Originally posted by fizzle322 Originally posted by Owyn Fizzle, It's pretty well known that most large, pro MMORPGs make about 20-40% profit margins on their monthly subscriptions. There's some variance from that, but as a rule most fall into that category. That's pretty typical of most service industries.
All sorts of countries have people trying to make games, yes; because it's a new and fast-growing worldwide industry. Some will be bad, some will be good. I'm not sure location has much to do with quality, in this regard. The US and Europe produce as high a percentage of bad games as anyone else.
Lastly, calling people names in a debate is bad form.
Source please.
The whole premise of subscription fees is that they pay for a continuing stream of content.
Content is not obligated by any contract that isseud by any mmorpg thats just a promise. The only thing that is promised is fix of bugs, maintaining server and customer support.
The MMORPG industry has broken that agreement with the playerbase.
Not really it only broken a promise in some cases but in all those cases they game was taken offline as a whole
Now they claim the monthly fee does NOT entitle you to content, now it simply entitles you to play the game inside the box you already purchased.
As the contract says. it's just a although sorry fact. Simple fact you can't legal promise any content withouth setting a time frame which making it a big risk to make it self oligated so no mmorpg company does it
If they were REALLY providing a valid service for the monthly fee, they would let players operate their own servers. Then players could choose if they wanna play on a server in someone's garage, or if they wanna play on an "official" server, so they can see the difference and say "yeah its worth $15 a month to play on the official server."
It's not that simple man. When you writen an mmorpg you want your development cost back and mmorpg's have alot more development cost then single player games. So if you don't have the income of the monthly fee and only the box money you won't be able to make a graphically nice looking mmorpg profitable. Your statement would be treu if with setting up the private server they would pay some of the investement cost that went into developing the game to the developing company. A developing company has THE RIGHT the protect there investement till the point there making profit on it. This is a basic law thats needed to make the capitalisme work. So what you want is ANARCHY but i tell you in a world of ANARCHY no mmorpg will ever be developt
They squash private servers, because then they can't enforce their toll, because you're not receiving anything other than the right to continue playing the game you already purchased.
Recent research showed that a normal mmorpg needs a 100k player base paying 10$ a month for atleast a year + the box prize to make a profit on a game after the MASSIVE development cost that needed to make a graphical nice mmorpg. And with the standards going up from the player base on the amount of content needed from start the prize is also going up on development.
The truth is they are not providing you anything for the monthly fee, it is simply a fee to be able to play the game that came in the box.
Your totally going by that the number of peeps playing mmorpg's is a lot smaller then the one that plays solo games. about 10 million people have played or are playing mmorpg's against about half a billion potential single player games players and with that a much larger development cost and servers,billing systems and customer support to set-up and maintain after launch and just not as simple as your putting it here
The entire MMORPG industry is one big ripoff to scam adolescents.
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Source please.
The whole premise of subscription fees is that they pay for a continuing stream of content.
Content is not obligated by any contract that isseud by any mmorpg thats just a promise. The only thing that is promised is fix of bugs, maintaining server and customer support.
The MMORPG industry has broken that agreement with the playerbase.
Not really it only broken a promise in some cases but in all those cases they game was taken offline as a whole
Now they claim the monthly fee does NOT entitle you to content, now it simply entitles you to play the game inside the box you already purchased.
As the contract says. it's just a although sorry fact. Simple fact you can't legal promise any content withouth setting a time frame which making it a big risk to make it self oligated so no mmorpg company does it
If they were REALLY providing a valid service for the monthly fee, they would let players operate their own servers. Then players could choose if they wanna play on a server in someone's garage, or if they wanna play on an "official" server, so they can see the difference and say "yeah its worth $15 a month to play on the official server."
It's not that simple man. When you writen an mmorpg you want your development cost back and mmorpg's have alot more development cost then single player games. So if you don't have the income of the monthly fee and only the box money you won't be able to make a graphically nice looking mmorpg profitable. Your statement would be treu if with setting up the private server they would pay some of the investement cost that went into developing the game to the developing company. A developing company has THE RIGHT the protect there investement till the point there making profit on it. This is a basic law thats needed to make the capitalisme work. So what you want is ANARCHY but i tell you in a world of ANARCHY no mmorpg will ever be developt
They squash private servers, because then they can't enforce their toll, because you're not receiving anything other than the right to continue playing the game you already purchased.
Recent research showed that a normal mmorpg needs a 100k player base paying 10$ a month for atleast a year + the box prize to make a profit on a game after the MASSIVE development cost that needed to make a graphical nice mmorpg. And with the standards going up from the player base on the amount of content needed from start the prize is also going up on development.
The truth is they are not providing you anything for the monthly fee, it is simply a fee to be able to play the game that came in the box.
Your totally going by that the number of peeps playing mmorpg's is a lot smaller then the one that plays solo games. about 10 million people have played or are playing mmorpg's against about half a billion potential single player games players and with that a much larger development cost and servers,billing systems and customer support to set-up and maintain after launch and just not as simple as your putting it here
The entire MMORPG industry is one big ripoff to scam adolescents.