Christmas time is over, people are going back to work and TCoS is still well alive, or is it? I’m going to to summarise what happened in the last couple of days while that guy with the funny hat and bear flew around the world. Unscheduled server downtimes and failed advertisement in Germany.

On December 23, German high-circulation PC gaming magazine Gamestar featured the F2P-client/trial on one of its two DVDs, mentioning it right on its cover and with a somewhat positive double-sided review inside. One would have hoped this would have brought some new souls to try or to subscribe to the game. Apparently the amount of new players that has been generated by this so for isn’t worth mentioning. OK, there not a big studio producing this game, granted, but I can’t understand why even with this, no one seems to stick once they tried. My theory is people are scared off by the horrible start you this game has. There’s no CGI intro, there is only a badly voiced cut scene when you first enter the world showing you the empty regions of Hawk’s landing and Hawksmouth and a lot of people are already overstrained with the task to find the NPC mentioned in your first quest. They should seriously consider tweaking the starting areas so it’s a little more appealing and a little less frustrating.

Talking about frustration. Servers went to down on both December 25 and 26 in the morning hours and were unreachable for at least a couple of hours without any notice to the community whatsoever. They told us that there was a some broken hardware that now has been replaced after everything was working again. Bur for all that I care this isn’t enough. I’m a paying customer and if something is wrong I want to be informed about it yesterday.