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Originally Posted by kendo65
Does anyone seriously think, given the state of the forums now, that a further delay of 6+ months would be accepted?
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For the patient ones, yes. If those 6+ months means that the game will reach a playable and good state for everyone, there will still be people, even among it's current detractors, that will come back. And they'll most likely look back at how it was at launch and laugh, and love that it's gotten as far as it will have.
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Originally Posted by kendo65
There will always be fans who are patient enough, but the vast majority will not. It's dangerous to make assumptions that COD's recovery would be inevitable no matter how long it takes to be put right. In 6 months time I dread to think what level of customer base they would have held on to. Once things reach a certain critical state it is likely to be impossible to recover.
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I disagree with that it'll be impossible to recover. To give you one example: Funcom. In the MMO-world, you'd be hard pressed to find a company so universally despised as Funcom, apart from maybe SoE (especially among the people that played and loved Star Wars Galaxies). Through two games now (Anarchy Online and Age of Conan), Funcom has time and time again screwed people majorly, especially PvP'er's. Yet people are coming back to both games despite the fact that things has been horrendous, with a distinct lack of updates/new content, there's been system revamps that nobody wanted etc. Yet people still come back, even if it's just for a little while. And if the game is something they find interesting, they'll stay. Regardless of previous experiences with it.
The same will hold true here. When word spreads that the sim has matured enough, or when the level of tech on part of the customers' computers (which HAS been an issue for CLoD, regardless on how you look at it), people will start to trickle back. Will they ever have the same amount of players as they had box-sales? Only time will tell.