I mean, WoW still chugging along - it makes so much money from cosmetics they could probably ditch the subscription fee…
I will play the devil advocate here, but a mmo in this economy ? Very little chance to succeed event if it’s good. I’m not saying canceling it was a good call, we will never know. But I can understand that being blow away is maybe not even enough for a live service to be good.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Manapany@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Yeah and good job trying to compete with that !
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Well Microsoft owns Blizzard, so I guess they don’t really need to compete
Manapany@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Of course they compete even if they are the same company. For a game to be profitable it need to attract consumers if you take it from another of your product that not good. Even more reason to shut it down imo. Why bother create a new IP a new community and risking to loose big, when you can put resources on your other product that already have that.
sculd@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The MMO market is still big, just not as big as its used to. A MMO by a successful team has a much better chance than most games.
Nighed@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
We don’t even know it’s business model, they all want live service games right?
Feels strange, especially for a dev that has actually made a modern and (apparently) profitable MMO.