Maman Brigitte
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Posted - 2011.06.28 02:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Eleena Wolf
Edited by: Eleena Wolf on 28/06/2011 02:06:40
Originally by: alexreborn
if CCP goes bankrupt at least some ****ty company like EA or Ubisoft or Blizzard might pick it up.
EA might be a *****, but at least they know how to sell the **** out of their titles. I predict turn around to profitablility in 3 months. Monocoles on every player, and SP for USD!!.
EA bought dark age of camelot (mythic entertainment) when it was competeting and agains everquest. daoc players thought ea would fix daoc because ea wanted to make money, what they didnt realize is that ea made more money by not fixing a damn thing. they milked daoc for all it was worth to fund other ea developed games, while at the same time making their own mmos more profitable by removing a competitor title.
While a competeting game developer buying out another competeting game developer does not happen often, when it does the buying party stands to make more profit by either not fixing the problems of game they just bought out or removing it from scene entirely.
That's less true now than it was then. Back then, customers leaving DAOC had very few other places to go. Now, the market is saturated. Driving customers away from a title you own is not generally a good idea now, since that is likely to leave them with a bad taste for you specifically, thus actually reducing the chance of them falling into the arms of another of your titles.
Still, the point is well noted.
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Maman Brigitte
Licentia Ex Vereor
Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2011.06.28 05:37:00 -
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Originally by: scepternine
Originally by: Sloppy Podfarts
Originally by: Arias Dren
LOVING how the CCP apologists and alts are staying FAR away from this topic right now. Speaks volumes.
HOT POTATO
Yeah, anyone with a couple of minutes of basic economy studies would avoid this joke of a thread for risk of being irreversibly contaminated by the wagon-loads of stupid.
So from your presence here, we can derive either irony or idiocy, as we choose?
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