No sold one bit on this one bit. But your taking two niche fields and trying to merge them..
Sure it is a novel concept on it's own, but social networking gaming is a iffy subject when you bring in a monthly fee. Try asking Facebook users to pay a monthly fee.
Next is city building sims, another niche model which has shown to be in the decline for years. With the last big titles (Sim City) showing less then ideal promise.
Check out the last major pay-per-play sim mmo model (Sims Online) in referencing this... for I don't see good things
@P3nnst8r: I concur. I was also dreaming of a day when a game like this will be fully involved and concurrent with a game like City of Heroes. Imagine having your CoH-style gameplay in a potentially endless series of cities like this. A wealthy city might lavish tremendous wealth on a truly capable hero (or Super Group of likeminded heroes) who can keep the crime level to a minimum. Meanwhile player villains would prey on citizens, businesses and even try to dominate local government...
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Sure it is a novel concept on it's own, but social networking gaming is a iffy subject when you bring in a monthly fee. Try asking Facebook users to pay a monthly fee.
Next is city building sims, another niche model which has shown to be in the decline for years. With the last big titles (Sim City) showing less then ideal promise.
Check out the last major pay-per-play sim mmo model (Sims Online) in referencing this... for I don't see good things
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I GUESS the online mod is worth a subscription... but 5 (looks for euro key) Euros? What is that? ten dollars?
Cut the price in half or GTFO!
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On the other hand, I know, with 100% assurity, that this will happen.
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What a rush that would be!