I played WoW. I played FFXI. I played MuDs. Moos. Zenmoo woohoo.

I've played nearly every MMO that has been listed on this site in the past

6 months.

There was one standout, Spellborn, but that seems doomed to die due

to the general incompetence shown in this whole genre of games. Spellborn's

early game is great, I'd love to pay to play to get it going. But we can't.

Hellgate. Terrible launch. Roper didn't get MMO yet, notice in an interview

how he says they were just going to recreate battle.net type functionality. 

Flagship got it. Unfortunately too late and a game that was bad at launch,

but  *great* at the end is gone.

All of us have little snippets like this. There's tons of amazing content and

ideas out there being created that none of us will ever see because of the

brain dead management trying to become the next blizzard. These MMO

companies build their fabulous games and then come to the game industry

and ask how to launch? The game industry itself is a joke, look how easily

it is dominated by the top 3 or 4 producers. These aren't the people you should

be asking for advice.

Why not? Because they think in their own worlds! So you end up with servers

split all over the world, confusing agreements on who can play with who,  

multiple codebases and unhappy players.

Stop thinking so big. You don't have to take over the world. You don't have to

dethrone WoW. Build, coddle, and nurture a loyal paying player base. You

don't need 11Million users, when 20k will pay all the bills and allow you to 

expand into the future. Be realistic on the business end.

We want to give you money.

But you keep failing.

Very neat read, I liked it for sure, and most definetly agree with every word you said.

Should however be put in the Developer's Corner or Pub, get more publicity ;).

The title made me think this was Nigerian e-mail fraud. 

Originally posted by Murdus

Very neat read, I liked it for sure, and most definetly agree with every word you said.

Should however be put in the Developer's Corner or Pub, get more publicity ;).

Thanks! for the suggestion I'll repost it there.

heh yeah ive never become so stingy about 15 bucks in my life. These guys need to get their shit together. Its unacceptable to charge money for unfinished games (Conan).