#Soon - Read this if you want WarZ back.

I’m not a WarZ player, nor have I ever been or probably ever will be, but I care about WarZ and want to see it thrive.
If we can revive WarZ, it can help the entire server. Heck, this might help revive Wild West.

 

It wouldn't hurt to try this out.

 

I wouldn't mind trying out warZ even. I have some gear currently and it's never used. Maybe learn something

 

Not sure how effective 2 weeks of free MVP and an event would be in the long run, but it's worth a shot.

 

Yessss! I would love to see this. I have been playing actively as one of 6 players who still play warz, and it is sad, but still fun, but I would be so happy to see the warz community spike up, and possibly make it an active game mode again. If you and striker are willing to put in the effort I think it would be a great idea that could possibly bring warz back.

 

Please. Make. This. Happen.

 

if people come back for 2 weeks of mvp and an event, they'll leave as soon as that's gone. this is a temporary solution, unless you plan on designing, organizing, and executing an event regularly, imo

 

Ritzy's first bullet point suggests we would host (regular) events.
How do you know that all players who came back for the rank/initial event, will leave? Let's say you have a 50/50 chance of being right, and I ask you this:
What are the cons/drawbacks of attempting something like this, other than some time being put in by staff?

 

well, the bullet points i see start with him being promoted to staff, and they often tend to mention "the" event, signaling that there'd be only one. obviously if there were more then my concern there would be gone.

i know because in the past, when free elite or free mvp were given out, players joined and the population grew a ton, and then as soon as the event was over, it started declining, as people would lose their gear, be unused to the time it takes to get it back, and give up. it's happened before, theres no reason to assume it wont happen again.

well, when you exclude the main downside youre not really promoting much of a fair response. the downside is the wasted time, the time spent on a temporary fix that could be spent attending to other server problems. im not opposed to the idea, i never said that it shouldnt happen, i just dont want to pretend like it's an end-all solution to a problem thats existed for years. maybe im wrong, who knows, i hope i am, since id love to see warz back to its former glory, but theres no reason to assume that this will fix it. id rather spend more time formulating a stronger permanent solution than to keep taking shots in the dark, guessing at what will work when there's reason to believe that what's being tried wont work. again, i'm not at all saying this is a bad idea. i think it's a good idea, and i doubt itd take tons of time off of staff's hands, and hell, maybe brawl would make enough money off of people paying for longer mvp after the event is over to make it more regular, or to focus more attention to expanding and improving the game that could be good. but i dont want to prepare myself for warz to be miraculously fixed by a 2-week thing, because theres no guarantee.

 

I wouldn't say time is a downside at all considering this is what should be done already to upkeep a server. I agree, it has been tried in the past, but was never really followed up with events, staff presence or any organization. Your last paragraph makes it seem like there are things we can gain from this but that this will not be a permanent solution. And you're probably right about that, but it can create an avenue to listen to a (maybe temporarily) bigger community and start putting things in place, even if we only have a couple weeks to a month to do this. We can't work on a permanent solution without any momentum. Why not give it a try?

 

i mean, i certainly wasnt criticizing your bullet point order

but how would you keep them on board? again, you only explicitly said one event, though i assume you know more events would be a good option, but events alone arent going to completely fix it, though they would do a good deal to. and, saying "what's to lose" isn't really a very good reason to try something, especially when your other mindset is "don't be pessimistic." those two together seem to lead to a lot of decisions not being planned out enough (again, im not saying this is a bad idea, im not saying this would do anything bad to the server)

Well, I'm sure there's at least some amount of developer time, although like i said i doubt its anything very significant.

have no fear, i wasn't going to do anything anyway. i dont point out negatives for the purpose to shutting down the idea, i want to be clear about that. i think this is a great idea that has a possibility to at least start a revival of easily my favorite server, which i absolutely would want to see happen. i point out negatives because besides me, there had been no negatives listed. i dont think you need me to tell you it's a good idea, if youre just after affirmation and positivity (which, to be clear, i dont think you are), then theres lots of other posts. i want the idea to work and that cant happen without thinking about where the idea could fail, what could go wrong, and preparing for if it does. hell, if this did happen id probably join, and whos to say i wouldnt stay especially with more events in the future? warz was easily my favorite server, it was essentially the only game i played for years, i would wholeheartedly love to see this idea happen and work, but that goes along with wanting to make sure the idea works as intended. i dont want it to happen and for people to leave right afterwards, and without anyone bringing it up, its much more likely that that will happen.

maybe i wasnt as clear as i could have been, my point wasnt that its been done before, but that things have been tried before. adding new items, changing gameplay, etc., but none of it worked very well for very long. this is a much better idea than those ones were, but again, because theres no precedent for it its hard to say without forethought and planning what will happen, and it could become another example of ideas that were tried, but didnt work. and i dont want that to happen.

i definitely agree with you in that warz was brawls biggest asset. i dont know the numbers, but war while had donations i doubt they were anywhere near the monthly, large-sum donations that warz hauled in. if it works, then theres a fairly large chance that brawl could end up being able to spend more resources on it in the future, and grow it even more. i dont want to say im being pessimistic, but i also dont want to ignore downsides or possible shortcomings, and if that comes across as undue negativity, then thats fine, just know that its because i want to see the idea work

 

It’s on?

 

B E T

 

Sorry, but no.

 

now