well said...and that game is in the grave so lets kick out the old ideas that don't work. Stick with the formula that is working over in swotor and wow
That game isn't in the grave because it 'wasn't working' - they had a great and dedicated playerbase and were profitable. Sure, they weren't beating out WoW (but then who does?). NCSoft has a history of buying games, running 'em for a year or two, and shutting them down, without any seeming regard for how the game is doing. They even had a great offer on the table for a group to buy the IP and take over the game, and their response was pretty much, "Enh, no, not interested, we wanna shut it down." I think some of their management team saw it as competing with some of their other pet titles.
I'd bug Matt Miller to talk about it, but I'm betting his NDA is a mile long.
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That game isn't in the grave because it 'wasn't working' - they had a great and dedicated playerbase and were profitable. Sure, they weren't beating out WoW (but then who does?). NCSoft has a history of buying games, running 'em for a year or two, and shutting them down, without any seeming regard for how the game is doing. They even had a great offer on the table for a group to buy the IP and take over the game, and their response was pretty much, "Enh, no, not interested, we wanna shut it down." I think some of their management team saw it as competing with some of their other pet titles.
I'd bug Matt Miller to talk about it, but I'm betting his NDA is a mile long.
Compared to how COV was in the early days compared to when I went back just to how things were going yeah it was failing. There was no player around to be seen. Just an fyi to answer who does SWOTOR published numbers show they are competing with WoW, they have their own dedicated players base that is growing who know why perhaps as they suggest it's wow in space so naturally people bored with wow take a break from it and play swotor for 2 week vacation or something. Ah well would be interesting to hear Matt's views. Interesting discussion though defiantly plenty of food for thought
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I'd bug Matt Miller to talk about it, but I'm betting his NDA is a mile long.
--Red Annorax
Compared to how COV was in the early days compared to when I went back just to how things were going yeah it was failing. There was no player around to be seen. Just an fyi to answer who does SWOTOR published numbers show they are competing with WoW, they have their own dedicated players base that is growing who know why perhaps as they suggest it's wow in space so naturally people bored with wow take a break from it and play swotor for 2 week vacation or something. Ah well would be interesting to hear Matt's views. Interesting discussion though defiantly plenty of food for thought
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