Comments on: Improving Your Game

By: Anjin

Anjin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:12:19 +0000

Dear Developer,

And while you’re at it, I don’t mind if you completely neglect all this other stuff you have in the game. I’m pretty sure that only the hardest of the hardcore play that anyway, so please direct all of your resources toward the systems where I spend my 40 hours a week playing.

If you don’t, it’s a slap in the face and I’m going to quit your game.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:02:51 +0000

It depends on how you define “quality”. If it’s bleeding edge graphics and bloody physics-based gameplay, probably not. If you’re happy with spectacular gameplay first and foremost, then yes, $1M is plenty.

I do wonder how much Love (the one-man dev team MMO) is going to wind up costing.

By: Snafzg

Snafzg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:53:35 +0000

Do you think it’s possible to make a quality niche MMO for under $1M these days? $2-3M? Okay, how about $5M? I really have no idea, but I think that would be the way to go, as Rog says.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:50:02 +0000

What? Make more money!?

Screw that, just make MY game, dammit!

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:35:31 +0000

Paradox Crossroads is just down the road from Funding Forks — go this way and they’ll throw money at you, or that (more creative) way and you’ll end up in Cash Drought ghost town. Stargate Worlds might know a little about that, I suspect.

By: Rog

Rog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:22:06 +0000

If only developers would make the games as their hearts compel them to.

The solution to please everyone? Just make more games.

Trying too hard to please everyone? We get the same few games cloned repeatedly.

Paradox crossroads just ahead.