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I'm kind of curious. I don't see this lasting more than two years. One, in my opinion, is already being optimistic. Considering we can barely fill 2 stars on Universe 2 on the prime time, and it's an empty star on others (which is not good for the primary server), Sega can't be making much money off of this.
What's the population like on the Japanese servers? Those'll probably outlive the US/EU servers a good 2-4 years, even if the population is the same anyways.
Anyone who wants their characters to live long productive careers would play JP. There's no doubt in my mind and plenty of evidence in past history that the JP servers will outlive the US and go on to have much more content after the fact. It's undeniable.
During the first few weeks of MAG all the universes were filled to about universe six.
I hope the don't just give up on the us servers but they are getting further and further behind the JPN servers.... They're not bringing MAG back because the need to catch up and they rarely ever do maintenance anymore. or at least on time.
A common misconception is that everyone plays on Uni 2. Whenever a GM pops up in game, the uni gets a star or two pretty quickly, and that's from players who care to go to uni 2. Not everyone plays on there.
But from the way things are going, if it doesn't pick up this won't last another year.
I'd say 3 or 4 years; If the lack of pupulation doesn't kill this game then the whole " passing through the milky way's galactic center/ getting hit by our solar sytems lv 41+ diga ( nibiru)" definetly will.
I think the online service itself was guaranteed for five years. It's also update dependent IMO, if we were to say, receive no updates anymore from this point forward, it would die as quickly as possible.
JP Population:
http://moemi.mithra.to/~psu/uploader/src/psu15975.jpg
O...m...g. ^^;
I don't see the PS2/PC servers lasting longer than two more years unless they seriously get their act together. I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 servers lasted longer though.
i'm gonna say 2 years at the least. maybe 4 to 5 years at the most.