FFXI is console based. Many Japanese players have consoles but no home computers. They can't switch to WoW if they wanted to. Many of FFXI's American players are in the same boat.
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EQ1 lost about half it's subs, around 250,000 players, to WoW i…
I guess you'd want to pay payroll, and any expenses like hardware and bandwidth.
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And if you're publicly held, you'd want to create enough profit to make the shareholders happy.
Originally posted by Simsu
With the near constant talk about the mythical "WoW Killer" I began to wonder what MMOs have been killed by WoW.My question is of all the MMOs to open _prior_ WoW how many of them have closed down because WoW came out? If …
Originally posted by Reklaw
Originally posted by uquipu
Second Life has no progression.
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It's also the most sandboxy.
Gaining skills is still a form of progression is it not?
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Second Life doesn't have skills either. The character you…
SWTOR with almost 3 times the budget of WoW and a studio that's known for making RPG hits has the best chance of taking away some of WoW's subs. I would think for a time at least.
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If any game were to do serious harm to WoW, it would be a very awe…
Originally posted by Vestas
10 Years ago Star Wars Galaxies clocked in at $25 million to make. at the time it was HUGE news, it was the most expensive MMO to date and considered a HUGE investment by SOE. A few years later, EQ2 launched, at a whoppi…
People say 60 million for WoW. They would've had a lot of in house stuff already since warcraft was an already established franchise.
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On mmorpgmaker.com, there are some hobbiests who do it on the cheap.
Originally posted by Torment1982
Originally posted by Scot
How did the old games part you of your hard earned money? (My Version)
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Waiting with your mates for a boat for 1 hour.
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Camping a spawn for sixteen hours with your mates.
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Travel…
How did the old games part you of your hard earned money?
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Waiting for a boat for 1 hour.
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Camping a spawn for sixteen hours.
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Traveling to the next town for 20 minutes.
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Sitting around for ten minutes to regain your health.
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Having to recover …
Burnout. People post here every day with a similar topic. They are burnedout on the MMO genre.
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Take a break.
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If the break doesn't cure your burnout, it's probably something else like you've outgrown it.
PvP games attract young males who like to trash talk.
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Any game with a global chat channel will appear to be bad. It takes what? Five arsehats to ruin a channel. A global channel with three hundred people is sure to have at least five arsehats i…
EQ2, it had everything going for it and everything to lose.
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They made a bunch of mistakes and miscalculations and they lost thousands if not hundreds of thousands of subs.
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Male toons with female figures? Whose idea was that?