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Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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pharmakos
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I have not used a spreadsheet but cheap and dirty overhead makes it fairly well off a revenues of 8 million dollars a year. Short of curt schilling mismanagement I don't see how they don't return a healthy profit on the high end but I am just eyeballing the costs. Their biggest cost is probably payroll and benefits at 25%-30%. The other stuff would not eat up that much. The free month would actually be a chunk but likely booked at cost. Just off the top my my head I could see 17%-25% at the high end. One thing with ks is you don't have any loan servicing:
Obviously they could over spend on space and support costs but I am assuming standard expenditures. Also not sure a hardcore niche needs to advertise as much.
Are you really arguing the stance that you'd rather have 1-2 racial cities as opposed to say 5 or 6?
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Not a lot of people not already interested in the game are going to listen to almost an hour long interview on YouTube.
Quaid
Trump's Staff
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That's right.
Obviously if development money & resources were infinite, and player subscription numbers were guaranteed to never go down, I'd have to reassess my position.
Big Flex
Fitness Fascist
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as long as trolls live in rhe aformenrioned garbage dump, like some third world shit hole. im ok with that.
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Someone send him this link maybe they can make some starting cities with it.
Make Your Own Game with RPG Maker
Convo
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Ha, they really should do that stuff up.. Make the gnome district have smaller doorways, troll district, dirty, with large doorways, etc.. I'm sure they can manage plenty of conflict with various NPCs too. Might turn out to be fun, if they do it right.. PvP would essentially have gang territories if they allow PvP in the major cities.
arallu
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Mr Creed
Too old for this shit
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I dunno, I'd be happy with that result too, regardless of my pledge. I mean you have MMORPGeezus, you wouldnt care about milk you spilt 3 years ago.
Convo
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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At this point, there is a no win situation on this forum lol.. Depending on what side of the argument you're on.. Some will say it's good they are listening, others will say it's more proof they don't have a plan in place.. In this particular case, I think they were out of touch with the people and didn't put enough thought into it. Forever the optimist.. they will hopefully get better and learn from these things. Have any of them been out in the open like this In years?
According to my very very rough 2 minute estimates, with a monthly sub fee of $20, at 20K there is about 1.6M left per year to repay investors, at 50K there is about 6.7M. $370K/1.5M for game sales @ $60 minus estimated pre-orders, free months, and transaction fees. Lifetime subs not considered.
I didn't really put a lot of work into this. I have no idea what facilities cost per workstation in San Diego. I'm guessing I underestimated that. CS is $75/hr @ 30 mins per sub.
Personally, I think $15/month is unrealistic in the era of Steam sales and seemingly thousands of ftp options. An industry spooked by the pay to play model probably isn't going to bite on a business model based on a $20/month sub fee. Especially with baggage considered.
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Do you think Blizzard built their servers with the cross server dungeon finder in mind?