Garriott "would continue" Tabula Rasa Comments by Oli Welsh
Creator feels it wasn't given a chance.
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kangarootoo
16/01/09 @ 10:50
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Hmmmm. Sounds like he didn't really see the business side of things as being as important as NC Soft did. I'm sure lots of gamers would agree with him, but at his level of experience in the business he should really be giving that sort of thing more consideration.
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autogunner
16/01/09 @ 10:55
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i dont see why anyone would attempt to compete with wow, at least at the moment. wrath ofthe lich king trumps all MMO releases this year, and its only an expansion.
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kangarootoo
16/01/09 @ 11:04
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He is right that an mmo is a slow burner, but that doesn't guarantee everything.
You can probably be sure it won't make money in the first months, but you can't at all be sure it will START making money after that time. At what point should an investor say "no more money, its not a good investment"? We can't just dismiss the business side of things, because without wise investment there would be no games industry and no games for any of us to play. |
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4thVariety
16/01/09 @ 12:14
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TR looked like a 3rd person shooter, yet it did not reward the same things a shooter rewards such as reaction time, manual aiming, manual dodging. And when 90% of the game is shooting stuff and running around, then that should be fun. If it's not, then people will move on quickly. Fans of "my number > your number" games tend to flock to one game really because the impulse of comparing one's genitalia size will always drive people to the biggest platform. Grinding to be the best in the tenth most popular game, just doesn't cut it. And since all long term MMO content is grind content, people quit MMOs after they are done with the non-grinding part.
AoC, same story. Sold a lot of units, had people excited, they completed it, content ran out, grind is not fun, excitement went away, next game please. |
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Maybe ensuring that your customers could actually play the damn thing would also have been a good idea? I bought it, my friend bought it, we'd both been in the beta with no issues and neither of us could even connect to the character creation server.
Their technical support was neither terrible supportive nor all that au fait with the technology: they more or less blamed our ISPs and left us to it. Needless to say we gave up quickly, thankful that we'd bought it for half nothing a couple of months after launch and left very wary of anything with NC Soft attached to it. |
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same herei actually kind of enjoyed the game when i played it (a friend also got it) but the servers & lag was so terrible i could often traverse half of one of the maps only to find myself back where is started 10 minutes later.
id have probably stuck with it if i could have actually played it. shame to see it go. |
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actionfitz
21/01/09 @ 13:25
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MrsPacMan
18-Jan-09 22:33:36 You're all a bunch of wankers. You have not a clue what you talk about. Imbeciles ------ lol. hit a nerve much? |
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