Viraxje Don't know what the financial situation of Virtonomics currently is, however the trend is very negative for us players. I do know that for these kind of games it is hard to make a profit, but to 'penalize' current players in making everything more expensive seems rather harsh. Ideally more effort should be placed into attracting and maintaining new players, which indirectly should lead to higher revenues for the game.
How can it be possibly expensive?
Servers:
EG-64 from ovh should be more than enough (as in its overkill) for each realm... 169 USD x5
$845 this is also why I still don't understand the at times crappy load times... Unless they are using a 100mbps kimsufi server (I have one and it's still decent but it would cause issues at busy times, I used this and a vps for ai drivers as a proof of concept for truckersmp)
If they sell one 1000 villa a month avg or equivalent they have that covered.
On the Russian forum they have 5 paid workers (maybe)
Jeka is likely paid based on a quick Google search. Based on the same search I'd say they pay out about 5000 EUR in salaries monthly plus rent... Their total expenses shouldn't exceed 100k EUR this means they have to bring in 300 EUR a day avg. Anna brings in roughly 130 EUR a day alone assuming all active companies are paid players and not trial ones. Then they have Simformer for actual real life uses (not cheap), plus all pay to win realms. My best guess is this site alone brings in a easy 250k yr... And unlike real games programming this is actually many times easier as well as fixing bugs. (I'm currently bored, so learning 3D animation/design, and unreal engine)
Point properties shouldn't be so expensive, each point is over priced by 300-400% easily based on smaller more server intensive communities(drift city and such games). So this site could easily be a 1 mil EUR business, 2x in its heyday...
colonel_truman Okey Gamerz, next time I take a peek at what´s for sale out there, I´ll know for sure you have already grabbed all the good stuff.... thank you very much.
No more buying from you, and hope those bonds torpedo-sink you. (kidding)
Anyway, be a good boy and try retailing yourself.
Or lower the prices, and you might find an angel coming to the rescue.
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I believe the owners (developers) deserve to be paid for their efforts. Maybe if more people would pay we wouldn´t get the super auctions joke and instead would get some actual "economic-SIM" rolling...
But I might be mistaken and they are money-eating ogres.
actually Mary updates at a bad time for me, so I actually usually lose out on much of the good stuff.
Also please don't wish such things about bonds even jokingly, people lose billions because players tank.
I've also tried retail on Mary... It keeps losing money... When I say losing money, I mean would make more selling it to other players.
Hard efforts? The last true "hard effort" they've done in years was the service/restaurant sector (whichever was first) and power plants, everything else was copy/paste code. Even the telecommunications is c&p maybe a little modified but that's all...
You'll never see a true economic game out of this site because unlike the real world someone can walk in sell at cost and destroy the whole game, I got whined at for being cheaper in telecommunications (yet still very profitable) by up to 10x. Equally because of point purchases one can easily have a upper hand. The best realm to play for true economics is Anna, which would prob be cheaper than buying anything in other realms as there's no point winning properties there afaik.
Do the devs deserve money? Yes, but if they want to be greedy, then no. As far as I'm concerned they are being greedy.
mwarp77 This game is ridiculously unfriendly to new players. I've been playing for about 6 days and most of my contracts to buy things from people get cancelled. So I can't produce anything. So I can't sell anything. Seriously WTF?
BUT if I could produce my OWN raw materials, it'd be no problem! Except if I want to build a farm to grow cotton or livestock feed, it's going to cost me something like $40 actual real-world dollars. It's not even pay-to-win. It's pay-to-start at this point.
I doubt I'll play past the opening free tutorial handouts.
Do the log in every day to get free points, find a cheap farm (wood/fish run 365, if possible buy these instead) buy it and sell the produces on the open market for a decent profit. This is literally what I did on Mary... Not sure how many points you get, I forget now...
If you need resources in lien or Mary let me know |