I bet one of the f2p producers will pick this game up, there was not enough content in this game to justify the pay to play.
Very unlikely. Lego Universe was originally a NetDevil game under Gazillion as one of its flagship titles, but it did so badly NetDevil was pretty much forced into hiving off the LU team and setting it up at the Lego Group. Apparently it came very close to being cancelled before going off to Lego, and even that was probably a way of saving face.
And then there was the move to F2P, with a model that wasn't attractive to pay for and not enough content being released to keep existing players paying.
It's failed twice, and this time under Lego's direct control. They'll want it gone and forgotten.
I mean seriously, everything was there for a great game but after seeing screenshots and so called features of this game I was like "wtf are they doing? Hopefully they know what is Lego is all about" sadly, they didn't or the suits didn't allow them to create a real LEGO universe instead of a themepark.
LEGO should have been a minecraft like sandbox with MMOG features. Ask any LEGO fan and there are hundreds of millions what they expect from LEGO most will tell you "build my own little world".
Also this should show that p2w only means shortterm more numbers but not more money in fact you are losing both. Subscribers are getting pissed cause of p2w they cancel and most "I just want to look at the game cause its free" people won't convert into a membership.
I really feel sorry for all the employees having to pay for the crap the suits dictated them to do. Hopefully some day we will see another LEGO MMORPG again praying one, which will bring the atmosphere of LEGO to this FORMER great genre.
Transformers makers take a good look at that judging from screenshots I don't think you know what you are doing and what Transformers is all about...
We need a MMORPG Cataclysm asap, finish the dark age of MMORPGS now!
"Everything you're bitching about is wrong. People don't have the time to invest in corpse runs, impossible zones, or long winded quests. Sometimes, they just want to pop on and play." "Then maybe MMORPGs aren't for you."
They designed a bad free to play experience. They designed free to play as a way to lure players into pay to play. They should have designed a diferent thing, make people play for free and pay for stuff when they feel to do it. A lot of developers don't understnd the true meaning of free to play.
30 minutes into the game and I was running wow style kill quests one after another. I didnt see anything unique about it .
Yeah, sure, it has a few of those, but most quests are a bit more fun that that. Having played both EvE, WoW, Rift and a few others i'll have to say that this is the MMO that i've enjoyed the most for it's diversity.
Sure its a kids game, but it still offer a lot of plain old fun.
If you have a kid aged 5-10 you want to spend some time with online you could not do better that to sub you and your kid to this come the start of december and get 2 months for the price of one. (People who have active subs on 31. dec get the last month for free.)
My six year old son was shocked when I broke the news to him. He will miss the game dearly. He has played it on and off over the last year and is very attached to his little online alter ego.
LEGO should have been a minecraft like sandbox with MMOG features. Ask any LEGO fan and there are hundreds of millions what they expect from LEGO most will tell you "build my own little world".
Yeah, but the whole issue here is that you cant make it 18+ in rating. Thus you have to do heavy moderation. No moderation and you will have explicit parts of the human anatomy pop up like mushrooms.
You could build you own world in LU btw, but it was the worst implemented part of the game. And yes, it was heavily moderated.
This is also the reason why they cant just leave the game running. It requires a huge mod team to just approve player names, pet names and stuff people build on thier properties (LU player housing).
Ask any kid, heck anyone who's played both this and Minecraft and have them make a choice. Yeah easy answer, Minecraft is more virtual Lego than the game bearing the name.
My kids got this last xmas and got about 5 night's out of it and were full on back into Minecraft, not only did they never play it again, they never even mentioned it again. At the time i was thinking it was good to find out right away that they did not like it before the monthly kicked in. Later to go free to play and i mentioned that to them and they all went "meh".
Ask any kid, heck anyone who's played both this and Minecraft and have them make a choice. Yeah easy answer, Minecraft is more virtual Lego than the game bearing the name.
My kids got this last xmas and got about 5 night's out of it and where full on back into Minecraft, not only did they never play it again, they never even mentioned it again. At the time i was thinking it was good to find out right away that they did not like it before the monthly kicked in. Later to go free to play and i mentioned that to them and they all went "meh".
Well, my kids play, MineCraft, Terraria & LU. One does not rule out the other. Actaully most games only last a few weeks before they move on, only to rediscover it later.
They played LU back in friends and familly beta, later on release, and really did not like it that mutch. They got back in this spring two times, and they liked the new stuff. Then they started up again after the leves got in, and they really got into it. The Ninjago world sealed the deal. They where in love, and me too. The games development after LEGO took it from NetDevil was very impressive.
Ask any kid, heck anyone who's played both this and Minecraft and have them make a choice. Yeah easy answer, Minecraft is more virtual Lego than the game bearing the name.
My kids got this last xmas and got about 5 night's out of it and where full on back into Minecraft, not only did they never play it again, they never even mentioned it again. At the time i was thinking it was good to find out right away that they did not like it before the monthly kicked in. Later to go free to play and i mentioned that to them and they all went "meh".
Well, my kids play, MineCraft, Terraria & LU. One does not rule out the other. Actaully most games only last a few weeks before they move on, only to rediscover it later.
They played LU back in friends and familly beta, later on release, and really did not like it that mutch. They got back in this spring two times, and they liked the new stuff. Then they started up again after the leves got in, and they really got into it. The Ninjago world sealed the deal. They where in love, and me too. The games development after LEGO took it from NetDevil was very impressive.
And then they killed it. Meh.
Yeah forgot about Terraria. Yes i'm very familiar with the "only last a few weeks before they move on, only to rediscover it later." phenomenon, lol.
I was so surprised at the lack of interest when i brought up that it's free to play, not that that matter to them but i thought they may have just forgot about the game and my mentioning it would have lit up their interest again.
Yeah sorry to hear that it's shutting down on ya, i didn't know it had improved so much.
Part of reason whey I really hate f2p models. Unless able to extort money from players in some other way, this can not work. Nobody will spend millions and years of work for some cheapers to play their game for free. F2p attract usually cheap players, beggars, ... that want everything in life for free.
I wonder how they are going to end this game: A big vacuum cleaner comes and sucks it up? A dog chews them up?
TBH I am not surprised. Games like Minecraft offer a lot more free range and design than this. Ususally whenever a major MMO title decides to fully go F2P, that is not a good sign. That is not to say it is a bad thing (DC Unirverse and LotR Online are doing quite well) but games like Lego and City of Heroes it usually means that the game has run its course.
but games like Lego and City of Heroes it usually means that the game has run its course.
Except you're wrong about CoH. It's doing great since it went F2P. Tons of new players and new content. NCSOFT is making good money since it went F2P. And I seriously doubt they are going to slow down with making new issues and archtypes/powersets.
A big problem they had was going 'free to play' and failing to directly mention that free players have incredibly limited access and that paid players can never be downgraded to free play. I got the game completely free and I had no desire to spend any money on the game after getting a taste of what the 'full' experience was actually like.
It's a mediocre game and they just went in with the wrong mindset. No one in their right mind would pay monthly for a game as simple and shallow as it really was.
It honestly dose not surprise me that they are going to be closing. Saying your a F2P then just giving only access to less than what the Trial Time players gave lead to its demise.
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It should have been a MMORTS. It could have shattered the genre as we know it.
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minecraft is some pretty tough competition
I bet one of the f2p producers will pick this game up, there was not enough content in this game to justify the pay to play.
It's sad, our kids just recently converted to Paying Customers. Spent their own allowance money to buy game time cards. They'll be pretty upset.
There's too much branding involved for that to happen.
I used to play MMOs like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
So is the game f2p now? I'm going to check it out, says F2P on the site...didn't know that.
Very unlikely. Lego Universe was originally a NetDevil game under Gazillion as one of its flagship titles, but it did so badly NetDevil was pretty much forced into hiving off the LU team and setting it up at the Lego Group. Apparently it came very close to being cancelled before going off to Lego, and even that was probably a way of saving face.
And then there was the move to F2P, with a model that wasn't attractive to pay for and not enough content being released to keep existing players paying.
It's failed twice, and this time under Lego's direct control. They'll want it gone and forgotten.
i always thought should made it a more social game like sims so make your own homes and citys with it.
Another one bites the dust.. R.I.P
So this company had:
+ huge IP
+ huge fanbase
+ huge budget
I mean seriously, everything was there for a great game but after seeing screenshots and so called features of this game I was like "wtf are they doing? Hopefully they know what is Lego is all about" sadly, they didn't or the suits didn't allow them to create a real LEGO universe instead of a themepark.
LEGO should have been a minecraft like sandbox with MMOG features. Ask any LEGO fan and there are hundreds of millions what they expect from LEGO most will tell you "build my own little world".
Also this should show that p2w only means shortterm more numbers but not more money in fact you are losing both. Subscribers are getting pissed cause of p2w they cancel and most "I just want to look at the game cause its free" people won't convert into a membership.
I really feel sorry for all the employees having to pay for the crap the suits dictated them to do. Hopefully some day we will see another LEGO MMORPG again praying one, which will bring the atmosphere of LEGO to this FORMER great genre.
Transformers makers take a good look at that judging from screenshots I don't think you know what you are doing and what Transformers is all about...
We need a MMORPG Cataclysm asap, finish the dark age of MMORPGS now!
"Everything you're bitching about is wrong. People don't have the time to invest in corpse runs, impossible zones, or long winded quests. Sometimes, they just want to pop on and play."
"Then maybe MMORPGs aren't for you."
30 minutes into the game and I was running wow style kill quests one after another. I didnt see anything unique about it .
It was kind of cute to play in beta, but nothing that I'd pay a monthly sub for. It should have started as f2p and it might have had a chance.
They designed a bad free to play experience. They designed free to play as a way to lure players into pay to play. They should have designed a diferent thing, make people play for free and pay for stuff when they feel to do it. A lot of developers don't understnd the true meaning of free to play.
Yeah, sure, it has a few of those, but most quests are a bit more fun that that. Having played both EvE, WoW, Rift and a few others i'll have to say that this is the MMO that i've enjoyed the most for it's diversity.
Sure its a kids game, but it still offer a lot of plain old fun.
If you have a kid aged 5-10 you want to spend some time with online you could not do better that to sub you and your kid to this come the start of december and get 2 months for the price of one. (People who have active subs on 31. dec get the last month for free.)
My six year old son was shocked when I broke the news to him. He will miss the game dearly. He has played it on and off over the last year and is very attached to his little online alter ego.
Yeah, but the whole issue here is that you cant make it 18+ in rating. Thus you have to do heavy moderation. No moderation and you will have explicit parts of the human anatomy pop up like mushrooms.
You could build you own world in LU btw, but it was the worst implemented part of the game. And yes, it was heavily moderated.
This is also the reason why they cant just leave the game running. It requires a huge mod team to just approve player names, pet names and stuff people build on thier properties (LU player housing).
Ask any kid, heck anyone who's played both this and Minecraft and have them make a choice. Yeah easy answer, Minecraft is more virtual Lego than the game bearing the name.
My kids got this last xmas and got about 5 night's out of it and were full on back into Minecraft, not only did they never play it again, they never even mentioned it again. At the time i was thinking it was good to find out right away that they did not like it before the monthly kicked in. Later to go free to play and i mentioned that to them and they all went "meh".
Should have been something more like this... N8
"I am not in a server with Gankers...THEY ARE IN A SERVER WITH ME!!!"
Well, my kids play, MineCraft, Terraria & LU. One does not rule out the other. Actaully most games only last a few weeks before they move on, only to rediscover it later.
They played LU back in friends and familly beta, later on release, and really did not like it that mutch. They got back in this spring two times, and they liked the new stuff. Then they started up again after the leves got in, and they really got into it. The Ninjago world sealed the deal. They where in love, and me too. The games development after LEGO took it from NetDevil was very impressive.
And then they killed it. Meh.
Yeah forgot about Terraria. Yes i'm very familiar with the "only last a few weeks before they move on, only to rediscover it later." phenomenon, lol.
I was so surprised at the lack of interest when i brought up that it's free to play, not that that matter to them but i thought they may have just forgot about the game and my mentioning it would have lit up their interest again.
Yeah sorry to hear that it's shutting down on ya, i didn't know it had improved so much.
Part of reason whey I really hate f2p models. Unless able to extort money from players in some other way, this can not work. Nobody will spend millions and years of work for some cheapers to play their game for free. F2p attract usually cheap players, beggars, ... that want everything in life for free.
I wonder how they are going to end this game: A big vacuum cleaner comes and sucks it up? A dog chews them up?
TBH I am not surprised. Games like Minecraft offer a lot more free range and design than this. Ususally whenever a major MMO title decides to fully go F2P, that is not a good sign. That is not to say it is a bad thing (DC Unirverse and LotR Online are doing quite well) but games like Lego and City of Heroes it usually means that the game has run its course.
Except you're wrong about CoH. It's doing great since it went F2P. Tons of new players and new content. NCSOFT is making good money since it went F2P. And I seriously doubt they are going to slow down with making new issues and archtypes/powersets.
gah that was fast, my son will be busted...
no trust in the dev staff? these things take time, there was so much potential... out of genre league i guess.
A big problem they had was going 'free to play' and failing to directly mention that free players have incredibly limited access and that paid players can never be downgraded to free play. I got the game completely free and I had no desire to spend any money on the game after getting a taste of what the 'full' experience was actually like.
It's a mediocre game and they just went in with the wrong mindset. No one in their right mind would pay monthly for a game as simple and shallow as it really was.
It honestly dose not surprise me that they are going to be closing. Saying your a F2P then just giving only access to less than what the Trial Time players gave lead to its demise.