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Tarisland will hold its second closed beta starting on November 15th. The team has a new dev video with a behind the scenes interview with insight into the inspirations behind the game, memorable experiences, and love for the MMORPG genre.
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...well I signed up.
As a old fart whose been through all of these types of releases going back years, even decades now, i have this urge to tell the younger generation to 'watch out' - but sometimes you have to learn by experiencing the garbage first-hand.
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
Presumably, as some of the biggest companies are trying to get a piece of that action and not just Asian ones.
There has to be good profit potential in it.
They have also been evolving with time as well. Some available on both mobile and PC have differing interfaces to better accommodate each platform. There seems to be a move to more manual play at least in some cases.
I think they're less easy to dismiss as they once were, but still must be considered carefully especially in terms of monetization.
Short answer, yes, but the territory matters, also the phrase 'do well' should come with a heavy asterisk.
China has a bit of a history with mobile and PC mmorpg's behaving like revolving doors. In it's earlier mobile days, they just made a lot of them, most of which would have something like upward to 100 to 1,000 servers that would rotate it's content with each new server opening; to maximize profit.
But about 4-5 years ago, a new trend(scheme really) in the Chinese mobile game market began being used, and that's making use of Googles beta program for Android devices to flip a game multiple times by just changing the game name.
A Chinese dev or group will submit a game in the beta program under 'whatevername X' - they launch the game, monetize it, which is allowed even in the beta program; then when they've exhausted a large chunk of willing players who will pay, or whales; they shut the game down, pull it out of the beta program; rename the game to 'something different Y', and resubmit the game -which the only difference is it's name- into the beta program, launch, monetize; rinse and repeat.
Then there are some game companies who have done the whole name flipping scheme without needing something like a beta program or even one of the mobile platforms to do it; as some game companies are well off enough to do name flipping under their own publishing platforms; like IGG or GTArcade to name a couple.
To me, this isn't what i'd consider success; but the gaming version of 'racketeering'
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
http://twitch.tv/woetothevanquished
It's not Korean
I signed up for it so will also give it a go if selected. With the perspectives expressed in the video I want to see how it came together.
I signed for it too, sometimes I get surprised by these kind of games.
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