Tabula Rasa

Originally posted by Rabiator

This may have been different when MMORPGs were new, MMO veterans report that both Anarchy Online and EvE had a rather bumpy start. But today players will simply move to another game.

Also, you have to think that part of the reason that Funcom and CCP decided to stay the course and fix their games rather than shutting down was that neither of them had a "plan B" to fall back on, each had just their one respective game to work on thus "putting all their eggs into one basket" so so speak. They had the choice to fight to fix their game or die. NCsoft didn't have such a choice. They have a lot of other games they can easily ride on as well as more games coming in the near future so from their point of view it made more sense to write Tabula Rasa off rather than sink more money into a game they didn't really need to survive.

Originally posted by sookster54

 

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Originally posted by smut

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I'm pretty sure Vanguard is much bigger then EQ2.  EQ2 in todays measures would be considered a flop.  Vanguard has millions of oversea's players.

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I am sorry but you are wrong my friend. Vanguard DOES NOT have a million subscribers, you musta pulled those numbers out of your rear LOL. Vanguard has less then 50k subscribers. Eq2 has over 200k, EQ2 is much a bigger game in terms of subs, it has 4 times the amount of players that Vanguard does. You cannot call EQ2 a flop without calling Vanguard a MUCH bigger flop.
Vanguard was dumped by Microsoft because it was hemoraging money. SOE bought it at a bargain price and has put money and time into fixing it. That is much more then some other companies would do. To complain that SOE is holding Vanguard back is just delusional and without merit.

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All of SOE's games are or turns into a disaster, well except EQ2 but EQ2's population isn't 200K anymore, it's slowly dropping like every other MMO game except WoW these days. If I were in charge of SOE I'd just focus 100% on EQ2 and forget everything else.

 

As of April 2008 they had over 200k subs. They have stayed at 200-250k for a few years now. They have a loyal fanbase. Neither of us can say exactly the amount of subscribers they have currently as there hasn't been any very recent data released as far as I know. My point still stands, eq2 is way bigger then Vanguard in terms of subscriptions.

If i remember right after City of Villains came out, the team for that game were only like a mere 10 people, and they seem to get the job done.

hmmm o.O