Amazon’s New World MMO Has Already Lost Around Half of Its Playerbase since Launch

[Dan_D]

Lol.

I Guess my take is that if you have to advertise a game, it's probably not a very good game.

This industry thrives on word of mouth, and if something is fun or interesting it spreads like wildfire. If it isn't, it doesn't.

This isn't true at all. They advertised the **** out of the Mass Effect games. I've seen plenty of adds for Battlefield's, CoD games, and just about every AAA title ever made. You'd have to go back to the 1990's for this to not be the norm.

Regardless, this isn't necessarily a reason to panic. The fact is, this happens to most MMOs. Everyone's trying to make a WoW killer but the fact is that for whatever reason, that game's success was an anomaly. The same thing happened to Star Wars the Old Republic and its still being actively worked on 10 years later. Its worse for games like Black Desert Online and Final Fantasy 41 or whatever it is which had bigger issues on launch. FF41 has had a huge surge in recent months. But games like BDO and many others that have come out are basically dead or did die off.

Hotly anticipated MMO's always have high initial attrition rates. Part of the problem is the genre itself, which refuses to evolve but that's perhaps a better topic for another thread.

 

[Zarathustra]

This isn't true at all. They advertised the **** out of the Mass Effect games. I've seen plenty of adds for Battlefield's, CoD games, and just about every AAA title ever made. You'd have to go back to the 1990's for this to not be the norm.

I'm curious. Where are you seeing these ads?

I don't remember ever seeing a gaming ad before, except for those stupid flash games for facebook. (There was one with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, yelling get to the choppah, but I can't remember what it was for)

 

[Endgame]

I'm curious. Where are you seeing these ads?

I don't remember ever seeing a gaming ad before, except for those stupid flash games for facebook. (There was one with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, yelling get to the choppah, but I can't remember what it was for)

Call off duty gets advertised during NFL games. When I was running software deployments at night, I used to catch game ads on tnt(?) when watching the drone racing league, or the counter strike championships. Going way back to the mid 2000s, I used to see random game ads on TechTV.

 

[Dan_D]

I'm curious. Where are you seeing these ads?

I don't remember ever seeing a gaming ad before, except for those stupid flash games for facebook. (There was one with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, yelling get to the choppah, but I can't remember what it was for)

Mass Effect 2 ads were all over TV at the time. Regular and cable TV. Mass Effect 3 was advertised during the Superbowl in 2011. These ads were quite common. CoD commercials were also quite common with one of the Call of Duty games even including FPSRussia in the commercial. I barely watch TV. How did you miss all these?

 

[Zarathustra]

Mass Effect 2 ads were all over TV at the time. Regular and cable TV. Mass Effect 3 was advertised during the Superbowl in 2011. These ads were quite common. CoD commercials were also quite common with one of the Call of Duty games even including FPSRussia in the commercial. I barely watch TV. How did you miss all these?

Well, I'll admit I don't watch much TV, and I don't think I've ever watched a Football game, so that might explain it.

The little TV I watch is not exactly "dude TV", which mean sit probavbly wouldn't be targeted for game ads.

 

[Dan_D]

Well, I'll admit I don't watch much TV, and I don't think I've ever watched a Football game, so that might explain it.

The little TV I watch is not exactly "dude TV", which mean sit probavbly wouldn't be targeted for game ads.

I don't watch sports. I simply looked for the trailer for ME3 after hearing an ad for it aired during the Superbowl. I don't watch sportsball or anything. I mostly watch informative murder porn and little else.

 

[Denpepe]

I'm curious. Where are you seeing these ads?

I don't remember ever seeing a gaming ad before, except for those stupid flash games for facebook. (There was one with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, yelling get to the choppah, but I can't remember what it was for)

They have been around forever, who could forget such legendary ads like

 

[Endgame]

They have been around forever, who could forget such legendary ads like

I was a fan of the old Diablo ii commercials, like this one.

I used to see them back in college watching DS9 reruns at like 2am.

The best were the old 3dfx commercials though:

 

[Endgame]

Well, I'll admit I don't watch much TV, and I don't think I've ever watched a Football game, so that might explain it.

The little TV I watch is not exactly "dude TV", which mean sit probavbly wouldn't be targeted for game ads.

So, if you don’t watch much TV, and the TV you do watch isn’t likely to have game ads (uhh, lifetime drama / romcoms or something?), why would you be surprised if you haven’t seen an ad?

 

[Dan_D]

So, if you don’t watch much TV, and the TV you do watch isn’t likely to have game ads (uhh, lifetime drama / romcoms or something?), why would you be surprised if you haven’t seen an ad?

Or come to the conclusion that game ads only exist for ****ty games based on the fact your watching Oxygen and the Hallmark channel and haven't seen an ad for a AAA game on such a channel?

I've seen TV ads for games since the 1980's. It wasn't until the mid to late 1990's that we saw ads for PC games, but none the less games and ads have gone together almost since the beginning. I think there are even ads for game systems like the Atari 2600 which could go back to the late 1970's.

 

[Brian_B]

Hmm, ads.

I kinda remember those, but I don't think I've seen one in a few years.

Thank god for streaming services without ads, and before that for DVRs with skip.

The only time I ever sit through or pay attention to commercials are for the Superbowl.

 

[Endgame]

Hmm, ads.

I kinda remember those, but I don't think I've seen one in a few years.

Thank god for streaming services without ads, and before that for DVRs with skip.

The only time I ever sit through or pay attention to commercials are for the Superbowl.

Honestly, 2/3 of the reason to watch the super bowl most years is the ads. 1/4 is the super bowl party food, and the remainder is the game.

 

[Denpepe]

I was a fan of the old Diablo ii commercials, like this one.

I used to see them back in college watching DS9 reruns at like 2am.

The best were the old 3dfx commercials though:

Those 3Dfx ones are fun. Just one more for old times sake