Gameforge CEO: "Games Must Simply Be Fun"
Gameforge isn't winning many friends these days, especially among TERA fans in Europe. Regardless of the company's controversial decisions, CEO Carsten van Husen is still bullish on the free-to-play model, as revealed in a speech he gave to developers in Beirut as partially transcribed by GamesIndustry.biz.
Van Husen was steadfastly opposed to free-to-play when his company looked into publishing Ymir Entertainment's Metin 2 back in 2006. Since then, he's learned a lot about the F2P market and is a strong advocate of the model. His comment that "quality is the only answer" and that "games must simply be fun" is perhaps a little naive -- good games often sell poorly while bad games bring in scads of dough -- but he does have some other useful insights regarding the F2P business model:
If you're a fan of TERA... or Aion... or Runes of Magic... or RaiderZ... in the EU, it probably pains you to see Gameforge doing well. The company seems to be financially successful and has a plan that makes sense on some levels, even if it doesn't always align with gamers' needs and expectations.
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Why was I suspicious ? Because I wanted to play your game, and it was suspicious to you ? Already the hell not playing your game, and has also suspicious if someone wants to play one of your game ?
When the En Masse entertainment making the best quality in TERA. Gameforge simply made it pay to win!! so where is the fun? TERA is the best mmorpg i think. And En Masse makes it always better day by day when the gameforge makes it worse second by second!
Hopefully, as time passes, more people will be aware of their greed and stop playing their games. That company is not made for entertainment, it's just focused on pure profit and average gamers are being constantly shat on...
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How hilarious coming from gmeforge.. after i stopped laughing i didn’t know what to think about this… felt so weird.
“quality is the only answer”
Now this one takes the cake… what do those guys know about quality? they won’t know it even if it rubs itself right into their faces.
And lastly… they only doing relatively well because many Euro players are pretty much forced to play on their shitty servers because they don’t want to deal with high ping by playing on American servers or deal with language barrier by playing on Russian tera servers (or elsewhere) which leaves them with only 1 choice in the matter….
I expect gameforge won’t be doing so well after Blade and soul, and Black desert, accompanied by Skyforge pop up, unless they secure publishing rights for at least one of those in Eu which they probably and hopefully won’t.
So yeah, let them enjoy their glory days with Tera while they last, it won’t be long now.