Game Development: A Far Green Country

[Ragnar214]

It's not speculation and you knew it was coming? I'm adding you to my "Masters of the Minds" list where your facts are obtained from thin air, no dev posts to back anything you're saying, which should be easily accessible according to you. Your 'he/she said' defense isn't working, so you should get busy too and play the game and leave the devs to defend themselves.

Also, stop quoting everything.

You know what IS speculation? Is that you speculate how the game is monetized is up to you.

[LukeSkywalker]

It's not speculation and you knew it was coming? I'm adding you to my "Masters of the Minds" list where your facts are obtained from thin air, no dev posts to back anything you're saying, which should be easily accessible according to you. Your 'he/she said' defense isn't working, so you should get busy too and play the game and leave the devs to defend themselves.

Also, stop quoting everything.

You know what IS speculation? Is that you speculate how the game is monetized is up to you.

But it really is up to the playerbase, if they leave there's nothing to monetize.

[Ragnar214]

There are 775 hearthlings playing.

[whitdemon]

There are 775 hearthlings playing.

try doing the same in a week

[ItsFunToLose]

There are 775 hearthlings playing.

I am quoting this 2 weeks from now, taking a screen shot, printing it out, and mailing it to you.

so you can shove it up your ass.

[whitdemon]

There are 775 hearthlings playing.

I am quoting this 2 weeks from now, taking a screen shot, printing it out, and mailing it to you.

so you can shove it up your ass.

Thats so likelly as my ass growing teeth...

[Dethguise]

So are we done with this yet. I'd prefer to not dig through pages of shitposting and by the way a thread was made to discuss the p2p so move this crap over there at least

[ItsFunToLose]

reading this thread is more entertaining than actually playing the game, knowing that in a matter of weeks, it's going to be dead. I, like many others here, had a group of friends hyped and ready to play day one, only to get reamed. I've put hundreds of hours in and love it for the niche charm it possesses; they look at the game and see it for what it truly is: a hot java mess not worth a subscription. "sorry, i can't get in to this if we have to pay monthly, let's play some league/hots/counterstrike"

the point is not that the game costs money, I'd gladly have payed. it's that it was not announced. and it's using an archaic subscription model reserved for dying, AAA-as-of-15-years-ago games.

you can't put a price on communicating with your community properly. And as much as I respect jorb for his tongue-in-cheek responses to the shit bags that play this game, mistakes were made.

I really hope I'm wrong, and 6 months from now this game is thriving and has 1000+ people playing, no bots, etc etc, but I don't see how.

It's not that I don't want to pay 72$ for a year's subscription, it's that I have no faith in the longevity of this game given the form of monetization chosen, and the way it was implemented.
and without an active user base, people you can run in to and interact with on a consistent basis, then it's just not worth my time, as a free game, let alone my money.

[Ragnar214]

So are we done with this yet. I'd prefer to not dig through pages of shitposting and by the way a thread was made to discuss the p2p so move this crap over there at least

Agreed

[Ragnar214]

reading this thread is more entertaining than actually playing the game, knowing that in a matter of weeks, it's going to be dead. I, like many others here, had a group of friends hyped and ready to play day one, only to get reamed. I've put hundreds of hours in and love it for the niche charm it possesses; they look at the game and see it for what it truly is: a hot java mess not worth a subscription. "sorry, i can't get in to this if we have to pay monthly, let's play some league/hots/counterstrike"

the point is not that the game costs money, I'd gladly have payed. it's that it was not announced. and it's using an archaic subscription model reserved for dying, AAA-as-of-15-years-ago games.

you can't put a price on communicating with your community properly. And as much as I respect jorb for his tongue-in-cheek responses to the shit bags that play this game, mistakes were made.

I really hope I'm wrong, and 6 months from now this game is thriving and has 1000+ people playing, no bots, etc etc, but I don't see how.

It's not that I don't want to pay 72$ for a year's subscription, it's that I have no faith in the longevity of this game given the form of monetization chosen, and the way it was implemented.
and without an active user base, people you can run in to and interact with on a consistent basis, then it's just not worth my time, as a free game, let alone my money.

Just shaddddup already its been said 100 times.

If its not worth it than shut up, stop repeating yourselves and go play a game made by lesser intelligent devs.