Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?

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

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:26:26 +0000

Thanks very much, Enno, for being so honest.  Its given us something to chew on.

Steve

> > 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?
>
> As the other Steve pointed out, we're not a typical PBEM game, so I'm no
> expert in the matter, and your mileage may vary wildly from this, really.
>
> Eressea (the free game) has been in existence for 6 years. At peak, it had
> 2000 players, but we've raised the entry barrier (allowing only a llimited
> number of new players per week, and making sure they know the rules well
> enough before they start by sending them through a mandatory tutorial),
> which caused numbers to drop to somewhere between 1500 and 1600. They are
> currently rising slightly.
>
> The english version has been working for a little over a year, and about 10%
> of new players are english. Like I said earlier, we have no marketing, and
> word of mouth spreads slowly. In total, only 3% of players are non-german now.
>
> The pay-to-play game (Vinyambar) started about one year ago. We have around
> 150 active players in that, and they all speak german - and we accept giro
> transfers to a german bank account as the only form of payment, which means
> that non-germans would have a hard time playing it anyhow. Our goal wasn't
> so much to make big bucks, rather than to be able to justify the insane
> amount of time we spend on this to ourselves. You may want to do more
> marketing than us, seriously, if you want to get into this business :-)
>
> Oh, and this whole thing is of course going to make a nightmare of my tax
> declarations.
>
> Enno.

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
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
spambucket666au@yahoo.com.au (steve)
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:53:51 +0000
Re: MMOG PBM stategy game, your opinion?
Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:02:02 +0000