Jean Lafitte

So far, my experience has been that they get stuck on raised quarterdeck's when using the move-to command. I haven't lost any doing this but sometimes it's almost a necessity, especially when tames get stuck in other structures or fall through floors and moving them to a ship negates having to destroy half a building to try to get them out.

*holds up a finger* Umm... you realize that people who quit a game are much less likely to come to a forum for the game and tell you why they quit, thus skewing the results in favor of those who are still playing? Then again, considering what some of the doom-prophets are calling statistics, I suppose this would be just as valid. Calling it, "why are you most likely to quit" might be a better title.

Moby Dickhead strikes again.

From Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and other resources it appears this is related to specific Steam accounts. Some are able to log in, others are not.

JatheishToday at 6:17 PM So far everything seems to be in order on our side, just may have to ride it out with steam but we'll keep investigating to see

Because it's easier to fall off a ladder than to climb one.

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat as everyone here... oh wait, I'm not on a boat at all... I can't log in!

JatheishToday at 5:13 PM Looking into the connection reports on our Official Network, stay tuned guys. Will hopefully have an update for you shortly.

DollieToday at 5:02 PM We're aware and we're looking into it.

It would appear that if you log out or cross zones you can't log back in.

Hang on. You were taking a game based on the age of sail and trying to turn it into a jet fighter game? May I suggest ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN. Guaranteed they won't nerf your glider there.

tldr; It's early Saturday morning in the US. Paron us if we have our coffee before logging in and dealing with intellectual humans.

They can't because of, "here there be monsters." Oh... wait... nvm.

OH... It's French... Now we understand. *wink*

Incorrect. But I'm not going to bother to post the stats that prove that statement wrong because you're obviously only interested in whatever stats you can dig up that prove your point. Wait... do you have an actual point? Do you have an actual bitch about this game or are you just going to stand on the street corner with your cardboard sign screaming, "THE END IS COMING"?

And here's why:

Show me the poll that says, "I quit playing Atlas because..." I have seen them do nothing but cater to whining. They have addressed issues with aggressive mobs. They have addressed issues with alphas. They have addressed issues with griefing... Wait, why the hell am I repeating this. You obviously don't read. Instead of whining about how difficult this game is, people are now whining about how easy it is. Have you seen that? There is obviously no way in hell they can appease everyone who wants to play this game. Everyone has their own idea of what this game should be and if this game isn't changed to meet their exact expectations, they're going to quit. Ok, bye. They addressed the issues that made it unplayable for me. They're banning griefers and hackers. I've seen the list. They've fixed aggressive mobs and alphas so that I can walk out of my house. I can play the game. If you read the interviews with the co-founders before this game was even launched you'll see that they already had a vision of what they wanted Atlas to be. As long as this game isn't so unplayable that I can't walk out of my house without getting slaughtered, I'm willing to sit back and see what that vision is, be it dragons, ships or submarines. Pulling up charts and statistics and trying to prove that this game is failing because the dev's aren't listening is both laughable and near-sighted.

Guess that depends on what difference you're referring to.

No, it doesn't. Weather conditions affect game charts. The day of the week, the hour of the day, whether a major city is dealing with a blackout, a war... I can give you a thousand things that can affect a game chart and not one of them have anything to do with the devs or even the playerbase for that matter. It could lose players simply because the company stops an advertising campaign. Games gain and lose players all the time and there is no one single metric you can point to and say... AH HAH! That's why. EVERYONE left because of THAT! Does the trend show that this game is losing players? Yes. Is it because of the dev's, we don't know and there's no way to prove it. A lot of people, myself included, buy a game, play it for a while and decide, "naaa... I'm going back to my old game." And that may be exactly what's happening here. You don't know and neither does the OP. Furthermore, the charts in the op are not comparing apples to apples. It's trying to explain how badly this game is failing by comparing it to a long established game and that is not an accurate comparison. My chart however, compares the launch of NMS to Atlas and that IS a fair comparison. Looks like this one has all the doomsayers riled up. They're pulling statistics out of their ass and trying to match them to their own warped opinions. *waves his dead chicken in the air and yells, "OOOGA BOOGA"*

tldr;

And you could have just chalked that up to my observation and opinion without feeling the need to debate it... but you didn't did you? When I see your post, I see "I need to interject some slander here because his facts are obviously skewing public opinion." Hey guys... *looks over his shoulder* I think he gets it! HEY! No posting factual charts on these forums! It's forbidden! This is for fake news and doomsayers only!

And if there were no one point fingers at fake news then people would believe everything they read and we'd all be speaking Chinese.

I could spend the next hour debating all these doomsayers and their statistics. I could spend another hour speculating as to why they make these posts. But here's reality. This is a 24 inning game and trying to predict the final score now is akin to waving a dead chicken around professing that your performing voodoo.

https://steamcharts.com/app/834910 https://steamcharts.com/app/275850 Did I stretch the 2k vs 9k for dramatic effect? Yes I did. Are the numbers imaginary? No, they are quite real. Does it prove my point that charts can say what you'd like? Yes it does.

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