Why don't you ask them?

Sanity check. Am I missing some obvious reason why WIS thinks this is a good idea?          

If a world is any good it will attract owners. I also don't believe that if you took 32 owners away from a new world that  those 32 owners would join existing worlds.

Smoelheim has a real point here guys.  WIS is showing their lack of interest in HBD, or should I say that FOX has been clearly showing lack of interest in WIS for a long time now.  And this opening up new worlds thing in Sept which is the month that has always shown a lack of interest in everything baseball is clearly a bad idea, and a bit of a cash grab.  I really hope that some independantly wealthy person buys WIS from Faux and gives us the support we deserve.

The ride was fun while it lasted. Honestly, anyone expecting things to pick back up are fooling themselves. Had they any interest in the product or it's customers, some of the most recent issues would have been acknowledged and addressed by Site Staff (you know, kinda like they USED to do). Ticket exchanges are getting worse and worse (to the point of tickets never being acknowledged even). There is no true "Customer Service" anymore. No announced improvements, Dev Chats, etc. Face it folks, it's over.

And I'm an optimist.

I'm looking at it the other way plague... if a "new world" needs 16 "new to HBD" owners, and can fill the rest with 16 HBD vets... how many of those "vets" are going to bail on existing worlds? Most guys are maintaining or cutting back teams. VERY few are adding. I'll admit that I was tempted to join this world, but I would do so at the expense of 1 of the 2 worlds I'm already in. If I joined, its a net zero gain for WIS.

pstrnutbag44 has a point... their customer service is abysmal. People generally aren't asking for engine overhauls... just fixes to known problems or loopholes. There's no reason for the abusive (or lack of) responses lately. But thats an overall WIS problem, not an HBD issue.

There has never been a world go unfilled. 

yes there has, remember they had to merge several worlds at one point because they were not filling

Posted by MikeT23 on 9/5/2011 6:49:00 AM (view original):
There has never been a world go unfilled. 

So then you think its a good business decision to open new worlds?

FWIW, we're up to 100 openings, and *11* more worlds scheduled to roll in the next 3 days.

Posted by MikeT23 on 9/5/2011 6:49:00 AM (view original):
There has never been a world go unfilled. 

Wrong. As per usual. He's just the modern day "troll".  Weak attempts to bait people (this guy actually posted in my thread once while he had me blocked....then cried about how I was stalking him when confronted. How ******* lame is that?). Full of mis-information and snide, rude comments. Hopefully people have caught on and generally ignore this character now...unless it's for a good laugh....I can see that.

Posted by smoelheim on 9/5/2011 10:23:00 AM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 9/5/2011 6:49:00 AM (view original):
There has never been a world go unfilled. 

So then you think its a good business decision to open new worlds?

FWIW, we're up to 100 openings, and *11* more worlds scheduled to roll in the next 3 days.

I think it's not our decision to make. 

I've said all along that good worlds will fill, bad worlds will fold.   Well, they just haven't folded.   Maybe they should.

Posted by pirateswin2 on 9/5/2011 10:03:00 AM (view original):
yes there has, remember they had to merge several worlds at one point because they were not filling

So no worlds folded?   I thought that's what I said. 

You said "unfilled", which is accurate.

If worlds merge, all but one are "folding".

if you start with 2 wordls merge them to make one then a world folded , doesn't seem to compilicated to me