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Will the bad economy hurt p2p mmorpgs?

Discussion in 'MMORPG' started by redone, Nov 19, 2008.

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  1. redone

    redone BamBam

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    The U.S the economy is doing very bad. People are trying not buy very much gas. People are not shoping at expensive stores to buy christmas presents. So will people stop paying for mmorpgs? $10 to $20 a month really adds up. Their are many free mmorpgs that are really awsome and they save money. So I'd like to hear what you guys think about this.

    -Thanks!
     
    redone, Nov 19, 2008
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    Hmm, probably not, it was hassle to get my parents to pay for 2 months of WoW. :/
     
    eXoZmM, Nov 20, 2008
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    Aaddron Moderator Staff Member GameOgre Moderator

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    I think it will but not a ton.
     
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    Great topic:). I think it will have an impact, but we probaly won't see it for a while. Yea, I think free MMORPGs will be helped by this eventually. However, I think it will only be the most popular free MMORPGs that will really benefit.
     
    ogreman, Nov 20, 2008
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  5. jstr08

    jstr08 MMORPGer

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    yup, free mmos will most likely get more players but not more income..
     
    jstr08, Nov 22, 2008
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    it depends on how their biz model works. if they can sell a premium for $5 or sell items to those who left the p2ps then they get more income:D.
     
    MMOWiz, Nov 22, 2008
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    I've noticed on alexia that most MMOPG's have had declining page counts and hits.

    Most of the big ones have had major declines in traffic and page counts, the graphs look similar to that of the worlds stock market, of the list in Wikpedia for browser games only about 4 have maintained their position.

    Wikpedia : List of multiplayer browser games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A typical site is like this one : swirve.com - Traffic Details from Alexa

    or this

    cybernations.net - Traffic Details from Alexa

    declines then steadys a little bit.

    rare ones are steady like planetarion

    planetarion.com - Traffic Details from Alexa

    this one seemed to create a spike then a decline - I guess it was well promoted but did not keep the player base ... be interesting to find out why.

    thecontinuum.com - Traffic Details from Alexa
     
    skythorn, Dec 2, 2008
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    Well i think it will be espeacally on big games like wow since less people will play and then there will be less funding for them to create new and better games.
     
    alistaly, Dec 24, 2008
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    Aaddron Moderator Staff Member GameOgre Moderator

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    It could be school started... most kids are in school most of the day and doing sport and whatnot after... in the summer they had all day to play/visit the website.
     
    Aaddron, Dec 25, 2008
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    Good point Addron never took that into mind so maybe this will take effect over that period of time but when the holidays come for those who are at school they probably will come back and spend money.
     
    alistaly, Jan 8, 2009
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    I dunno about you guys, but the kids at my school that play P2P MMORPGs, mainly either a Runescape membership, (mostly 6th graders) or a WOW membership, (7-8th graders) usually don't play sports. Either they're super-geeks, or they have a balance between sports and MMORPGs.
     
    Weehut, Jan 11, 2009
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    It may hurt p2ps besides WoW but I doubt WoW addicts will care about $15 a month.
     
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    They care about nothing let alone $15.
     
    Aaddron, Jan 13, 2009
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    I have to agree with that.
     
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    yes the credit squeeze it will have an impact. Not so much on existing P2P games like WoW but getting finance for new start ups will become more difficult. Free to play games are not really free and depend on players buying stuff ingame or advertising to generate income so less cash in players pockets less game income. Most game development is low cost until it gets to publishing and beta stages thats when big bucks are needed to launch the game and its high risk. This will make it much harder to get innovative games published. Games that are not making a profit will have less time to sort out their problems before they are shut down.
     
    greymain, Jan 15, 2009
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    It cost's nowadays to play online
     
    reijigamer, Feb 25, 2009
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    I read an article and it says here that the gaming industry is recession resistant.
     
    winged_angel, Apr 27, 2009
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    That is completely false but seeing how video games are entertainment and people need entertainment even more when life is stressful it tends to get that label but it can, will and has fallen some in this recession many companies have closed and quite a few MMO have shut down/are close to shutting down. :(

    Lots of smaller companies are selling out to larger corporations to stay alive.
     
    Aaddron, Apr 27, 2009
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    Joke question?
     
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    It probaly will. But not that effective.
     
    Zeniel, May 3, 2009
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