Game Development: A Far Green Country

[Namsy]

So many negative people but the game is great!, 48 hours is plenty of time to decide if you want to Haven full time, if you cant buy monthly time, that you should be finding a job instead of gaming cause really, its not that much. If your young, im sure you can make a deal with your parents ^^. Like a lot of people said 1000 to 50 in a month, I think this haven will be better rounded with the player base, as its newer and updated, and the game is more nooby friendly, as we all have found out.

[jorb]

They feel cared for. Blizzard makes people feel that they are valued customers. That may sound stupid, but it's really important -- no matter the scale of the project.

We'd certainly love it if you would feel that way, and we're certainly going to try to make that happen.

We value our customers greatly.

That being said I didn't become a game developer because I hate indulging in my personal eccentricities. Some amount of moody posing you will probably have to deal with.

[LadyGoo]

But how will you implement this?
What will stop me from converting my euro`s to an other currencie and pay with that so that I have to pay less?

Decrease the monthly subscription by 20-30% for everyone and add more cosmetics. People who can afford it will spend a lot (I know people who spent hundreds of dollars on DoTA2 cosmetics) anyways, people who cannot will still provide the playerbase. More people are playing in the world, more interesting and vibrant will it be politically (more factions, less centralization, more diplomacy), economically in-game (less monopolization), socially and PvP.

[Berz]

What about not asking for money until your software allows people to actually play the game?

May I remind youy that we've not asked for money for seven years?

May i remind you that HH1 was always "server appear to be crashed" very often lagging, bug infested. regulary world wiping drama engine, good Sir?

And the only reason people played HH was free-play, hardcore and dramas everywhere?

asking for "eternal alpha" like for well-developed WoW seens...weird at least.

No1 said that you don`t deserve reward for your efforts. We are trying to say that you are crazy with prices AND should talk about P2P beforehand.

Very crazy and smoke waaay to much weed=)

[kBre]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but surely you can't be mad at me for not reading every post since the forums are getting spammed incredibly fast.
Is there a client download feature already or do I have to download the autohaven every time?
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but it has been a while since I played this game.

Just use the AutoHaven. You don't have to redownload it. Think of it like the game launcher

Thanks a bunch!

I feel kind of inclined to add my 2 cents to the shitstorm...I, for one, won't complain about anything before my 48 hours run out. I think it's a good "trial period" and if I'm done with it and still like the game, I will definitely sub.
While it might be true that the prices are a little steep, I haven't seen a game in this genre that interests me as much as this in a very long time.

[psyknx]

Please longer range on party arrows or 20Euro if you port me to my friends!

[elithe4th]

2. Now you will start full powered development of game? How often game will resieve updates? Some people will not pay if game will be updated once per mounts-years.

Game has been in full-powered development for two years, but, yes, that will continue either indefinitely or until we need to get other careers. Your call, really.

I have it in my head to try to do bi-weekly updates, but that may vary.

You guys and your mysteriousness.

[testostyrannosaurus]

Yupp. We should, indeed, have started charging as soon as we got players. Would have made this smoother.

Yes - then you'd have realized sooner that your monetization model isn't viable.

[RomanRichter]

1. What about server Wipes? Will there be? Some people will not pay for their progress be constantly wiped.

The ambition is to run the worlds indefinitely, but we are certainly in development still, so every now and then a world reset probably to be expected. Some people like that.

2. Now you will start full powered development of game? How often game will resieve updates? Some people will not pay if game will be updated once per mounts-years.

Game has been in full-powered development for two years, but, yes, that will continue either indefinitely or until we need to get other careers. Your call, really.

I have it in my head to try to do bi-weekly updates, but that may vary.

3. How long game will be in Alpha stage?

The alpha is eternal, the revolution is permanent.

Many thanks for answering, It clarified a lot for me.

But, answer for my 1 question raises another question, ehm, all data will be wiped, or only world? Because still this can call additional rant about people paying for loosing they progrees without any compensation.

Maybe you should put a notice about that on Shoope or elsewhere?

[kalcio]

are you going to give to the one who already pay the full month an extra hour for the downtime that we are having so far?