Thread: So Aegis is closing down

Originally Posted by thatoneguyfromwork

Nutaku made me go FTP with this...it doesn't really matter whose fault it is because now I'm skeptical of spending money on their platform.

You learned the wrong lesson it seems. Platform does not matter at all. This could happen and had happened with some MMOs, games on Kongregate, on Origin, even on Steam (I know of some abandoned EA and released games that were never fixed/finished even after taking money, but that is slightly different thing).

Type of game is what matters. If you play any online game or just a game that depends on online features or updates do know that it will close sometime, or that there will be a time when updates stop coming. It is only a matter of when. So don't expect that if you invest some money into it that you are investing for the rest of your life.

Invested some cash? Played a month after that? You got your deal.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You learned the wrong lesson it seems. Platform does not matter at all. This could happen and had happened with some MMOs, games on Kongregate, on Origin, even on Steam (I know of some abandoned EA and released games that were never fixed/finished even after taking money, but that is slightly different thing).

Type of game is what matters. If you play any online game or just a game that depends on online features or updates do know that it will close sometime, or that there will be a time when updates stop coming. It is only a matter of when. So don't expect that if you invest some money into it that you are investing for the rest of your life.

Invested some cash? Played a month after that? You got your deal.

Not really, as many has said this came out of nowhere. It's not like the game was out of content and it was expected that the hammer would drop soonish.

Human beings make decisions that are based on our expectations of the future. This is literally why we developed general intelligence, so we could think about future actions and those thoughts could die instead of us.

If we don't perceive that a future for something will exist, we alter our behavior. This is true across all aspects of human activity, this has been studied at length.

You buy things in these web games because of the perceived value over time(gameplay). If you shorten that time, you objectively shorten the value which leads to less people investing not only money but even time.

If you spend alot of money on a game and a week from then they announce that it will be shutting down in 3 months, the vast majority of people would have likely not spent that money. They would have sought out a similar game/activity and used the money on that or not spent anything at all.

You might think I didn't learn the lesson but I'm just really being careful now. I now see all Nutaku games as potentially on the chopping blocks, not just the unpopular, unprofitable or buggy ones. If Nutaku doesn't care about that perception, well...that's actually pretty bad for them in the long run.