Torn City - text based, making more money than GS

[phantasm]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6264082/21-year-old-computer-geek-makes-1m-with-online-game.html


Text based games are back?

[Monsoon]

If Simu would spend even $1 marketing.

[Monsoon]

Torn feels like Rule The Seas.

[Drew]

Modus Operandi rip off :)

[Drew]

I signed up for it, it's pretty awful. Maybe playing a MUD for so long has just left me a taste for that but the whole browser based navigation thing is boring. But they do have this going for them:

543 users online in the last minute
5,764 users online in the last hour (Most recorded: 12,013)
48,058 users online in the last 24 hours (Most recorded: 48,404)

[Warriorbird]

People still keep thinking that DR and GS are at all Simu's main focuses.

[Jace Solo]

Paying players?

[Warriorbird]

Paying companies is Whatley's current game. GS and DR are renewal income... like already written policies at an insurance agency. It is genius.

[Ashliana]

So what're you saying is Simu's main source of income? Hero's Journey engine licensing?

[Lord Paco]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6264082/21-year-old-computer-geek-makes-1m-with-online-game.html


Text based games are back?

Like I said, Donald Trump style baby!

[Numbers]

Hero's Engine will become obsolete once the next engine comes out, which given the speed of the market, should be in a few months.

When that happens, Simu = screwed. Look how long it took them to develop the fucking thing in the first place.

[Fallen]

Simu is so fucked. I mean, look how long it takes for 100 dollar tickets to actually sell.

[Monsoon]

It's the customers who are fucked.

[Drew]

I think they've already made a lot of money on the HJ engine and won't have any problems developing a new one. One thing Whatley does have is vision.

[Warriorbird]

So what're you saying is Simu's main source of income? Hero's Journey engine licensing?

Yes.

[4a6c1]

Torn is a fun timesink.

[phantasm]

I just made it to level 2.
This damn game hooked me.
I like that you don't spend alot of time playing, just do some stuff, then check back in an hour and do some more stuff.

[4a6c1]

Yeah. I like it but I'm kind of irked that it doesnt remind me of anything else I've played, i guess. I'm still trying to figure out the point of the game. My real question would be umm, when does it get fun?

Is everybody in here just running around trying to be Tony Montana? Where are the good guys? I wanna join that faction and be different than everybody else. :D

[4a6c1]

For lack of a better place to put this... Gemstone may be dead but LAUGHING AT TEXT BASED CRAZIES IS BACK!

Torn City Forums.

PiE Danny_

ID: 75604
Level: 40
Posts: 3058
Score: 1487


Need wife:

Most important:
- Some way to prove that you really are a woman on the interweb, other then pictures as they are easily faked.
- Real girl.
- 18+ but younger then me (24).
- A reasonable size essay (the bigger the better) of why you would be the girl for me.
- Non-scammer, I have no respect for scammers

Needed traits:
- Attractive in real life. (for the pervert in me)
- Not afraid of the pervert in me.
- Creative.

For extra credits:
- In to some kinky stuff. (again for the pervert in me)
- Has lots of money in TC
- Willing to get a PI together

Super extra credit:
- Gamer girl, being a. =D
- And in extension being a great gaming buddy.

What you get?
- A fully upgraded, fully staffed castle, perhaps even a PI.
- Loyal hubby for the long-term.
- A dedicated gamer.
- A man with honour.

Disclaimer:
- I maintain the right to decline your offer at anytime.
- If I find out your not really a girl, immediate divorce.
- If you turn out to be scammer, immediate divorce.
- If we bought a PI (or anything else) together you get your part back in case of divorce. (I keep a list on my computer)

http://www.torn.com/forums.php?forumID=13&ID=1267217&start=13050

[phantasm]

Are you going to apply to be his wifey?

[4a6c1]

Oh hellz yeah. That makame so hornay. Then when he has come to love me I shall tell him my secret...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yqe7fwxN0gE/RoprRc798ZI/AAAAAAAAAQk/wajlSu6sazM/s400/Fat+Man.JPG

(i have ugly couches...teehee)

[phantasm]

I decided to stick it out and play the game a bit.
I joined a faction and did some fighting which was fun.
Made some money.
Got invested in the stock market.
I can't really put my finger on whats fun about it, but I keep logging back in to make my stats/wealth go higher.

http://i36.tinypic.com/2wodism.jpg