Valarias
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By the end of the year , but ultima was still way better , man i miss that game =/
Marco was responsible of MA PR since last week. Now is CEO of Planet Calypso. U can imagine the future?
And that is because in order to stay here you have to be rich, stubborn, stupid, masochistic or just damn lucky.
Unfortunately I'm not rich or damn lucky.
Hmmm... stubborn, stupid, masochistic and a bit lucky. Wait, in that order? 4 out of 5, not bad. I think I can stay in EU.
Now about the topic, I have the feeling 95% of those comments come from people who are stuck in the traditional MMOG mindset (And the other 5% come from frustrated EU veterans), and EU is NOT a traditional MMOG. Yeah, I did read the comments before I joined. Yeah, I was aware this game was the way it was. And that's exactly why I'm still around.
MA's plan is to within 3-4 years have 150 million registrered accounts, with up to 7 million players active at all times
(this is what they have said themselves several times)
Something that i have only recently noticed is that there is a considerable amount of bad rep the game itself is recieving from general gamers. I was browsing one of the largest MMO forums on the net at work just out of curiosity to see if i could find anything on Entropia. I assumed for the most part, many gamers (in particular ones interested into mmo's) weren't aware that it even existed. Turns out that alot of poeple actually have bad opions of the game, thinking its a game purely for "gamblers", "promises of high riches"... and so much more.
Sometimes doesn't matter if other people defame you. In the long run you succeed because new players are curious to check the truth !!
With the on-coming release of the new planets and well awaited cryengine, i have been anticipating what pospects it will hold for entropia.
Something that i have only recently noticed is that there is a considerable amount of bad rep the game itself is recieving from general gamers. I was browsing one of the largest MMO forums on the net at work just out of curiosity to see if i could find anything on Entropia. I assumed for the most part, many gamers (in particular ones interested into mmo's) weren't aware that it even existed. Turns out that alot of poeple actually have bad opions of the game, thinking its a game purely for "gamblers", "promises of high riches"... and so much more.
I was actually quite suprised as 90% of the things that were being said were total lies, "such as the people who earn money from the game are on a contract with MA etc... etc...".
Some of the arguements however from the members there were quite valid tho, one in particular "Its not an afordable game to the normal P2P gamer".
MA's plan is to within 3-4 years have 150 million registrered accounts, with up to 7 million players active at all times
(this is what they have said themselves several times)
So 37,500,000 new accounts per year for 4 years sounds "doable" to you, even though they have only been able to get 750,000 over all of the past 5 years?
I think not.
The worst part with this is that in my eyes MA and their reps adds 2 this bad wiew on EU themselves by their lack of communication with us players, the total lies they have been spreading in media especially last year about
1. Existing "working" Cashcards that we players was supposed 2 have access to.
2. Wellters BIG lie in Swedish newsarticles in Aug 2007 where he claimed that the "average" player witdrew 20 K peds MONTHLY with the nonexisting cashcard.
3. Promises about Cryengines release first it was spring 2008 then during summer they said later this summer even later on August 2008. Now im so tired of their promises so i havent even noticed if they made any NEW promises.
ALL of this behaviour is and has been REALLY bad PR 4 EU. I know of a bunch of players who started after NO.2 and quit as fast as they started cause didnt take them 2 loong 2 figure out that this "monthly income" was pure BS.
Ive been working with sales since 1976 and first thing ive learned was IF u want 2 be succesful as a salesrep. DONT FFS DONT spread BS promises u cant fullfil.
Its quite obvious that NONE of MAs frontfaces NEVER attended a sales course/class.
I belive that everything mentioned above has been hurting EU more then anything. And the sad part is that MAs representatives doesnt seem 2 learn from their own misstakes.
EU COULD be a fantastic game IF there was more/better communication with the players and IF MA reps at least could be honest.
The real problem with this game is that to do anything at a decent level it is so expensive.
I deposit on average $200 per month. Some months that barely makes me through the month. I play maybe 1 or 2 hours a night and most nights "blow" 100 ped on a hunting run - and that will take me less than an hour.
Do the maths - it is too expensive.
Yep, heard this one before too.
1999 500K subscribers reached by VERANT/SONY. Considered the High Water Mark. No game could acheive such numbers etc. etc.
Then Came 2004 and bango that record fell so fast it would make your head spin. Eventually THAT GAME had over 20 times the subscribers thought to be the peak of MMORG Subscriptions. And that was a game with ONE client base (players of a certain company' regular stand alone games)
Now we have a game that is not a one trick pony but it is adding content from all those who wish to join in from the POP-Culture world with Movie themes and Popular product lines.
And you think there isn't a chance to beat out THAT GAME with the record now?
You think When the first major world goes live like PEPSI World or NIKE world or ALIEN vs PREDATOR world there won't be a few more people interested? Being they have to pay not one RED cent to download the game? "THAT GAME" which broke the record cost 50 BUCKS to BUY,,, THEN you had to pay a monthly fee.
I Bet if they totally flug-up the launches of these worlds and the content is nothing more the a chat room with 3D Avatars on most planets it will still DWARF "that games" subscription numbers.
If however they actually do it up right....
well....
Dex
They are going to have to do some SERIOUS advertising to make this happen. But right now if you say we have about 50K active accounts, that's about a 6% retention rate. 7 mil out of 150 mil is less than 5%. So if they can get that many people to play the game, it might be possible. Hopefully all this money they've been making will go to some hardcore ad spots and then they can up the loots a little bit when they get all these people in
I think the "game" called EU, is not meeting "gaming" expectations - that's why the bad rep.
And you think there isn't a chance to beat out THAT GAME with the record now?
You think When the first major world goes live like PEPSI World or NIKE world or ALIEN vs PREDATOR world there won't be a few more people interested? Being they have to pay not one RED cent to download the game? "THAT GAME" which broke the record cost 50 BUCKS to BUY,,, THEN you had to pay a monthly fee.