Faldon Advertisement Campaign Fundraiser

Good Day,

   Fighured I woudl hop on and check the forums.. see how the game has been fairing.  For anyone that remembers me, I am one of the oldie players.  Back during the original alpha and beta and for a couple years after that. 

  I highly doubt the campaign will do anything.

  My reasons behidn this?  I have tried several times to get back into this game, but the current crowd pushes newbies away quite a bit.  For instance, constant kill stealing in the newbie areas.  Not sure why, I suppose some folks get a kick off of doing that to new players.  The other few times I was out trying to mine in the desert.  I started getting verbally bashed because "another player was there first" even though we had the entire area to ourselves.  The chat is a mess, the gameplay hasnt changed in as long.

  The only thing that would breath any life into the game would be an entire game reset with a new map.  Statistics have shown in Faldon that as soon as a wipe and new map plus some advertising happens, the game absolutely explodes to life with new players. 

  As it stands, merely donating some money into a campaign to advertise wouldn't do much.  Any new players only stay a day or so before they hit the trail.

   The crowd sucks right now, to put it frankly.  It is rather amazing, considering some of the longer term more vocal players have aged at least a few years, yet their IQ seems to have sunk to the toilet as they get older.

Well, if you had actually been on the game in the last couple of years you'd probably see there was a vote accessed through the sign asking people what they thought of a server wipe (Yes: 18, No: 9) so I don't see your point. Most players, including people like myself who have spent a few $$'s on items, would welcome a wipe. Having items on Faldon is sort of like being buried with rare historical artifacts.. pointless. The whole reason I tried to set up a fundraiser is because the option of a wipe isn't really an option. Asking Zer for a wipe is the equivalent of a five year old asking for a third candy bar, it is not happening. So why shouldn't we explore some different avenues?

When did you last actually log on? I might not have been successful in raising this money but Faldonite's attitudes to newbies has changed a fair amount. Most players will happily answer questions in /bchat and if they speak to the right person then they get a little bit of pocket money. The 'toxic' players who blighted Faldon for so long seem to have all but gone.

Ultimately, this is exactly the response I was dreading to get and confirms what I have long thought about our community; we are so hung up about Zer's lack of involvement that we want Faldon to die out of spite 

A wipe would not do any good, until a new player base has been established. I know a few love the game enough to stay, find a way to attract new players, but accept the games fate.

Many of you have invested countless hours in this game, I for one have to give you all props, however the owner of this game have moved on in life. Stay if you like, fiend for progression if it's a must, but this game is dead. Be in a form of denial, keep on using the game as a chat room, but take it on faith Faldon has met an end.

the egg it was laid by another animal!!

Sykes, this iteration of Faldon was actually built around item decay - you'd get drops, but those items wouldn't last forever.  Tinker ruined that, though.

And I think there will always be people who think it's a good game and as long as its around, it will be enjoyed even if it's only by a small portion of the population. Isn't that better then not having Faldon? I'm sad I can't play right meow.

I would surely come back to this game if this works. Wish someone could finish the update somehow.
It would be a shame to see this game disappear forever. 

"This" is not working as people patently do not want to donate money for an advertising that, in all fairness, Zer should be paying for himself. The only way this game will recuperate is if people come back regardless of how busy it is at the moment and stay.

A lot of oldbies decide they feel nostalgic for Fally and would probably even buy C but log on and see 5 people and think what's the point? Everyone should double log their old toons and then triple log a new character and pretend that there's been a wipe. No transferring cash/items from old toons to new.

It's a wipe without a wipe and it's the only way to make Fally fun again. Peace.

Ok so, I'm hoping i'm not beating a dead horse here but I suggest we open like a business page for Faldon Online on facebook and then i'm more than happy to pay a little bit to get the page promoted...

Ok but right now as it stands the community is very low, if there was some sort of spike you know "density" wise it may (influence) Zer for further development....I really do love this game because of so many memories....It couldn't hurt to try in my opinion.