This portion is something of a rant that might not directly have to do with the content of the post at the top of the page. I’ve been looking into this idea for more than a little while. It is no secret, many people are incredibly greedy. I feel that their is a greed surrounding much of any creative industry that we know today. Music, media, entertainment industries as a whole. Generally, we find games that have little content or meat, a fair bit of flash and a whole lot of hype. What we end up with is a plate of bullshit, half complete games and companies devoting tons of their development expenses into counter piracy ideas, all of which don’t work, and never will. There is only one sure fire way of getting sales in the video game industry. Create a mind blowing multiplayer experience with a 14 day trial that creates some form of incentive to go beyond the trial.
I’ve seen this work before and I know it can continue to do so. Some key features that many developers seem to overlook is the essence of community tools. An easy way for people to communicate with each other. A reason for them to work ‘together’, a common goal and idea that binds them together. And something that seems at least as important as all these ideas combined, customer support that is real and there 24 hours a day. When someone in the game is really caught cheating there has to be someone around to observe and stop the event going to make sure the aura of the game isn’t totally destroyed.

you try FE yet? New patch tomorrow, 1.3, with lots of starting area improvements. Good time to try it.

Now I was impressed by the concept and it did sound like Planetside right up until they put in the Monty Python moment. It was when they said everything was 10v10, I thought “you what?” (it reminded me so much of that John Cleese sketch where he’s the salesman extolling how to sell several miles of string cut into 3″ lengths and how useful something useless that would be ). I wish them well, but 10v10, I’m not sure what that is, but it sure isn’t massive.