SE better do something or the game will drop dead

[Zezlar]

"SE made a bad move by charging now"

Haven't heard that before!

[syntaxlies]

"SE made a bad move by charging now"

Haven't heard that before!

not really. they got rid of half their payer base probably and are getting payed by the other half. financially it makes perfect sense. they merge servers so there will be less server maintenance and re-promote the game in the summer. SE is a business first so if they have the choice to have 100% players not pay or 50% pay they need to take the money.

[Xoo]

not really. they got rid of half their payer base probably and are getting payed by the other half. financially it makes perfect sense. they merge servers so there will be less server maintenance and re-promote the game in the summer. SE is a business first so if they have the choice to have 100% players not pay or 50% pay they need to take the money.

How could they foresee even generally what percentage of the playerbase they'd be losing?

[syntaxlies]

How could they foresee even generally what percentage of the playerbase they'd be losing?

they have people that get payed alot more then me to look into issues like that.

but even if only 10% stay its still more then 0

[Krausus]

How could they foresee even generally what percentage of the playerbase they'd be losing?

does it really matter how much of their playerbase they lost? they had 2 choices dont charge keep more people loose money. or charge loose people but actually make money. So I think Syntaxlies point was it doesn't matter that they lost players because they are bringing in more income than they would had they decided to not charge and keep more players.

[syntaxlies]

does it really matter how much of their playerbase they lost? they had 2 choices dont charge keep more people loose money. or charge loose people but actually make money. So I think Syntaxlies point was it doesn't matter that they lost players because they are bringing in more income than they would had they decided to not charge and keep more players.

check out the kisses LS thread for some good reads,lol. page 2 is where it starts to get good i think.

[Xoo]

does it really matter how much of their playerbase they lost? they had 2 choices dont charge keep more people loose money. or charge loose people but actually make money. So I think Syntaxlies point was it doesn't matter that they lost players because they are bringing in more income than they would had they decided to not charge and keep more players.

I was pointing out that there was no way SE could have pre-meditated the 50% figure so things worked out well for them. It's not like they sat and came up with a plan and said, "Yes! This idea will cause exactly 50% of the players to leave the game and that's it"! I see what you're both saying, however.