I think I get where you are coming from. This is actually two different things.

I was speaking about actually acquiring a new customer which is where the curve comes from. It does not take into account how a customer behaves once they have been acquired.

The reason that many of these companies are moving to an MMO style is customer retention. There are only so many times you can jump into a match without it having any type of persisting effect. Many of these developers are drooling over what is called Customer Lifetime Value in marketing. The previous model was that a customer plunks down his/her $60 and maybe pays for a DLC or two. What they are now seeing is that someone who is involved with an MMO can end up spending hundreds over the course of their involvement.

While I agree with the CLV part of it, the key is getting them to stick with the adoption phase. Without that, the long term value is shot.

It also does not apply to a game that is always being updated. Always changing. Always growing. Where most of the content is player created. Where there is no fixed and finite experience.

Won't happen unless the structure of the game is fundamentally changed. Which won't happen. This game was honestly destined to fail from the start.

What is this "War Z"? Some crappy ripoff of Day Z?

In all seriousness, that game is bad,
and you should feel bad for ever playing it.

In answer to the OP, social interaction.

Every game has flaws, some debilitating, but the thing that makes a game worth playing, for the most part, is the people you play it with. Recruit new players, teach them tactics, help them with their play style, ***** and moan about broken functions together.

Battlefield, Defiance, CoD. A few games that are intolerable to play solo, for me at least, but playing them with friends or 'contacts' makes them less so. This game is no different.

Hey DS.

Your video raised some interesting points and I applaud your effort to attract new players. However, I noticed that you give much thanks in your vid to Subdreddit for helping you learn the ropes as a noob, but I see now that you are currently with SyN.

Just wondering why you bailed, brother?

Ahhh, bailed is such a negative term. I prefer resigned. Lol.

I have goals in Dust that I would like to achieve, and I believe playing with SyNergy gives me a better chance to meet those goals. Also, I have a lot of buds in the EoN. alliance, especially in GIANT. I don't have any problems with Subdreddit, but they obviously think I'm a traitor. I even donated 10 mil ISK to Subdreddit before I left.

customizable boob sizes like saints row did.

Shoot them in the back was the correct answer.

I don't know why there are more pages of this.

Eve didn't grow because it was welcoming. It grew because it stepped on new players nuts and that has always been continuous entertainment for older players.

Jesus Christ! Go play something else then! I've seen more optimism out of Sonic fans.

Nice video. It's great how you spend the entire video talking about how great you are at this game and how much noobs suck while pubstomping in a heavy suit that squadless noobs don't know how to kill yet. Very constructive stuff. Keep up the good work.