What will pwi be like in 10 years?

Sacredxstar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Ragnarok maybe? I'm not sure. And stop following me!

b:avoid

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*stalk, stalk*

gone. its hard to maintain a F2P game just by boutique sales. Customers will QQ and eventually ragequit without knowing the reasons that the company might be needing the sales for.

PW my so dead w/ 1m -2m per gold and merged servers because of low population lulzb:bye

nothing gonna change.
they will be releasing their 10th year anniversary pack

/end of sarcasm

*ouch*
People are pretty harsh here. Yes a decade is a long time, but Perfect World has had two expansions in its first year! If it keeps up the pace of new content and updates its graphics as the technology allows (they made meditation prettier!) I see no reason why it might not be here. Yes cashshoppers will always enjoy an advantage, but they're paying for it. I see no reason to rage quit because someone else got an endgame weapon and I'm still having fun kiting mobs around Thousand Streams.
I would encourage PWI to focus on developing its PvP element however. Third Expansion: Celestial Wars, ftw! Demons versus Sages, we all know we want it! (>' ')>

Oh, so much fashion will have been released that everyone can look unique!

revamp whole pvp system and make all servers pvp b:pleased

to keep players later the pvp is needed, and for now with prices on angels too high for most to enjoy.

The servers are merged over the period of 2->4 years eventually down to 1 due to decreasing population.

The server is turned off for good 5.5 years from now.

At the 10 year mark, PWE is still dealing with all the lawsuits from delusional people who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on PWI gear saying they deserve compensation for their investment in their uber gears being turned off.

It's all pretty much been said already. I've been on both sides, i started a year ago as an archer on Sanc then went to Dreamweaver with a carbon copy archer(both never saw an oracle or a gold in their account), and now im back here on Sanc... the blademaster i started with is level 101 .. i re rolled an assassin and will be 85 this week from oracles and hyper exp FCC runs. It's an addiction at this point... one im about to kick. I imagined if i had stayed with the BM. and imagined meeting my assassin... with TT80 Gold Gear Frost Gold Daggers +6 with Garnet Gem and today level 6 Tailor after standing by elder for 4 minutes and never had bought a pickaxe. id prolly be pissed of my year of grinding / farming because it'd be like i had just got a demotion of 20 levels. Then we have the Almighty Wizzeled with the Nirvana Bow +5 and Ego +1500 <,<.. my 3 biggest recent problems with PW are the complete removal of FCC mats from the Game, the Addition of 500k fee to enter Lunar (3mil for a squad which is 500k a pop) and the blatent disregard for the people that were committed to this game and made the playerbase that attracted so many players worldwide. The profit that has been made by PWI is an exponiential number. I've spent over $1,400.00 USD in the past 2 months myself and Wizzeled makes my income look like i work at McDonalds.
I actually have the 2nd highest paying job in the united states without a college degree as determined by the u.s. department of labor in 2009. So as for my 2 cents... i am certian this game will not last 10 years nor 2 years... possibly 1 more year at most if they keep this up. Discourage lower class players by removing content to allow the end game content to be that much better and put you that much farther away from it unless u spend money. Lose your playerbase and u fail. i will not even watch so much as a YouTube Gameplay Video of Battle of the Immortals because I an afraid of the same failure a year from now. Congratulations PWI , you've lost this customer soon.b:thanks

Most has been said about PWI in the year 2020. The servers will not last that long and more likely to be transferring accounts to fewer and fewer servers until there is none left. There will be local hotlines and a webtsite for people having problems of wasting over $1000 dollars on a game they only play 3-12 months and get bored of it. Just like the gambling hotlines you see on late night television. People regretting wasting all that money unable to provide for themselves or their family because of this game. Then there is the people unable to go back to society once all the servers are shut down and have no idea how to function. Then once all the people who spend all their money on the game and unable to get any kind of refund when all the servers are shut down there will be thousands of lawsuits. Once there is one victorious lawsuit there will be settlements flying left and right and new video game legislation in nations to prevent what PWE did to people.

RAWR! I'm a tiger

Most likely when a game loses revenue over time and a company moves onto a new game it's sold to a different company. After this the new company will keep it running (most likely no big updates will come at this point further because the game will be ran by a handful of people) for as long as it is profitable at all. The game can last forever as long as there is no major mistakes. There is many 2d, 3d, p2p. f2p, ect. old old games still alive today, most of them have just been sold to another company at some point. Some examples would be Nexus (kingdom of the winds) Originally owned by nexon sold to Kru. Then Nexon went and made new more profitable games that caused them less trouble such as Maple Story and ********. Another Example Rose Online originally owned by Gravity (A failed mmo company) Sold it to another company. Point in case as long as no one makes the big oops!!! The game will last as long as it makes any money because there will always be a company out there to run it.

EDIT: The owners of Ragnorak bought Rose Online xD

This is my first p2p game and likely my last. I much prefer paying a subscription and know that the game is being maintained and there is somewhat a level playing field, and some semblance of customer support.

In this game, I always get the impression the designers are trying to suck every last penny out of you. Yes, I realize no one is forcing me to buy gold or CS items, but the game is constantly suggesting it. The lengths that it goes to do so is sometimes extraordinary. ie; Why can't we purchase fashion items from CS in colour that we prefer ? No, it has to be random. Of course it is just coincidental, that when you receive your fashion item it comes in an abysmal colour, that no one would be caught dead wearing. Random colour indeed!!. This problem is easily solved however, just need to buy some pigments ! How many ? 16 ? That is rather expensive. What is this, random pigments you are selling ? Who is going to buy this ? Make a bad situation worst ?

Finally get the pigments you need, all 16 of them and head to the seamtress. What is this ? A tiny microscopic square that I can hardly see ? Who designed this ? Well, I can only guess at the shade of colour. Whoops, got it wrong. Looks like I need so more pigments ! Try this again.

Good joke, OP.

Also, necro.

After 10 years, one thing for sure I should be already travelling with my future wife b:cute She's the lady ever!

i didn't read any of the posts because i already know exactly what it will be like. there will be dozens of people on the forum's qqing about how "the game is dead" while the rest of us continue to waste away at our keyboards opening whatever new chance pack pwe came up with. after opening all our packs we will spend 26 minutes qqing about gold prices in factionchat followed by 7 minutes of reminiscing about "the good old days". then 4 of us will stand in west arch and look at each other while waiting for someone we don't like to pk... end drunken storytimeb:surrender

dog10240 wrote: »

And you'll need +10 weapon to do anything...

That's already almost the case <.< For many instances, it's clearly already the case tho.