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Post by CeilYurei on Sept 28, 2016 16:50:15 GMT -5
With their one and only MMO so far they drove straight into a brick wall. Would surprise me if they tried this again. If this is a game chances are much higher for a crappy, short lived mobile game with pay-wall everywhere. Saga Online, right? Ier heard of it until I saw it had a wiki entry, what was wrong with it? ANd they already ha ve a mobile game |
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Post by lordofdragons on Sept 28, 2016 16:59:59 GMT -5
With their one and only MMO so far they drove straight into a brick wall. Would surprise me if they tried this again. If this is a game chances are much higher for a crappy, short lived mobile game with pay-wall everywhere. Saga Online, right? Ier heard of it until I saw it had a wiki entry, what was wrong with it? ANd they already ha ve a mobile game It had been broken, the game play had been boring as hell, player-player interaction had been non-existent (in an MMO) and it had lived a short time. One day to the other the servers had been shut down: no warning, just lights out. If lights go out like that without pre-warning this usually means you simply ran out of money to support the game and you pulled the plug to stop the losses from skyrocketing. The mobile game at last had a proper shutdown warning and time. So it ended in a controlled way... which is not that common for mobile games in the first place. |
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Post by CeilYurei on Sept 28, 2016 18:01:04 GMT -5
Well, any game these days needs some multiplayer, let alone an mmo. ANd it needs to be fun, miht be ahrd with some of the weaker zoids but creativity can solve that problem
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Post by lordofdragons on Sept 28, 2016 19:27:46 GMT -5
Well, any game these days needs some multiplayer, let alone an mmo. ANd it needs to be fun, miht be ahrd with some of the weaker zoids but creativity can solve that problem I know more good games having no multiplayer than vice-versa. But yeah... MMO without much player-player interaction is quite missing the hole point in the first place. |
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Post by Falcarius on Sept 29, 2016 1:07:41 GMT -5
I assume you're talking about Zoids Online Wars, the closest thing to a Zoids MMO so far (and the only PC game, unless you count the 80s games). Online Wars actually notified people of the shutdown date six months in advance, so I doubt it was a we-just-ran-out-of-money situation (although judging from the reviews I've seen, you're probably right about it not being much fun). Saga Online did much better, running from 2006 all the way to 2012 (by which point the franchise was completely dead apart from HMMs and the Concept Art books). I don't think any of the Zoids games have done very well with online multiplayer, really. Infinity EX Neo had PvP battles, but no in-game communication as far as I know (and the same went for the Tactics and VS mobile games, I think). Saga Online was pretty much single-player like the main Saga games, except you could "hire" other players (or at least AI versions of their Zoids) to join your team (plus the usual PvP option, which was also AI-controlled). Material Hunters had both systems (PvP and helpers), but again, it was all computer-controlled with no actual communication. Bonds of Steel did the best job - it had the computer-controlled PvP and helpers again, but it also let you form teams, send messages between players, and trade stuff. The only problem was, there was no way to search for specific players (as far as I can remember, at least), so you couldn't team up with people you knew unless you just happened to find them (or if you figured out their user number and manually went to the right URL). As for the actual teaser site, they're now running a Twitter campaign, with three Masterpiece Saber Tigers to give away to people who retweet the announcement before the 6th of October. Unfortunately you do have to be a Japanese resident this time, but hey, it's not like MP Sabers are super-rare and unfindable  |
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Post by CeilYurei on Sept 29, 2016 10:28:37 GMT -5
Still mad it's Japan only, dd they complletely forget they have western fans?
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Post by lordofdragons on Sept 29, 2016 11:34:45 GMT -5
Not uncommon for Japanese franchises and companies to ignore the west. In certain things the two are quite different. Some franchises play well on both sides of the ocean but some don't. Western part seems more into those fugly and boring gray-metal-boxes of mechas. Japenese side of the coin is more shape and color rich (except Gundam but that's a different problem and as little of my taste as fugly gray-metal-boxes).
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Post by dission on Sept 29, 2016 20:56:12 GMT -5
You know, I've been thinking this entire time that the guy on the teaser page with the M9 looks like an actor. I can't figure out who it is though. He looks REALLY familiar.
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Post by Vig on Sept 29, 2016 21:07:39 GMT -5
You know, I've been thinking this entire time that the guy on the teaser page with the M9 looks like an actor. I can't figure out who it is though. He looks REALLY familiar. Looks a little bit like a young Dr. John Becker  |
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Post by lemental5 on Sept 30, 2016 3:44:30 GMT -5
The image has been updated announcing MPZ-02 Saber Tiger. Which is nice and cool but I'm hoping we get more as well.
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Post by lemental5 on Sept 30, 2016 3:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by Falcarius on Sept 30, 2016 9:21:13 GMT -5
Um, yes. As for the actual teaser site, they're now running a Twitter campaign, with three Masterpiece Saber Tigers to give away to people who retweet the announcement before the 6th of October. Unfortunately you do have to be a Japanese resident this time, but hey, it's not like MP Sabers are super-rare and unfindable I don't know why people think Takara Tomy would go to all this trouble just to hype up a single kit that's already out in stores... Still mad it's Japan only, dd they complletely forget they have western fans? Selling stuff to a worldwide audience is far more complicated than selling it within a single country, and probably doesn't make TT anywhere near enough profit to be worth the trouble. Even if the "new project" isn't a region-locked game, I doubt they'll sell it or even attempt to promote it outside Japan unless there's heaps of interest (or someone offers them lots of cash upfront to localise it). Sites like Crunchyroll and Siliconera posting about the teaser is a good start, but we'll just have to wait and see what the reaction is once it's properly unveiled. |
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Post by CeilYurei on Sept 30, 2016 10:13:45 GMT -5
Region locking sucks major balls the least they could do s just slap on an english option and let us access it if it's an online game
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Post by Leon35 on Sept 30, 2016 10:44:16 GMT -5
Region locking sucks major balls the least they could do s just slap on an english option and let us access it if it's an online game That's not how that works Hiring people to translate to english professionally would take more time and money than what would be earned from marketing to such a niche market. Region locking is dumb, but saying a company should just "slap on" a english translation for their product is unreasonable. |
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Post by lordofdragons on Sept 30, 2016 11:24:11 GMT -5
Region locking sucks major balls the least they could do s just slap on an english option and let us access it if it's an online game That's not how that works Hiring people to translate to english professionally would take more time and money than what would be earned from marketing to such a niche market. Region locking is dumb, but saying a company should just "slap on" a english translation for their product is unreasonable. Who said translation has to be good. Japanese companies know how cheap translation works:  |
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