Game Development: A Far Green Country

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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Russaria » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:38 pm

burgingham wrote:
Teabot wrote:
Teabot wrote:ADMIN! I HAVE PAID 15$ PER MONTH, BUT SOMEONE STOLE MY CARROTS, HELP!

I really going to write a complain to paypal, it just a fraud!



Ok a little heads up. I see more and more posts like this popping up even teaching others how to get their money back.

It is not the devs committing fraud here. You can test the game for 48 hours and then you can decide wether it is worth the money they are charging for it. You don't think so? Fine, then do not pay. But don't pay and then try to get your money back just to piss the devs off. You knew what you were getting into.

Then it is you comitting fraud and I won't leave up tutorials on how to do that on the forums.


wow, now there's a little "Get what you give" that didn't even cross my mind lol

"Fraud"...you mean like an unannounced moment when people logged in to feed their animals and found a game they'd played for years, even abandoned and
hated by it's own creators BOOM behind a 15$ paywall. And little if any support of even how to get their Ender client to work if they WERE so desperate as to do that? And accepting a "As long as it lasts" threat on top of it? (Which means, we are leaving that open as bait for a while to at least get 15$ out of you). OH and for the 15$ we'll throw in 24 hours of "gameplay time" on the "new one" as well. Of course anyone who's ever played Haven for more than 2 days knows you can not do ANYTHING , especially at the beginning, in Haven in 24 hours of gametime..lol So is offering an amount of "Playtime" for money that the offerer knows is literally useless to the actual truth of the game and how it's played and what is needed "Fraud"? Is offering even less @ 12 hours even more fraudulent to then call it "free" for "Apperances" sake? Hum, it is an interesting question.

I guess according to how one looks at it , especially if they come from a position of experience with a specific product the idea of "Fraud" can become quite the grey area. And guess what J&L you are in the big world now, one without the haze of whatever drives your decisions. And in that world of Paypal, credit card companies, banks and legalities, offering products and services and taking people's money. You can have a whole lot more people looking over your shoulder than you may have thought AND those "customers" or "Victims" as the case may be considered by whomever they appeal to, have a whole lot more options that they use to when they were just cannon fodder on this moderator's forum.

It's just all part of the "game" you have stepped into yes?

PS: ever heard of Pony Island? Silly little genetics breeding game with 20+ million subscribers active at any given time. who get held hostage every 6 months to pay 14$ (or 24 for a year) or watch all their animals they spent years breeding and genetically altering starve to death...LMAO Yet the 2 owners (A girl and her boyfriend) make so much money they had to move to an Island off Switz to get out from under the taxes. May want to ask yourself why you'd be trying to charge 120 a year and then wondering why people would get pissed off.

Do I agree with such actions? Well, I'd prefer to just warn everyone on every video or mention of the game I find across the net, but to each their own.
In the end, you cannot treat people like so much trash and dirt and then get upset if they get upset. Tis the nature of that kind of dirty business.

But all that of course is just my opinion, ya know, like yours.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby alagar » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:44 pm

Ops wrong board.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Ragnar214 » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:48 pm

alagar wrote:You wan't ideas? Put in on steam, make an one-time sale and fill the game with cosmetics

Why you din't put it on steam yet?


You should watch that video I just linked :D

You'll change your tune if you watch it to the end.

Want a thriving game? Cosmetic microtransactions as a business model will kill a game. One time purchases can't support a persistent world that supports hundreds if not thousands of people.

Beyond that you all know the Devs are people right? They've worked their asses off (if you know what it takes to make a game like this). They aren't a massive corporation.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Russaria » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:03 pm

Ragnar214 wrote:@Ralek

Lol you're the shill dude. 72 dollars a year woooopie! How many games do you buy on steam? games usually cost anywhere from 20-80 dollars and then they have DLC.

Stop shilling for your freeloading ass. Go get a job.

I'd much prefer to see discussion about Game Development on the "Game Development" thread as I am interested in that. Instead I read nothing but endless whining.


I'm not sure what Steam you're talking about, Level 51 here with over 300+ games. I can assure you, for a game of this type, stage and quality your pronouncement of 20-80 dollars is quite amusing. You aren't seriously comparing this game to AAA titles which you can still get for 5.99 full packages on sale..lol The truth is games like this go for .19 to .99 cents on Steam sales. And 1.99 to 9.99 full prtice. But hey, long as it "Sounds good" to your argument I guess it works...except to anyone else who has a Steam account..lol
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Gotohellcadz » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:19 pm

Ragnar214 wrote:What follows is what happens when games introduce microtransactions instead of Subscription Fees.

"On January 3, 2013, it was announced by AOEO Trajan (Kevin Perry) via the official community blog that Age of Empires Online had finished its development stage and was entering its support phase,[24] and in September 2013 Microsoft Studios announced that the Age of Empires Online servers would be shut down on July 1, 2014.[4] Producer Kevin Perry gave a presentation at the 2013 Game Developers Conference explaining the reasons for AoEO's closure and why he believed its business model ultimately failed, that being mostly due to the content being too expensive to create for the small daily active userbase.[25]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_Online

Just one example from "AAA" studios

Listen to him himself.

Here you go.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1019303/F2 ... ng-Way-Age


You forget that a lot of games put these subs in to try and compete with WoW and fail horribly as virtually nothing can take it down. This is why subs are a dying thing as if the developers can't make a competent product that retains a large playerbase, so once the game starts to die out, so does the bank account of the company making it.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Ragnar214 » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:23 pm

This game costs less than half of what WOW costs a month for a 1 year sub lol. And Haven is a better game! What are you gonna get in WOW? Endless repetitive dungeon crawl?

I'm starting to think a serious amount of people don't know how to do mathematics.

And as I see it these guys have worked on this game for almost a decade. 5 years for the first getting it to world 7? Then working on this new one for 2 more years? That's art not corporate slave labour (WOW)

That's a lot of time and a lot of content and gameplay that everyone has enjoyed for >>> almost a decade. For free.

The point in the video link I posted is that what Jorb and Loftar have chosen as a payment model is THE MOST flexible and well thought out system I've ever seen. I can see people leaving EVE online for this game once it is completely fleshed out.

Just watch the video I linked. The entire thing and you will change your mind!
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Bob_the_Cat » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:29 pm

Ragnar214 wrote:This game costs less than half of what WOW costs a month for a 1 year sub lol. And it's a better game? What are you gonna get in WOW? Endless repetitive dungeon crawl?

I'm starting to think a serious amount of people don't know how to do mathematics.


"BUT WOW HAS A BIGGER PLAYER BASE IT HAS TO BE BETTER"

says the innept kids plaguing the forums right now lol...
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Kimparo » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:32 pm

I'm just going to post this and be done with topic. This only applies to those in the US and those that aren't getting by by the skin of their teeth.

I saw a pack of cookies in the grocery store today for nearly $5. Nearly $5 for a pack of cookies that will last about a week. The bronze 30 day sub for this game is $10. The unlimited world 7 play is $15 with a small bonus to hafen.

You people in that are in the US are literally shitting yourselves in rage over $10. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. What a time to be alive.

To anyone that the price isn't all that nice to you due to conversion rates and such, I'm sorry. No one can really help you on that.
To anyone who is getting by by the skin of their teeth and cannot a ford this at all, I am also sorry. You'll need to find something else to do, or somehow save up an extra $15 for w7.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby August » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:32 pm

Ragnar214 wrote:This game costs less than half of what WOW costs a month for a 1 year sub lol. And Haven is a better game! What are you gonna get in WOW? Endless repetitive dungeon crawl?

We-hehe-ll, u are kidding, arent you? :)

I saw a pack of cookies in the grocery store today for nearly $5. Nearly $5 for a pack of cookies that will last about a week. The bronze 30 day sub for this game is $10.

Lets not count other people's money.
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Re: Game Development: A Far Green Country

Postby Ragnar214 » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:34 pm

Bob_the_Cat wrote:
Ragnar214 wrote:This game costs less than half of what WOW costs a month for a 1 year sub lol. And it's a better game? What are you gonna get in WOW? Endless repetitive dungeon crawl?

I'm starting to think a serious amount of people don't know how to do mathematics.


"BUT WOW HAS A BIGGER PLAYER BASE IT HAS TO BE BETTER"

says the innept kids plaguing the forums right now lol...


Agreed.

Everquest 1 was the only good game that is similar to WOW. Dark Age of Camelot too, was an epic game. It all went downhill once WOW came out. Warcraft failed at warcraft 3 :P Warcraft 2 and 1 are the only good warcrafts. Same with Starcraft 1, the only good starcraft and Diablo 1 and 2, the only good diablo's.

All those big studios lost their ways somewhere haha
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