Posted by pjfoster13 on 3/6/2014 1:59:00 PM (view original):
" Is WiS a hot fresh young venture wanting to roll out the hottest and fastest new thing? Maybe at one time it was. It's not now. "
HBD is obvious on plateau, as it has a consistent user base and the interface never changes. But a plateau does not necessarily have to plateau then decline. It can plateau and then go up again. There's no reason why it can't. It can't because the old guard resists it. If you use your imagination, the sheer numbers are probably that for every one of you there are 10 of me, but you don't hear from us and we come and go because you guys don't embrace what could be done differently. I'm sure that if the devs were presented a choice between "make MikeT happy" and "make more money", it would take them 0 seconds to make the obvious choice. Would the devs rather have 100 people with 10 teams each or 1000 people with 10 teams each? It sounds like too many of you are over-estimating the importance of the investments you have each made
WE don't run WiS. My observation is based on having being here for nine years, not anything I wish this to be or not. Now if I use my imagination maybe for every one of me there are ten young pjfoster13s dying to see WiS be something new and hot, and flooding the leagues with newbies eager to make sportsnerdness fun. But I see, rather, the opposite... not just from HBD but from declining enrolment in the other games I play here, which has been ongoing for at least four years now.
I beta tested two games in my time here. If I saw WiS doing things to make more money, I'd be pretty excited about it, like I was back then. But regretfully, I don't. What I'm writing here is not wishcasting, it's just based on what I've been seeing for awhile. And that is that WiS is in a position of protecting the existing user base, rather than trying to grow it.
So, to my eyes, the status quo is not because "the old guard resists it." It's because there aren't enough of you.
3/6/2014 3:05 PM (edited)