Melvin wrote:With each passing day since the release of Nostalrius and with every bug I found my initial excitement has faded more and more. Today after finding out about another severe bug affecting my class I was even thinking about quitting altogether.
Still, I'm playing, hoping for the best, but I definitely have a different idea of how a "quality realm" should look like.
I don't know much about class mechanics, but so far the server feels really great.
There are a couple of features that make the realm great:
+the large population
+the fact that the server is able to support such a large playerbase
+unless there is something severely game breaking, the population will never dwindleThe attitude of the administration is a tad covert, there's no arguing that, but they do get the word out eventually.
For instance, the in-game bugtracker is supposedly working. I've seen silly quests such as Arugal's Folly and Pyrewood Village get fixes installed in the matter of hours. The fact that you couldn't share quests at some point was also fixed instanteously.
All in all, this server feels good. Think Wailing Caverns - the Murloc event is properly scripted. Truly, it's not 100% Blizzlike, but the AI doesn't feel dumb, although there are some encounters, Pythas I think, where you can "bug" the aforementioned lord.
But then again think of Molten WoW and Emerald Dream whose staff are arrogant nitwits and self-serving louts who mask their insencerity in filmy claptrap. They talk big, they promote core values quintessential to gaming communities such as close-knit community, reponsive administration and bug fixes, but for most of the time they dilly-dally and even tell people to go off. I need not say how Molten reacts to people who ciriticise the quality of their server on their forums. They censore, delete and ban. If I can't tell them, in a meaningful way, that there's something wrong and list my ideas and complaints, then thank you very much, but I've got better things to do than play WoW.
We will see how it goes. You want Notalrius to be up to snuff. Well so do many others! Make tickets, start discussions in the forum regarding your class and demand a reply. If you get snubbed after some time then you will have a reasonable cause to leave. Nostalrius have proven its worth in terms of bug-fixing capacity, nor has it proven incapable of solving its issues.
Whether through guile or clever advertising, Nostalrius have done the improbable. They have achieved a nigh 4/5k playerbase which is a feat in itself. Alas, I don't think any server will ever come to what Blizzard is. There's no doubt ambitious projects such as Corecraft and Kronos may prove better yet, but this game is meant to be social, and as long as the staff do not act arrogantly towards their community and show will to improve the quality of the server, there's little doubt where the players will remain.
