Nock Revival
Drewt2204
I’ve had Nock for around 2 years and I think the game is great. loads of content, smooth gameplay, etc. However a game with this much potential to strike it big should have much more players active. To fix this I suggest going free to play, market-wise it makes sense. An example of a VR game using this strategy is Hyper-dash, originally it started paid but once profits slowed down Triangle Factory made it free to play and the player base has skyrocketed ever since. Another example is rocket league, a very similar game to nock. The battle pass is already in place as a form of making money, so why not pull the trigger? Not sure of all the inside costs but I hate to see a good game fizzle out like this.
Chazzjazz
F2P will never happen. It’s a shame it won’t but it just wouldn’t work.
César Rojas
Chazzjazz What wouldn't work? Echo VR was F2P and it was working pretty good
Chazzjazz
César Rojas there’s multiple factors on why it wouldn’t work, ranking system sucks, matchmaking isn’t great. All F2P would do is expose new players to the already god like ones. If not, they’ll get bored with no new content
César Rojas
Chazzjazz Assuming that what you say is what would happen, how is that situation worse that what we have now? If we get any new players at all by going F2P they will most likely play against each other every time with the ocassional unlucky matchup with one of the 1-2 strong players that haven't completely stopped playing the game yet.
The only "new content" this game needs is a playerbase. The gameplay is perfectly good as it is right now. As long as the game works (I don't know if that's the case now, last time I tried to come back to the game I had to restart it 10+ times to get it to connect to the servers each time I opened it) it will be fine.
The worst thing that can happen from going F2P is that the game stays dead
Chazzjazz
César Rojas the worst possibility is the inevitable. It will probably last for a month, one battle pass, no weekly’s, a broken ranking. People will get bored in weeks. The best thing possible to do is move on to nock 2 which is in the works. But before that they’re working on another title, then nock 2 will be in full production.
Chazzjazz
César Rojas then why try? If we know that’s what’s gonna happen. Why not just keep working on nock 2 then wasting time on a feature that wont do anything. And I’m not even mentioning the cons from the business perspective.
César Rojas
Chazzjazz My point is that we don't know what's gonna happen and that the worst case scenario is that nothing changes. Nothing to lose there.
I don't think it takes a lot of time to make an already finished game free to play and if it's going to be eventually replaced by nock 2, why not let the original nock try to cultivate a playerbase on a F2P model while working on the successor?
People are still playing Echo VR on private servers and some of the most popular online games are free to play and keep getting new players every day.
Nock is a good game, I'm sure if the entry barrier was lowered (I know it's not expensive but still) more people would play it
Chazzjazz
César Rojas all I’m saying is they won’t, and there is lot more going on behind the scenes on why it can’t be free