Just another rant...

Posts: 162 Arc User
edited December 2010 in General Discussion
Meh, just another rant.

From what I see, PWI has 2 choices. One, keep doing what they are doing. Add new changes to the boutique to encourage cash shopping. Let's be honest here, the game won't completedly die soon. It will take a year or two in my opinion for all cash shopping to truly stop (that is, the actual death of the game). As much as we've been claiming that the game is dead (trademarked) right now, it isn't. But let's fast forward 3 years. By then, if PW continues the way it is, not only will PWI die, all games associated with it will too. But by then, PW would have accumulated a vast amount of wealth to leave the majority of its owners happy. After that, however, PW would be over.

2nd choice, PW reverts its way a little. I'm not saying completedly revert to what it was 3 years ago, but make subtle changes that slowly makes cash shopping less OP. TBH, I don't know if there's anyway to save PWI, to make PWI a long running game, but Forsaken World, and games after Forsaken World that will be designed in attempt to draw new interest can. By limiting cash shopping to just fashion/mounts/fun stuff, they will make significantly less money for the short period, but be able to sustain the company for a long time, as well as playerbase.

So which will it be you think? Will PW take route 1, and take the quick money, or take route 2, and choose a long term deal?
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  • Posts: 3,852 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    They are a company.

    Paying players decide what they want.

    Company moves in that direction. That's how it has been and will always be.

    Making the company "less cash shopping" means less profit. Yes, PWI is going to say "to hell with profit", we'll just burn all the money we made in the last 2-3 years in a fire by reverting things so that a very vocally dissatisfied forum population will be appeased.

    And back to reality.. option 1.
  • Posts: 2,106 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    As much as I hate to say this, I am definitely leaning towards route 1.

    The way things are at the moment it really looks like the pwe team could care less about long term, all they care about now is making sure they make money, and lots of it. Sad thing is that if they do continue on this path, and people do get fed up with it and cease to stop paying for stuff that is made/endorsed by pwe, then they will have NO money coming in once so ever. Though I really doubt it will get that out of hand for pwe. Then again I could easily be wrong, people can be fickle, and somewhat stingy/stubborn when they fight for something THEY believe in.

    Nice to see someone admit it though... (one of those nay sayers with the 'game is dead' sig... admit that it isn't... TRULY dead) especially considering how many people are still logged into the game.
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  • Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    They are a company.

    Paying players decide what they want.

    Company moves in that direction. That's how it has been and will always be.

    I'm actually not familiar with how PW company works at all...do they have shareholder meetings? How are their business decision made? Knowing these things will make it easier to hypothesize what steps they will make.
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  • Posts: 3,852 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I'm actually not familiar with how PW company works at all...do they have shareholder meetings? How are their business decision made? Knowing these things will make it easier to hypothesize what steps they will make.
    They are publicly traded -- differentiate Co Ltd with Inc -- inc is likely their publisher in the USA. They have shareholders, thus a bottomline -- profit.

    I don't know of any shareholder meetings though, at least, outside of China. I'm not very much of a risk taker when it comes to money, and the F2P industry, like many game developers have become, is rather volatile since the dotcom bust (I know, I live in Silicon Valley and I worked for a competitor to PWI as well as other game companies), so it wouldn't get any of my investment to begin with.
  • Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I guess I was just curious as to their motives. If you are a shareholder, would you be content with a 500% profit (just throwing out a number), or the sustainibility (no idea if that's a word) of a company?
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  • Posts: 3,852 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Well, if throwing money into risky business was my thing to start with, surely this was the thing to do over a year ago. When PW was a start-up for PWI just before it's stock peaked, that was the best time to invest. At this point, if someone wants to lose money, invest in PW.

    The super big companies have long term goals, which is why I would invest in them, because your return, while lower, is also less risky -- that's my thing. While PW is traded on NASDAQ, looking at their stock fly around all over the place, they are extremely volatile, and at this point it's like, for lack of a funnier gambling analogy, opening an anni pack, without more information.
  • Posts: 473 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    neither. ive played games where CS is ALOT more heavy then PW and those games are still up and running. one game in particular has been in business for 6 or 7 years and show no signs of shutting down despite how reliant it is towards the CS.

    what makes you think that PWI will shut down when those games havent even tho they are 2x more CS based then PWI?

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