Tabula Rasa

was thinking about resubbing is it worth it?

Depends on what you are looking for. I myself am enjoying the game, but as far as end game is concerned it is still lacking atm. A lot of changes have taken place, and more content and pvp is too come in the near future. So it is your choice. If you where maxed out you might want to hold off another two months so more is put in, if you where not I say sure but be patient for more content to come.

But is the average IQ still that of the Lobotomized CS player?  That’s what killed the game for me not so much the lack of content but the type of player  TR attracted. and NCsoft basically had a hands off approach to

Originally posted by Slasher29

was thinking about resubbing is it worth it?

Like many who're still following the game, I'm waiting for the level 50 content.

Yes if you wanna see game one more time before NC decide to turn off servers once and for all.

Originally posted by vipjerry

Yes if you wanna see game one more time before NC decide to turn off servers once and for all.

Not gonna happen for a while at least; TR's up to around 130k subscribers and games don't tend to shut down 'til they're under about 15k-20k subs.

I guess it depends on whether you consider end-game content critical or not (for that matter, what qualifies as end-game content?), and whether you can wait for it.  Me personally, it's never been important.  I've never hit max level in any MMO I've played (although I did get close with MXO), but it depends on what you want.  You could always work on one of your clones if you hit 50 and get bored.  That could be your end-game content, I suppose, until mechs and player-controlled squads become available.

Originally posted by bartwart

I guess it depends on whether you consider end-game content critical or not (for that matter, what qualifies as end-game content?), and whether you can wait for it.  Me personally, it's never been important.  I've never hit max level in any MMO I've played (although I did get close with MXO), but it depends on what you want.  You could always work on one of your clones if you hit 50 and get bored.  That could be your end-game content, I suppose, until mechs and player-controlled squads become available.

End-game content is pretty much anything that you can still do once you've reached the max level. Some games put in raiding, some put in complex economic/crafting, some put in PvP.

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Originally posted by TeflonEddie

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Originally posted by vipjerry

Yes if you wanna see game one more time before NC decide to turn off servers once and for all.

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Not gonna happen for a while at least; TR's up to around 130k subscribers and games don't tend to shut down 'til they're under about 15k-20k subs.

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Originally posted by vipjerry

 

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Originally posted by TeflonEddie

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Originally posted by vipjerry

 

Yes if you wanna see game one more time before NC decide to turn off servers once and for all.

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Not gonna happen for a while at least; TR's up to around 130k subscribers and games don't tend to shut down 'til they're under about 15k-20k subs.

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Its kinda strange for someone to say this after NC official word that this game is financial disaster.

 

is there a link  to where NC has said that the game is a financail disaster?

Originally posted by vipjerry

 

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Originally posted by TeflonEddie

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Originally posted by vipjerry

 

Yes if you wanna see game one more time before NC decide to turn off servers once and for all.

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Not gonna happen for a while at least; TR's up to around 130k subscribers and games don't tend to shut down 'til they're under about 15k-20k subs.

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Its kinda strange for someone to say this after NC official word that this game is financial disaster.

 

Sorry to say but lets look at the math here shall we? A game that has 150k subs at 15 dollars each month is grossing 2 million 225 thousand dollars. Now take that figure x 12 and their grossing 27 million dollars a year. With these figures I hardly call TR a financial disaster. Could they stand to earn more? Of course, what game couldn't?

The point is companies don't pull a plug on a released game unless the cost of updating development exceeds the profit margin compared to the current subcriptions. Therefore before this becomes an issuse cut backs are made to departments that are no longer required sufficient to develop certain aspects of the game. So hypothically speaking a curent game released would have have to  have less than 25k subs, and less than 20 to 30 percent initial staff cut before any kind of shut down is considered. Now ussally if this is even the case the game has already recouped the cost of development, and ussally made 50 percent or more of the expected profits.

Now TR is still what we call in the recouping stage of finacial cost, and the average mmo peak is between 2 to 5 years of maximized profit potenial. So what is most likly going to happen is polishing the product, adding more content, and remarketing the product before the end of the year to establish more customers. Reguardless of the percentage of profit expected to make during it's peak TR WILL recoup the initial cost of development and a considerable amout of profit to be considered a complete loss of investment.

If you have any further questions on financing please feel free to ask since that is what I do!