Ragnarok
2010-12-27 |  | What is GC worth? |  |
So who has offered to buy the game, and what was the reported figure Stephen was willing to accept to hand the game over to another person? |
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DraconianParadise
99+ day(s) ago | All the tea in china ! |
ear614
99+ day(s) ago | Still i say GC is worth $1 :P |
EnderWiggin
99+ day(s) ago | I could probly build this game if I had 3 -4 months of my life to it... But unfortunately there are things like school and work that get in the way.. I remember Ag3l0fD3ath was working on it for a while... before he went retardo :/ |
UberPansy
99+ day(s) ago | Lol a voice of reason. |
Deiloche
99+ day(s) ago | Why would you buy gc anyways... would be cheaper to rebuild it than fix all the bugs in coldfusion... |
Mazuku
99+ day(s) ago | im not gonna lie. I kinda like the simple bland look GC has :P |
Galactic}{Killer
99+ day(s) ago | Your right, GC does need advertising. But it also needs investment.
Apart from the fact that we and others are adicted to it. Their are still more fancy games around. So if GC was revamped cosmetically it would then be appealing.
Be honest and have a look, it`s really nothing special but we seem to love it. That is because we fill in the gaps to make it more creative and appealing. If the game had this already it would atract many more people and they would stay!
If you improve the first impressions, you have more sign ups, more sign ups mean a better and more active game and thus the goal of marketing. But first revamp into something nice. Maybe even a downloadable flash browsers. Of course have a online html/css version but have a flash version as well.
The idea of gc is brilliant, it just needs more appeal. It needs to look like EVE! ;) |
Travvivian
99+ day(s) ago | I like the Forty-three cents tossed onto that USD figure. lol. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | And what would you do with the $113.43, 22 Euros and 2 British pounds of cash you receive? Put it towards advertising for GC specifically? That`s what this site really needs is advertising. |
GradualIncline
99+ day(s) ago | Money? I`m a student, and am getting married in a little less than a year, I don`t have money. I live off of Mr.Noodles during the school semester, (thank god it`s christmas break!) I can`t even afford one dollar for anything I would like to have right now. |
Galactic}{Killer
99+ day(s) ago | Well if i ever get rich i`d buy GC off stephen.
However saying that, *brain wave idea*.
I`m going to start the GC donation website, which everyone here can donate to. The idea is build up funds to help towards stephens retirement and the purchase of GC.
I will personally become a trustee :D (non profit).
How much will you guys donate?
I know like 1 USD is enough to feed stephen for a month ;) |
Vidar
99+ day(s) ago | Ragnarok, when calculating value lizenses or servers do not matter. If somebody decides to "invest" into the game he will compare what is better: to buy some shares of "real" companies or buy the gc. if you get 5% return from real shares then gc must also have 5% return. If gc lizenses, etc cost 1 mil.$ then the return should be 50 000$ per year, what is completely unrealistic. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Yea, can`t really argue with Trav or DM on this subject. I love the idea of Stephen seeing this game as some sort retirement vehical, even though he doesn`t do anything to advance the game besides basic maintenance and collecting money from paids. :P
Also, I think what Arrland seems to be arguing is that you determine the value of a business by the amount of net profit (gross revenue minus all the expenses) it takes in, and then you multiply it by 15. But that doesn`t take into account the market value of any equipment associated with the website such as value of servers, associated software, licenses, etc does it?
Has anyone ever actually tried to contact Stephen by phone? |
Travvivian
99+ day(s) ago | Holy heII BW....
I`m going to have to go with DM on this. Additionally my guess would be that Ste is simply stubborn, or disinterested enough in this to see it go for anything realistic. Or perhaps he simply has delusions of grandeur, and sees it as some sort of potential retirement fund. Either way, LOL! |
NiHiLiM
99+ day(s) ago | when selling a car, you have to take in account all what`s broken and needs to be replaced, you have to let a mechanic do a big checkup etc...
those are costs that you have to take in account when selling the car.
Or you (let) do all the repairs and maintenance yourself, and you ask normal price;
or you have to lower the price, cause you`re selling something that needs a lot of work.
so figuring out how many bugs/glitches/errors there are, and how many updates and patches are needed....
:p |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | Well Stephen doesn`t really have a real sense of business.
I`d say around 20-25k$ or something, for sure not more than that. |
MajorDinero
99+ day(s) ago | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw&feature=related |
BadWolf
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | Well my posting was serious also to note @ travv
Yep that would be USD |
Him2000
99+ day(s) ago | hmm, Arrland its a bit overestimated..
in most online game, the player count decrease every year
IF you can find 200 paid accounts this year, im afraid you can find only 20 paid accounts 15 years later =/ |
AccordEX
99+ day(s) ago | lol Arrland everyone here is all joking around, then you come in and be all serious.
*buzz kill* |
