Re: Negative Impacts!!!
I don't think change is always detrimental. If you take something like World of Warcraft which is probably the most popular online game at present it's constantly changing and evolving, the game now is totally different to when it was released, this hasn't scared new players away from it.
Games that don't innovate are left behind, Planetarion has done amazingly to last six years with so little change. The reason for the huge drop in players from Round 4 onwards was "pay to play", Planetarion simply wasn't a good enough game for the majority of players to demand a fee. Round 6-9 had around ~10,000 players, the player base has declined dramatically since then but I don't think this is due to the changes made to the game, if anything the game hasn't changed enough.
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