You can still be profitable but not have enough of a margin to make it worth it, too. So just stating that something is profitable or even more profitable just doesn 't say much.
It was still a profitable game and there are numerous other MMOs who only run on a few thousand players. The business decision wasn 't about cutting a game from the portfolio that was losing money.
I hear you Robert. Unfortunately the only articles Gamasutra and GameDev seem to post about F2P business models are basically huge opinion pieces swatting down strawmen. Either everyone talks past eachother in this discussion or maybe the well of good F2P articles has run dry.
I just wish a man of science like Zimbardo would actually contribute some scientific, peer-reviewed literature on this subject instead of trying to cash in. Maybe he tried and couldn 't get funding, or maybe his submissions didn 't pass peer review. r n r nGet some studies published and ...
Its not unfortunate, the fact is women are already ridiculously overrepresented on such shows when hard core gamers are mostly male by any measure. r n r nEven women who do little more than play the role of eye candy would be preferable to a hard core gamer dude.
