Why I believe NGD has been doing the right thing- community criticisms

Lebeau · 06-13-2013, 09:20 PM

Let's face irrefutable facts, this is a business: a small business. Due to various ongoing, limiting contraints, circumstances & economic realities, NGD's business model is NOT about improving the gameplay/functionality of CoR, focusing on or retaining it's long-term, low-or-no-spending OLD players or keeping them satisfied. It looks as if it NEVER will be. So, just face that.

NGD's business model IS about improving the LOOK of the game, attracting NEW players who'll come, spend $5, $10, $20, $40 or even more money over a few short weeks or months .... then, once they stop spending due to disenchantment from their eventual recognition of 'the-CoR-reality' .... they usually leave. This frees up the limited server & routing resources available to NGD & makes 'room' for NEWER, new people ... SPENDING people. High traffic, high turnover is THE plan....

This is what NGD has intended (or just accepted) for some time now, to get what money they can over the scant few remaining years of this game's viability. Both from diehards who just won't leave (& thus who need NO real incentive or enticement at all to stay ... like dogs on leashes), & definitely from those NEW players also, who regularly come, then go, like the tides ... & FAR more of these come & spend their cha-ching on NGD if game revenues & company resources are spent on advertising & dolling the game up with 'eyecandy', NOT bug-&-glitch-fixes.

The plan is all about NEW player flow, come, spend, leave, again & again, over & over, rinse & repeat. Get it? If NGD really wanted more to stay & play, netcode-engine-gameplay-&-balance-fixes would be the priority, but they aren't because NGD essentially doesn't. Period. Look at the collective threads on a variety of subjects for years now & all this IS all there, essentially staring out at any willing to just open their eyes & see it. Yes, they did fleece the OLD herd with new gears & a higher lvl cap when noobs weren't footing the bills & they might yet again .... but that isn't really change & such a move would assuredly break the existing game formulas/mechanics.

NGD has honestly said recently, albeit in a round-about way, that they just CAN'T do all (or even most of) the NEEDED fixes we're been asking about for months & even years & yet, they further made it CRYSTAL-clear they will NOT allow community coders or any other 'outsiders' to help them get it done either. Thus, what u c, as it is, IS what u get ... is what we ALL get. It IS what it is, do NOT expect ANY different or ANY more, or your expectations will be setting you up for CERTAIN disappointment, becuz' u r just foolin' yo'self .... if u like it as it is, play & enjoy it. If not tho, like I said, expect NOTHING substantively different.

06-13-2013, 09:20 PM	#11
Lebeau Banned Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: 'B-F-Egypt', Virginia, U.S.A. (please pity & forgive us poor american fools!). Posts: 605	Let's face irrefutable facts, this is a business: a small business. Due to various ongoing, limiting contraints, circumstances & economic realities, NGD's business model is NOT about improving the gameplay/functionality of CoR, focusing on or retaining it's long-term, low-or-no-spending OLD players or keeping them satisfied. It looks as if it NEVER will be. So, just face that. NGD's business model IS about improving the LOOK of the game, attracting NEW players who'll come, spend $5, $10, $20, $40 or even more money over a few short weeks or months .... then, once they stop spending due to disenchantment from their eventual recognition of 'the-CoR-reality' .... they usually leave. This frees up the limited server & routing resources available to NGD & makes 'room' for NEWER, new people ... SPENDING people. High traffic, high turnover is THE plan.... This is what NGD has intended (or just accepted) for some time now, to get what money they can over the scant few remaining years of this game's viability. Both from diehards who just won't leave (& thus who need NO real incentive or enticement at all to stay ... like dogs on leashes), & definitely from those NEW players also, who regularly come, then go, like the tides ... & FAR more of these come & spend their cha-ching on NGD if game revenues & company resources are spent on advertising & dolling the game up with 'eyecandy', NOT bug-&-glitch-fixes. The plan is all about NEW player flow, come, spend, leave, again & again, over & over, rinse & repeat. Get it? If NGD really wanted more to stay & play, netcode-engine-gameplay-&-balance-fixes would be the priority, but they aren't because NGD essentially doesn't. Period. Look at the collective threads on a variety of subjects for years now & all this IS all there, essentially staring out at any willing to just open their eyes & see it. Yes, they did fleece the OLD herd with new gears & a higher lvl cap when noobs weren't footing the bills & they might yet again .... but that isn't really change & such a move would assuredly break the existing game formulas/mechanics. NGD has honestly said recently, albeit in a round-about way, that they just CAN'T do all (or even most of) the NEEDED fixes we're been asking about for months & even years & yet, they further made it CRYSTAL-clear they will NOT allow community coders or any other 'outsiders' to help them get it done either. Thus, what u c, as it is, IS what u get ... is what we ALL get. It IS what it is, do NOT expect ANY different or ANY more, or your expectations will be setting you up for CERTAIN disappointment, becuz' u r just foolin' yo'self .... if u like it as it is, play & enjoy it. If not tho, like I said, expect NOTHING substantively different. Last edited by Lebeau; 06-15-2013 at 07:00 PM. Reason: ...your paragraphs, sirrah... ..i., ;}