Originally Posted by
Smaguris
like what's the point to revamp the website when 99% of new playerbase is on steam.
So you're saying because %99 of all new players come from steam we shouldn't opt to not only achieve a more updated and professional look but also not venture to possibly sway these percentages to an easily possible 50/50? I don't know how much discussion you and I could have on this topic because I don't believe you stress the importance of SEO as much as I do but I do believe this is very much so an important aspect.
Originally Posted by
Smaguris
What I think is happening is that Nabi owner(s) either isn't confident enough in his own product or is just comfortable with the size of the community that is currently present.
This could be so but if it's the first then that's what the post is made about and if its the latter then I'm concerned about how the hell this game/company makes any money especially in comparison to how much it could potentially.
Originally Posted by
Smaguris
Concept of spending money to get money is quite a venture. Of course hiring more devs and other team members would most definitely improve quality of the game and exposure that it would get, but would it be good enough to justify the costs? That's the question that can't be answered and going into it can either be a success or a big failure depending on many factors.
No matter what you have to spend money to make money, that's the entire point of an investment and if you don't make that investment you won't know the profit possibilities. I do see any possible way it wouldn't justify the cost unless as you said they just manage to fuck everything up or get super shitty employees.
Originally Posted by
Smaguris
Sir has already hinted in another thread that Nabi had additional paid positions in the past, but it didn't work out for them. That might be big reason why currently there's only 3 devs and pretty much no other team members to our knowledge. Even having no social media manager in a game developing company already loses a lot of potential publicity by a huge margin, but these guys are missing so much more. Besides social media absence there's also no real project manager. All improvements to the game or website come from developers themselves, which is not only the least productive way of implementing improvements, but also unnecessarily demotivating for developers themselves. There is no real motivating force pushing them to implement certain features just because they can say "oh, this would be quite tricky to do and I got easier thing to implement so I'm just gonna do those".
Well money is supposed to act as the incentive in most cases so that brings me back to the spend money to make money, which makes me curious as to what Nabi is bringing in quarterly and yearly, what decreases they're seeing, and what their plan is to combat this because they need to expand and worry about the subjects brought up if they ever plan on being as successful as I'd like to believe they want to be. Basically, it's just sad to see how minute the budget is for this game, with enough money this game could pull insane returns and fully believe it but I have seen past remarks from SkulFuk on how hampa just kind of does whatever he wants whenever he wants and just never talks about it which would detour pretty much any investor.
Originally Posted by
Smaguris
There are so many different "professions" that would make Toribash and Nabi more successful, but for one reason or another they have no desire to strive for bigger team, so things won't change until company changes.
And this is the saddest thought because I know they're open to investors as of now but when they won all their awards and had the publicity they were not, I believe more than anything it was a sense of greed that completely fucked this game to a possible point of no return.