Quote Originally Posted by Naerri View Post
No special membership offers/better f2p restrictions/fair item shop pricing will help the population/game unless properly marketed and that is not gonna happen in the first place. So in the end this discussion is pointless imo.
Depends a lot on your expectations and to what you want to compare AoC.
Special offers, f2p fix, better pricing etc. CAN definitely help to make the stay of those staying at least to some extend profitable for funcom. And this without marketing, because the target audience are already customers. And these have voices, friends and other ways than this forum to communicate. So, if they do something GOOD, it will be noticed, just like the bad.
The GD was right with his accessment that AoC is so far unique, but this does not allow for infinite milking and those disappointed by AoC will not buy Lego, TSW or anything else most likely. That is why i always opposed the neglectence of AoC intentionally (which now might have changed, but now the total resources are low).