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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| Flood of games, Too Few Players @ Boston Globe |
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The Boston Globe has an editorial on a perceived chnage in the MMO market following the cancellation of Mythica and URU Live:<blockquote><em> Mythica was a realm like no other, a grim, glorious land in which brave men and women embarked on perilous adventures in a quest to join the company of the gods.
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<br>Until the geeks at Microsoft Corp. had second thoughts and pulled the plug on it.</em></blockquote>Read it <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/19/flood_of_games_too_few_players_cause_change_in_online_realm/" target="_blank">here</a>. |
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:56 am |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Journalists are so clueless. The problem isnt too few players, or too many games. The problem is too many sucky games. There i said it. And by interviewing a retarded company like Turbine shows they are even more clueless. Yes, Turbine is retarded. They will mess up DandD online as well as middle earth online, two of the most promising franchises ever. They're going to mess them up because they have ALREADY messed them up.
I hate when clueless people are considered the authority, while the developers who know whats going on and are doing something about it, get ignored.
Like i said, journalists are clueless.
EDIT -- another thing. this journalist is taking data out of context and making stupid assumptions with it. the cancellation of Mythica was a GOOD THING FOR THE INDUSTRY. we need more frequent cancellations to make this genre thrive, and we need more frequent cancellations to send a message to publishers that they need to be more competitive, and to do so, they need to LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMERS instead of ignorantly taking the fatal steps that Artifact Retarded-tainment took when they decided that CORPORATE MONKEYS know more about game design than the actual players.
Come on, listen to the players! You want our money? Then make what WE THE PLAYERS want to play instead of what your boss thinks comprises a good roleplaying game. The players are the REAL judges here, and frankly if we dont enjoy your game, that shows that YOU THE DEVELOPERS are clueless.
Up the competition, up the complexity, up the quality, up the overall selection, and you have upped the satisfaction of customers. By ignoring your players, you are making a FATAL MISTAKE for your game. So go ahead and make your game in the closet populated by your few diehard fanboys. It will fail. |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
The reason i say these things is because i know multitudes of players that are still waiting for the next good MMOrpg to come out. Myself included. We are waiting, and we are many. There are so many of us, that if we all bought one MMORPG right now, i bet there would be at least 750,000 of us, and i am not kidding. There are so many disgruntled MMO players out there that are waiting on specific games that developers have not reached yet because they havent made anything worthy to attract us. Soon that will change, because the good games are coming. 2004-2005 will see a growth of players in the genre, i am betting, that will make 2003 look like the worst years for MMORPG releases. Just my opinion, although i know im right. |
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