And those haven't given SV2 a good one as of late.īut enough of this rant.
Bad reviews by users will hit five times as hard than a good review by a professional journalist. Users will drop you like a hot potato if you don't cater to their needs. Give them more freedom and the community will grow even more.
Hell, give them a month free access to get their feet wet. Drop the price for subscription a little and the community will grow, since the new users may be less hesitant. SV2 has that potential, with a revamped engine, ENB's for all graphic cards, custom body models for sale in the sexshop (that can be added to existing ones and exploiting more fetishes (Furries, BBW and stuff like that)) they can enhance the experience users have with their game and will have a steady stream of revenue. I think It's a shame Thrixxx doesn't seem to care enough to stay ahead of this by researching more and trying to expand the game to new markets. It's the same game at the core, but working so much better and providing such a source for creativity. The reason why I think The Klub 17 is a better game is because of that user input, because of add-ons that enhance the game and it's experience. My point is: if you listen to your users, keep improving the quality of your product end never let it stop evolving, you'll stay in the game and keep earning a big wad of money for it. Pushing deadlines, fines for not meeting one, making changes mid development or dropping the project as a whole. Sometimes because of deadlines, but corporate meddling has been a problem as well. But some just produced a bad quality game. It's because sales where bad due to online piracy mostly, that and missing out the revenue from the second hand market (and that's why it was a main point for XBox One). There are several studios that have been closed down to lack of funds. Piracy, hacking and cracking are problems for all game dev companies, not just Thrixxx. SV3 could have been THAT game, but it's something that will never be, since they discontinued the plan. This would create a more tightly knit community, as Klub 17 garden is now, at gamerotica and generate more content. Users could also request and suggest changes/updates/added content via their forum or a poll. You could buy them as in game extra options an build in support via updates. Why not new body types for specific fetishes. If you're paying all the fees for the engine and software, why only drop a new room every now and then, with only a few new hairstyles and clothing items. They also are in an easy position to drop more meshes into the game. They haven't offered hairstyles to compete with the current, and growing, selection of wigs by our, erm, "indy development team". The problem they're facing is that a group of outsiders are providing more and better content than they do. That would be extra revenue, but only a small sum. There are also several micro transactions for sexcoins. That would pay for all the employees, housing of the company, servers, licences and R&D. If true, then would mean they would have a smidge under $ 2.000.000,- in revenue every month. Someone posted that they have 100.000 subscribers. Well, I questioning their business model and the results it's giving them. They f'ed their subscribers by dropping SV3 if favor of erotic gambling games. If they don't want to go bankrupt, they'll have to change with the times. They made enough money earning money while offering little in return. They need to get off their asses, stop suing everyone and actually work to earn their keep.
But if a group of enthusiast can produce a better product that a team that works full time on the same product, well. I fully appreciate K17 team's hard work and involvement. Thrixxx can learn alot from K17, make it a testbed and offer a more integrated product instead of a hack. Amateur (as in high school) level of coding).ĥ) start a healthy dialog.
FTP IS possible with the ingame model, sexsim uses it as well.ģ) Regularly producing new content themselves and new meshes like K17's wigs.Ĥ) Improve engine and the code overall (someone actually cracked their files and wrote a huge rant about what a mess it was.
If they really are that concerned about their product, how about:ġ) upgrade your DRM so it can't be modded that "easily" anymore.Ģ) Dropping the economic model they're using, it's not working anymore. It was contradicting, confusing and was leaning to trolling more than informing. There wasn't an ounce, not even a gram, of professionalism in that post. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that.