This game is really losing steam and players are leaving again. We're pretty much back to the situation we had with GamersFirst before they brought out the template characters, and what a fiasco that was. At that time our reader numbers here were just barely reaching 800 unique readers per month. For the month of March we had only 860 unique readers. That's down from 1200 in January.

In our league we're down to about 10 really active players. That's actually normal for most of the leagues on the Games Campus German server. I've spoken to a few other high level players and they all have have the same situation we have. They have high level characters in their leagues, and a few characters designed to hunt bosses, and that's it. The lack of regular weekly events has pretty much destroyed the crowd of casual players and Games Campus doesn't seem to be willing to do anything about that.

The situation isn't just here on 9D Germany. Our friends in the Restless League on the GamersFirst server have pretty much had enough too. They'll be meeting this week to see what they want to do next. Most of their long term members have left 9Dragons already. Some have gone on to play Guild Wars. Guild Wars 2 should be out soon, and that might be a good option for me.

The other factor of course is the presence of the Vietnamese hackers and again, Games Campus doesn't seem to be willing to do anything about those people either. A number of them have had hacked weapons taken away, but apparently hacking those weapons in the first place isn't good enough reason to ban players from the game. Those guys are now using +9 weapons, instead of +10. It's their new standard equipment, and I'm sure those were hacked too. There is about a 3% cumulative chance to refine a weapon to +9.

I had a 2 slot weapon fail at +4 last week. I'm not putting up with this anymore.

I'm looking around again for a new game to play. I have a 90 day premium package in the bag, and I'll start using that today. I have a few credits left over that I will probably spend on XP cards. After all, I might as well use those credits up before moving on.

Star Wars Old Republic is coming soon. They are accepting applications for beta testers and are allowing leagues to pre-register league names already, so it shouldn't be too long. I have signed up for the beta tester program. Age of Wulin is more active with their Twitter page too, but I'm not expecting a beta test for that game any time soon.

I'll still be around and playing this game as I've done for a long time, until I can find something else I want to play. Like I said, I'm not putting up with this anymore.

- AxtTreiber