Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?

From: spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:53:51 +0000

> > 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.

Hi Enno, thanks for your reply.  My own experience in this type of
scenario is that this activity comes in fits and bursts.  It increases
a lot in preparation for some grand strategy move, then falls away for
a while as everyone lays inthe weeds and restabalizes their position.

> 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.

Cool that people like your game so much they are prepared to commit
that much time to it!

> 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.

How long has this game been in existance, and how many players does it
have, if you dont mind me asking?  What proportion of players are
German?  Are the numbers increasing/decreasing/stabalising?

thanks a lot, and good luck

Steve

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
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:41:02 +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
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:41:02 +0000