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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Dragon Quest X heading to 3DS, hitting Japan in September

fatslob-:O said:
spurgeonryan said:

Japanese love DQ games. Nothing special, but it will be yet another reason to own one.

Yet DQ X bombed all around ... What chance does an MMORPG have at succeeding the handheld front ? 

Bombed all around ? Can you back that statement ?



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Luck said:

Bombed all around ? Can you back that statement ?

How about this and this ... 

BTW MMORPG's aren't exactly the cheapest games to produce since they cost on average around $50 million dollars to produce and support so Square Enix likely lost money. Even monthly payments likely won't bring the game back to green.



Luck said:
fatslob-:O said:
spurgeonryan said:

Japanese love DQ games. Nothing special, but it will be yet another reason to own one.

Yet DQ X bombed all around ... What chance does an MMORPG have at succeeding the handheld front ? 

Bombed all around ? Can you back that statement ?

I read that it was quite succesful as a MMO with monthly payments. 



fatslob-:O said:
Luck said:

Bombed all around ? Can you back that statement ?

How about this and this ... 

BTW MMORPG's aren't exactly the cheapest games to produce since they cost on average around $50 million dollars to produce and support so Square Enix likely lost money. Even monthly payments likely won't bring the game back to green.

At least from a player perspective, Dragon Quest X appears to be moderately successful for Square Enix. A total of 300,000 people are playing the RPG every day, producer Yosuke Saito has said. Saito shared the news as part of a talk with Japanese website 4Gamer.

He said: “We’ve only released the game in Japan, so you’ll be getting only Japan’s numbers, but we have about 300,000 people a day who actively enjoy the game. Thanks to having released version 2 at the end of last year, we’ve had even more active players since then. At the time, we feared that version 2 could have actually decreased the amount of players. However, that didn’t happen so we were relieved. Well, it was a little unexpected that people who purchased version 2 and haven’t even been to Lendagia [One of the main continents in Dragon Quest X].”

Read more at http://nintendoeverything.com/dragon-quest-x-played-300000-people-day/



fatslob-:O said:
Luck said:

Bombed all around ? Can you back that statement ?

How about this and this ... 

BTW MMORPG's aren't exactly the cheapest games to produce since they cost on average around $50 million dollars to produce and support so Square Enix likely lost money. Even monthly payments likely won't bring the game back to green.

Also http://www.vgchartz.com/game/35098/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn/ and http://www.vgchartz.com/game/73123/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn/ says Hi!



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Sharu said:

At least from a player perspective, Dragon Quest X appears to be moderately successful for Square Enix. A total of 300,000 people are playing the RPG every day, producer Yosuke Saito has said. Saito shared the news as part of a talk with Japanese website 4Gamer.

He said: “We’ve only released the game in Japan, so you’ll be getting only Japan’s numbers, but we have about 300,000 people a day who actively enjoy the game. Thanks to having released version 2 at the end of last year, we’ve had even more active players since then. At the time, we feared that version 2 could have actually decreased the amount of players. However, that didn’t happen so we were relieved. Well, it was a little unexpected that people who purchased version 2 and haven’t even been to Lendagia [One of the main continents in Dragon Quest X].”

Read more at http://nintendoeverything.com/dragon-quest-x-played-300000-people-day/

So the game has dropped to around 300000 subscribers ... 



Sharu said:

Also http://www.vgchartz.com/game/35098/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn/ and http://www.vgchartz.com/game/73123/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn/ says Hi!

You forgot about those PC guys plus on average it has 200000 more subscribers than DQ X did ...

And what did Final Fantasy 14 have to do with DQ X failing ? Are you damage controlling ? LOL



so it's a portable game you can't play outside... point?

I would have fit better on 3G Vita, but SE monkeys don't realize that.



fatslob-:O said:
Sharu said:

At least from a player perspective, Dragon Quest X appears to be moderately successful for Square Enix. A total of 300,000 people are playing the RPG every day, producer Yosuke Saito has said. Saito shared the news as part of a talk with Japanese website 4Gamer.

He said: “We’ve only released the game in Japan, so you’ll be getting only Japan’s numbers, but we have about 300,000 people a day who actively enjoy the game. Thanks to having released version 2 at the end of last year, we’ve had even more active players since then. At the time, we feared that version 2 could have actually decreased the amount of players. However, that didn’t happen so we were relieved. Well, it was a little unexpected that people who purchased version 2 and haven’t even been to Lendagia [One of the main continents in Dragon Quest X].”

Read more at http://nintendoeverything.com/dragon-quest-x-played-300000-people-day/

So the game has dropped to around 300000 subscribers ... 

Its funny how "we have about 300,000 people a day who actively enjoy the game" transformed into 300 000 subscribers in your head...



Sharu said:

Its funny how "we have about 300,000 people a day who actively enjoy the game" transformed into 300 000 subscribers in your head...

It's funny how you fail to realize that inflated subscriber count is usually relegated to recently released MMO's ...