Memnir wrote on Dec 1
st, 2011 at 12:19pm:
I was Premium since about six months after Unlimited launched till three months ago when I bought a three month VIP. It gave out at the start of November, and I didn't bother to renew it.
With my waning interest in the game in general, U12 was just the final nudge to stop. They say it takes 30 days to make a new habit or break an old one. I'm about two-thirds of the way to breaking my DDO habit, and frankly am not too sad about it. The game has been increasingly one that I find frustrating to play, and I've been coasting on the memories of what the game used to be, and the pleasure of the people I know in-game. But, the fumes of good-will have all dissipated, and I fucking hate the endless layers of grind the Devs have heaped on the game in the past few years. Maybe those layers have always been there, and I've just woken up to them... who knows?
This is the reality for most people in most games. When it's new and shiny, as long as the game is decent, people will ignore whatever imperfections there are and just get on with enjoying the game.
After a period of time (Months for some, a few years for others), the whole game becomes explored and all that is left is repitition. Either people are down for that or they start to get bored and start looking for those imperfections they ignored early on to explain why they aren't having fun anymore.
It's been two years since the F2p thing (That's when I joined) so I guess it's only natural that now is a good a time as any to see a steady rise in more familiar names saying they've had enough (Or starting to bitch about this n that).
Some are 5 year vets (These guys have been complaining since I joined tho to be fair, but were just drowned out by the mass influx of new people), and more are the 2 year old players.
I don't think the game is dying, just stabalizing at the moment. We've probably reached a point now where the stream of new people coming and old people leaving will be steady for a while. The challege for Fernando and his pedigree chums is to keep the joiners higher or equal to the leavers.