Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
What is "niche" about wanting to play American-style football? The NFL is the #1 professional sport in this country, and college football is the king of college sports. How in the world did the powers that be convince themselves that what they had here was a "niche" rather than something potentially HUGE?Originally posted by euchrid
Browser-based games are a niche market. ("Sad but truuuuuue...")You'd be right, Eucrid... if this browser based game was NOT based on American Style Football. People still buy Madden every year. It's not like they're a high quality product (I've gotten pretty bored at beating the crap out of every single release) but it's still fun to play. The ONLY thing that keeps this from being a LONG TERM operation is the lack of change from year to year in the game system (Season to season would be better but that's a LOT of work for both the coordinators and toe coders). Seriously. This game could last for many more years if just that much cares could be generated by WG. We LOVE Football. Period... end of discussion. For that reason have so many remained loyal to the game and have spent so much for as long as they have. This game will die from APATHY within WG... not from a lack of us players who would stay if we had a solid reason to.
It is for that very reason... the apathy from WG and the complete static nature of the game as it currently is, that I'm not buying more flex to stick around. I've built just about every dot... in just about every way a dot can be built (right and wrong) and done about everything there is to do. I'd love to hang out and do it again... if I knew there'd be changes in the system (just enough to make it interesting... not drastic changes that wreck everything) so I could be challenged with my builds, my coaching, anything... but that's not gonna happen so there's nothing left here that inspires me. I'll hang out with friends... help newbs... build dots for a few people... and when my account is down to it's last few drops, donate to those same friend's teams and go play other games that DO understand that whet they have is worth investing time and effort in.
Not mad bro... it's been fun. But I simply don't see the investment by WG into it's future enough to make me want to invest in WG further.