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    Dear Ubisoft have a look at your server activity today.

    Compare your server activity today to what you have had on PTS. I hope this makes you realise how important it is to LISTEN to your playerbase now. I know it is hard to swallow, but have a look at Blizzards experience from Diablo 3. They already did all the mistakes you are now trying to fix when they first launched Diablo 3. THIS is your chance to get back your playerbase. Please make it count. I hope you succeed, I look forward to seeing 1.4, and hope it results in a game me, and alot more will return to

    Statistics speaks volumes. I know you have Uplay and other sources too, but Steam is a pretty good pointer. http://steamcharts.com/app/365590
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    It makes for pretty bad reading but there is some mitigation (unlike armor) It's a Tuesday, it's early and the game is kind of in limbo. Is there any point to playing atm, everything you achieve will be undone by 1.4, your gear trashed, your weapons junked, so what's the point?

    Massive are playing a very dangerous game right now, how ever long the wait on 1.4 will be, will be leaving the playerbase little or nothing meaningful to do and that's when people's eye start wondering.
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    Originally Posted by TokoyoEU Go to original post
    Compare your server activity today to what you have had on PTS. I hope this makes you realise how important it is to LISTEN to your playerbase now. I know it is hard to swallow, but have a look at Blizzards experience from Diablo 3. They already did all the mistakes you are now trying to fix when they first launched Diablo 3. THIS is your chance to get back your playerbase. Please make it count. I hope you succeed, I look forward to seeing 1.4, and hope it results in a game me, and alot more will return to

    Statistics speaks volumes. I know you have Uplay and other sources too, but Steam is a pretty good pointer. http://steamcharts.com/app/365590
    I'm wondering if Massive will have enough servers to handle the volume of players looking to try out 1.4? Serious question. They are never prepared.
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    I myself are going to do 1 more evening of farming for certain items, move onto other games until at least the patch drops, and when it drops see where my mind is at. The game needs content. I know this is the base on which they can build and so on, but I'm nearing a point where it's going to be too little, too late. Survival maybe in December, 2+ months from now? I'll be knee-deep in Watch Dogs 2, Doom, Dishonored 2 and what not, not really remembering this gorgeous looking game...

    I have a feeling The Division 2 will be completely different (Ubisoft usually gets it right on the second iteration - I don't mean ill!!).
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    lol,no sane person is gonna buy TD2 especially if they have played this one

    sayonara
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    Originally Posted by TokoyoEU Go to original post
    Compare your server activity today to what you have had on PTS. I hope this makes you realise how important it is to LISTEN to your playerbase now. I know it is hard to swallow, but have a look at Blizzards experience from Diablo 3. They already did all the mistakes you are now trying to fix when they first launched Diablo 3. THIS is your chance to get back your playerbase. Please make it count. I hope you succeed, I look forward to seeing 1.4, and hope it results in a game me, and alot more will return to

    Statistics speaks volumes. I know you have Uplay and other sources too, but Steam is a pretty good pointer. http://steamcharts.com/app/365590
    Am really shocked at those "average" numbers. From an average of 65k players that own this game on PC, only an average of 2.5k took an interest in 1.4, if not to test it,at least out of curiosity? Makes me wonder just how many will return and for how long. I know it is only Steam stats, but what is the likelyhood that all the dissatisfaction is on Steam only and everybody else is happy with this game.
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    The Steam playerbase was always the smallest segment.

    The PTS was always damn near full when I was on. Hell, it even had queues the first couple of weeks.
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    Originally Posted by Arafys Go to original post
    The Steam playerbase was always the smallest segment.

    The PTS was always damn near full when I was on. Hell, it even had queues the first couple of weeks.
    I am aware of steam's share of the pie, but to treat the stats of one segment as an isolated case is just just plain denial. By the way, the signal I am getting from those numbers does not please me anymore than they could or would you, rather they disturb me.
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    Originally Posted by Arafys Go to original post
    The Steam playerbase was always the smallest segment.

    The PTS was always damn near full when I was on. Hell, it even had queues the first couple of weeks.
    As small as you want to see the segment, Steam is no small-timer in the gaming industry, and taking a dive from 65k (avrage) players at launch, to 2k players in 1.3 is not something anyone should take lighltly, especially not Ubi/Massive. I have no numbers to back this up, but wouldn't surprise me if 1.4 PTS had more players online peak hours, than what 1.3 live servers had.

    edit: Ubisoft could easily prove these numbers wrong by providing Uplay statistics across the board for Xbox/PS4/PC, but I doubt it benefits them much.
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    Originally Posted by TokoyoEU Go to original post
    Compare your server activity today to what you have had on PTS. I hope this makes you realise how important it is to LISTEN to your playerbase now. I know it is hard to swallow, but have a look at Blizzards experience from Diablo 3. They already did all the mistakes you are now trying to fix when they first launched Diablo 3. THIS is your chance to get back your playerbase. Please make it count. I hope you succeed, I look forward to seeing 1.4, and hope it results in a game me, and alot more will return to

    Statistics speaks volumes. I know you have Uplay and other sources too, but Steam is a pretty good pointer. http://steamcharts.com/app/365590
    If what we were playing on the PTS hadn't been good then no one would have been playing on the PTS, so they don't really need to listen, they just need to release it.
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