Frammshamm

Wahoo.. dust, wind and nuclear fallout rushing through my hair again!

Not disagreeing, but wanted to point out that this cost is likely earmarked as marketing and was likely a sunk cost anyways. They need to get the word out and imo it was a good decision to provide a game play experience as opposed to a meaningless youtube CGI commercial.

Since we're talking business, internationally hosted servers are expensive. That is an upfront overhead that this company may not be able to afford. Not the greatest example to compare this company to Amazon, who already maintains its own infrastructure, arguably the most sophisticated in the world, when it comes to with AWS cloud servers. Me thinks this game has to grow organically a bit, prove it can sustain numbers, drive revenue and be profitable before any serious bank would consider lending it any money. The other risk is that if they feel hard-strapped for cash, they may choose to look for PIPE investments or issue equity, which could lead to them losing control of the game in order to turn profits for those investors. My advice is take it slow, build a good game and watch it grow. People are on the lookout for a good non-p2w mmo with deep meaningful crafting, action-lite combat and good non-linear progression. Build it and they will come.. the money will follow.

200 ping in this game is just fine. Its not a twitch FPS and given how poorly the serves are performing, 200ms should be the least of your worries when you shoot a mob and it sits there for 7 seconds and then ports across the screen to melee range. Re the relaunch - I completely agree but I'm not interested in the relaunch. I was talking more about the fresh start "FE Classic" which is where the hype should be. What will come out in the future is of no concern to me.

I haven't heard of any IP region lock and the server is clean, fresh start for everyone. I guess that means its gonna be HUGEOUSMUNGUS!

This game was revolutionary when it came out and in a lot of ways, is still way ahead of the curve. The fact that people coming here to play over Elyon and NW is a testament to the power of just "making a good game".