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GReaper · 18 Jan 2009, 19:07

You'd be better off starting with a new name and investing in that instead of wasting your money in trying to get the Planetarion name back.

What use is the name? Whilst I'm sure thousands of people have played the game since it started, they'll probably be thinking "nah, won't bother with that game again". Every £1,000 spent on getting the name/domain could probably host the game for an entire year without having to beg for donations to keep it running.

As you've mentioned, the game could probably generate £10k of revenue a year, which is a shame that the game has been locked up with Jolt/OMAC for so long. A single developer could probably spend half their development time on the game to improve it and get enough money to pay themselves. They'd have the motivation to do genuine improvements as it would directly affect them, instead of it being part of a larger company who doesn't really give a shit about it as it would need to cover the wages of a developer and make a profit afterwards.

It's a shame that this has happened though, as even though the people running Galaxytarion (or whatever it gets called) are the same, people might end up using this as an easy excuse to quit which would further harm the game.

18 Jan 2009, 19:07	#74
GReaper The BOFH Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 463	Re: Omac You'd be better off starting with a new name and investing in that instead of wasting your money in trying to get the Planetarion name back. What use is the name? Whilst I'm sure thousands of people have played the game since it started, they'll probably be thinking "nah, won't bother with that game again". Every £1,000 spent on getting the name/domain could probably host the game for an entire year without having to beg for donations to keep it running. As you've mentioned, the game could probably generate £10k of revenue a year, which is a shame that the game has been locked up with Jolt/OMAC for so long. A single developer could probably spend half their development time on the game to improve it and get enough money to pay themselves. They'd have the motivation to do genuine improvements as it would directly affect them, instead of it being part of a larger company who doesn't really give a shit about it as it would need to cover the wages of a developer and make a profit afterwards. It's a shame that this has happened though, as even though the people running Galaxytarion (or whatever it gets called) are the same, people might end up using this as an easy excuse to quit which would further harm the game.