If this is free to play, should it be closed as they will not have actual 'sales'? That is, there will not be unit sales to track and thus anticipate a proper price for this stock.
Huxley is a Free2Play+ game ( meaning it is totaly free to download and play but it has a micro-payment system that allows you to buy special items and features ingame by depositing real money.
Sadly the company that owns the rights to it, decided to pull it away from IJJI and have no plans still to this date to release it in North america.
I know this because I was part of every one of the closed beta test that IJJI had for it and they made the announcement.
I will miss it because even though it may not have been perfect it was alot of fun to play.
@welshbloke,Ah...I see. Are there other large games that work like that? Buy the disk at presumably full price and then online is forever free except for paying for upgrades etc (on PC)?
I thought you still had to buy the boxed product though to get the free play going. Eitherway still a lot of things we do not know especially surrounding the 360 version.
Brought this up in June...to those trading this...is there evidence that this will be a paid product? From what I linked to before this is going the free/microtransaction route....don't think we should be trading it if so.
This and the XBOX version of the game need to be rolled back I think based on this. From the sounds of it both PC and Xbox versions will be free with micro-transaction support.
This game looks to be undervalued, while it is a valid point that previous MMOFPSs have failed or not met expectations, there is usually a time when a particular genre matures, and this game (especially when looking at the gameplay videos), and along with Webzen's other game, All Points Bulletin, look to be a solid offerings that will push the MMOFPS genre forward.
If their server technology is implemented well, it is possible that this will be a hit both home and abroad, leading me to believe that sales of 500k minimum are possible if they allow this game to mature beyond just being a large scale shooter with hubs for towns. The character customization and various things that can be done outside of the FPS portion of the game lead me to believe that this will happen, if so it could lead to long legs as this game becomes more than just a shooter, becoming more of an MMORPG that builds a dedicated community that can slowly convince their friends and others to join.
With recent PC games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl selling 1.65 Million, surprising many people (SE prediction was only 37DKP), I think the same thing will happen here, especially if Webzen can get the hype machine rolling at the right time. Plus, compare this game to Hellgate: London, which we have at 58DKP, even though that game was buggy when released and received negative press. A price point greater than 50DKP seems reasonable to me.
@Alpha, I completely agree as the last MMOFPSs of memory, Hellgate: London and PlanetSide, have only done marginal sales for their respective developers. Frankly I think that the genre itself is not ready for anything mainstream.
Without seeing anything truly concrete we expect the sales of this game to break 320k? When Quake fails to break 20k, I find it difficult to believe that an untested MMO franchise will outstrip the heir to the FPS throne 15:1.
This title hasn't attracted a whole lot of attention on the simExchange (low trading volume and very few comments). I think the stock price is slightly toward the high end given how poorly extremely high profile PC shooters have sold as of late.
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