cost money??? they made millions whit minigore wtf you talk there ?? the global server are the best you rather will have problems with you're old fashion local server
Millions is a stretch, more like thousands, Maybe, I don't know and neither do you, but what happens when that money runs out, no more online play for you. iMech was one of the top iPhone games, but with all the players the servers cost to much and got shut down leaving a lot of people unhappy. Global servers are great but they can cost big money
I'd say Minigore has probably hit 1,000,000 in revenue, remeber the DLC? Including Minigore HD, I'd say at least a million!
It's not like they are going to spend so much money on global servers anyway. Millions or no millions.
for reference, i did a rough estimate. although i did this months ago, it should still give you an indication of how much they've earned (excluding DLC and HD) i came to the conclusion that Minigore only earned roughly $20,000-$30,000. Then split it across the number of devs (3? 4?) including DLC, i would say (guessing) an extra $10,000. 15 at most then you got to remember that they use this money to live off as well, not all of it goes into making minigore. but remember, my results above probably dont reflect the actual earnings, but i'd like to see the proper figures from Mountain Sheep tho, that be interesting to look at. if anyone wants to know how i got the figures above, its in one of my posts months back.
Why not have a set up kinda like what CoD: WAW zombies app does.. you make a room and people join your game hosted by your iphone.. So essentially they only need a server that lets you search for games already created and lets you join them but the creater of the room acts as a host. (at least i'm guessing that is how they did it)
I HIGHLY doubt that this is any where close to accurate. So your telling me that they would still support this game after only making 10k each in like 8 months (you said "months" ago). They would have made MUCH more than that, if they are still willing to support the game. And only 3.5k each for the dlc..... pretty ridiculous. I don't how you came up with these figures but I'm fairly certain they are wrong.
I have a strong feeling that MS have been working on a lot more for minigore than we know about, and i think the up coming update is going to exceed expectations
