1370438:Guys, seriously.
Look I know it's funny to laugh and point at mongoloids on the forum, and I'm sure the cheerleading in support of this game is much appreciated, but c'mon. It's been far too long since Spoils, the game cannot be financially stable. Despite the production delays, UDE still has to write checks to the design team, the webmaster, the people doing negotiations for the hypothetical 3rd set, etc. Have you seen the RC reports? There's not going to be 100 total for all the North American RCs combined. UDE certainly sees those numbers.
Now if you're UDE and you haven't collected a large spike of income since April/May, and you've sunk months of costs into design and whatnot, and you're faced with another 3-6 months of sunk costs with no income, not to mention the overwhelming cost of printing a new set and hoping all these lost players return or just cutting your losses and moving on, which do you realistically choose?
UDE doesn't care about your personal attachment to the game. It's not a mean, cruel, evil corporation thing, it's just business. Just like adults irrationally spend thousands of dollars to keep their sickly parents alive for a few extra months, in a futile attempt to not lose what they care about so much, the players who like this game act like UDE would be crazy to not continue throwing money down a hole because they so desperately want to see a 3rd set.
I think it should be obvious to most that they are going to let the OP schedule play out, then close the game down, citing low player numbers. I hope the U-Base mechanics are retained for another game because personally I think the game is mechanically sound, just poorly designed and play tested. If you relaunched this as essentially the exact same game with a new license I'd be excited, but I think for now everyone needs to accept that WoW Minis as we know it will be discontinued officially sometime after the New Year.
All I'm saying is the official word is that the next set is coming out some time early next year. Its not like I'm wasting any more money right now waiting for it to come out, so why not wait for that set to come out. If it never makes it, I have lost nothing.
On the other hand, I could go around screaming to everyone that the game is on the chopping block and piss in their cheerios while I'm at it, but what good does that do?
So, yeah, until official word changes, I'll be expecting a new set in 2010.
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