pocketgamer
Veteran X
OK .. .. Tribes 3 is a reality. This community is pretty large, one of the largest communities centered around a single game/series. Most other communities that challenge our size are for entire consoles. I can only think of a few that challenge our size with only a single game or series.
Of these large communities that are as active as we, all of them have a very bright future, whether is be that they have sequels currently being made, or are consoles with tons of games always coming out. This is the only community I can think of, please throw some out if I'm wrong, that doesn't have a very bright looking future.
We had a pretty bright future after T2. No matter what people say, the fact is that the sales of T2 were significant enough to merit another sequel. Before T:V, I think we had a pretty bright future, and I feel most of us thought we would see a sequel at some point in the future. We were right, we got T:V.
T:V was supposed to be all that which many T1 vets wished T2 to be. For many of us who were turned off by T2, all was forgiven when T2C came out. With T2C to play and T:V in development, things were looking better and better.
Things started taking a turn for the worst when T:V developers started making poor decisions that would make T:V their vision, and maybe not exactly the vision of the community. When beta become available to the public, it became apparent that things were not going to turn out as bright as we once hoped. The developers were defending their stance, and what made it worse was that many people were also defending VUG, believing that they knew what was best, or that they would fix the downfalls.
T:V released, and not to many's surprise, it bombed miserably. Those who had defended VUG kept shutting us nay Sayers up, saying to wait a few months, things would change. Or that, the release time frame stunted it's sales, or possibly that once the price dropped people would pick it up. Little by little, people gave in to the fact that they were wrong. Many who did make the mistake of buying the game, started to regret it. VUG went into hiding. People like Thrax who were very active before release, are long gone.
And now, the community is at this point where we are arguing which game sucked the most. What killed Tribes. Most believe that Tribes has no future at this point, but I don’t buy into it. A community this large and active deserves a game made for it to keep the fire burning.
So then, where do we go? Here is what we do. We WORK TOGTHER!
First we make a plan. What we want in our game.
First we want the physics to be that of T1. Then we want this vehicle from T2. We want to add this from T2. We need to drop this from T1. . . .. and so we go on. How can we best decide these things? With a vote. The moderators need a multivote where we can vote for features to be put into the game. Every feature needing 50% to make it into the list. Once we had a list with all the features we want in Tribes 3, we take that list, and we present it for our Game plan for Tribes 3 to VU.
If we present a clear plan of what needs to happen for Tribes 3 to be successful, and can convince VU it’s worth their time/money, then a large company like VU can easily come up with the resources to make it happen.
There is still a lot of money in the Tribes name. With a strong community backing it, and a good game at release, it won’t even need a huge marketing budget to reach the masses. If it is a good game, it will get around different forums and people will pick it up.
But nothing will happen, and our game will go nowhere as long as people come into these threads and destroy the purpose of them. That’s why I propose a forums dedicated to the creation of Tribes 3, and those who put down the idea within those doors are banned from that area.
A community of our size deserves to have a game in development, and I think we have the power to get the wheel spinning.
Of these large communities that are as active as we, all of them have a very bright future, whether is be that they have sequels currently being made, or are consoles with tons of games always coming out. This is the only community I can think of, please throw some out if I'm wrong, that doesn't have a very bright looking future.
We had a pretty bright future after T2. No matter what people say, the fact is that the sales of T2 were significant enough to merit another sequel. Before T:V, I think we had a pretty bright future, and I feel most of us thought we would see a sequel at some point in the future. We were right, we got T:V.
T:V was supposed to be all that which many T1 vets wished T2 to be. For many of us who were turned off by T2, all was forgiven when T2C came out. With T2C to play and T:V in development, things were looking better and better.
Things started taking a turn for the worst when T:V developers started making poor decisions that would make T:V their vision, and maybe not exactly the vision of the community. When beta become available to the public, it became apparent that things were not going to turn out as bright as we once hoped. The developers were defending their stance, and what made it worse was that many people were also defending VUG, believing that they knew what was best, or that they would fix the downfalls.
T:V released, and not to many's surprise, it bombed miserably. Those who had defended VUG kept shutting us nay Sayers up, saying to wait a few months, things would change. Or that, the release time frame stunted it's sales, or possibly that once the price dropped people would pick it up. Little by little, people gave in to the fact that they were wrong. Many who did make the mistake of buying the game, started to regret it. VUG went into hiding. People like Thrax who were very active before release, are long gone.
And now, the community is at this point where we are arguing which game sucked the most. What killed Tribes. Most believe that Tribes has no future at this point, but I don’t buy into it. A community this large and active deserves a game made for it to keep the fire burning.
So then, where do we go? Here is what we do. We WORK TOGTHER!
First we make a plan. What we want in our game.
First we want the physics to be that of T1. Then we want this vehicle from T2. We want to add this from T2. We need to drop this from T1. . . .. and so we go on. How can we best decide these things? With a vote. The moderators need a multivote where we can vote for features to be put into the game. Every feature needing 50% to make it into the list. Once we had a list with all the features we want in Tribes 3, we take that list, and we present it for our Game plan for Tribes 3 to VU.
If we present a clear plan of what needs to happen for Tribes 3 to be successful, and can convince VU it’s worth their time/money, then a large company like VU can easily come up with the resources to make it happen.
There is still a lot of money in the Tribes name. With a strong community backing it, and a good game at release, it won’t even need a huge marketing budget to reach the masses. If it is a good game, it will get around different forums and people will pick it up.
But nothing will happen, and our game will go nowhere as long as people come into these threads and destroy the purpose of them. That’s why I propose a forums dedicated to the creation of Tribes 3, and those who put down the idea within those doors are banned from that area.
A community of our size deserves to have a game in development, and I think we have the power to get the wheel spinning.
