Why no MMO?

Cakewalk · 04-03-07, 12:28 AM

Anyone heard of Enigma: Rising Tide?

I'm sure most of you have. It was scheduled to become an MMO. Never happened, even though the game enjoyed some commercial success.

It would have been interesting, to say the least, how it would have played out. I could certaintly have found it enjoyable.

But, its not everyone's cup of tea.

Meco · 04-03-07, 03:10 AM

Perhaps this thread could be made into some sort of Poll to see how the SH3-4 community at large would vote on such a concept.

SteamWake · 04-03-07, 08:24 AM

I dont need a poll.

I can most assuredly tell you that it would be in the neighborhood of 20 to 1 against.

jesterofsanity · 04-03-07, 08:57 AM

my 2 cents:

XanderF says repeatedly that subscription plans are a windfall for publishers--this is wholeheartedly not true if you are at all familiar with the upkeep of IT infrastructure. It is expensive, to put it mildly, to maintain a server farm. A niche market, as sub games generally are, with a small number of players, would be nothing more than a horrid money sink. It would float for two, maybe three months before the publisher tanked--and that's assuming everyone who played it LIKED it.

I don't think this one is in the cards soon, unfortunately.

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04-03-07, 08:24 AM	#3
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I dont need a poll. I can most assuredly tell you that it would be in the neighborhood of 20 to 1 against.

04-03-07, 08:57 AM	#4
jesterofsanity Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	my 2 cents: XanderF says repeatedly that subscription plans are a windfall for publishers--this is wholeheartedly not true if you are at all familiar with the upkeep of IT infrastructure. It is expensive, to put it mildly, to maintain a server farm. A niche market, as sub games generally are, with a small number of players, would be nothing more than a horrid money sink. It would float for two, maybe three months before the publisher tanked--and that's assuming everyone who played it LIKED it. I don't think this one is in the cards soon, unfortunately.