Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?

From: Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:41:02 +0000

> First reaction:
>
> A game I only get to play once per week costs $25 per quarter, ie. $100 per
> year? I get to do 52 "moves" for $100?

Yes, and no matter how you argue, that's why it won't be likely that you
reach a large target audience. For $100, I can play almost as long in a
regular MMORPG like Anarchy Online, and still play whenever I like, how much
I want, not once a week or whenever my allies have time for pow-wow.

Playing a game with a high degree of diplomacy vs. writing orders means that
a lot of the advantages of being able to play in your own time disappear,
because to stand any good chance, you have to be at IRC meetings, read a
couple hundred mails a week, etc.

I know, because we're running a game like that. A player in Vinyambar 3 just
told me the other day that he uses about 4 hours of chat and 100 mails a
week for diplomacy/synchronization with allies, and 15 minutes for making
the actual turn.

Our price is 16.25 euro per quarter (1.25 a week) in our case. Even so we
have a hard sell, because there are too many free games out there, and many
players are willing to substitute a lower-quality free game for a
higher-quality pay-to-play game. Not all of them, of course, but the
majority does.

Enno.
--
Enno Rehling,               Anarchy Online - http://www.anarchy-online.com/
Programmer & Game Designer  Eressea   - http://www.eressea-pbem.de/
                             Vinyambar - http://www.vinyambar.de/

References

MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 02:36:15 +0000
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
Knight37 <knight37m@email.com>
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:16:14 +0000

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MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 02:36:15 +0000
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
Knight37 <knight37m@email.com>
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:16:14 +0000