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12/17/2014 2:48:27 PM
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Not true. TFU was in excellent shape to be a fun and enduring free-to-play browser based game. The PVP was loads of fun, and tons of content was planned to be added.
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If that's true it must have had a small player base. There's no reason to can it otherwise.
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Again, not true. There were nearly 900,000 registered users at the time of the game's cancelation.
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Hmm. I see no reason why then. How did the game make money? Was there an optional sub?
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Founders' Packs, which were pretty much Collectors Editions, and microtransactions.
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Hmm. Do you know if it had been profitable yet?
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Definitely! Hasbro was making good money.
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Well. Hopefully, they'll say why soon.
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I hope, but I doubt they will. It's just how these things work.
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[quote]TFU was in excellent shape to be a fun and enduring free-to-play browser based game.[/quote] It really wasn't. It had next to zero advertisement. A very low population. The UI was clunky. It had microtransactions before it got out of Beta. It was browser based.
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And how is that any different from how Runescape was back when it was first starting out?
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Edited by Atomic Tea: 12/17/2014 3:13:52 PMThere was less competition in 2000. Look in any direction on the Internet (speaking metaphorically) and you'll find 100 different F2P games to choose from. You never had that in 2000/2001. Today, RuneScape fulfills a very niche market. It sort of got Grandfather'd into the F2P MMO scene. It's been around before any of the others, it's survived by beating the competitors to the punch and for having a nostalgic feel to it. In that sense, it's sort of immortal. It will always have a population dedicated to it. TFU has none of that. It'll draw on some of that Transformer fanbase, sure, but those fans can feel alienated by bad games. The newest "AAA" Transformers game, Dark Spark or something, proves that. Not every Transformers game is a guaranteed success.
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The latest Transformers game sucked because it was rushed, made no sense, made use of a new developer that I'd never heard of, and many, many other things. The game was doomed before it was even announced, and fans knew it.
