Has there ever been a more obvious yet still successful scam in video games?

has there ever been a more obvious yet still successful scam in video games?

Mighty No. 9

Mighty No 9

Every single kickstarter.

Star citizen

Brave Mister 8

>900k

Do you really need 900k to launch a MMO? We aren't talking about constant updated but making the 1.0 version of a MMO.

Why is this supposedly a scam? I mean, I don't enjoy the whole Kickstarter format, but that's no reason to declare it a scam automatically.

I saw it being promoted on imgur, no idea if it's a scam or not, I'm not OP

dude big MMOs cost several millions to make

Mighty No. 9

I think because all the buzzword they use for the description
i migth not be getting the joke tho

Shenmue 3

I was going to make a mocking post. But instead, I'll just answer your question: Yes. Yes, launching an MMO is a very expensive endeavor.

Ouya was probably the most obvious.

I don't think any amount of money can produce the shit CoE is promising

Why is that? They're basically just combining the good features from a multitude of MMOs to make a Frankenstein of dank game mechanics.

Project Phoenix

Did Ouya ever go into full production? Like could you buy it at a store, or off amazon or something, did they have more than just cheap knock off games or games you'd get on the appstore for apple or android?

Because it'll never be good. All the 'good' features they're taking will just be half-assed.

Come on, man. Be hopeful- Wurm and UO made strides in this sort of direction exquisitely, and features such as this are what gaming has been building up to for ages.

>Aging and death

sounds super fucking neato. I love playing video games to worry about mortality and have the character I put time and effort into creating and developing turn into an old fart and die.

You could buy them at B&M stores and online, it was a full on thing.

I live in a city called Elyria. Weird.

Why is it a scam? Project Gorgon, a Pve sandbox with hand crafted content is being made on 75,000$. Hand created content is much harder to do than a bunch of mechanics and a world to interact than those mechanics.

Kingdom Come Deliverance which is an Elder Scrolls-esque RPG is being made with 1.5 million

So MMOs you're hyped for

Camelot Unchained, The Repop, and I forget the name of it but the one that sounds a bit like Mount and Blade

Shards Online
Chronicles of Elyria
The Repopulation
Gloria Victis
Identity
STAR CITIZEN

>Gloria Victis

That's the one, also I still have no trust for Star Citizen. It seem far too large to ever work.

>combining the good features from a multitude of MMOs

You think development is this:

>computer
>get feature from wow where you level up
>get feature from terra where graphics are realistic

God damn you are stupid son.

At least wait until 2.4 (this month) to judge the project.

I've seen what they're working on and it's amazing.

It's so obvious it hurts. Mostly because I would want it if I didn't know it was a scam.

Was Ouya really a scam
The dumb bastards behind it seemed to legitimately try pushing it for awhile
Even camping out E3

When WoW was new, servers were overheating and dying left and right. Even Blizzard was surprised by the physical demands placed on networks and servers.

And they still are to this day

MMOs have the most justified high prices on Kickscammer

Star Citizen

>bunch of features done in 1997's Ultima Online
IT CAN'T BE DONE GUYZ

Pantheon

Why the fuck do people kickstart MMOs? Do they really think in MMO only cost 900k to make

I Kickstarted a game for 75,000$ that is extremely similar to this being made by a man and his wife.

I think you greatly overestimate how ambitious this really is.

So you think a game that looks like this, with supposed fully destructible environments only cost 900k to make?

Scam Citizen
Mighthy No. Scam

basically the first things that come to mind

Also Scam World.

>good graphics cost tons of money
Seriously? Has the movement of hundreds of great looking indie games where that is the only thing worth showcasing proved anything to you?

I could make something look as good as Crysis given $200 and a day's worth of time. If I wanted something made custom, I could commission the object for $50

MMOs are actually hella expensive and take a long time to develop.

I'm not talking about because of the graphics. I'm talking about the strain those visuals would put on the server with the amount of people an MMORPG usually has.

Steam is the most successful ongoing scam of all time besides Scientology.

Mighty No. 9, as others already said.

Its painfully obvious you know literally nothing about game development or server architecture. You really think the server will be rendering the game?

So by that logic, you can do an unreal engine 4 mmo with no problems at all.

If you developed the net code? Sure. Why couldn't you?