Conspiracy Theory Time
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:25 amAlright, this conversation was going on in our voice chat the other day and I thought it was barely interesting enough to make a post about it on the forums.
We were discussing the current level of content and trying to figure out reasons why things might be in the state they are.
Obviously the first thing that came to mind, is that the devs just simply do not know what they are doing. After several weeks of AV testing and only negative feedback from the guilds that we have talked to, it seems progression is moving at a snails pace. It's not as if these battlegrounds and raids haven't been scripted on other servers, a few people even insisted that BWL is one of the easiest raids to script, so why the long wait?
Waiting so long to release content is just going to ensure it's cleared faster. Guilds who have been raiding for weeks are all BIS, and will get even more powerful after the item update. Delaying AV/BWL, will just make the content that much easier to clear, and we'll be back to where we are now, that much faster.
The main thing our group could not figure out is that, if the devs are not incompetent, and do in fact know what they are doing, why the wait? It's not uncommon to see private servers promise things and not deliver, then open and/or solicit donations as a means to speed up the process of content release. However, Nostalrius is not. Besides a single post several weeks ago they are not actively soliciting donations. So how is this server remaining active?
Gold sellers are ubiquitous now a days, however on the two other vanilla private servers I've played on, I've never seen spam so frequent, until I came across the sinbaonline spam. Why only sinbaonline? If you Google, "Buy Nostalrius Gold" there are several other sites that pop up. Why is this the only spam we see? Why is the same character allowed, sometimes for days to continue spamming before being banned? Why are new accounts being created so easily, and remaining active for so long?
Nostalrius is working together with Sinba online.
Why else would Nostalrius make it front and center in almost everyone of their patch notes/updates. Don't buy gold! We've banned so many accounts for buying gold! You know the rules, gold buyers and sellers get banned!
Most of the response they get to these posts are, who fucking cares? Buy all the gold you want, stop wasting resources banning gold sellers and buyers, and release content. Yet, every time there's a dev post, they make sure to mention specifically, the amount of time and effort they've put into quelling the gold buying scene on their server.
I believe we are being Nostalruzed into waiting for content that will never come, they lure us in with promises of new content, we level our toons, get lured into buying some gold, and boom, banhamer. Nostalrius gets a cut of the gold sale, and continues to drag their feet on content, while yelling from the rafters about the dangers about gold buying, YET continues allowing gold selling spam to continue, uninterrupted, on a daily basis.
Conspiracy? You decide.
We were discussing the current level of content and trying to figure out reasons why things might be in the state they are.
Obviously the first thing that came to mind, is that the devs just simply do not know what they are doing. After several weeks of AV testing and only negative feedback from the guilds that we have talked to, it seems progression is moving at a snails pace. It's not as if these battlegrounds and raids haven't been scripted on other servers, a few people even insisted that BWL is one of the easiest raids to script, so why the long wait?
Waiting so long to release content is just going to ensure it's cleared faster. Guilds who have been raiding for weeks are all BIS, and will get even more powerful after the item update. Delaying AV/BWL, will just make the content that much easier to clear, and we'll be back to where we are now, that much faster.
The main thing our group could not figure out is that, if the devs are not incompetent, and do in fact know what they are doing, why the wait? It's not uncommon to see private servers promise things and not deliver, then open and/or solicit donations as a means to speed up the process of content release. However, Nostalrius is not. Besides a single post several weeks ago they are not actively soliciting donations. So how is this server remaining active?
Gold sellers are ubiquitous now a days, however on the two other vanilla private servers I've played on, I've never seen spam so frequent, until I came across the sinbaonline spam. Why only sinbaonline? If you Google, "Buy Nostalrius Gold" there are several other sites that pop up. Why is this the only spam we see? Why is the same character allowed, sometimes for days to continue spamming before being banned? Why are new accounts being created so easily, and remaining active for so long?
Nostalrius is working together with Sinba online.
Why else would Nostalrius make it front and center in almost everyone of their patch notes/updates. Don't buy gold! We've banned so many accounts for buying gold! You know the rules, gold buyers and sellers get banned!
Most of the response they get to these posts are, who fucking cares? Buy all the gold you want, stop wasting resources banning gold sellers and buyers, and release content. Yet, every time there's a dev post, they make sure to mention specifically, the amount of time and effort they've put into quelling the gold buying scene on their server.
I believe we are being Nostalruzed into waiting for content that will never come, they lure us in with promises of new content, we level our toons, get lured into buying some gold, and boom, banhamer. Nostalrius gets a cut of the gold sale, and continues to drag their feet on content, while yelling from the rafters about the dangers about gold buying, YET continues allowing gold selling spam to continue, uninterrupted, on a daily basis.
Conspiracy? You decide.