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DapperDraculaDeer
Aug 4, 2007

Shut up, Nick! You're not Twilight.

Mizuti posted:

1. Rift launches, is praised but never makes a dent in World of Warcraft
2. Don't hear anything about it for years
3. Game resurfaces in the news, now has predatory lootboxes and pay to win schemes for endgame equipment right out of a shady Korean MMO

Trion was pretty heavily tied up in VC funding, they even went through a third and final round of funding not long after launching Rift to raise a pretty substantial chunk of change. Declining revenue and a change in management brought with it a pretty drastic change in how Trion treated its customers and managed its products. Games like Defiance were ahead of their time and should have had a dedicated following got very little marketing and were pretty badly mismanaged. The company basically got pillaged by the VCs and what happened is probably a pretty good example of how corporate greed and an emphasis on short term profits can really gently caress things up.

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DapperDraculaDeer
Aug 4, 2007

Shut up, Nick! You're not Twilight.
It was a third person Destiny style shooter a year before Destiny released. It definitely should have been able to at least find itself a solid albeit smaller player base.

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