So Gameglobe Is Dead.

Miniike · Post by **Miniike** » November 14th, 2013, 12:45 pm

I wish I could say I didn't see that coming.

Post by **Sebastian Lawe** » November 14th, 2013, 1:20 pm

Last I played it, it seemed to be getting pretty good. It had a proper integration of vehicles, and a wide variety of npc's.

I'll be honest though, it was always too laggy for me to play.

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » November 14th, 2013, 1:44 pm

Ok, that's depressing...

Rabbidfan236 · Post by **Rabbidfan236** » November 14th, 2013, 3:38 pm

Wha? But I was just on in a minute ago...

Rabbidfan236 · Post by **Rabbidfan236** » November 14th, 2013, 4:31 pm

Oh, now I see.

Yeah, money is always an issue. But why are we just now being told this?

Post by **kroltan** » November 14th, 2013, 5:03 pm

It was obvious since they required membership to publish levels.

Rabbidfan236 · Post by **Rabbidfan236** » November 14th, 2013, 6:00 pm

No, they removed the membership, which meant that they literally had no way of making money.

Post by **kroltan** » November 14th, 2013, 6:15 pm

Hmm... Well they DID try every single freemium model out there. I left that game when I went to the forums and saw the subscription forum post, after my levels were all thrown to the trash. I felt so disregarded since it was open beta yet they didn't even send a e-mail to their users informing of such a major impact.

Newah · Post by **Newah** » November 14th, 2013, 7:08 pm

I've put in a request to make the game open source. A hopeless request, perhaps, but maybe by some chance it will catch on.

http://www.gameglobe.com/forum/topic/12 ... post-68526

Post by **kroltan** » November 14th, 2013, 7:13 pm

I hope they hear before it's too late. (kind of what happened to Atmo, but Atmo was downloadable too so it's less fatal, but for a browser game it would be neessary if someone were to revive it)
However it seems improbable because of the weird Square Enix Launcher (that I beleive it's just a disguised Unity plugin with metrics).

Newah · Post by **Newah** » November 14th, 2013, 7:24 pm

kroltan wrote:I hope they hear before it's too late. (kind of what happened to Atmo, but Atmo was downloadable too so it's less fatal, but for a browser game it would be neessary if someone were to revive it)
However it seems improbable because of the weird Square Enix Launcher (that I beleive it's just a disguised Unity plugin with metrics).

Yeah, it's pretty improbable, but I'm hoping against hope they will hear it. Given the source however, wouldn't you be able to launch it without a browser?

Post by **kroltan** » November 14th, 2013, 8:09 pm

With many modifications, yes. It wouldn't be as simple as "delete the code that connects with plugin".

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » November 14th, 2013, 8:32 pm

I try really hard to stomp around on the decisions of game developers, but if there's one thing about Gameglobe's shutdown that I don't get, it's this:

In the announcement, Xenon said that they tried "every angle to keep GameGlobe going".

And they did try every angle.

Oh, except this one:
[media=youtube]WXA559KNopI[/media]

They were doing microtransactions very very wrong. The approach outlined in this video should've been quite obvious, as it gave everyone an equal opportunity to play, and then choose to pay for optional content. But they were turning into a "free-to-play-unless-you-want-to-do-anything" kind of game.

Atmosphir went through the same thing. At first the microtransactions were handled pretty well, but then Halsey came out with this whole pay-to-play and drove everyone off.

My point is, The approach to Microtransactions outlined in the video should've been tried. If SE had taken that approach, GameGlobe would probably not be on the brink of shutting down.

Miniike · Post by **Miniike** » November 15th, 2013, 10:31 am

There is a Steam group.

Hopefully I can get Steam soon so I can join.

Post by **bionicnacho** » November 15th, 2013, 4:52 pm

I saw it coming ever since they removed membership. I never really got to play anyways since it never worked on mac.

It seems these kind of games based on user generated content are all going downhill.

Rabbidfan236 · Post by **Rabbidfan236** » November 15th, 2013, 5:02 pm

Minecraft is doing very good... that counts as user generated content in some cases, right?

ElectroYoshi · Post by **ElectroYoshi** » November 15th, 2013, 5:14 pm

I just went on there and they still took the time to display these week's Weekend Mix. It's more depressing than anything really.

Post by **kroltan** » November 15th, 2013, 6:26 pm

Don't forget the AtmoCopy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJZ4131O8I

Post by **bionicnacho** » November 15th, 2013, 6:43 pm

kroltan wrote:Don't forget the AtmoCopy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJZ4131O8I

Yep, that one died as well. Pretty quickly, too.

Rabbidfan236 wrote:Minecraft is doing very good... that counts as user generated content in some cases, right?

Eeeeeh. Not really, to me. I'd describe a UGC-based as a game that couldn't live if there were not a constant flow of people, well, creating content. The real base behind minecraft isn't really content creation. It's just building stuff.

Minecraft really has no way to die. Servers down? You can still play survival and creative in solo player.

Miniike · Post by **Miniike** » November 15th, 2013, 8:51 pm

Slight change up topic, but what do you guys think an ideal game creator would be like?