The Servers are Empty...the Lead Dev Left. A Simple Yes or No will do. Let's see how big this can get.

Question 1: Is the game dead?

Question 2: Is it too late to bring it back?

My Answers:

1.Yes

2.No

1. It's in coma.

2. No. Someone call Dr. House!

1.Yes and

2........

1. Yes.

2. Depends on Walrus.

1. Yes

2. Depends

1. No

2. No, not if people use the energy they keep wasting on whinging to create some good player-run storylines.

1. New content-wise&storywise, then the answer is yes. If it's about new players coming in to try the game then the answer is no. Depends upon perspective.

2. No, it's not too late to have a new dev write a new story that's up to Walrus to fix. Given the fact that the game had a dev who quit it would be only natural that another was found to fill his seat.

Q#1= no ( but yes just about for vector and recursion)

Q#2= no ( but it's all in our hands now, or should I say "your" hands cus i'm leaveing)

1. Content: Yes.  People who still care abut the game: No.

2. No

1: Pretty much

2: not if they do something now

Vaico wrote:

The Servers are Empty...the Lead Dev Left. A Simple Yes or No will do. Let's see how big this can get.

 

Question 1: Is the game dead?

 

Question 2: Is it too late to bring it back?

 

My Answers:

1.Yes

2.No

 

 

 

 

1.  Yes.

2.  Yes.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is honestly delusional.

If people reallly cared about this game, they wouldn't be howling about how dead it is. If you want it to stay alive, then roll up your sleeves and Do Something To Keep It Alive. This kind of attitude will only succeed in scaring off new players and older ones coming back, thus genuinely killing off the game. Is that what you really want? Is it?!

One of the things that stuck with me from the video segment about MxO, on the DVD of Revolutions, in the boxed set, was one of the Monolith developers (I think) saying something like "This will turn the Matrix universe over to its fans." Well, it looks like that has happened. Instead of looking at Rarebit's depature, etc. as an ending, look at it as a new beginning.

Vaico wrote:

Question 1: Is the game dead?

Question 2: Is it too late to bring it back?

Hmm...

1.)  No (and yes).

This is really a tough call because it depends on what your criteria is for being "dead."  If a game needs development staff and company support to be considered alive then yes, we're definitely dead.  However, we're not any more dead than we have been for a while now (basically, since Rare left), and yet we still have an interested community, new players and player events (both RP and otherwise).

2.)  No

Keep in mind that before Rare started doing near daily live events, we had pretty much nothing as far as LEs and story progression was limited to a handful of LEs and regular crits.  Also, during the creation of CR2 we had absolutely no storyline advancement or events at all.  It is not too late for a new dev to step in and start creating storyline OR game content (as we saw with Rare, expecting 1 person to crank out both at a constant pace with no assistance is asking way too much).  The question is, will SOE bother to do anything in this regard.  Chances are we all know the answer to this and when even the part time producer is neglecting to make any sort of "on record" official public statement about where things stand it's not looking any brighter.

Fen wrote:

Vaico wrote:

 

1.  Yes.

2.  Yes.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is honestly delusional.

Neoteny wrote:

Fen wrote:

Vaico wrote:

 

1.  Yes.

2.  Yes.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is honestly delusional.