Nice to see there accually admitting that monthly subsriptions are revenue and not for upkeep.

Despite the horrific launch (and I was there...), Anarchy Online turned out to be a good game. If Funcom learned from their mistakes, they should do well in developing future games. I would like to see what they do.

re: monthly subscriptions -- I really don't mind that the companies behind the games make money from monthly subscriptions. These games aren't for charity, after all, and I think that you get better games, in the end, when the big money comes in to invest. Big money invests where the profits are. 

I love an underdog, and I love to see new games by new companies, but even those companies, if they are going to go anywhere, really need to keep their bottom line in mind, or they'll go belly-up at the top if the tank before too long. It is expensive. There are upkeep expenses. But it is profit that drives the whole industry. That's why they call it an "industry" and not an "interesting collection of hobbyists."

Eep... sorry to go off on a tangent. I have been around the site for a while, and the "Why Isn't My Game Free?!" question comes up very regularly, and people answer that it is because the games are expensive to maintain, when the real truth is that it is a business. You pay their fee, you get to play their game for a whole month, as much as you can stand. $12-15 a month is cheap entertainment, especially for All-You-Can-Play. 

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neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies

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Nice to see there accually admitting that monthly subsriptions are revenue and not for upkeep.

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Well it's obviously both revenue and upkeep in most cases. They need a pretty set amount per month to upkeep everything, there may be some minor variations here and there in the upkeep costs from month to month but overall pretty stable. So the monthly subscriptions up to the point needed to pay that amount go to upkeep, after that they go to revenue.

The other two ? :

Fist some info I found at another site, dont remember which:

We took a look at the Norwegian developer's next major project at E3 2003.

We watched a brief movie trailer for Funcom's next project, an unannounced action game that the developer simply refers to as its "next big thing" (or "NBT," for short). The trailer opened with the pronouncement, in bold letters, that "Horror goes online." The trailer also showed concept-art paintings of various characters dressed in the kind of finery you'd associate with Victorian-age nobility.

And then, when browsing through some old bookmarks I found this:

http://www.worldofmidgard.com/

Playing: DAoC (again)
Wish beta and some Horizons

Hmmm...replying on my own post.

So. Anyone that have heard any news on what Funcom intent to spend 4.5 million on ? :)

Playing: CoH
Played: AO, DAoC, Horizons, Planetside, SWG
Tested: Lineage II, AC2

Favorite MMO so far: DAoC