Perfect World announces Fantasy Condor Heroes MMO

@Natester21

Because P2W is a burn out mechanic; you bleed 'em till they quit the game and move on to something else ...

solution #1 would be to reign in your cash shop policies of customer milking so that your games don't constantly suffer population atrophy, potentially resulting in a dedicated following of customers that eventually spend more money in the long run.

solution #2 is to release swarms of titles each year, that way you statistically stand a good chance of re-trapping the burnt out players of one game with another title (as well as potentially netting some of the "floaters" that have been burnt out by another company's P2W bull shit).

... guess which one PWI decided was a better idea.

say what you will about Nexon's customer support (I haven't had any problems myself) but it's rare to hear about someone rage quitting due to a Nexon cash shop issue.

@Oyjord

I strongly disagree with most of your narrow minded opinions, but I'm fairly sure Massively's (and all of Joystiq's sites for that matter) coverage scales proportionally to funding ... multiplied by how notorious the event.

I wouldn't get too hung up on it though, every day it seems like there are less and less writers / articles on here, much like the latter days of Big D.

I'm guessing that by this time next year it will only be Jeff posting, just like how it was only John posting on Big D towards the end, while everyone else will have been transferred into the main Joystiq site or let go altogether.

@Oyjord
Whenever someone makes a remark along the lines of "yet another Asian f2p" i think of how apathetic the "other side" of the genre is, and i get sad. :(

@Oyjord

I'm pretty sure it's because they're trying hard to avoid bias.

@Fakeassname

The Hell are you talking about? The average number of articles has increased lately, the number of writers has only ever had an upward trend, and they just hired a bunch of people just to do livestreams.

Are you confused by the fact that there's only a few articles on weekends? That's because it's the -weekend-.

And no, they don't take kickbacks. In fact, I'm pretty sure they'd get fired if they did. There was a Soapbox or something about that a while back.

@Oyjord because Massively doesn't do much actual journalism as opposed to publish press releases and opinion pieces. Once in awhile they will, Beau Hindman and Justin will do it, as well as the columnists dedicated to a game, but I'd say at least 50% are just what the game developers put out for media consumption.

@JuliusSeizure

I'm referring to the site management itself and what the writers are instructed (or maybe "encouraged") to emphasize.

I.E. there are plenty of other "mass" MMO hosters besides PWI, Bigpoint, Nexon, and G1 that announce new games and events just as much (if not more than Massively's "favorites") yet only get a blurb here and there.

@Fakeassname

That's probably more about companies bothering to tell Massively they're doing something than some directive from on high. I know Beau often complains that there's a lot of games he's never heard of until he went out deliberately trying to find something new.

@Dunraven This me laugh, because I'm it will be similar to that. lol

@(Unverified) STO and CO were developed without any involvement from PWI. I believe they actually bought those games later on when the original owners wanted to sell them for being failures. Since PWI started getting involved, both games have actually been getting better