Why would anyone buy a failed business?is their thought process.."we can utilize a real good cash shop"?Cash shops and ANY kind of money gimmick will not make a game better and they bought a very mediocre game so good luck with the marketing gimmicks.
someone mentioned Battle Royale?LMAO you know it would not surprise me in the very least,the mentality of developers now a days is like mind boggling,everyone reaching for a phantom dollar.
There is only one way and that is an illegal method but doesn't have to be illegal.Pay off some of the top end streamers to play your game,it is an auto sell,numbers will rise dramatically and sad that is the reality of gaming now a days.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Rift’s Battle Pass feature appears to provide a new mission/quest system that provides new quests automatically every day. It sounds like some rewards must be claimed within a certain period of time as well. This is all speculation of course, the full system is not in yet, and is still a work in progress, though one that has continued further.
This is correct - the battle pass system was coded back in Sept when Trion and Rift team was at full staff.
Gamigo didn't do this - the old devs did before they got canned.
It's not battle royale, it's a monetization system inspired by seasons pass in Fortnite (which of course will be orders of magnitude worse in Rift).
Gamigo is putting up a dog and pony show - when you look behind the curtain, you see there's nobody there.
Remember folks - they only kept bare-minimum staff to keep the games barely functional.
And more than half of that staff is operations/hosting that is there to transition everything into the cloud at which point they will get canned too.
So what was Gamigos play here to begin with, why did they spend millions on Trion - just one thing - to get ArcheAge - as that game has a full Korean staff working on it, so this is pure profit after the low hosting cloud cost.
All the money they are making off trion games now - is pure profit for almost zero effort - and they will keep milking that as long as they can make players believe that they are "working" on stuff - when all they are doing is releasing already coded content that was done prior to them cutting 80%+ of the staff
Gamigo has zero interest in ANY trion games, and won't blink twice before they decide to shut all of them down.
Cutting 80% of the staff means there's still 20% left. 20% staff is more than the ONE dev EA kept for WaR and that guy fixed so many bugs that he deserves some kind of award in gamer heaven.
Trion thought of and developed this Battle Pass but somehow Gamigo are the bad guys in all this for trying to make back their millions? Trion wasn't producing any spectacular content before they were bought by Gamigo. Trove had 40k players just a couple years ago and after Vanguardian update and a series of poor decisions had only 4k left. AR hadn't had anything new for ages. Aside from the progression server what new content was created for RIFT live when they did have 80% extra staff? They were dropping the ball waay before Gamigo was sniffing around.
Rift’s Battle Pass feature appears to provide a new mission/quest system that provides new quests automatically every day. It sounds like some rewards must be claimed within a certain period of time as well. This is all speculation of course, the full system is not in yet, and is still a work in progress, though one that has continued further.
Gamigo = milk what they can from Rift before shutting all the servers.
However bad Gamigo may - or may not - turn out though the alternative - for those who play Rift was worse, namely closure.
As I - and others - have, and as I am sure you will agree, Gamigo will close Rift if it bleeds money.
That said the alternative to Gamigo was - probably - Rift closing. And for those who play / enjoy Rift Gamigo is the better option.
Could Trion have survived if they had adopted such drastic steps? Maybe they were to close, always believing that populations etc. would recover. And they would - probably - never have cut management i.e. themselves! So maybe not. Maybe a company like Gamigo was the only hope for Rift. All that remains is whether it will survive.
Gamigo = milk what they can from Rift before shutting all the servers.
However bad Gamigo may - or may not - turn out though the alternative - for those who play Rift was worse, namely closure.
As I - and others - have, and as I am sure you will agree, Gamigo will close Rift if it bleeds money.
That said the alternative to Gamigo was - probably - Rift closing. And for those who play / enjoy Rift Gamigo is the better option.
Could Trion have survived if they had adopted such drastic steps? Maybe they were to close, always believing that populations etc. would recover. And they would - probably - never have cut management i.e. themselves! So maybe not. Maybe a company like Gamigo was the only hope for Rift. All that remains is whether it will survive.
And DMKano said in a post that AA was making them the most money but were they putting that money into THEIR other games? nope, they were just letting them rot and bleed players so it really isn't much different now. Makes me wonder where the heck the money was going and what the heck that 80% more staff was doing.
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Why would anyone buy a failed business?is their thought process.."we can utilize a real good cash shop"?Cash shops and ANY kind of money gimmick will not make a game better and they bought a very mediocre game so good luck with the marketing gimmicks.
someone mentioned Battle Royale?LMAO you know it would not surprise me in the very least,the mentality of developers now a days is like mind boggling,everyone reaching for a phantom dollar.
There is only one way and that is an illegal method but doesn't have to be illegal.Pay off some of the top end streamers to play your game,it is an auto sell,numbers will rise dramatically and sad that is the reality of gaming now a days.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Cutting 80% of the staff means there's still 20% left. 20% staff is more than the ONE dev EA kept for WaR and that guy fixed so many bugs that he deserves some kind of award in gamer heaven.
Trion thought of and developed this Battle Pass but somehow Gamigo are the bad guys in all this for trying to make back their millions? Trion wasn't producing any spectacular content before they were bought by Gamigo. Trove had 40k players just a couple years ago and after Vanguardian update and a series of poor decisions had only 4k left. AR hadn't had anything new for ages. Aside from the progression server what new content was created for RIFT live when they did have 80% extra staff? They were dropping the ball waay before Gamigo was sniffing around.
However bad Gamigo may - or may not - turn out though the alternative - for those who play Rift was worse, namely closure.
As I - and others - have, and as I am sure you will agree, Gamigo will close Rift if it bleeds money.
That said the alternative to Gamigo was - probably - Rift closing. And for those who play / enjoy Rift Gamigo is the better option.
Could Trion have survived if they had adopted such drastic steps? Maybe they were to close, always believing that populations etc. would recover. And they would - probably - never have cut management i.e. themselves! So maybe not. Maybe a company like Gamigo was the only hope for Rift. All that remains is whether it will survive.
And DMKano said in a post that AA was making them the most money but were they putting that money into THEIR other games? nope, they were just letting them rot and bleed players so it really isn't much different now. Makes me wonder where the heck the money was going and what the heck that 80% more staff was doing.