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Is PW just trying to do too much?

jeepinjeepin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited July 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
I was on Perfect World's site, and out of curiosity, I looked at their list of games. There are 15 games on the list.... 15! How can they possibly (successfully) manage 15 games? Let's look at the big players. Blizzard, Sony, EA, Bioware etc. They have what 1-6 games each that fall into an MMO genre. I'm sure World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, SWTOR etc have teams that work specifically on those titles and I can imagine they have pretty large teams at that. You would have to in order to do an MMO successfully. But they are huge companies with revenues that FAR exceed Perfect World. So how is it even possible that Perfect World can dedicate any time at all with 15 titles.

At some point, I would think they would want to stream line the number of games and focus on making 1-3 great games instead of 15 mediocre to good games....?
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  • wingofbenuwingofbenu Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You'd be wrong.

    why make 3 good games when you can make 15 mediocre games, slap cash shops on them all, and let whales feed you?
  • jeepinjeepin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Would it be better to have a few whales feed you or huge schools of fish that stick around longer.... That marketing mentality will never launch them into the next level. Eventually the whales will get tired of mediocrity and find a better ocean..
  • kylesaysthingskylesaysthings Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    15 bad-to-mediocre games with a shared 'pay2win' currency is far more profitable than 1 good game with a monthly subscription fee.

    It's all a marketing strategy, with the obvious goal being "make as much money as possible while still putting as little effort into each product as possible."

    Think about it: You buy zen, then you realize that NWO has no end-game content. Since you were forced to buy pre-set amounts of Zen, rather than the exact number you needed, you likely have some left over. That's when you realize that you can use this Zen on other PWE titles! So of course this will lead many people into trying out other PWE titles, which of course have the same flaws as the one you just left, but you may not realize this until after you dumped more cash into it.

    In the end, I can't see it as anything besides a scheme to trick you into continuing to play PWE title-after-title, despite each one leaving you with an overwhelming feeling of regret.
  • jeepinjeepin Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Even if they kept the same system, and limited the number of games to 3-5. They could focus their resources on making those 3-5 great, still share the Zen system and improve their Customer Service, implementation, marketing, programming etc.

    People read reviews of games, they play the games, they get to know the company. If I am unhappy with a certain company, I am not likely going to try any of their other titles. I enjoy Neverwinter for what it is. But I also think that it has potential to be so much more. And from what I've seen from PWE, I'd be reluctant to invest in their other titles. Even if I had invested into their Zen as some do and had surplus, I'd probably just use what I had and move on. I wouldn't carry that over to one of the other 14 titles and continue. I don't know.. I guess I just have a different way of looking at things. ::baffled::
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Yea, because indescriminantly shutting down 12 games to feed 3. Is always a good way to build customer support. Just ask anyone from CoH how well that went.

    If people are playing those games and enjoying them. PWE isnt a charity so they must be making money for them. Who are you to decide what games need to get cut loose to support the bigger fish?
  • nick1sternnick1stern Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 330 Bounty Hunter
    edited July 2013
    PW is the publisher they do not develope code create games.
    They Publish and manage availability.
    Steam has Hundreds of Games are they over reaching doing to Much?
  • r0y0r0y0 Member Posts: 45 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    wingofbenu wrote: »
    You'd be wrong.

    why make 3 good games when you can make 15 mediocre games, slap cash shops on them all, and let whales feed you?
    Best reply I've seen today. Kudos.

    QFT +1
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • r0y0r0y0 Member Posts: 45 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    kylesaysthings wrote: »
    ...Think about it: You buy zen, then you realize that NWO has no end-game content. Since you were forced to buy pre-set amounts of Zen, rather than the exact number you needed, you likely have some left over. That's when you realize that you can use this Zen on other PWE titles!...
    Except you have to TRANSFER zen to a game, and unless you bought a good chunk and only sent a little to NWO, you'll not get any of NWO-zen back into PW zen for their other games.
    I've got lots of zen in Champions, and it's locked in there (talk about another futureless Cryptic dog MMO).
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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