Realistically speaking, how many years do you think Tibia has left?

[Neverminder]

The real truth of it is that Tibia isn't going downhill at all. What is actually happening is your own mentality (and the rest of us, for that matter) is set on the current. Humans, as a species, do not like change. Therefore when things change, we are unhappy and we see it as bad. That results, overall, in us having the impression that the game is going downhill. That and the fact that no "new player" bothers to use the forum, I didn't use it in my first year of playing. This means that the forum is only used by us grumpy folk who think Tibia is going downhill 'cause it's changing... People used to say the same about Habbo Hotel when I was a kid. I used to make radio station websites for some friends who played it and all I saw was the members constantly complaining that the game was going downhill and how 1hc is no longer worth what it used to be worth. The thing is, even 7 years later (yes, I played it 7 years ago xD) the game is still going stronger than ever. There are 5000 people playing at 12:15am. On top of that, their revenue in the last quarter was up 19% on what it was through summer (normally it's the other way around, but this year the build up to Christmas, and the paedophile problem which Moshi Monsters has faced has led to a massive increase in users). Anyway, Tibia isn't really getting any worse, if anything it is getting better, we just can't accept that for the above reasons. Give it time, and you'll see the players increase.

No offence, but dafuq did I just read? D: Seriously, Habbo Hotel?! Honestly, I've never heard of it, just googled it and seems like it's worse than Tibia ... And if you said there were some pedophile issues, well fuck that lmao, even Tibia hasn't got that far for pedophiles stalking youngsters. >_>

Besides, it might be just reluctance towards big changes, but the fact is that Tibia IS dying game. Now maybe, but just MAYBE guys @CipSoft are yet to realize that OR they already realized it and they're just keeping it alive so they can milk the ones that pay for premium features some more and eventually they'll start closing empty servers 1 by 1.

I mean come on!!! I've seen better scripted/mapped/whatever Open Tibia Servers than 'real' Tibia. CipSoft has income over 7kk€ per year and there's no doubt about it that Tibia is their main source. Of course, 7kk€ ain't pure income, lots of that cash is used to maintain all the servers and stuff, but still ... It's slowly, but steadly dying. :|

There was even a proposal on proposal boards (tibia.com) about merging the servers (which was rated as 'high potential' by Community Mangers). ''I wonder why ...'' People are leaving and some servers are just plain DEAD! So what's the point of keeping them alive then? It sure costs damn much to keep them online 24/7 constantly.

Must be one of these two mentioned above: 1.) They have yet to realize it 2.) They've realized it already and they're just happy as things are right now financially.

Meh, I don't care that much really. Last time I logged on was like half a year ago and I've checked recently added things on an OT (shadowcores).

It'll be interesting to see how much income CipSoft had in 2012. Every year, every company in Germany has to publish their financial state, so we'll see how will things turn out. It might be even better than years before, but seriously I highly doubt that. Lots of people already canceled their subscriptions reading tibia.com forums, so we'll see.