Black Prophecy team talks business model, F2P

by Jef Reahard on Apr 23rd 2010 12:30PM

Sci-Fi, Interviews, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Black Prophecy

Reakktor Media's Black Prophecy science fiction MMORPG has been generating a fair amount of fan discussion, and dare we say concern, since announcing a free-to-play business model and a partnership with gamigo last month.

In the fourth edition of Reakktor's 'Behind the Scenes' web series on the game, Black Prophecy's Assistant Product Manager Christian 'SnowCrash' Schutt engages gamigo's Patrick Streppel and Reakktor CEO Kirk Lenke in a question and answer session that features community concerns drawn from the official forums.

The session delves deep into explanations of the game's business model and also features answers to burning questions regarding a Collector's Edition and post-launch content. "Neglecting to update is the nail in the coffin for any MMOG. We all know that. We've already laid out a roadmap for content patches and add-ons and are starting on its development so players won't have to wait too long for new material," said Lenke.

Check out the full session at the official site.

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Tags: black-prophecy, christian-schutt, f2p, free-to-play, gamigo, interview, kirk-lenke, patrick-streppel, reakktor-media, Reakktor-Media-GmbH

Reader Comments (3)

Just release already!

Neglecting to update is a nail in the coffin of an MMO? Really? I wonder where they learned that lesson *cough* domeofyork *cough*.

For those not in the know, I refer to the expansion to their first MMO Neocron that basically sat in limbo for months/years while the game recieved precious little in the way of updates because the expansion was Just. Around. The. Corner. Apparently it was due to publisher trouble.

A pity. I loved that game.

I was very excited this when it was announced but since they said it would be free to play my excitement lessened. I never thought I had anything against F2P games but instinctively I was disappointed for some reason.

Also, when they say "It's up to Reakktor to finish the game and we'll do that the way we want to make BLACK PROPHECY. gamigo provides their know-how about free-to-play games" makes me believe Reakktor will finish it then it will be up to the publisher to decide its future content etc - I dont know much about gamigo but I get worried when publishers have too much power over the developers...!