Kalor

I think he went mad because of other reasons....... And his screen name started with a J, and he took his ideas and made millions on them after leaving here.

Decided to check on the forums after a month or so since I posted or even looked at the game. I see this post, it shows there is hope for the community if there are people like this still in it. And to answer your question, yes I did put money into the game. I had paid for over 18 months of time in the game along with enough silver to keep a deed up and running for a year back in 2012. So yes I put money towards the game. I am not one of those freeloaders who come on play for 15minutes and quit. I gave Wurm Online a real chance, I REALLY wanted to like it but it just lacked, well everything I listed in my OP. Then I run into those pricks who make so many original posts like "dont let the door hit you where the good lord split you." and the like. Wow, how long did it take you to think that up, did you have to use Google, maybe Bing? Did you ask your friends on Instagram between your filtered selfie shots of you making some pointless duck face because you want to be a cool kid?

Really, learn to type. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

Wurm would be lucky if it seen 5k players a month through Steam. No really. Ok right now as of 23 July 2014 on the Steam Free To Play front page. There is Face of Mankind, and I can tell you that they see at most dozens of new players a day. Because I logged into it to see and I asked the developer Nexeon. Warframe, which might see a few hundred new players a day. DOTA2, and Warthunder, might see a thousand new players a day. Right now, at 12:01PM -5GMT there is just over 6.2mil players on Steam. So hundreds of thousands of new players to Wurm online, is looking at a large percentage of the current Steam population. If Wurm were lucky it would get maybe 0.1% of that trying out Wurm Online per day. So lets do some math! 0.1% (0.001)*6.2mil (6,200,000)=6200 players per day. That is about 93,800 players shy of 100,000 players per day. Even World of Warcraft at its peak wasn't drawing 100k players per day.

That's being VERY optimistic. Odds are you would see dozens, maybe more. But not 100k+. LOL Wurm doesn't look that good, hell there are top tier titles that don't even get 100k downloads in a single day.

Funny that so many people are against Steam, what are they afraid of? Losing their top tier status in game? Trolls? Poor press and bad reviews? .......... please. This game already gets poor press, trolls and enough in fighting to make the Mendez brothers jealous. Steam is a great resource for a game like this. Sure it will draw in a lot more players then currently stumble across this niche game. But the numbers of bad vs good players wont change, just the volume of them. In stead of getting 1 or 2 new players every month you might see 1 or 2 every week if not every day.

So true.

If you are soft in the head and put all your money in your deed then you deserve to have it drained.

This is all I have to say about it. Epics 2X skill gain is perfect. If only the rest of Wurm was like this it might be worth the premium cost. But right now it is cheaper to wait till someone decides to sell off a toon and buy the one you want then do it yourself.

Oh the occasional bow of some type to kill horses and oddball who uses a Maul or Axe doesn't constitute much variety. And it doesn't change the fact that non-interactive RNG based PvP/PvE is just flat out boring. There is a reason most of the PvP/PvE systems out there have moved away from this about 10 years ago.

What like actually add some variety in PvP options instead of the LS+LMS+Plate speed horse option?

Oh knows someone somewhere may have my character account information!!!! This would be bad if I still cared. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCoCa6b6cU

Does it matter without improvements to the combat system so it doesn't suck?

That so you want a big rowboat? I would love to see a junk make it into game.

Taking a shot in the dark, but.... I would guess the alt to newb ratio is closer to 5:1. 5 alts for every 1 new player.