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« on: July 31, 2013, 02:08:52 AM »
I've recruited 5 or 6 of my friends to play the game, at various time. They all quit within a month or so.
I don't know how to increase new player retention, but I think it's, at least, equally important to the recruitment of new players.
Joining a realm in the do-nothing doldrums is probably the most major issue behind new players quitting. It isn't the norm, but I've been in realms with 40-50 people, without receiving much more than one or two messages, from another player, per day for weeks at a time. This is one of the reasons I like the return of war islands so much. Even if nothing else is happening in the regular game, a new player will at least get a taste of battle there.