Three years ago we had a VIRTUAL WORLD on Calipso. People would get together and socialise, sit, laydown in the grass, shoot the shit (chat), have parties, play and train there pets as they sat and looked at the scenery, form a group to do a beacon run, do some mining or hunting and generaly just enjoy themselves. Calipso was still folowing the ideals of the virtual world of Project Entropia.
All people wanted was some new content, like cars, or aircraft, new styles, pets you could ride or have help you in a fight etc.
We told MA what we wanted, over and over and over, but MA like most governments or company managers did not listen to the people who paid the bills, the people that paid their salary. The powers that be figured they knew what was best for us and they were just gona do it and thats it.
Well gess what MA, you screwed it up completely! Granted the new Calipso has realy nice graficks with CE2, but it's boring, and I mean boooorrrrriinnnggg. There use to be diferent ruines and stuff like crashed space craft to see, now there is nothing but a coupple of cities that are badly designed and a lot of beautifull landscape that bores you to tears after a while. The sunsets are glorious, to bad we can't just sit on a hillside with a friend and our pets and watch it.
I remember when Marco was talking about how he envisioned the new Calipso as a game and not a virtual world. Well Marco you were wrong, totaly and completely wrong and the numbers show it.
This is an expensive place, and as a "game" you don't have a chance in hell against the all the other free and/or monthly fee games out there. As a "virtual world" you were diferent than the competition, you ofered something that exsisted no were else, a place people could scocialise and that made the price aceptable because we got more than a game.
Now i'm moving on to Arkadia, if only for the scenery and ruins and just the way it reminds me of old Calipso. I know everything I have said here will have absolutle no effect on the management of this 'game' lol, god help us all if a manager ever admited he made a mistake, that would be the day lol, but just for the hell of it reread Xavier's post mabe those numbers will wake you up.
Have a good day MA