I'm one of the dev for a small independant mmorpg called Star Sonata (http://www.starsonata.com/).
We have about 400 subscribers (and maybe 100-200 active free accounts) and the game is growing slowly but steadily and it's been the case for the last year since we got out of beta. It's mostly semi part time work for 2-4 persons. It did take 2-3 persons working full time for at least a year to get it out thought, but nearly everything was done from scratch.
I would say it is possible but take alot of patience. You also have to not really expect money from this and when it does come somewhat, you take it as a bonus.
Eric
www.starsonata.com
The game is doing very well in term of subscriber with millions when you factor all the countries.
I like WoW alot but I have to admit that there is a serious lack of new content. By this date, for most past mmorpg, we should be looking at a soon to be released expansion.
It's currently the major downfall for the people I play with and what eventually lead most of them to get bored.
So my question would be where is the massive new content that having 3.5 m subscriber should allow you to do without lost? Where is the expansion?
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I'm one of the dev for a small independant mmorpg called Star Sonata (http://www.starsonata.com/). We have about 400 subscribers (and maybe 100-200 active free accounts) and the game is growing slowly but steadily and it's been the case for the last year since we got out of beta. It's mostly semi part time work for 2-4 persons. It did take 2-3 persons working full time for at least a year to get it out thought, but nearly everything was done from scratch. I would say it is possible but take alot of patience. You also have to not really expect money from this and when it does come somewhat, you take it as a bonus. Eric www.starsonata.com
The game is doing very well in term of subscriber with millions when you factor all the countries.
I like WoW alot but I have to admit that there is a serious lack of new content. By this date, for most past mmorpg, we should be looking at a soon to be released expansion.
It's currently the major downfall for the people I play with and what eventually lead most of them to get bored.
So my question would be where is the massive new content that having 3.5 m subscriber should allow you to do without lost? Where is the expansion?
Eric
www.starsonata.com