Comments on: Of Publishers, Developers, Gods and Heroes

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By: Three Unconnected Notes On The Situation « Broken Toys

Three Unconnected Notes On The Situation « Broken Toys — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:51:26 +0000

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By: nerd gone bad

nerd gone bad — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:14:33 +0000

I was playing the game at gen-con this past weekend…and it was the SOE Booth, right beside Tabula Rasa. Seems like they’re both still involved at this point at least.

By: mathis

mathis — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:51:56 +0000

Before this announcement, Perpetual was doing all the development and was ramping up to operate the game as well — server farms, ops team, customer service, etc. SOE’s role was to do marketing and retail distribution. Of course, SOE would make comments and give advice, but it was up to Perpetual to take it, or not.

This announcement seems to suggest that the above isn’t changing, and the only difference is that SOE’s name will not appear on the box. I haven’t been able to figure out if there’s more to it than that. However, if that is indeed all that’s changed, the obvious question is: why?

By: Nicademus

Nicademus — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:49:24 +0000

So is NCSoft the developer or publisher of Lineage?

By: Abalieno

Abalieno — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:18:23 +0000

Steig Hedlund isn’t enough of a reason by himself.

Ah. J. making a comment just to show he still knows the who’s who.

By: Viz

Viz — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:01:12 +0000

What? I haven’t even had time to get over my disappointment that Richard Garriott used the “shallow consumer lifestyle disrupted by alien attack” meme for Tabula Rasa!

By: J.

J. — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:12:28 +0000

Someone link me up to the place where it explains why I should care about Gods and Heroes as opposed to any other MMO. Steig Hedlund isn’t enough of a reason by himself.

By: Walter Yarbrough

Walter Yarbrough — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:38:24 +0000

Ok,

So use Vivendi and Dark Age of Camelot – essentially the same thing as Scott’s example – you could also call this arrangement ‘distribution’

One note that I have – a split revenue situation is a recipe for cancellation at low numbers – (See Shadowbane/Auto Assault)

It is much easier for one piece of the pie to become unprofitable when it is sliced up.

Now, you’ve got to fuck up a MMO on an amazing level to be unprofitable with 100% of the revenue.