EnMasse - Don't waver now!

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EnMasse, you are probably wavering a little now, right? Second guessing yourself, wondering if the direction you are taking, is the right one. Maybe even having an internal meeting or two, weighing up the current forum sentiment.

I'm here to encourage you not to sway now. Stick to your guns.

The great majority of the people posting on gaming forums have no skills or experience in application development, let alone the understanding of what entails launching a project of this magnitude to a commercial market.

You have been dilligent in your design, development and testing methodology. Undertaken the necessary market research, and considered the success factors to address and bridge the significant negative perceptions of Korean MMOs in the West. And placed this all in the context of the significant experience the EnMasse team has gained from working on previous MMO projects.

In the year 2012, official MMO forums have reached a watershed moment An Internet generation of kids raised on an endless stream of media negativity, cynicism, fear, entitlement and "issues, issues, issues" from the moment they came out of the womb - have come home to roost. With each game that releases, the end result will always be the same - forums full of issues raised as though our very lives depended on the outcome.

So stay the course. TERA will be a solid game, let your customers get in the game, and see that for themselves.

And finally, consider closing these forums. Put it on an agenda for internal discussion. Ask yourself, whether the potential significant damage done to the TERA brand from giving such a relatively insignificant number of people, such an open platform to build an entrenched environment of negativity and hate - is worthwhile in the end.
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And they'll take your advice under consideration, why?
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Hahahaha what the hell? If EME has any hope that Tera will succeed, the one thing they should NOT do is close the forums. Closing the forums = not listening to their players, which is the NUMBER ONE THING that causes games to fail. Look at SWTOR, didn't listen to players throughout beta and release, and it's a wasteland. Look at APB, didn't listen to players, also got shutdown. I don't really have anything to say about the rest of your post, but DO NOT CLOSE FORUMS. That will cause the downfall of this game. You are a total idiot for suggesting that.
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Edit: I had written something, but this thread is so ridiculous it's just not worth it.
Edited by: EdgeTO about 1 year ago
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I don't know why peopole keep mentioning SWTOR, when it actually is growing instead of dying...at least thats what media and people say.

About the forum community, I think you are right, not to the point of closing it ofc...but here the people that will post will only be the ones that feel uncomfortbale with how things are turning too...it doesn't actually mean that things are turning bad. There will ALWAYS be complainers.
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EdgeTO on 03/15/2012, 06:50 PM - view
Yes, don't give in! Keep those Engines of Mischief out of the game! Who cares if it came down to a choice of liking them or just not using them. As long as one person isn't interested in using a game system then nobody should have access to it, no matter how trivial a feature it is! Let's clean house!

Wait, what?


I think it probably came down to a simple statistic of 99.99% of mischief boxes were never used.

EdgeTO on 03/15/2012, 06:50 PM - view
Edit: I had written something, but this thread is so ridiculous it's just not worth it.


It's too late I've recorded it for all of eternity.
Edited by: ImperialPanda about 1 year ago
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InfecteD on 03/15/2012, 06:51 PM - view
I don't know why peopole keep mentioning SWTOR, when it actually is growing instead of dying...at least thats what media and people say.

About the forum community, I think you are right, not to the point of closing it ofc...but here the people that will post will only be the ones that feel uncomfortbale with how things are turning too...it doesn't actually mean that things are turning bad. There will ALWAYS be complainers.



it isnt.

Servers are almost all light to medium, when all of january was high to full.
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your advice sucks.

EME have been around for far worse than this, honestly its not even interesting. FAR worse has taken place here.

the loud ones will get bored and leave, the game will move on. its the same thing every time.

closing the forums is an instant loss. no two ways about it. not only is it a huge slap to the face to every single person that post, both the idiots AND everybody else that isnt involved, but it goes against everything they have shown us up until now. not wanting to hear our voices is pretty much the single worst possible thing that could happen in ANY game. the overzealous moderating for TOR forums has spread far and wide as one more nail in that coffin.

your advice is horrible -__-
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I like the part where you list off a whole bunch of suggestions, then ask them not to listen to suggestions xD
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ManicFox on 03/15/2012, 06:17 PM
EnMasse, you are probably wavering a little now, right? Second guessing yourself, wondering if the direction you are taking, is the right one. Maybe even having an internal meeting or two, weighing up the current forum sentiment.

I'm here to encourage you not to sway now. Stick to your guns.

The great majority of the people posting on gaming forums have no skills or experience in application development, let alone the understanding of what entails launching a project of this magnitude to a commercial market.

You have been dilligent in your design, development and testing methodology. Undertaken the necessary market research, and considered the success factors to address and bridge the significant negative perceptions of Korean MMOs in the West. And placed this all in the context of the significant experience the EnMasse team has gained from working on previous MMO projects.

In the year 2012, official MMO forums have reached a watershed moment An Internet generation of kids raised on an endless stream of media negativity, cynicism, fear, entitlement and "issues, issues, issues" from the moment they came out of the womb - have come home to roost. With each game that releases, the end result will always be the same - forums full of issues raised as though our very lives depended on the outcome.
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Spoken like a true suit http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=suit


Its thinking like this that fails to inspire any sort of innovation. Its thinking like this that stands in the way of true creativity or courage to create something NEW. Its thinking like this that ultimetly leads to failure and a bunch of SUITS sitting around a table scratching their heads as to where they went wrong.....