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Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by crito

crito — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:51:51 +0000

Thanks for bringing back the links Scott!

Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by reci

reci — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:07:39 +0000

i know not everyone here will share my opinion but i loved to play dance!online and even when it wasnt updated, it didnt robbed the fun i had with some friends. It was a great game, the support sucked, since they started over with plenty new games instead of concentrate of just a few.

so the only thing i can say, thx n also i wish everyone from acclaim all the best and the chance for a new start, even when it is somewhere else.

Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by Ashendarei

Ashendarei — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:20:18 +0000

sad news … at least the developers aren’t out a job (that’s SOMETHING at least) but social games…..

REALLY?

/ugh

Comment on The Client Is In The Compiler Of The Enemy by An update to the Emerald Viewer! « Misty is Foreverlost (misplaced the map again!)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:17:35 +0000

[...] You can read Linden Labs Decision here and a good time for past issues with Emerald can be read on Broken Toys blog. You can also check out the Emerald [...]

Comment on APB: How To Blow $100,000,000.00 by oh, if only I could stay awhile; but what am I afraid of? | Periscope Depth

oh, if only I could stay awhile; but what am I afraid of? | Periscope Depth — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:09:09 +0000

[...] not the billions in revenue that World of Warcraft clears every year, but it’s not the hundred million dollar bath that investors took on APB, either. Which would you rather take a chance on – that Activision will still be around in [...]

Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by JuJutsu

JuJutsu — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:10:09 +0000

PowerSpec3:

Isn’t against years-old anti-trust laws to just buy a competitor and just fire everyone and close it down?

The short answer is no. If the justice dept. thinks that it will adversely affect competition in an industry [typically by increasing concentration] they can take action. This is small potatoes in the broader scheme of things.

Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:55:58 +0000

PowerSpec3:

Isn’t against years-old anti-trust laws to just buy a competitor and just fire everyone and close it down?

If so, some of the biggest names in gaming, such as EA and Activision, have some explaining to do.

Comment on Playdom To Acclaim: It’s Not You, It’s Me by PowerSpec3

PowerSpec3 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:07:38 +0000

Isn’t against years-old anti-trust laws to just buy a competitor and just fire everyone and close it down?

Comment on OMG NEW MMO WTF BBQ by gyrus

gyrus — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:37:06 +0000

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… ChampO and STO could certainly have been better, but to my knowledge Cryptic didn’t blow a WAR-sized budget on developing them either.

Opportunity cost. Good will.

They didn’t blow a WAR sized budget – true.

But, they certainly didn’t ‘exploit’ the IPs for anywhere close to what they were worth.
There are/were a large number of players who were introduced to the MMORPG Genre by those titles – many feel they have had a bad experience and will not be back.

That is a lost market and lost potential revenue (if you want to look at tit that way).

STO in particular was a license to print money (had it been done right).
You cannot just look at a financial statement and say IF revenue > expenses = profit = success!
You need to look at revenue projections beyond just this financial year.
If you want to be purely fiscal about it – STO should have been turning in huge revenues for YEARS to come.
STO players should have become long term customers and, when later titles were released, the goodwill created should have resulted in an ever growing customer base. (= more profit!)

Do you think Cryptic has achieved that?

Comment on OMG NEW MMO WTF BBQ by geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:33:10 +0000

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@Toastrider: The updates since NCsoft acquired CoH/V may be well received, but it is on an increasingly shrinking player base.

Actually, the City of Heroes/V servers are showing 2/3 or 3/3 population dots since they released Going Rogue last week. The highest I’ve seen them in the history of the game.

Although this is probably a temporary increase in population surrounding the release of the new expansion, at best.