Warrior General Games

Originally posted by NickS

Most of us here though are still hung up on the strange girl, either by still showering her with monthly gifts, or not treating her to anything at all


Thats because this girl has the biggest cans & they're fun to play with.

If they modified their payment structures significantly this game would take off , even if in a niche market. Give people more players for less money ... more time invested, more interest level, more dots, more non-CPU squads, etc.

Basic business rule for sustained growth in business. Learned this on day 1 of Bus. Law



1. Focus on customer retention, not customer expansion.




Positive feedback via word of mouth or personal referrals = more $$$$

Originally posted by Gnosis
If they modified their payment structures significantly this game would take off...


Look, that may have drove some people away initially. And with the benefit of hindsight, maybe it would have been better to make dots cheaper with little or no return of flex after the dot retires. But what's killed the game is a boring, static sim. What's the incentive for all of these people you think will flock in here if they realize that this game hasn't been updated in a long, long time? I mean, some guys like me might make a few more dots if it were cheaper because I still get a little bit of enjoyment out of the game (that, and all the ridiculous flex I'm sitting on makes me a virtual captive here). But changing the pricing structure isn't going to net all these new users. If a football game like this is good and being updated reasonably regularly with at least small improvements or some small new features, people are going to play it even it's a little pricey up front.

Bort and Co. either need to start updating GLB Classic again or start from scratch on a new GLB game that's like this one, but improved. There's absolutely no evidence that either of these will happen. It just seems like GLB Classic grew to be way more work than the guys were expecting/wanting to put into a browser game. Which is too bad. Because unlike a MMORPG, they have essentially no competition for this game. There's no game out there like this that I know of.

Bottom line, making it cheaper isn't going to save the patient. It might act as a form of life-support that gives us all an extra few seasons of this game. But, inevitably, without any new sim changes, we're going to reach the point where WG can't justify paying for the server space to keep this game going.

Originally posted by splitter24

Bort and Co. either need to start updating GLB Classic again or start from scratch on a new GLB game that's like this one, but improved. There's absolutely no evidence that either of these will happen.

You might find some evidence that this did happen, about a year and a half ago.

Originally posted by splitter24


Bort and Co. either need to start updating GLB Classic again or start from scratch on a new GLB game that's like this one, but improved. There's absolutely no evidence that either of these will happen.

Originally posted by euchrid
You might find some evidence that this did happen, about a year and a half ago.

do you know what improved means ?

Originally posted by euchrid
You might find some evidence that this did happen, about a year and a half ago.

Surely you can't mean GLB II, he said improved

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Originally posted by lexden11
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Originally posted by splitter24
Look, that may have drove some people away initially. And with the benefit of hindsight, maybe it would have been better to make dots cheaper with little or no return of flex after the dot retires. But what's killed the game is a boring, static sim. What's the incentive for all of these people you think will flock in here if they realize that this game hasn't been updated in a long, long time? I mean, some guys like me might make a few more dots if it were cheaper because I still get a little bit of enjoyment out of the game (that, and all the ridiculous flex I'm sitting on makes me a virtual captive here). But changing the pricing structure isn't going to net all these new users. If a football game like this is good and being updated reasonably regularly with at least small improvements or some small new features, people are going to play it even it's a little pricey up front.

Bort and Co. either need to start updating GLB Classic again or start from scratch on a new GLB game that's like this one, but improved. There's absolutely no evidence that either of these will happen. It just seems like GLB Classic grew to be way more work than the guys were expecting/wanting to put into a browser game. Which is too bad. Because unlike a MMORPG, they have essentially no competition for this game. There's no game out there like this that I know of.

Bottom line, making it cheaper isn't going to save the patient. It might act as a form of life-support that gives us all an extra few seasons of this game. But, inevitably, without any new sim changes, we're going to reach the point where WG can't justify paying for the server space to keep this game going.

Five years of sim changes didn't bring in hordes of people. In fact, the opposite happened, so not sure that is the miracle cure either.