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Originally Posted by eddwood
Dude, play9d had 1 GM that had access to the server, then she/he gave up.
That server has been abandoned for about 1 year already.
The owner only gave a fuck about money, and couldnt give a shit about 9Dragons.
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Any reason to think this is any different? Not saying it is, just asking to any logical reason on why it hypothetically wouldn't be...
Draw some parallels...
P9D R1 was really great with gifts and stuff when it started. Then because of some mysterious IM abuse it got a wipe. P9D R2 had nowhere near those "freebies".
9DPK has amazing starter gifts. But it's, and nobody contests that, in Alpha. So, all you have now is gonna be wiped as a certainty and you have no idea what comes next. Major difference is owner was honest about what's to come and current IM is all free unlike P9D was.
Etc, etc...
Now, nothing to say they can't or won't make it, but until now, 9D publisher history, official or private, has these "qualities" in common:
- "Owners" have no idea of what they're doing, from a player perspective.
- Decisions are made with absolutely no regard to where things are, where we want them to be and how to get there, once more, from a player perspective.
- Profit is key, it's a commercial endeavor after all. Some will milk it hard and fast, some will milk it more slowly. But none has ever milked it properly. Once again, from a player perspective.
- Yaddayaddayadda...
Get the point? From the player PoV, no publisher
ever got it right. In fact, the trend has always been "do what the previous one did and add some prone to fail new touches".
Privates only show the fail sooner rather than later because despite lower TCO's, they also have a much smaller revenue stream.
On the plus side, 9DPK owner does seem to understand some issues, but on the overall i'll give it same time frame as P9D till bust because he's already indulging in the same shortfalls that condemned P9D.
Can't break new ground if all you do is follow someone else's trail..