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Future of the MMORPG Industry.....
SemperFiVet
Member Posts: 83
If you think NOW is the time to throw $8Million into a game riddled with incompetence, fraud and misrepresentation, then you must know something the experts dont....
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/playback/playback-65/1338952
It is possible, BUT it would take a CLEAN, let me reiterate, a clean new startup, operated like a real company, with a real Board of Directors, run by competent people.. All this combined with a monthly qualified financial statement, a quarterly certified financial statement and a complete list of uses of cash, short time specific performance contracts for the key people, and the immediate dismissal of every useless person working there, this would include about 90% of the remaining "mormon" employees...
Just my opinion..
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Here's a little graph from NPD that pretty much sums it up:
That is very interesting. For months the media was extolling the booming gaming industry. I suppose the economy could be blamed, but I think traditionally games have bee a refuge for people during hard times. MMOs are cheaper compared to books, movies, and console titles. I hink the decline has more to do with empty promises, jaded players, copycat games, and poor game community management
Actually I think the video game industry needs to be broken down as there are certain sectors that are indeed going down, but others going up. For example, Online Social Games are booming.
For MMORPG's, they can still turn a profit, however there is going to be competition from the Social Browser based MMO's. Those MMORPG's which are Free-To-Play will either need to integrate with Social Networking sites are go out of business. The competition for the "casual gamer" is going to become a rat-race.
While those MMORPG's which are targeted for the gamers who want greater detail and depth will be less competitive. Of those MMORPG's that will succeed, it will be those which started with low budgets and expand over time. Granted that some exceptions may happen (ie: WoW).
For console games... yeah, looks like another console crash is coming right up.
And that is why...
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.