[cod] Need to know

[stalvi]

I just looked around for evidence of this.  WoW is still growing  
according to most the sites I saw.

Even if the revenues dropped by 90%, it is still making money for  
them anyway.  Win-Win still.

For FPS, the model simply would not work.   They need a huge  
distribution of servers and trying to centralize it down to even a  
couple hundred would make each server simply unbearable.  I don't  
think there is any way that Activision can support 4000-8000 servers.  
Figure 20 people per server, 8000 servers, that's only 160,000  
users.  Not enough to make a stink over and that is using a very high  
estimate.  The numbers would be more like about 2000 servers with  
about 20 users each.  40,000 is a small number to support the  
infrastructure of the charge-based system.


On Oct 6, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Mark J. DeFilippis wrote:

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> Bite your tongue!  NO WAY!
>
> If they adopted the "WOW" model of MMORPG's, I won't even put it up
> or buy the game. "WOW" may be pulling in $MIL's at first, but if you
> notice after Matrix online, ALL newer MMORPG's have $0 monthly fee
> and WOW is  OOOPS, losing market share big time.
>
> If you are going to "charge to play", I expect your servers will be  
> empty
> and I am glad it is not my venture cap. in there.  Especially when so
> many gaming resellers, like the ones on this list, put up large ones
> for free, which aids in the sales of servers to gaming clans.
>
> That is the COD model.  If it is like MMORPG, or like "EA" Registered
> vs. "Unregistered"  it is dead already.  Join the BF2 list, and look
> at what they are saying... ALL the non-registered servers are empty,
> killing the COD type gaming model, and at about the same time BF2
> has a add-on coming out that everyone is excited about...  "Yawn".
>
> Dr. D
>
> At 02:03 AM 10/6/2005, you wrote:
>> I need to know if the server will be on the COD2 cd. I did not see  
>> anything at Activision. I know this sounds like a stupid question  
>> but I heard it was not and Activision was following WOW's model.  
>> After they saw that WOW was bringing in 15-17 mil. a month.
>>
>> The Linux Bin. would help a lot. I want to launch a server asap,  
>> so I am also looking for people to help setup and run a new gaming  
>> site, unlike anything seen so far.
>> This will be fully funded with deadlines and bosses...
>> Must know there way around the games and programing.
>> Thanks
>> Dallas
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