Over at Elder Game, Eric wrote an excellent post on the decline of MMO populations.

To which I’ll add three quick points.

  • When the best part of your game (raiding in WoW, sieging in Shadowbane) can’t be played on some servers because you can’t get a team together, this should be terrifying people.  This is, in my experience, when the cascade starts.
  • When players realize that they are playing a “massively multiplayer” game, and they are isolated and alone, the irony is inescapable.
  • Blizzard, please merge my server with another.  We need more healers on our server, stat.

Original comments thread is here.