6 years ago
DLC Maps/Map Packs
While I dislike buying a game only to spend more money to fully unlock it, I would be happy to buy DLC maps/map packs occasionally. I think maps should be obtainable in-game and we could use Rainbow...
Wow that was a lot of reading! Of course agree with the sentiment which is that this game needs new content to survive, but how can Popcap affordably provide that for a game with a fairly small player base. Even monetised map packs may not give them enough ROI when they could spend the time on other hopefully more mainstream projects.
The fatal error in my eyes was lack of promotion and hype building up to the game before launch. I don't know exactly how much marketing was done and where, just from my and other people's personal experience that this game came out of nowhere.
So now Popcap need to decide how much to invest and recover this situation. Three broad options...
1) go large and provide tonnes of new content to keep existing players retained and attract new ones over time with good marketing and deals
2) accept the ROI is limited and make a steady slow trickle of content for the fans while concentrating on other projects
3) just let the game die. You made the money, learn the lessons and move on. Spend no more.
Feels at the moment they are going for option 2 which is reasonable even though we all here would love to see option 1.