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While i understand what are you trying to say and only GF knows their current situation, i have to disagree, you have stated before that it's necessary to put gambling purchases to earn a profit with their game but thats just a cheap and lazy way to monetize your game when is clear that is not necessarily the case, there are several other companies that develop/publish their games without needing to add such monetization that are clearly made to prey on customers impatient and vulnarability with gambling addctions, they already have other online purchases and if that is not working for them and that they feel force to use this new type of model, perharps they should see the feedback and see why so many members of the comunity had explain over and over their unsatisfaction with their current online shop and if you think is imposible to do a fair and stable way to monetize your customers maybe you should take a look at Digital Extremes and their F2P game Warframe.
You mentioned Blizzard and Square Enix in your previous posts, how do you think they became so big?, They cultivated this trust between their consumers and them and built their game to be polish, when the original final fantasy xiv failed terrible square enix could have easily abandon the project but they assume the responsability and rebuilt the game taking the feedback from their community in mind and now is one of the most popular MMOs out there.
Is sad to see that most of publishers that bring eastern games are like this, so much potential in this game but they lack of vision and let their greed cloud their judgement for a short time profit instead of building and improving their game for the long run.
I can see how this game will end in maintance mode sooner rather than later, just gathering enough revenue to sustain itself and have pretty much a dead player base with just a few whales to sustain them.
You do also realized that those game you mentioned also has game in Console platform that makes money right? so is square enix also have product sell in console. So where is gameforge getting their money? And this RNG boxes also in other server as well, and it's not like GF is forcing u to buy it? people that willing to gamble can gamble, and if u want outfit u can buy it from those players. And it's expensive because first DZ is worthless cost by Botter not by RNG box. U think those company u many their asset, capital, and equity is the same amount as Gameforge?
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/pdf/ar_2016en.pdf
http://www.files.services/file…428164100_63579193_en.pdf
one is Square enix 2016 annual report and another one is Digital Extremes financial report. And both company is Public company whereas Gameforge is private company. In a year Digital extremes has $75 Milions of profit and Square enix has 176Millions Profit in 2016 (so you are telling me that Gameforge make anywhere close to where those company make? Millions?If they did, they probably went public already.) And look at their equity and so on. Tell me you are telling me that those company is not big? and u try to compare it to gameforge a private company? probably not even big enough to be able to go public at all. And we don't even have to talk about Investor that invest into those public company. U can look through the Financial statement yourself.
and if you compare KR to Gameforge? it's also completely different balls game,
http://investors.lionsgate.com…ts/2017-annual-report.pdf
This is lionsgate annual report, that's why korean has a better event and so on, since liongate is huge. But gameforge is just a publisher and you expect a publisher to become a developer. If they are big enough to do whatever they want, they wouldnt be publisher, they will become developer themselves.A publisher is trying to make money in the same time try their best to meet their community needs, but they cant just meet community needs without thinking about their survival and people they have to pay and contract that they are bind to.
"Overall, it is much easier to invest in a publicly traded firm than a privately-held company. Public companies, especially larger ones, can easily be bought and sold on the stock market and, therefore, have superior liquidity and a quote market value. Conversely, it can be years before a private firm can again be sold and prices must be negotiated between the seller and buyer."
And Gameforge = Privately-held company, all other company you mentioned = Publicly traded firm.
And you mentioned why other company cares about community?
Investing in a public company may seem far superior to investing in a private one, but there are a handful of benefits to not being public. A major criticism of many public firms is that they are overly focused on quarterly results and meeting Wall Street analysts' short-term expectations. This can cause them to miss out on long-term value-creating opportunities, such as investing in a product that may take years to develop, hurting profits in the near term.
If they screw up, their investor will leave and cost them most lost and so on. Therefore, why those company u mentioned care so much about community. Not saying gameforge doesnt, just that they are limited by a lot other thing compare to publicly traded company.
You completely missed my point, of course Digital Extremes, Blizzard, Square Enix are big companies right now and have a large amount of revenue, what i said was that they were not the titans that they are today, they started small and humble with little resources and your way of thinking sounds like what a corporate excutive would say "You don't have to enter a casino and gamble all your money is all optional", everything is optional, playing this game is optional, trying to justify your unethical stradegies to exploit your consumers is just plain manipulate and disgusting by using that line of defense just proves how much you care for yourself as a consumer.
Blizzard is guilty in this way of thinking too and when they might have found a balance between selling those lootboxes and keep upgrading their games but even then i won't support that way of thinking even if most of their community have agreed to have them in order to obtain more free content.
Warframe launch was received as a mediocre game at best and bad game at worst, yet the developers persisted and continue to improve and grow their game into becoming one of Steam top 10 most played games and has stayed there for a long time.
I know is not an apples to apples comparison and that GF doesn't develop the game however they do have control over the cash shop and can decide what and how much to sell their products to their consumers.
At the end of the day every company needs to make a profit thats their purpose after all, what i've tried to say in my previous post was that they don't need to neglect their own costumers in order to earn a profit and keep their buisness afloat they can obatain the right balance if they put enough effort into it.
