Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I think the whales need to disappear or quit before we can see daylight with this game. Wyrom is so hyper focued on the 1% of the population — the fucking whales — that he will not even give a glance to actual development.
The fucker is effectively running a casino at this point. Is it a coincidence Whatley hired him knowing his extensive familiarity with casino slot machines?
Last edited by Simu; 02-18-2019 at 11:03 AM.
The problem is that if Wyrom wasn't doing it, they'd hire someone else to do it instead.
Wyrom/GS casino is just a symptom of a bigger underlying problem that has a 99% chance to be ignored by upper management in favor of short term gains at the expense of the game's long term interests.
Last edited by Methais; 02-18-2019 at 11:23 AM.
The lack of development says the whales aren't the issue. It's management, pure and simple. If all the people paying large amounts of money for events stopped, you'd see the absolute stagnation of the game. Nothing would be coming out because again...
GS 'management' are fucking awful people.
It's not so much that he's focused on the 1% as much as it is that he's focused on milking everything they can in this final cash grab phase of the game. There's no actual development because they see no future for the game. It's that simple. Anyone with half an eye open should be able to see this.
If Simu folds on GemStone. Do you ever see them at the very least handing off the code to say Tillmen so he can host it on his server that we can all chip in afew bucks for. Does anyone here see something like that come to pass?
There's no reason to fold on Gemstone completely. It costs very little to actually keep the server up and running. They'll just run it into the ground and let it die of natural causes. I doubt they'll take the server down unless they straight up run out of subscriptions. Even Legends of Terris still exists, with a pricing model very similar to Gemstone. You can play for free up until level 35, with reduced capacity, and then you buy a subscription. And you can log in right now, and there are zero people online. Basically, if the company still exists, it doesn't cost them much more than an electricity bill to keep a computer running in a closet with its all volunteer staff while they develop shitty mobile games.
Last edited by Stumplicker; 02-18-2019 at 11:39 AM.