Despite the fact that Alganon has eliminated subscription costs and will re-launch again April 8, 2010, the game from Quest Online may have already doomed itself.
Former President of Quest Online Dave Allen and 2 others Jason Blood and Hue Henry were fired and Derek Smart is the new President. His first major statement was a post on the official forum that carried much foreboding and whether he intended it or not summed up the potential future doom of Alganon:
“As a game developer, I know all too well that if your game is not finished and you release it, thats just asking for trouble. No matter how great the game and technology are, it can and will fail. Especially in this industry climate. The average gamer is as finnicky as a hummingbird on acid, with a very short attention span and a penchant for being largely unforgiving. In other words, pulling a stunt like that is the death knell for many a game and company.”
Way to go Derek. You are all but betting that the game will fail (and it probably will) and of course blaming everyone else. But guess what, if you don’t pull off some kind of comeback it will be your failure too. So stop passing the buck with statements like:
“The long and short of it is that nobody knows what the future holds for the game or whether or not it can in fact recover from the troubles of the “soft launch” and the stigma associated with its stability, missing features, WoW look-a-likeness etc but we’re going to give it our best shot and with my direction and experience, the team is going to focus on the goals mapped out.”
And there is nothing like taking the Im-too-good-for-you approach:
If you don’t like Alganon the game for what it is and not what you want it to be, fine, don’t play it, don’t come here, go and play something else. No hard feelings.
Read the tell all forum post here