Game Development: Salem & Haven

[Gedrean]

I'm 11 and play Haven and Hearth even after like 5 deaths(in 2 months) If it does become pay2play please don't make it 19.99$ a month

Seriously? This game will never top the cost of World of Warcraft at $15 a month. I would expect this game's subscription rate, at most, to be around $3.95 a month - it's not that it's low quality but the fact is this isn't a "high-end" heavy graphics gotta pay a zillion support guys kinda game. Honestly, 3.95 a month or even 4.95 a month ($5 USD) would be reasonable. I think 5euros would be a bit much a month (that'd be like 8 or 10 bucks USD a month)... Considering the 6month price for WoW is $13 a month USD?

[halloween]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... YC%2Fpage2

go here and scroll down a little bit..more screen shots from the game..

[warrri]

Jorb, sorry, i havent read the whole thread, but will Salem have the same amount of things looking like penises?

[spectacle]

Seriously? This game will never top the cost of World of Warcraft at $15 a month. I would expect this game's subscription rate, at most, to be around $3.95 a month - it's not that it's low quality but the fact is this isn't a "high-end" heavy graphics gotta pay a zillion support guys kinda game. Honestly, 3.95 a month or even 4.95 a month ($5 USD) would be reasonable. I think 5euros would be a bit much a month (that'd be like 8 or 10 bucks USD a month)... Considering the 6month price for WoW is $13 a month USD?

H&H also has a lot smaller potential market than WoW, so they would have to charge a decent amount just to cover costs. I don't see any reason why playing a finished H&H should be any cheaper than playing WoW. Really, getting people to open their wallets in the first place is the hard part, after that it doesn't really matter if its 5, 10 or 15 dollars.

[Resture]

I personally don't mind the character graphics.

[jorb]

I'm 11 and play Haven and Hearth even after like 5 deaths(in 2 months)

Assuming you aren't an FBI agent posing as an elven year old: Kid, you are badass. That is really cool.

Jorb, sorry, i havent read the whole thread, but will Salem have the same amount of things looking like penises?

... did you ever doubt that?

On the aesthetic front, the character avatar looks like something out of Animal Crossing

indeed

AC is one of my stated references, actually.

[jorb]

I find it amazing that there is all this speculation about how the talked about mechanics will work while the H&H community knows exactly how they work.

How could this ever work you guys!! It has no quests, what is there to do? Won't it be a griefers paradise?? im frightened of this new and terrible future please hold me

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lol. Your way with words never ceases to amaze me. Seriously though, you'll have to forgive them. I would wager a bet that they come from the perspective of MMOs where ganking is commonplace simply because there are no real consequences to death other than a slight annoyance to the person who gets "killed".

[Cajoes]

I find it amazing that there is all this speculation about how the talked about mechanics will work while the H&H community knows exactly how they work.

How could this ever work you guys!! It has no quests, what is there to do? Won't it be a griefers paradise?? im frightened of this new and terrible future please hold me

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lol. Your way with words never ceases to amaze me. Seriously though, you'll have to forgive them. I would wager a bet that they come from the perspective of MMOs where ganking is commonplace simply because there are no real consequences to death other than a slight annoyance to the person who gets "killed".

Struggling to see how HnH is different in this regard... Except that death is a greater annoyance.

[Melgui]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?516902-GuileMike-s-AAR-on-the-Paradox-Interactive-Convention-2011-in-NYC%2Fpage2

go here and scroll down a little bit..more screen shots from the game..

Yeah! M&B with Fire & Sword screens too!

[Wolfang]

Shortly afterwards, in December 1620, a permanent settlement was established near present-day Plymouth by the Pilgrims, English religious separatists arriving via Holland, after they famously disembarked at Plymouth Rock (THIS IS PROBABLY THE FAMOUS ART OF SALEM WITH THE GUYS WITH CROSSES). The Massachusetts Bay Colony, which would come to dominate the area, was established in 1628 with its major city of Boston established in 1630. (ALSO MAKES SENCE)

Banished from Massachusetts for heresy, Roger Williams led a group south, and founded Providence, Rhode Island in 1636 (THIS FITS IN WITH THE WHOLE WITCHCRAFT THING). On March 3 of the same year, Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts and the Connecticut Colony was granted a charter, establishing its own government in Hartford. At this time, Vermont was yet unsettled, and the territories of New Hampshire and Maine were governed by Massachusetts.

Even during the early stages of English colonization, relations with the indigenous peoples of New England began to sour. Preliminary trade with Europeans had already significantly reduced and weakened native populations via disease and epidemic. The fur supply was soon exhausted, forcing hunters to travel farther into the territories of neighboring tribes, such as the Mohawk and the Haudenosaunee (known to European settlers as the Iroquois) of Eastern New York. As demand for local goods, like beaver pelts, by English companies rose, so did tensions between existing indigenous communities. Permanent English settlement, through which colonists seized or claimed land and began to apply Puritan laws to native peoples, only exacerbated the situation.




Just trying to increase my knowledge as to what to expect =D