Mismanangement and trying too hard to "reinvent the wheel" didn't help either.
Stuff like promising a lot of character customization, gloating about how there will be SO many options at the start, then backpedaling to we'll release them with the …
Animal Crossing isn't an mmo, but it does have an online feature and a thriving community on sites like tumblr and reddit. So the potential and the market *is* there, it's up to compentent developers to produce it.
I think it's time to say good bye to mmorpg's in general. Fantasy/Scifi/Speculative fiction, which a lot of games are based off of will never go away as long as people are around to dream.
Perhaps the problem is too many devs are trying to be a…
waveslayer said:
netease was making money off of blizzards game, chinese players are the losers hands down.
LeCreaux said:
Well look what Blizzard does to its American customers. They’ve edited both written and spoken dialog to m…
"We're competitively weaker than Sony and Nintendo so that's why we should be allowed to have a monopoly!"
And here I thought they were for the whole free market yay capitalism mantra...
Companies really need to stop hiring that woman that does the terrible anime-esque voice acting. She's terrible and her affectation is nails on a chalkboard.
All of that and China is just 3% of their revenue.
3% of their 2021 net revenue is $54,810,000... they already hemorrhage money, and with their lawsuits they can't really stand to be loosing the Chinese market.
I don't understand why they entered the alley int he first place, were they fleeing something? The article reads like they started after the first paragraph that got left out...
"The latest teaser for Vera references the conflict and fragility between the real world and the dangers, but also the possibilities"
Between the real world and what? The way it's worded needs another world or something mentioned...
Archeage failed big time because they partnered with Trion, which had been a sinking ship for quite a while, and they of course mishandled the whole thing. If they had gone with someone who has had a lot of mmos under their belt, like NCsoft for ins…