Comments on: 30 Million down the toilet

By: urizenus

urizenus — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:41:03 +0000

shitty as it is (and I agree that it is), it has at least twice as many subscribers as tso.

http://www.habbohotel.co.uk/habbo/en/

By: Mafioso

Mafioso — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:53:43 +0000

habbo hotel is ridiculously shitty. its like a rip off of Palace. only palace has vintage appeal, habbo hotel is simply a bunch of 15 yr olds in search of a cyber partner.

and habbo hotel is much more like sims than sl.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:53:22 +0000

Last week’s Time magazine said somthing about a online game thats like SL called “Habbo Hotel”, well thats not the Important part, but what is is when they said that online games have been around for a while, EA’s Sims Online “Which has so far been a flop”. the article is at http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101041011-709014,00.html
but you need to pay to see the whole thing, also if you search for “Sims Online” there you get somthing else too.

By: dr_leviathan

dr_leviathan — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:31:29 +0000

I heard that EA’s SOL advertisement budget alone was about $20M. However, they sold a lot of boxes and some subscriptions, so they made some of it back. Not quite down the toilet.

By: RB

RB — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:49:55 +0000

When you have super powers you don’t need to buy anthing Uri. lol.

You can earn “influence” tho through your actions and crime fighting. I believe this “influence” can be used to access various power ups for your character. This “influence” can be given to other players and is thus sold like many other “currencies” .

Ask Mick he plays COH.

- RB

By: urizenus

urizenus — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:50:15 +0000

How come there is no money in CoH?

By: Mr. Simoleans

Mr. Simoleans — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:37:54 +0000

I agree that tso was a huge failure, it could have been great, but EA ruinied it. As for coh, I play it and its 100 times better than tso. The only good thing about tso is its profitable.

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:50:31 +0000

OK, RB, but why don’t you tell us how you really feel? lol

I agree with Trailblazer.

coco

By: RB

RB — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:19:13 +0000

oh yeah, forgot to add COH is awesome and i can’t wait to join up myself. And that article was very good reading. Anything EA tends to make me go off, lol. back to the point of this report tho. COH being a super smash hit.

- RB

By: RB

RB — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:06:30 +0000

Yeah TSO is a rotten joke. It’s disgusting. and EA will NEVER be forgiven for running TSO into the ground. cheap bastards, ANYONE could make such a ginormous brand an online succes, but oh no, EA can’t do shit can they? Electronic Ass is a giant fuck up when it comes to ANY online games. Barring UO which has the extremely old proven formula, hence it’s fairly good success. TSO will be the 4th or 5th HORRIBLE FAILURE of an MMORPG that EA has produced when it closes early next year.

I spit on EA’s shoes and walk off mortified by thier behaviour. they only get away with it because the online division makes up less than 5% of total revenue. so they can EXPERIMENT at will and screw people around as usual. EA is a very bad corporate citizen.

*drives up to EA HQ and unloads a very large 600 pound granite statue of a middle finger gesture on the lawn outside the front door. drives off in a hurry*

- RB

p.s i agree with everything trailblazer said