Originally posted by Ramonski7 Originally posted by didjerama Originally posted by Ramonski7 Originally posted by ZizouX Originally posted by squalleonaha [snip]
Nice point of view of a Hardcore FANs.
however, in my p…
Originally posted by Nadia Originally posted by didjerama How do you figure?
roughly month after launch WHO had much better retention of 63%. (750000/1200000)
ARR has 42% (600000/1450000)
i believe FFAR is a better game for content than…
Originally posted by DocBrody Originally posted by didjerama more sandbox endgame.
I tested Hero Engine for a bit and I can tell you if they use the latest build it would be totally possible for players to place stuff in designated areas, it…
Originally posted by Nadia disclaimer - i think FFAR will do better than WAR longterm
for comparison
As of September 30, 2008, WAR had sold 1.2 million copies and had 800,000 registered users.[31]
As of October 10, 2008, Mythic Enterta…
Originally posted by Hyanmen Originally posted by didjerama Originally posted by Hyanmen
Considering the kind of tantrum people get over having to pay a sub fee, and then same people turn around to say a free game vs. a game that costs money…
Originally posted by Hyanmen
Considering the kind of tantrum people get over having to pay a sub fee, and then same people turn around to say a free game vs. a game that costs money is "pretty much the same thing", is rather hilarious but not unlik…
Originally posted by Hyanmen Originally posted by didjerama
And it shows retention is in line with similar titles.
Yeah, sure it does.
And i have surpassed everyone in my line of work by wide margin because everyone is just 35% efficient.…
Originally posted by Edli Originally posted by didjerama SWTORs F2P "relaunch" also saw very big spike.
A F2P relaunch is so not the same. It costs nothing to try it and a lot of people that didn't bother or couldn't pay did try it.
It w…
Originally posted by amber-r So according to Squares financial announcement.
FFXIV ARR sold 1.45 million copies at $12.99 (most mmos sell for 3 times that, including ffxi), of that 1.45 million buyers 850k decided not to subscribe at all. It …
Originally posted by Ramonski7 Originally posted by ZizouX Originally posted by squalleonaha [snip]
Nice point of view of a Hardcore FANs.
however, in my point of view, SE took $59.99 and gave me a junk game.
they did make it F2…
Originally posted by Akuum EQ had groups because the mentality of the players was different at the time. When EQ was at it's height there were not many if any real competitors on the market in the late 90's. People cared about their standing in th…
Originally posted by Shmackpappy
Gaming companies are businesses and will continue to produce games that people WANT to play. Obviously there is a big market in producing MMOs that are soloable. As mentioned by others, there is nothing stopping y…
Originally posted by Edli Their expectations were low for ARR, especially for the western market. You could see it in the amount of servers they had available for launch. Hell there were more Japanese servers than EU and US combined.
After 1.0 the…
Originally posted by Raven322 Originally posted by didjerama LOTRO, AoC, WHO, RIFT, SWTOR...all "big successes" that sold bajillion of copies at launch.
And then real life happened.
Can you expand on this?
What exactly do you mean by "th…
Originally posted by iridescence Originally posted by didjerama
No, you expected "holodeck" experience. Once you relize everything in MMO needs to be programmed and scripted to work in predictable fashion. Pretty much any attempt to artifi…
Originally posted by drivendawn Originally posted by Dakeru Originally posted by DMKano
Whoa - SE as a whole company made 626 milion, ARR didn't make 600 million - it would mean like 40 million sold copies.
Shh you aren't supposed …
Originally posted by simplius Originally posted by Tatercake
i do balieve the free to play saved this game if i do remember correctly it was about to go offline
i doubt that, EA are masters of market strategy
i think they had plans for all …
Originally posted by iridescence Originally posted by didjerama
O, and yes, i would very much like holodeck too, im just realistic about it that were not just quite there yet lol
I didn't expect the holodeck from GW2 but I did expect …