Goodbye Illyriad

Irwin, and my alt Iodrik the Ipaler Have abandoned accounts and quit.
Three or four years ago I was Molgzonor, a vet and a tolerater of broken and indefinitely delayed dev promises.
 I have probably coughed up around a grand American in my time and have met with broken promises coupled with obviously personal dev involvement with game mechanics (ie abandoned alt next to me  for new BL alt having productions frozen while long abandoned cities nearby I keep tabs on continue having queed resource productions rolling out)
 Then small kills of wild dogs just for commander exp sit there for a week then you loose 2k troops on scaled chargers and the kill despawns in 24 hours screw the skinners you haven't even got all the hides. Happened 1 too many times.
 The fundamental reason I quit is this game doesn't make enough money for continued polished development. Done the math, the average active player volume and the reasonable percentage of paying customers tells me the development issues are obviously due to lack of manpower.
  But they can afford enough to have gm's personally interfere with players game experience, reminicent of EVEOnline's early growing pains.
 I am not spending any more time or money gambling on whether Illy will survive theses same issues as my prognosis is the player base is simply to low to afford real professional improvement and the genre is to broad for them to sell out to a large company which will keep them on for further development


Edited by GM Rikoo - 12 Jul 2014 at 18:24

Always sorry to hear that someone is leaving, but if you're not having fun any longer I understand.  I do know that the game market is harsh and you're correct, it's hard to get a paying user base in the world of free games. I've bought prestige on my main. Not because I really need it, but to try and support the game a little.   Hopefully the new influx of players has helped a little

But back to the topic, Enjoy wherever your path leads you and maybe we'll see you again in the future.

It is always sad to see long-term players leave. On the other hand, I feel like any game that can hold attention of someone for 3 or 4 years is a success.   There will always be people leaving illy one reason or another, both related to the game itself and a variety of other personal and life reasons.

I don't know much about the economic aspects, but I do appreciate how well the devs do in terms of game-polishing with relatively few resources available to them--if anything I have always felt the devs err on the side of perfectionism. Its true that this sometimes means that new features are slow to arrive. I am sure this is a hard balance to keep and it will unfortunately make some players unhappy no matter what balance is chosen.


To Irwin, good luck with everything. If you find another game you like enough to play for several years, then that will be great. Or perhaps you will not play games anymore at all, who knows. I never picture myself continuing to play games for too many years. But for now, I very much like illy (e.g. am addicted xD ) so I hope the game continues to do well.

Edited by Alcie - 12 Jul 2014 at 21:50

abstractdream wrote: Neither of these episodes are unique to the OP nor are they actually that rare. Possible reasons abound but that's not even the issue.