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• • Tabula Rasa is closing.NCSOFT annoucement

  • Originally posted by Superman0X
    

    Originally posted by Raltar
    

    I conisdered actually going to give it a try when it becomes free just for the heck of it. But I don't really want to reinstall the game just to play what I already know isn't worth the effort. We now know it will never develop into the game it needed to become, so why wate the time?

    The thing about making it free to play permanently is that there really isn't such a thing as a free game. Every game out there makes money somehow. If not by subscription fees, then by sales of the software or in-game ads or though (god forbid) a cash shop. TR was designed to make money from subscription fees. Trying to translate it now into something else would just muck it up even more and since NCsoft obvioualy isn't planning on putting any more effort into development, the game will clearly never get any better than it is now, so who would continue to play anyway?

     

    I am familiar with how F2P works (it is a business model, not a charity). I do think that if NCSoft were to allow this title to pass to another publisher, so that it could get a fresh start (NCSoft has already given up on the game) it would do well.

    Re-Designing a game for F2P isnt as hard as you may think, especially for those companies that have actual experience with how these games work.

     

    I agree with you.  Look at Archlord and RF Online, both were pay games made into F2P games.  Thats what I meant in my post anyway, not for NCsoft to make it free, but for them to sell the game.  Plus if they sold the game it would make up for some of the cost they put into it already.

  • Posted: 11/21/08 4:32 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Tabula Rasa is closing.NCSOFT annoucement

  • I wonder if they'll look into selling the game, or if they're just going to shred it and forget it like they did with Auto Assult.  Its strange their just making it free for a month, they should give the payed players freedom to pick any game they want to play for free for their account and make it free now.  I'tll be interesting to see how many people start playing it when it becomes free.

  • Posted: 11/21/08 3:02 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • SGW world vs. SWG world

  • I just want it to feel like Stargate.  I hope to not see Jeffa standing around waiting for someone to attack them.  I want quests that feel right, not just clear out a room.  This game can be great or it can be just another run of the mill MMO with the Stargate name tagged on to it.

  • Posted: 11/21/08 1:31 AM
    Stargate Worlds
• • Darkfall: Beta First Impressions

  • Their is another thing to think about if and when the game goes gold.  Are there going to be hacks like in most other FPS'.  I'm saying FPS because this is more like an FPS where their will be wall hacks and auto aim hacks and such rather than bots.  Every FPS I play on a PC has some pretty bad hacks and those will ruin the game if they don't figure out a way to make it hack proof (which is virtually impossible).  This is why the more and more online games I play on the PC I think it would be best to just have them on consoles because their harder to hack.  CoD 4 on the PC is full of hackers while CoD 4 on the Xbox 360 doesn't seem to have many if any.  I love playing single player games on the PC but multiplayer games are getting to be a bore because of all the cheaters.

  • Posted: 11/19/08 7:34 AM
    General Discussion
• • Darkfall: Beta First Impressions

  • Originally posted by Roosevelt
    

    Why would anyone who is hyping a game post a fake group of impressions that have a fair amount of articles about what is wrong with the game? If he was really faking it why not just put how great everything is and make it sound like the perfect game. The one argument I see everyone throwing around is "This is another Dark and Light, hes out to get peoples moneys!!!" then why would he not offer pre-orders? How can him releasing a game be bad for anyone? People need to look at things logically and see that theres no reason for him to lie.

     

    Ummm why would he put in a few negitives, to make it seem more real.  Reading it I got the idea that he wanted to say "sure the game is flawed, but its still awesome".  I'm just more of an "I don't believe it till I see it" type of person.  If the game comes out and its good, awsome, I'll play it.  BUT if it comes out and it sucks then everyone who hyped it is going to feel dumb.  And IF it doesn't come out at all then their going to feel even dumber.  I've just seen a lot of hyped games either flop or not come out to learn my lesson not to believe what I hear.

  • Posted: 11/18/08 3:52 PM
    General Discussion