115012-so-i-took-a-break-for-a-month-what-have-i-missed

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			I've been gone for a while due to a lack of time to play, and now I've come back to see a lot of negativity surrounding WildStar. What happened? All I keep hearing is "servers are dead", or things to do with megaservers spelling the death of WS. Are things really as bad as some people say they are? Or is this all just gross exaggeration? I actually like this game, and I do hope that there is still some kind of chance for it to last in the long run.	
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Go login and find out, use the free transfer to Pergo, Stormtalon (Evindra for RP) if you're NA and haven't already. 
EDIT: Just read your signature my bad don't know the EU servers. But anyway yeah the possibility of not having Halloween sucks and the rest is opinions pretty much.  	
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Hazak Dominion appears to be the busiest server in the EU at the moment. I've re-rolled myself from Ascendancy Exile. Yes the game has lost a lot of players, it's very noticeable on the other servers. How much that is lost we don't know as no numbers/statistics have been shared. Guilds are struggling to recruit etc. People hope that things will be better with Megaservers.
 
In regards to dungeons etc I don't reckon it will be since they are cross-server and on a 'good' night I might 'only' be waiting around for 40 min to an hour to get a queue popping. Then it kinda sucks when people disband the group nearly straight away for various reasons, or no reason at all.	
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Besides free server transfer..you didn't miss much.
 
A lot of the playerbase has left for good or waiting on mega server merge or drop 3.
 
Honestly it would be nice if everyone would just log on the ptr more to make that server lively.	
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Ah don't read the forums, the people playing the game and having fun post here a lot less than the folk who are finding it difficult or decided they didn't like it.
 
They have tweaked the attunements to make a lot more sense, you now only need bronze in dungeons (same as silver, but with no timer), as rushing through bosses isn't good practice for raiding. Also they have made it so if you killed world bosses before that part of the attunement, it counts when you get there.
 
I love the game too, and continue to play it a lot. Hazak is well populated, plenty of group content to enjoy (R12, Scorchwing and the occasional Tree Event and Hellorose). See you there ;-)	
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Ah don't read the forums, the people playing the game and having fun post here a lot less than the folk who are finding it difficult or decided they didn't like it.
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			http://massively.joystiq.com/category/wildstar/	
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			Just wait until the next drop to see a ton of massive changes that will revitalize Wildstar in a radical change for the positive. After mega-servers and the next drop are done it has been said that the state of the game will be the way I should have actually been at release. Bottom line: everything will be changed for the better after next drop.	
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Real quick:
 
There will be no holidays this year.  Drop 3 has become Drop 3-4 and will be released no earlier than October 21st.  IT will have something like 100 pages of patch notes.  It looks to be extremely extensive and is answering a lot of the feedback we left in the last few months.  Megaservers will come sooner (about two weeks-ish).
 
I'm optimistic, but waiting to read the patch notes.  We're told we'll get the whole kit and caboodle in a file somewhere, hopefully in Donatelli's next post.
 
Population took a hit with megaserver announcement (a lot of RPers were disappointed about their RP server being removed) and with the content falling into a quarterly rather than monthly cycle.  A lot depends on whether Drop 3 and the megaservers fix enough issues that people start streaming back in (and how much support we have to get new blood in and lapsed players back).
 
Pretty much the state of things at present.  Everyone who REALLY wanted bug fixes is getting their wish.	
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you've missed the game going into a full on death spiral 
every time they do announcements on how things will get better it just looks more and more bleak	
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I've been gone for a while due to a lack of time to play, and now I've come back to see a lot of negativity surrounding WildStar. What happened? All I keep hearing is "servers are dead", or things to do with megaservers spelling the death of WS. Are things really as bad as some people say they are? Or is this all just gross exaggeration? I actually like this game, and I do hope that there is still some kind of chance for it to last in the long run.
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That's quite a statement. I'm fairly certain you can't read peoples mind and I'm also quite certain that people do tend to lurk on the forums and post when they are at work etc.
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It's how I perceive the game. I don't need to read people's minds to get an impression about how my fellow players feel :) . Of course, I may be wrong, I accept that.
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			So how is Hazak population wise, more or less even on both sides?	
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