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Huhu! Willkommen in der Fractured - Community!

Welcome to Fractured!

Welcome to Fractured

Hallo!

Heya everyone!

Welcome!

@amitjoshi

Then nobody might be able to help you at all.
If you checked multiple pages and were not able to understand the difference between Python and JavaScript, the end is nigh.

@Gismu said in Any germans here:

Yoo what up fellow players Was thinking if there is a german based Group in the game already and if not how about making one to help new players

Heya and welcome!

Nope. Not a single german here. Hence the german forum section (link text is only fake and empty.

Joke aside. Plenty of us already here. Take a seat, grab a drink and join us!

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Heya everyone and thanks for the feedback!

If you did not guess it already, then let me tell you, that I was not really serious about my post. Just wanted to push some of you forward, to hear your opinions. It is good to see the StepUp from the community against any form of P2W and with some alternative suggestions and concepts. I dislike the concept of Albion tbh, as it is amazing how much you can speed up with premium. And how much money people make/can suck out of the market if they invest (more) real money.

I‘ve been working as a Developer on a mobile game with around ~1200 concurrent users and was also responsible for some of the monetisation. So I know a little about how much money just the usual few and regular players are willed to spend, even for cosmetics only. Obviously VIP got a nice benefit already, which is a great plus.

@Kralith
I wanted to apologize to you personally, as it seemed like you were offended by my post. It does not matter to me if it’s ISO3D or ISO2D, as I‘m solely interested in the gameplay. Additionally I never said it looked ‚outdated‘ or ‚old‘ to me, but to the eye of an inexperienced or younger person. I‘ve shown it to a couple students and they were not that visually appealed. But as you said, it’s a long way to go and I’m very glad they are this open and already let us experience / see parts of the content. I will continue to spread it in my circles.

Thank god you did not comment everything, but I highly enjoyed reading your post. Thanks

Beside that, code on!

Ah guys. What do you want?

You don’t want subscriptions? - fine
You don’t want a ridiculous high one time fee? - fine
You don’t want any kind of true benefit from a real money shop? - fine
You don’t want many paid addons? - fine
You don’t want cosmetics at a ridiculous price? - fine

So... who pays the developers and servers? Do you think that running on AWS or any cloud provider is ‘cheap’? They have to keep their tools updated, buy licenses, external people. Pay the studio rooms, employees and just everything else.

It may have worked for a ‘giant’ company with a Publisher like GuildWars, but I’m pretty sure they had way more funding money and owned/purchased the hardware. That kept the recurring cost way lower. Having more employees and creating two paid (full price!) expansions per year, was then mandatory to stay afloat. And if you calculate that, it’s around 2*39€ per year, if you wanted to stay with the competition and get the latest classes and content. The base game also started with around 45€. Hm... thats around 80€/12Months which is ~6,70€ if you make it a monthly fee.

Now it’s time to remember, that fractured is an absolute niche game. It might grow out of it, but right now only a couple people in my circles are remotely interested at all. Most dislike the iso2D and all that farming/collecting/‘skilling’. It looks outdated on the first glance of an inexperienced person. Why do you think the currently raised amount is so ‘low’? Even though much of it was due to lack of advertising and marketing... And now people just say: ‘Ah. Let’s wait if they complete it before I spend money’.

Looking at the currently biggest competitor (Albion) the VIP/Premium nets you quite some benefits, but its totally playable without it. It speeds things up but does not yield into any direct advantage during battles. Most people have no problem with paying that money, as a yearly subscription is below 5€/pMonth so not even 5$ a month - for a game which continues to get enhanced, maintained and free(!) content-updates. No requirements to buy the game itself, no paid AddOns. If its not worth that one time ice-cream or pack of cigarettes per month, how is it worth you invest HOURS upon HOURS into it? And you/your friends can still do exactly that. Play for absolutely free and get the premium through inGame-Currency - if you even need it.

The reason not all of the ‘cheaper’ packs are sold out, is due to the fact that the benefits are nice, but (at least for me) not interesting. I’ve spent around 120€ on the EliteDangerous - LifetimeExpansionPass, simply to support the games development and get a return in the long-run. Did not have to buy a single AddOn and so it pays for itself. Would love to get the Knights-Package but eh... VIP will be a sad story with 0 benefits and takes years to remotely pay itself off, if I even play it that long and it ever completes development. Also I couldn’t care less about the Title (as you get better sounding ones from the Foundation (IMHO)) and inGame-Gold.

But all this ‘uhhh do not make this’, ‘don’t sell that’, ‘the VIP bonuses should be below 5%’ and so on... it will only kill Fractured in the long run. There are and will always be some CashCows and hardcore fans to invest a lot of money, but it might just not be enough. Most people are cheapskates and would not pay a dime if they could - but giving them just one small disadvantage, will bring them to the forums, crying how crappy everything is. Get a job maybe?

So... let’s close my rant with this:

You get what you pay for - Why shouldn’t the developer’s?

Yikes!

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Heya everyone!

A giant rabbit!

A tiny Snek...

Are there any more infos available on this?

What will be replaced / when etc?

@Prometheus

Heya.

mind sharing your plans what will happen to the 'Pledge Packs'?
Will they be removed/edited/repriced during A1?

Thanks