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    Unhappy Can someone please talk to us?

    It's been ages since anyone from EII/PME posted about what's going on with our beloved game. The last threads I remember were threats to ban us all as exploiters if we didn't fix our billing information and that's been a couple months ago. Since we pointed out that we *couldn't* fix the billing info, the owners have gone strangely silent.

    Oh sure, once in a while a WM will post about problems we are having on Chaos, but that's about it.

    Is there anyone still alive at PME? Is there anyone that can tell us anything substantive?

    Like for instance...

    1) Can the Unity people get an update on what's going on with their characters? Will they ever see them again?

    2) Can we all get an update on the billing fixes that (hopefully) are coming? Will those of us with plot warnings even though we have active subscriptions ever be able to sleep at night without worry of losing our lair/plot?

    3) Does anyone from PME even care that there are people out here paying to play their game?

    It's pretty sad the lack of contact we have had lately. Can't someone from PME at least come on and say "Hi, we're still here... here's what we're working on now..."? At least throw us a bone here

    By the way, today marks the 6 month anniversary since EII purchased Horizons... has *anything* changed in that 6 months? Other than the population dropping steadily?


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    The silence definitly is having a bad effect on the game. Those of us that came back with the ownership change thinking this would be a great new start for Horizons have slowly drifted back away. I hope that they can get things together enough to make a few good changes to the game before it's too far gone to save, but the feeling of impending doom is almost overwhelming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kerech
    Is there anyone still alive at PME? Is there anyone that can tell us anything substantive?(
    Yes, but sadly they aren't speaking to us. They have regular events in Savage Eden and postings on the forums there, but for some reason they haven't spoken to us about anything. It really is a shame to ignore this great Horizons community.

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    maybe we should post our questions in their Savage Eden forum?

    strange thing

    i wonder why they have bought HZ? to see how long a game without support can survive?

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    I agree to you all

    but I`m not going to waste my breath for annother polite and useless inquiry.
    Or telll the airwaves how much I love and miss this game.

    Only thing thats comforts me is, that we already find each other in new worlds.

    THIS COMMUNITY IS ABSOLUT UNIQUE AND AWESOME

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    This is ironic. Tried to resolve the same thing today in my guild channel amongst the so called "Community". Came to one conclusion, ill put it in less words.

    "It didnt happen to us, so we dont care. Go play or dont play the game. Meanwhile I'll go grind 100 craft levels."

    I feel great. Lemmie tell ya.

    If you have any ideas that can help this little situation, do share. Theres only a few of us actually wanting to see this game live on. I live 4 hrs from their HQ and though its tempting to drive down there and beat on their door saying "Respond to our tickets please and help us!", I would like to save the gas money and try something else first.
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    Valados, if I lived that close, you can bet I'd be spending my vacation days off doing pretty much that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LOVWYRM
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    THIS COMMUNITY IS ABSOLUT UNIQUE AND AWESOME

    no it isnt. All small games are like this. its a math ratio issue pure and simple

    If Horizons had a substantial population playing the game it to would have as many community griefers as lets say WoW does.

    so in any MMO find a group of people you like to play with and stick with them.

    Its sad though that PME is letting this one wilt and rot away.

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    Wait, I heard the creak of a door to the server room opening.... nah, it was my imagination.

    Yes... it is silent, very silent. Euro players left in the lurch, NA players wondering if there will ever be "more"

    Yes, I believe unless there is some miraculous revelation that pops up, I foresee a large dragon's graveyard of the last standing players being overcome not by the withered aegis, but by boredom and stagnation.
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    *laugh!* You gotta be kidding, communications in Horizons?!? That's just crazy talk, man! They haven't done it in 4+ years, why start now?

    The closest these guys come to communication is selective stealth thread and comment deletion. You know, cause that has worked so well in the past too.

    Not that the 6 people who read the boards would notice anyway. But I suppose when you have twice as many browsing the forums as you do playing the game, you can afford to ignore them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Theolaerynn
    *laugh!* You gotta be kidding, communications in Horizons?!? That's just crazy talk, man! They haven't done it in 4+ years, why start now?

    The closest these guys come to communication is selective stealth thread and comment deletion. You know, cause that has worked so well in the past too.

    Not that the 6 people who read the boards would notice anyway. But I suppose when you have twice as many browsing the forums as you do playing the game, you can afford to ignore them.

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    No news is better than bad news.
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    I predict a drop in population (already abysmally low) after this weekend. I have pre-ordered Vanguard and plan to play it as much as my feeble computer can run it. Several former guildmembers - long term players who have left in the past 6 months - are forming a guild in Vanguard and if I can coordinate with them, that's where I'll be.

    I figure I'll play Horizons on my laptop and work on building my lair - that's about the only thing that is fun for me anymore in Horizons - and play Vanguard on my desktop. Eventually I'll tire of playing 2 games at once and decide which to drop...

    The sad thing is, EII is totally at fault here. Sure, they inherited problems in the purchase. That's known to everyone. But they've had *six months* to remedy those problems, or at least to start remedying them. They haven't done anything! And now they're not even communicating with us (they didn't much before, but the past couple of months has been nothing!).

    Are they wanting us all to quit, so they can keep billing us and collect our money without all the annoying posts they ignore anyway? Because you know if the servers were turned off tomorrow, people would still be billed


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    Hmm, sarcasm or irony not allowed either? Just a question, no harm intended.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigi
    Hmm, sarcasm or irony not allowed either? Just a question, no harm intended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal`cyon Sskyler
    Nope‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏

    Thank you Hal`cyon, but there is no rule against sarcasm or irony.

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    Still no comunication from PME , so maybe Kerech is not that wrong by asking what will happen to the game.
    To keep ignoring us will surely not help, neither to show us the rules of your forum. WE WANT AN ANSWER ! Got what i mean ? Even the most patient Istarian one day will have enough of this way to treat the customers.
    PME should be aware that this policy is not constructive at all and the population of 2 vanished shards are slowly getting upset.
    some if not most will be lost forever.
    So what are you waiting for ? to loose all affectionated players ?
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    We've been working hard in the background and are doing our best to keep things moving forward... there will be more information soon, and I'm sorry that there hasn't been more communication. I'll let you guys know more as soon as I am able. Again, we are sorry for the lack of communication recently, that will be remedied.

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    Nice flood Apricots, as useful as usual.
    This post should get a sticky someone from PME EII whatever whoever did ACTUALLY post , it is a great miracle indeed !!!
    Though, I must admit I have serious doubts about the capacity of the running company to make any patches / fixes when a copy seems to be such hard to them it takes monthes.
    Now Vanguard is coming out, some may have noticed it has many features similar to Horizons, should we all close our eyes and say nothing is happening ? People like new stuffs, new cars, new Ipods and NEW GAMES. What will htey chose comparing a new game that will evolve and good old Horizons that is STUCK for now 6+MONTHES not even anything to project build, not even a nice new named, NOTHING.
    I will continue to play this game and pay for it ( that is if i CAN someday ) but think a second, and you may think the game wont be here in a few monthes if it goes on like this.
    SO EII PME PMI PII WHOEVER YOU ARE CODE SOME NEW STUFF DAMNED AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS, REMEMBER WHO IS FEEDING WHO !
    Hope our self proclaimed Queen Apples and here kittys will actually read the rules just posted BTW, they apply to both users and mods don't they ?

    Oh, and one more "soon" has no time meanig as far as I know, on a geologic scale or on a butterfly's live scale it s always a vague concept, so maybe better to say 3 monthes or whatever, with a BIG marging so you re sure you ll be able to speak in time instead of being vague.
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    Omg ! Peaches...
    You deleted my post about my deleted post ??? I even edited my own post to prevent it being deleted !

    * figuring the sarcasim would be just too much for these forums *

    Is there any freedom to post something that isn't totally pro EII at all ??
    Is this a concentrated effort to run people off ?

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