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[zarkwizard]

Well.. I can't really speak for other games and their flow of posts on their forums... You have to remember we are an iOS game, and there are not many iOS games that even have forums, so users in general don't post. A lot of the web based MMO games on iOS have very low forum posting from what we have seen. Our posts have moved in spurts, usually there is more traffic while people are playing. Currently no one is playing. Hopefully that will be resolved in the near future.

We aren't that niche.. When we say niche we refer to strategy players, not a specific style of game play (unless they have a specific issue with the theme). Our "niche" market is strategy game players that would like to play a game on even terms basing their skill vs that of others, rather than have people in the game "buy" their way to first place. If you like playing strategy games, and you would like to play other people then this game is for you. We also take player input seriously. To make the game better we pay attention to our user base, and are here for the long haul. Obviously if you like playing, then you are more likely to get people you know to play.

We have pruned close to 3,000 posts on the forums that were related to beta. There was a lot of traffic during the various beta's. As we moved closer to release we wanted to prune that down so people don't get confused with beta information.

We will be doing something for the web in the near future. I am sure LeeDot will announce that when the time comes.

As always we are open to input, and suggestions. If you ever have any thoughts or questions about the game feel free to post, we love getting the feedback, good or bad. Hopefully we can fix the bad feedback.

[Jester]

I for one and THRILLED with your subscription model. $1.99 /month is very reasonable. I'm so sick of the 'free to play, but here are some microtransactions' model, it always feels like a complete and total scam. Especially with the pricing some of these companies are putting out there.

I'm looking forward to trying the game, wish I'd found out about it during Beta I would have been all up for that and then some!

[zarkwizard]

I for one and THRILLED with your subscription model. $1.99 /month is very reasonable. I'm so sick of the 'free to play, but here are some microtransactions' model, it always feels like a complete and total scam. Especially with the pricing some of these companies are putting out there.

I'm looking forward to trying the game, wish I'd found out about it during Beta I would have been all up for that and then some!

Amen brother.. We played a lot of those games during the development just to see how balanced they were. Basically if you don't pay huge gobs of money you just can't compete. The fighting is totally imbalanced in favor of the people spending a ton of money. Also when we played those games they just didn't feel right.. Like they are just put together to try and make a ton of money. They all seem to lose support after a while, and you end up getting stuck on a server that kind of just dies...

We wanted a game that was a real iOS game designed on a real MMO back end. Sure it cost a fortune, and took us 3 years, but now we have an engine that we can grow in the future and apply it to this game, and any other game we make. We want people to feel like they are playing a game where they are the ruler, and they prove that. We are all looking forward to playing with everyone.

One thing we found in beta is the hard core testers would kick our butts.. We often would find ourselves amazed at how the players would play, and do the things we NEVER expected.. Probably true with every game.

As for missing out on Beta, don't worry about it.. there were a lot of bugs, and changes. I know since we have uploaded to Apple we have found a couple of bugs we missed, but have since been fixed. We are also constantly working on improving and evolving the game with player feedback. We also have tons of things we are looking forward to adding to the game. We have a ton of art that hasn't gone in yet, and then there are other skills, and specialties we are looking at adding. It should be a fun year, and we hope you all enjoy the efforts we are putting in making a game for everyone.

As I have said a ton of times, feel free to suggest things to us. We are always open to discussing changes for the future of the game. After all, the game you will be playing ended up evolving in to what it is with the feedback and input from the players. Things they liked, and didn't like.