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Originally Posted by Shodai  Well, I am going to go ahead and assume that either Sony is going to launch a product based around real currency or further integrate this model into current products. Leaving it on segregated servers, as you saw, generated a few drops in the pan..but it wasn't sensational by any means. I can't in my wildest dreams see Smed integrating this stuff into all of the EQ2/Vanguard servers, but I bet we see a release in the future that embraces it. Interestingly, if this does happen it will be essentially creating a new genre, and I question whether models and assumptions from the traditional MMO sector will transfer over. I am going to go ahead and bet that, if such a game is released, it will tank (ie: not generate a laudable $$ gross) and generate innumerable amounts of forum hate across the intarWeb. I see the potential, don't get me wrong, but unless the execution is perfect, the game is incredibly compelling, and the model fits...well...I guess well see. |
Perhaps, I think what they made, and the transaction amounts(the real number to look at) were fairly high considering the server population and EQ2's population as a whole. Should they choose to change their fees/method of revenue at all, their profit will rise or fall accordingly.
For comedy take the same ratio and move it to WoW, it's a cashbox for being a mediating of something that is already occuring, in locations that are segregated from the people who are not fond of such activity.
