Comments on: The Sims Online Lives http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/ a group of adventurers on an epic quest Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:05:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Joe Gamer http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25970 Joe Gamer Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:38:02 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25970 EA-Land is an awful awful name EA-Land is an awful awful name

]]> By: Braack http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25849 Braack Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:33:54 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25849 If you read Games for Windows this month, there was a very interesting article on the new "Battlefield" game with Dice and EA. In a nutshell: 1) Easy entry, low difficulty 2) Very low PC requirements 3) Micro-transactions (of which, they claim 95% of people will never spend) 4) Free It's a shooter, its ww2 graphics, and it looks like TF2. With free, you can't go wrong. Or can you? =) If you read Games for Windows this month, there was a very interesting article on the new “Battlefield” game with Dice and EA. In a nutshell:

1) Easy entry, low difficulty
2) Very low PC requirements
3) Micro-transactions (of which, they claim 95% of people will never spend)
4) Free

It’s a shooter, its ww2 graphics, and it looks like TF2. With free, you can’t go wrong. Or can you? =)

]]> By: Dave Rickey http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25846 Dave Rickey Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:37:26 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/2008/02/26/the-sims-online-lives/#comment-25846 This is actually something I've been suggesting for years, if you've got a stalled game that won't die and doesn't do enough revenue to be worth focusing on, but gets enough revenue to support a couple of staff, get a couple of geeks with good ideas and a love for the package and see what they can make out of it. We had 8000 players of older Mythic games, I always thought a good way for designers/managers to earn their chops would be for them to work on those for a while, if they screwed up at least they didn't do it on the flagship, and they might catch on to something good and build one of those clunkers into a sleeper. This is actually something I’ve been suggesting for years, if you’ve got a stalled game that won’t die and doesn’t do enough revenue to be worth focusing on, but gets enough revenue to support a couple of staff, get a couple of geeks with good ideas and a love for the package and see what they can make out of it.

We had 8000 players of older Mythic games, I always thought a good way for designers/managers to earn their chops would be for them to work on those for a while, if they screwed up at least they didn’t do it on the flagship, and they might catch on to something good and build one of those clunkers into a sleeper.

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