Tanki Done With?

[Ultradc 9]

Is Tanki done gaining any content? Last time a weapon was even added was last Summer, almost a year ago. New content is what people want, and Tanki isn't getting that. I know a few people who have left due to this. Will Tanki ever be updated more often before this becomes a dead game?

[eessydo 17]

Ultra:

 

Three things effect content:

 

1. Business Metrics

 

If I had to wager a guess, updating content is based off of a couple of key financial indicators. The primary one being the revenue growth. If the revenue stream is still flowing in a constant line of growth, it may be hard to see whether or not new content is required.

 

User communities and forums are not exactly the best place to glean information from because it can be only a small sample of your overall user community.

 

I would definitely say they need to look at other benchmarks, such as returning users. More specifically, power users that play at least 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes a day that have purchased crystals at least 1 time. Once those start to drop off then it is probably time to refresh the content in the existing game.

 

Retaining users that purchase crystals is the name of game in this business.

 

2. Cash available

 

3. Resources

 

In this instance, resources specifically means the ability to allocate finite manpower to a given job based on what cash you have available. People don't work for free. Once you strip out all of your costs, Office space, Utilities, servers, maintenance, marketing, etc. then you have a budget left for R&D (research and development). My guess is that a large portion of R&D is resting in the 3D engine itself as that will be the primary piece of software that they can license and make mass amounts of cash on.

 

From there you probably have an amount of resources dedicated to making 2.0 work. After that you can start talking about added content to existing game. Unless you are seeing a significant drop off or a plateauing of your revenue, all "new" content development would probably be best suited in developing the next generation of this game.

 

Unfortunately it is taking quite a long time so it may be nice for them to throw the users a bone and add a new hull or gun.

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

Too huge wall of text for me <3

[eessydo 17]

So you can't read anything more than a sentence at a time?

[Tommy60 406]

Ultra, do you have every weapon, tank, paint, and tons of drugs? Are you a marshal with the #1 rating?

 

If the answer to either of those questions is "No," I'd say that you still have something(s) to work for in this game before you want new things.

 

The developers are [hopefully] spending most of their time working on 2.0.

[r_nuclearbom0 62]

So you can't read anything more than a sentence at a time?

 

Even a sentence costs time to read.

[SaIvation 46]

Even a sentence costs time to read.

No way! :shock:

 

 

~and as to your wall of text comment, you most likely read all/some of it.

[r_xpgamer0 8]

So you can't read anything more than a sentence at a time?

 

Even a sentence costs time to read.

A whole 45 seconds, what horror. :roll:

[Alklines 1,751]

Ultra i agree with you. even tho i dont have every weapon, tank, paint, and tons of drugs? and a marshal with the #1 rating? i still feel other who do have that should be opened to new weapons and tanks 8)

[Chaos1997 4]

on the feedback they say:too much weapons and hulls ideas for 2.0

 

Then get this 2.0 here! :evil: