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Hi MMOBugers,
Ever since the suspension waves that started in December hit, we have lost a ton of our membership base, along with receiving barely any new members in the process. I thought free to play would bring back a pile of old members but unfortunately it has not been the case. We are now at our lowest active membership base in over 3 years.
SoE has done a great job of scaring people away from MacroQuest and it has started to get to the point where the lack of new members is making it hard to pay the bills. I have had to take up some contract work here and there to keep a roof over my family's head. So what I need to figure out is what we can do to restore peoples faith in using MacroQuest2 and make this site better. I went through old posts to try and dig up the dates of suspension waves.
December 9th 2011 (All were un-suspended due to fake positives)
December 20th 2011
January 13th 2012
January 23rd 2012
February 18th 2012
March 5th 2012
It's been 51 days since the last suspension wave. During this lull in the suspension waves the EverQuest developer Sklug has move to EQNext. I do believe Sklug was the major talent behind tracking our ingame hacks as he seemed to be the most competent coder they had. Him changing projects shouldn't have stop suspension waves from happening though as the tracking code should still be there.
The free to play model was launched March 16th 2012. I am starting to believe SoE thought process behind these suspension waves were that the number one problem behind people quitting EQ in the past was hacking. By doing these crack downs, they are showing these old EverQuest users that hacking is not a problem any longer, come play EverQuest again for free.
I am really not sure if they are planning more suspension waves. It has been a fairly long lull, but they might just be too busy with free to play bugs. On to the reason for this post.
I would really like to know what we can do better for our member base. What problems you have? What we can organize better? Do we want more contests? Do we want something more user-friendly? Better documentation? Feature added to MMOLoader? Do we want a radio back? I would really like to know what you guys want.
Htw has a new change to MMOLoader coming soon that when you launch LaunchPad4 it will run eqgame.exe patchme instead if you have MMOLoader open. I think this was confusing a lot of people when they were double clicking the EverQuest icon and nothing was happening.
I have talked to OurPlat, and we "should" have a new sponsored contest at the start of next month.
Htw has some ideas on how to make some active hacks less trackable, but with SoE not doing suspension waves at this stage it's impossible for us to test.
We really need ideas on what we can do to improve things around here to hopefully get our membership base growing again.
With that all said, if you are happy with the service we provide, please consider recommending us to a friends, or supporting us by upgrading to a lifetime account. We are going through a tough patch and appreciated any support we can get. If you are not happy about our service then let us know in this thread and we will address it or improve it.
MMOBugs will always be here as long as an EverQuest server is up somewhere in the world. I would also like to thank everyone over the years for the support we have received. I count myself a lucky guy to be able to do what I enjoy for a living.
Thanks.
Ever since the suspension waves that started in December hit, we have lost a ton of our membership base, along with receiving barely any new members in the process. I thought free to play would bring back a pile of old members but unfortunately it has not been the case. We are now at our lowest active membership base in over 3 years.
SoE has done a great job of scaring people away from MacroQuest and it has started to get to the point where the lack of new members is making it hard to pay the bills. I have had to take up some contract work here and there to keep a roof over my family's head. So what I need to figure out is what we can do to restore peoples faith in using MacroQuest2 and make this site better. I went through old posts to try and dig up the dates of suspension waves.
December 9th 2011 (All were un-suspended due to fake positives)
December 20th 2011
January 13th 2012
January 23rd 2012
February 18th 2012
March 5th 2012
It's been 51 days since the last suspension wave. During this lull in the suspension waves the EverQuest developer Sklug has move to EQNext. I do believe Sklug was the major talent behind tracking our ingame hacks as he seemed to be the most competent coder they had. Him changing projects shouldn't have stop suspension waves from happening though as the tracking code should still be there.
The free to play model was launched March 16th 2012. I am starting to believe SoE thought process behind these suspension waves were that the number one problem behind people quitting EQ in the past was hacking. By doing these crack downs, they are showing these old EverQuest users that hacking is not a problem any longer, come play EverQuest again for free.
I am really not sure if they are planning more suspension waves. It has been a fairly long lull, but they might just be too busy with free to play bugs. On to the reason for this post.
I would really like to know what we can do better for our member base. What problems you have? What we can organize better? Do we want more contests? Do we want something more user-friendly? Better documentation? Feature added to MMOLoader? Do we want a radio back? I would really like to know what you guys want.
Htw has a new change to MMOLoader coming soon that when you launch LaunchPad4 it will run eqgame.exe patchme instead if you have MMOLoader open. I think this was confusing a lot of people when they were double clicking the EverQuest icon and nothing was happening.
I have talked to OurPlat, and we "should" have a new sponsored contest at the start of next month.
Htw has some ideas on how to make some active hacks less trackable, but with SoE not doing suspension waves at this stage it's impossible for us to test.
We really need ideas on what we can do to improve things around here to hopefully get our membership base growing again.
With that all said, if you are happy with the service we provide, please consider recommending us to a friends, or supporting us by upgrading to a lifetime account. We are going through a tough patch and appreciated any support we can get. If you are not happy about our service then let us know in this thread and we will address it or improve it.
MMOBugs will always be here as long as an EverQuest server is up somewhere in the world. I would also like to thank everyone over the years for the support we have received. I count myself a lucky guy to be able to do what I enjoy for a living.
Thanks.