Like EvE Online, but not in space, mixed with Minecraft, but with better graphics and a proper class/skill/levelling system. It's then up to the players to mine the resources, build the cities, craft the weapons and armor etc. Nothing at all on it except natural terrain, plants, animals/mobs etc. But, when the server starts, you have an empty world or continent. It'd be an MMO, with character classes and skills and items and crafting and PvP and mobs and all the other stuff that goes along with being an MMO. I've often wondered how popular a kind of "MMO Minecraft" type game would be, where you start from a completely empty slate. When they bought CoH, they saw it as a launchpad for their American business - now that they've failed to launch, it's time to remove any evidence of this foray to begin with.
Like shutting down that embarassing American-grown MMO that's just a tiny bit of your bottom line, because you're also packing the WoW of Korea. And in Asia, being wrong is worse then taking a minor loss - their idea is, essentially, that 'social harmony' (Read: Less drama in the office) is worth some unprofitable practices. The answer, in the end, is that City of Heroes was a constant reminder of the failure of their corporate culture. And they needed to keep making up excuses as to why their Korean division wasn't dominating in America.and why City of Heroes was still alive when their 'theories' said it should be dead. We don't play 80% of our games in a net cafe (They do there). They failed, because we didn't want Korean Grindfest-style MMOs.
So they came to export Korea to the US in the form of Lineage 2 and Aion.īoth of which did horribly. They see themselves as representing Korea. You can't even depict a samurai in Korea (The origins of "Arthur the Katana-wielding Knight for Soul Calibur"). See, never forget - Korea's VERY nationalist. The thing is, that's not what NCSoft is thinking. It wasn't as profitable as their core properties - but NCSoft basically has the WoW of Korea in Lineage. Of course, sloshing around printed fiat currency doesn't make society more wealthy, It makes a select few richer by stealing the existing wealth from the poor and middle class via inflation.Ĭity of Heroes was an embarassment to NCSoft. That "sloshing" is why we see some prices rise more than others and at different times. Whoever gets the new fiat money first benefits because they get to buy before that inflation has trickled into the economy and caused all prices to rise. Today, under a government monopoly of fiat currency, the best way to "make" money is to get cheap credit from the central bank, or the large banks who have special favor with the central bank, and slosh it back and forth in the market. The only way to make money was by long term investment in plant and equipment, to increase production and lower costs, and then pay out the company profits in dividends to shareholders. Under a gold standard, inflationary credit expansion was difficult and limited, any artificial credit expansion was cut short by people demanding payment in gold and the resulting recessions, required to clean up the errors made during the artificial boom, were relatively mild. In the past, people made money off company stock through dividends. Our competition started to lose some of the larger, much more profitable facilities because they didn't maintain their less profitable ones. When the contracts came up for renewal at the larger facilities, we had credibility, a good reputation to back us up, and a map showing the sizable coverage area we had. Soon word spread to the larger facilities about our services. Sure it was with the small facilities, but looking at a map it looked impressive. How did that bite our competitor you may ask? Because now we had a sizable market share in that state. We snatched up as many of those contracts as we could. One of our competitors dropped a lot of smaller facilities in one state they serviced because they weren't making the return they wanted.
The vast majority of corporations, like the one I work for, doesn't do such stupid things because the boss/owner is in the business for the long term. The other elephant in the room is that this strategy very often bites you in the ass very badly.
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