Israel posted:

<<I doubt it costs EA a lot to run DAoC these days, everything is built and it shares payment infrastructure with other games.>>

WAR and UO are in no real shape to help out though.
But I agree that:

<<As long as they're getting a few 100k $ per month why sweat it?>>

If they only have 50k subscribers - then even if everyone is paying $15 (and they won't be) that is less than $100k. And given that the peak player population is now less than 4k then even with a x10 multiplier that is less than 50k.

I doubt that DAoC is costing much however so whether it stays open or not may well come down to external factors: EA dictating that every game must make a profit, media impact - whatever.

They dont know what they have and they dont know what to do with it. 3 realm rvr concept is just sooooo great and yet they allow the game to continually die.


Its like misplacing a lottery ticket for 5 million dollars,pure stupidity...

 

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I'm feeling I'm just wasting my time.Nothing new on the game and not enough players to make them aggressive enough to result in big fights often enough.

 

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Trees die.

Fish die.

People die.

And eventually, this game will die.

This line blew me away. You are absolutely right. I played DAOC for about 3 years, and WoW for about 6...but I miss DAOC more.

Well even if the earth dies and company moves to another planet I think you right This game could have gone in better directions. It wasfun but got boring in the end just for the simple fact that I played it for far too long. I guess it will die coz most newcomers will think its unattractive and ugly.

Is there some kind of special math going on here? 50k subs * $15 is $750k per month. To pull in $100k gross per month it only takes 6700 subs.

 

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Pssh i re-subbed cuz i got a 27' lcd and wanted to see this game in 1920x1080 its still a beauty!