Massive misstep. People don't give a second chance, your launch is everything.
Some people won't, probably not the type that would have been good, long term customers, too whiny.
No, I get it, especially when a dev is new or the game's IP not established a bad launch can be a quick ticket to closure unless they have the funds to stick it out which was the case with NMS and some others.
NMS is a good example, it was written off by the baulk of gamers, they were not coming back from that launch. But how many other games have been willing to put the time in year after year to turn the game into what it should have been at launch? I can't think of another.
So Wayfinder will recover, as long as they sort this out over the next couple of months. But I see gamers bailing if they are any serious issues after this, once bittern twice shy is certainly apt here.
I did play Anarchy Online for some time even after betaing and everything. I loved that game. I felt it was incredible the extent you could customize your powers and playing both a Trader and an Engineer was a gas.
Pity about how badly it launched but it had some really good stuff and was clearly an innovative game.
I did play Anarchy Online for some time even after betaing and everything. I loved that game. I felt it was incredible the extent you could customize your powers and playing both a Trader and an Engineer was a gas.
Pity about how badly it launched but it had some really good stuff and was clearly an innovative game.
Well AO was held up as an example of a bad launch becoming good. I played some two years after launch when the magazines and some guilders were saying it was on form. These days would a MMORPG get two years, maybe? But they would need a huge franchise like Final Fantasy or do an amazing job on the scale of what occurred with AO. I was a Nano Technician, loved it.
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So Wayfinder will recover, as long as they sort this out over the next couple of months. But I see gamers bailing if they are any serious issues after this, once bittern twice shy is certainly apt here.
Pity about how badly it launched but it had some really good stuff and was clearly an innovative game.