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But you keep replying. I love the word 'niche' being thrown around as a get out of jail free card to justify why something doesn't haven enough users. Almost as bad as 'indy'.

Nah I don't even play it. I got GW2 but I barely play that either. Haven't played much MMO after I unsubbed from CoX :P

Oh bro, keep trying to justify why your game made no money. "Hurr, it was supposed to have low revenue because it was a niche game, it wasn't failing at all." While EVE flourishes and it the second biggest MMO in the West. I think what YOU think is not part of reality.

I feel they're as niche as a Warcraft game.

As for the rest.

No rebuttal as I thought.

Carry on.

And Warcraft was a wonderful brand name for a nice LOTR rip off. But somehow manages to be more succeful than the real thing. IT's all gameplay, not subject matter like I said.

As for COX. It's opportunity cost was too high, so it got axed. The rest of your post is basically just CAPITALISM BAD GRRR. Seriously, blame the corrupt circus called the US government on it's terrible regulations rather than the companies who use those practices.

Really? What isn't a niche product then? A game based in the Warcraft universe is not niche? Where people who don't follow the series have no idea who or what anyone is? DCUO has 10 times the brand name Warcraft ever did, but it became niche while WOW has 10 mil subs. It's all how the gameplay is handled, not what your subject matter is.
Case in point: EVE, THAT's a niche product by design if there ever was one. But it's succeddes while WAR, AOC DCUO,Tortanic goes down the crapper.

As for COH...well there's a point where you think, if I took all the money we invest in this per year, and bought car parts with it from a warehouse, then sold them on Amazon, would I be making more money? I think COH was probably making a profit, which is not hard, I can make a profit selling oranges. COH is making much lower than what's expected by the overlords, which means it failed.

Uhh COH wasn't making enough money so it got shutdown, I'd say it failed. Failed to make enough money where NCSoft wouldn't want to shut them down. As for it being a niche product, well...I doubt it was designed to be a niche type product, just like DCUO and CO weren't. It just became niche because there wasn't enough appeal, so from the get go, it was failing.

I agree COH was too easy. It gave a diminished sense of accomplishment. NCsoft knows that (most)people play MMOs to satisfy their egos, from being able to show off their E-BLING and what what ever else they accomplished. Which COH had none of. Really the closest thing to e-bling in this game are Pylon runs time.

Wut? They all do as advertised, which is block attacks. You're talking about side effects that give 1 an advantage over another, much like all the dps sets in COH. They all dps, some are just better than others eg. TW because of momentum

This is absurd, this is true for basically every game that ever existed including COH. Eg. Broadsword and Ninja Blade. There's always going to be skills better than other skills, other wise everything would be the same.