minor trail
Are there any actual concrete plans how the devs plan to sustain the game?
Any pr campaigns or other methods to increase the player count as the current community will most likely not be able to support the development costs despite our passion towards this game.
This is supposed to be one of the core improvements of the relaunch yet there’s no actual information what they’re planning to do with the game after nostalgia and hype starts to fade.
chrome jacinth
severe harbor
chrome jacinth
If the player count drops and the game shut down again in the future I'll crash out
stuck gyro
torpid horizon
Are there any actual concrete plans how the devs plan to sustain the game?
Any ...
They have stated that they are going to fix some bugs and make sure the game is going to work correctly. After that they will start adding content to the game
chrome jacinth
They have stated that they are going to fix some bugs and make sure the game is ...
They mean like how they'll advertise the game ("pr campaign") to get more new players to play the game.
There's one suggestion I saw about events for content creators with money/custom items for the prize which could probably help with getting new players. Other than that, maybe winning game awards? (Idk much about how those works but pw HAS won one before which is also good for exposure and gaining new players)
Since the last time they didn't gain enough profits to keep up the servers because of a bunch of circumstances, well, the game SHUT DOWN which no one wants to happen a second time.
torpid horizon
They mean like how they'll advertise the game ("pr campaign") to get more new pl...
They will probably start advertising the game 1-2 months into the relaunch. No point to advertise now when there is going to be a lot of players — rather focus developing and fixing the game for now.
chrome jacinth
They meant after the relaunch. Like how will they find new players next year? The year after? Are there any long term advertisement/exposure plans in place? The title of the forum is about their long term plans.
Not saying that developing and fixing the game for now isn't important, just that if they have any, maybe they could share some of it to us as reassurance that the game is planning on staying up for years longer than before.
People spend real money in this game — for example, the untradable items. Their worth are literally on the fact that you could show off for owning them and use them ingame. The game shutting down and relaunching now made it worthless. Why spend more if there's a chance that's gonna happen again because of poor long term planning?
Like the second and last paragraph of the op's post, there won't always be a ton of players.
minor trail
They meant after the relaunch. Like how will they find new players next year? Th...
This is what i’m asking.
Hype and nostalgia won’t alone support the game. I’m worried they won’t do any meaningful changes in their strategy, which has clearly not worked with Nexus station or late Pixel Worlds
chrome jacinth
I never spend money in pw, I just support them by watching ads for free fertilizers but when I heard the news that the server shut down on early 2025, the first thing I thought of were the feelings of my online friends who spent money on the game, played it for years, then suddenly have it all dissapear in one day.
Would anyone trust the game again after that? The devs right now look serious, I believe they won't ditch but that's for this year only.
minor trail
I never spend money in pw, I just support them by watching ads for free fertiliz...
Trusting them is hard. Just look at how confident they were with Nexus station. All corporate buzzwords, no results.
chrome jacinth
Yeah 😔
Pixel Worlds is GOOD (biased opinion), learned english there and made the best of friends there. I just fear it'll shut down again. That was one big dissapointing news
minor trail
I want to have hope, but they really don’t have the greatest track record when it comes to sustaining games.
Pixel worlds was a success, but it really had meaningful updates for like 4 / 8 years it was online.
Nexus station on the other hand is just Finnish Concord with weirdly long lifespan at this point
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minor trail
They mean like how they'll advertise the game ("pr campaign") to get more new pl...
Pixel Worlds was profitable in 2017 - 2019 but somehow fell of in 2020 (in the covid era where people were forced to stay at home???)
In fact, Kukouris revenue was significantly higher in 2020 and 2021 than in the late 2010s yet they were losing money unlike in the years prior?
So maybe the devs got too ambitious or some other costs rose too high to sustain the game.
chrome jacinth
Or maybe they just got more competition and coincidentally fumbles a lot of the updates around those time with adding bc and making wls untradeable.
What else comes in 2020? Genshin which honestly I quit pw to play for a while (devs if you see this, apologies, I love pw better, promise).
minor trail
Or maybe they just got more competition and coincidentally fumbles a lot of the ...
I don’t think removing Wls as the currency ruined the game
Also this kind of doesn’t explain the seemingly massive increase in expenses that plummeted the profits into the negatives despite higher revenue.
We’ll probably never know the true reasons so i can only make shoddy guesses.
glacial folio
yes
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stuck gyro
dapper violet