Does trion think defiance is dead?

[Cavadus]

Unless this September content is particularly amazing, and they've given no indication of it being anything other than some missions and gear, then I think it's safe to assume that, yes, the game is pretty much on life support.

It's been over a year and they just haven't managed to add much substance. The biggest content addition the game has seen were the arkbreaks and SV.

But by any other MMO's standards those would be very light content additions. Almost all of the DLCs were a complete joke. Since Trick has been at the helm they've been alternating between destroying stuff we like or writing condescending posts which antagonize most of us.

I've certainly been a part of some very mismanaged MMOs before but nothing on this level.

Anyways, I'm playing Borderlands 2 and Firefall at the moment. If The Company can't get their shtako together by the end of October that'll wrap it up for me.

[RobDaCool]

Game was getting way to laggy for me, I haven't played in over a week ever since I got Diablo 3 lol

[Rumeyes]

So you know how to fix it? Please share your software and hardware engineering knowledge with Trion and the rest of us if you know how to fix it.

Have no phear. Fanboys with shtakoty arguments are hear. Server stability is an issue. Wake up.

Since the deathnerf on rewards I just log in to do my contracts. Real shame it is.

[N3gativeCr33p]

I've certainly been a part of some very mismanaged MMOs before but nothing on this level.

Funny... I was thinking the same thing myself just yesterday.

[Baines]

We just played for about 45 minutes. Clan is gone except for 12 people who didn't even respond when I asked them where everyone else went. Used to have a TON of folks on every weekend. Hubby got bored and we logged off.

To be fair, if you used the in-game chat, they might have never seen your question. At least on the PC version, the in-game chat seems to randomly pick people for whom it won't display specific channel messages.

Not that that is much of an improvement, mind.

Funny... I was thinking the same thing myself just yesterday.

From my experience, Defiance might not be that much worse than others. Firefall looks decent to new players because the bar is so low (there are almost no MMORPG shooters and none have lived up to their potential), and because new players don't see how Firefall was more interesting before Red 5 decided it would be more profitable if it appealed to a more casual audience. Red 5 drew many similar complaints as Trion on their forums. (Allegedly, Red 5 later got rid of some of its more vocal complainers.)

What else is there to compare? I remember Hellgate London being a bit of a mess. It eventually went under and resurfaced as a f2p where it largely seemed to stagnate. The APB devs managed to spend all their money by the time the game launched, not bothering to budget for upkeep and maintenance fees. I don't recall APB ever really being open world either, as you really only interacted with others during missions. I remember that they were still adding some out of mission interaction after it resurfaced as a f2p. Warframe isn't open world, but I remember the devs there ignoring a net code issue for months last year, which I honestly don't know if it was ever fixed this year either.

[Deunan]

Have no phear. Fanboys with shtakoty arguments are hear. Server stability is an issue. Wake up.

I'm wide awake. What has this have to do with anything I posted? OP made it sound like it's a very easy fix (as if it really only required addressing one thing in the coding). Is anyone actually stupid enough to believe that it's that easy and Trion is deliberately not trying to fix the stability issues that came with free-to-play?

[Amack]

it's safe to assume that, yes, the game is pretty much on life support.

Trion as a company has been on life support since this game was released. You can certainly compare it to other thriving games or you can take the more realistic route and say it is a miracle any Trion games are still operating at all.

[Bonehead]

Unless this September content is particularly amazing

I honestly have a hard time seeing how it could be at this point.

[Piers]

I honestly have a hard time seeing how it could be at this point.

Something amazing that could happen: Defiance gets bought by EA, or Activision, or even Epic games or Yeager studios.

[sly wolf]

@ DEUNAN: yes some of the problems are very simple to fix and if they want to contact me I would be happy to help them with the networking/server issues they can even visit my company site:

http://allanmitten.wix.com/bear-inve...services/c1h6a

Where they can employ my services as I have a lot of experience in hardware issues.

I never said the game was dead why do people never read the whole post before making lame *** comments about dancing on defiance grave as I said in my post I HOPE DEFIANCE MAKES IT AND BECOMES A GREAT GAME LIKE IT COULD BE I just wondered why trion are letting this go on and if in their heart of hearts they think its dead.