagree with you about the "midevil fantasy" setting, there is just enough about this world that I have NEVER seen in any movie, read about in ANY book or seen on ANY other game. For instance, I saw a cannon, very VERY crude one on a Lord of the Rings series movie, and a VERY crude bomb, but NO guns. This game does NOT have ONE item that ANY midevil fantasy game HAS to have...the Bow.

Plus where are the elves, hobbits, dwarves as playable races and the goblins, trolls, orcs and other monsters.

Sorry if you just seeing the fantasy part of this, you are missing more than half the game if you don't see the rest.

[Eshin]

I think Fjolnir was saying that WoW is something like that, not Ryzom. I mean, a hom.. person who is even remotely sane can't associate Ryzom to some sort of average Tolkien rip-off setting, right? Right.. ;)