I Am Not Me
The Mean Clack
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- Mei, Koibito, Stalker, Little Dude, Nami
There's a lot of hentai doujinji's for it, does that count?
Point taken.
It's uber-popular.
FFXIV will be a success, I predict!
FINAL FANTASY 14
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Point taken.
It's uber-popular.
FFXIV will be a success, I predict!
Max Payne
Banned
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- Leon S. Kennedy,Terry Bogard, The Dark Knight, Dacon, John Marston, Teal'c
lolwat
I Am Not Me
The Mean Clack
- AKA
- Mei, Koibito, Stalker, Little Dude, Nami
Sorry, I'm just sourgraping because I don't have a PS3 and I'll probably never get one until a PS4 comes out.
Channy
Bad Habit
- AKA
- Ruby Rose, Lucy
I rebut your dispute.
The profit only depends on how many gamers they can get to sign up, and for how long gamers continue to play. I've known people to quit XI after two months because it wasn't worth it. The ability online to quit whenever you want makes it easy for people to duck out, and then try and resell it.
I don't have much hope for it tbh. Unless you can full customize the shit out of your character to a T something you can't always do with other MMOs, only then will I be impressed.
ForceStealer
Double Growth
It was the number one MMO on the market for the brief period before WoW was released. And it is still one of the top-played MMOs, way behind WoW of course, but still ahead of Eve and all those
Geostigma
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- gabe
Yeah FFXI is actually a top dog in the P2P (pay to play) MMORPG world, its userbase is still strong. It pales in comparison to WoW but its still mahoosively huge and still at a steady rate of growing members.
The thing about mmorpgs is that even if just 100000 people get the game, thats 10000 people paying 15$+ a month for it ,and people who get addicted tend to play along time , often times starting over on new chars, accounts , ect just to keep playing till the next big update.
I for one have given something like 500$ in subscription fees to a mmorpg called DOFUS, and that one is just 6$ a month , i once interviewed a top dog in the dofus community (the leader of the strongest guild in all the servers) and asked him how much hes paid in subs , lets just say it was well over 1500$ iirc
Thats just a 6$ game , theres guys like this who just keep churning out cash for subs in mmoprgs to make them hits. If you want to be a rich developer MMORPGS are the way to go imo.
That said FFXI has an awesome userbase , in 2008 it had like 32 servers with 3000 max char limit per time on a server (that doesnt mean theres only 3000 players on the server it just means only 3000 can log in , then it fills up and doesnt allow others on).
So thats a minimum of 96000 people who pay the sub fees monthly , assuming the sub fees are 15$ (icba to look) 1440000$ a month.
Thats pretty damn great
The thing about mmorpgs is that even if just 100000 people get the game, thats 10000 people paying 15$+ a month for it ,and people who get addicted tend to play along time , often times starting over on new chars, accounts , ect just to keep playing till the next big update.
I for one have given something like 500$ in subscription fees to a mmorpg called DOFUS, and that one is just 6$ a month , i once interviewed a top dog in the dofus community (the leader of the strongest guild in all the servers) and asked him how much hes paid in subs , lets just say it was well over 1500$ iirc
Thats just a 6$ game , theres guys like this who just keep churning out cash for subs in mmoprgs to make them hits. If you want to be a rich developer MMORPGS are the way to go imo.
That said FFXI has an awesome userbase , in 2008 it had like 32 servers with 3000 max char limit per time on a server (that doesnt mean theres only 3000 players on the server it just means only 3000 can log in , then it fills up and doesnt allow others on).
So thats a minimum of 96000 people who pay the sub fees monthly , assuming the sub fees are 15$ (icba to look) 1440000$ a month.
Thats pretty damn great
CK
buried but breathing
- AKA
- CK, 2D, wanker
Yeah FFXI is actually a top dog in the P2P (pay to play) MMORPG world, its userbase is still strong. It pales in comparison to WoW but its still mahoosively huge and still at a steady rate of growing members.
The thing about mmorpgs is that even if just 100000 people get the game, thats 10000 people paying 15$+ a month for it ,and people who get addicted tend to play along time , often times starting over on new chars, accounts , ect just to keep playing till the next big update.
I for one have given something like 500$ in subscription fees to a mmorpg called DOFUS, and that one is just 6$ a month , i once interviewed a top dog in the dofus community (the leader of the strongest guild in all the servers) and asked him how much hes paid in subs , lets just say it was well over 1500$ iirc
Thats just a 6$ game , theres guys like this who just keep churning out cash for subs in mmoprgs to make them hits. If you want to be a rich developer MMORPGS are the way to go imo.
That said FFXI has an awesome userbase , in 2008 it had like 32 servers with 3000 max char limit per time on a server (that doesnt mean theres only 3000 players on the server it just means only 3000 can log in , then it fills up and doesnt allow others on).
So thats a minimum of 96000 people who pay the sub fees monthly , assuming the sub fees are 15$ (icba to look) 1440000$ a month.
Thats pretty damn great
Get back on dofus. I started playing again. The person I gave my account to tried to turn me into a vuln whore and used my wis scrolls on himself. Fucking cunt.
But yeah i've spent about the same as gabe on dofus.
I Am Not Me
The Mean Clack
- AKA
- Mei, Koibito, Stalker, Little Dude, Nami
Maybe it's just in my country then. We have all kinds of MMORPGs here, but I never heard FFXI being one of the most played.
In fact, I don't even know anyone here who's ever played this game. DDD;
Demmit, I'm starting to hate this n00b country. I'm moving to America or Japan as soon as possible.
Oh and I'm making it my goal to grow up and work for Square-Enix.
We have all kinds of MMORPGs here, but I never heard FFXI being one of the most played. In fact, I don't even know anyone here who's ever played this game. DDD;
Demmit, I'm starting to hate this n00b country. I'm moving to America or Japan as soon as possible.
Oh and I'm making it my goal to grow up and work for Square-Enix.
Geostigma
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- gabe
Maybe it's just in my country then.
In fact, I don't even know anyone here who's ever played this game. DDD;
Demmit, I'm starting to hate this n00b country. I'm moving to America or Japan as soon as possible.
Oh and I'm making it my goal to grow up and work for Square-Enix.
You from korea?The land of infinite F2P games that are miniwows?
@ck thinking of it
CK
buried but breathing
- AKA
- CK, 2D, wanker
CK
buried but breathing
- AKA
- CK, 2D, wanker
i used to play dofus.i can't even go to different places and such..i have to subscribe first
its almost impossible to start dofus these days. it's so lameeee. But it gets good once you're 120+
I Am Not Me
The Mean Clack
- AKA
- Mei, Koibito, Stalker, Little Dude, Nami
Square-Enix doesn't care about minor countries like ours, Phones.
Ⓐaron
Factiō Rēpūblicāna dēlenda est.
- AKA
- The Man, V
thing is, though, that the ones who do stick with it end up pumping a ton of money into it. So yeah, maybe a lot of them only play for one or two months, but that's probably only half of the players. If everyone plays an average of six months at $10 per month, then that's $60 of subscription fees per user in addition to the probably ~$20 they pocketed from the initial game sale (after you deduct what goes to resellers etc.). And even if they resell the game, whoever buys it ends up paying $10 a month as well. So yeah, they don't have to move nearly as many units to make a hefty profit off the game, so it doesn't really matter if sales pale in comparison to FFXIII and FFXV (when it comes out), since that's not where the real profit is made.
In addition, Gabe's post is a good one.
Channy
Bad Habit
- AKA
- Ruby Rose, Lucy
Yeah, that's true, but I just don't understand why they would use another main installment as just another online game. Why not make a whole new online game? Or create more expansion packs for the pre-existing FF online game?
I was irked enough as it is when they released FF XI, when it simply could have been titled FF Online. And now another Online game? Why? What could they possibly do in a new Online game they couldn't in XI besides give a new name to this world? Anything that could be accessible to an online game they should have made for XI.
bah, ramblings of a McWorker... sleepytime now.
I was irked enough as it is when they released FF XI, when it simply could have been titled FF Online. And now another Online game? Why? What could they possibly do in a new Online game they couldn't in XI besides give a new name to this world? Anything that could be accessible to an online game they should have made for XI.
bah, ramblings of a McWorker... sleepytime now.
Hinata Hyuga
wallflower
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- Juniper, Rinali, Legretta
If my siblings buy it then I will play it. I'll be homeschooling when school starts back up, and I will probably finish early(at least way earlier than in public).
I'll have the most time to put into it!
I'll have the most time to put into it!
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Ravynne Nevyrmore
that one Lucrecia fangirl
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- Ravynne
DON'T MAKE FUN OF MY TIN FOIL HAT.Dacon said:
I wouldn't really consider an MMO to be a "main FF" though. Something worth "missing out on" has main characters and a story that is, at least to some degree, linear. In all the MMOs I've played (read: 4 of them), they try to make every player the "main character" and all story comes from quests that you choose to do or choose not to do. They can try to change that basic formula, try to make it "more immersive," but ultimately there is no character development, no plot twists, no climax, no denouement, no romance, no drama, and no permanent death or loss of any kind. And no permanent change at all, for that matter. It's just a fun game to play while hanging out with your friends online—not that that's necessarily a bad thing.Nocturne said: