The reason why is simple. The players who keep PVP servers alive is the same people who it has always been, since most people have left the Conquer scene then a PVP server cannot run, because it won't gather any new players really. Most new players come from the actual Retail Conquer and/or another private server. If they come from retail then they will expect something like that, so you can't really keep it oldschool, they might be searching for something alike, but a little easier to get maxed out and if they come from another server they might just be trying to find something similar as where they came from, but maybe a better community and/or something a little different, but the fact that there is no other PVP servers then they're most likely NOT searching for such one and that is why if they ex. join the PVP server they won't be staying, because it's far too different than what they're used to and since the community for a PVP server is already so low then there is literally NO HELP for them to get used to it.Quote:
It's sad to see it fail again :S.
What is a solution to such problem then? Having both a level/pvp server, where they could ex. interact in tournaments, so what they're used to (the level environment) is still there, but then they're slowly getting introduced to the PVP part, where people who are used to PVP will just be at plain PVP. It would require 2 servers and someway for them to interact or one server with each player having a flag of which server they're playing then only spawning and interacting with players that have the same flag, apart from tournaments. Now that way people are slowly introduced to PVP from levelling and they might start to like it better, because the community isn't really dead and that way they might move from the level part over to the PVP part and it could be kept alive. However it's not a 100% guaranteed success as the PVP part still have to be somehow alive, otherwise it would be pointless for them to be joining there :p
Pehaps there could be another thing that makes a PVP server die out, even if it gets active in the first days. That there is not really much unique and that it is the same over and over which will get people bored pretty fast. Perhaps the routine of tournaments should be different, perhaps different tournaments (Maybe let players choose through vote etc.), other things that could be used as PVP apart from tournaments and duelling ex. some minigames or something (I don't know.) There is a lot of things.
Just though I'd throw my 2 cents on that one.