Honestly server need money to run at datacenter. It’s recurring cost. I understand and respect that: I’m 1 of those that wouldn’t mind paying the sub fees to maintain the services. Provided continued development is in place after launch. Dev need money to survive and get paid to put food on table. So do we all.
So if the dev is watching this, I hope NA is not going to be an abandon project. Need money, put out a subscription model. But will be nice to leave the F2P option in there. Can try to learn from games like elder scrolls online, Eve & etc...
its not easy to find a good age of sail game that has the simulation and realistic factor in it. It’s the best out there now and this genre has its customer base.
will be a sad day to see project is drop since efforts has already being put in to make it here so far.
yes this game is far from finish but it’s unfair to ask the dev to work for free to continue developing this game. Yes we paid $50 for the games but given it’s based now. It’s easy to work on the sum that how much the dev is getting.
assuming 3000 copies. That’s only generate a $150k. Taking away the cost to run the server and percentage that steam took away, this really is very little money.
No 1 in this world will want to work on a project that doesn’t get paid.
All I ask for. Is continued development from the dev. I can’t speak for anybody other than myself. Some will gladly pay the sub, some won’t. But I believe this can serve the balance of both willing to pay and not willing to pay customer.
Dev can learn from the business mode of other studio.
Eve online has a bigger base but not all is paying. But the studio has been going on for so long and still maintaining the game. They have paid and free customer base. They are surviving.
I like this game and until another that come in close to NA, I will hate to see this genre and game dies off.