Yeah Venture, but if they have nothing to tell a potential investor that is better than the 'hope' that a risky investment will pay off, then they may have decided they are better off hoping for those people who will bid on the gamble without knowing even approxiamate odds.....
But it does also mean that I am less likely to get involved with pets at all, as I hate the lack of information. By association with this very poor situation, I may do my best to avoid at least stables even if I do decide to have pets......
I've read the announcement over and over again digging for data, the key thing for me is COMPET will run in a browser. It will probably be the only RCE browser game out there (unless someone knows another). Many players are hung up on the Apple thing. I don't think it's the be all and end all. EU doesn't run on Apple and it raised $6m.
So as a stand alone browser game it has potential, now throw in tablet and phone login too, there is huge potential. I was looking a samsungs new 'S' tablet it looks the nuts. I think there will be a shift in the market as competitors catch up against Apples dominance.
Sure it's not very clear how the game will work, maybe we fight MA pets for ped as well as other avas pets? Although given MA already has most systems up and running already such as chat, account transfers etc, I guess they will try and incorporate some tech into the new game.
Is it 3d? I suspect its 2D to look like 3D, but who knows with tablets and phones becoming more powerful.
I also think many EU gamers will at least try it once, so whereas a new game has no customer base at the start, in reality MA has both a live customer base and a huge amount of email addresses for players that no longer use EU.
I expect the game to be a much cheaper offering than EU, although they do say it will cover all wallets. So maybe some fights will be at 5 pec or 50 pec, others might be 1 ped or 10 ped etc. So again it's likely to offer many revenue opportunities.
MA are renowned for keeping things close to their chest, sure it's a bit of a gamble or risk investing, although something that players have investing in (as a shareholder so to speak), has never failed yet to come to market with MA.
I personally think MA will attempt to go for a 3 year return, which puts daily revenue in the region of 5 - 15 pec a day per deed. That sounds a lot but remember it's a 3rd of the price of caly, and a bigger revenue percentage at 30%.
I also think the affiliate programme will bring huge dividends. Many players like nothing more than something for free, and will work their nuts off to attempt to qualify for the 15% rewards for paying people they can bring into the game.
So all in all, I think lots of positives, even if limited info, besides MA's reputation is on the line big time if they fail to deliver, so the fact they're issuing deeds tells me they've been working on this a while. I'm sure MA want players to buy all the deeds with cash rather than still be selling deeds when it goes live. They don't want people buying deeds with dividends (as what I think happened with Caly).
12.6K of deeds sold now, so around $126,000 not bad for the first few weeks (obviously need to exclude resales). I've bought some and keen to get more as the monthly pay-days roll in. Although timing seems about right to try and shift them in 6 months.
I'm really looking forward to this new MA game, I'm so pleased they're trying to grow the company in more than one direction, that's real business leadership.
Anyway here's hoping for a successful new offering from MA
Rick