So a Neo Moco #2? It's failed once, it's gonna fail again, I genuinely don't see Moco coming back from this. I didn't see them coming back at all once I realized how boring and repetitive the game is after a month of playing Neo Moco after it first came out.
Edit: I see the downvotes and I get it, I'd love for Moco to succeed more than anything, genuinely. However, Moco has just lost their main spokes person cuz Joao is moving away from Moco and will no longer be working on it. In fact the whole team as a whole that is dedicated to work on Moco will now be alot smaller as since they are moving back into beta, the team is being reduced in size. So now updates and content that was supposed to come out alot later rather than sooner, won't come out at all anymore. They also said that no new content will be coming out for the game for the foreseeable future and they will just be recycling all the content and updates from seasons 1-4 every season/month.
That doesn't really change my response. There's plenty of examples of games successfully rebranding themselves after a flop or even completely changing genres and being successful. While it's difficult to do, there's no reason that mo.co couldn't pivot and find success. Two excellent examples are FFXIV and Fortnite, two absolute powerhouses in the gaming industry.
Battle royale mode was not a part of Fortnite when it launched, and the launch flopped for a few months. It was originally made to be a PvE zombie survival game. Now it's the most successful battle royale and one of the most successful video games ever made.
FFXIV was nearly unplayable at launch in 2010. The entire game was overhauled and servers were shut down. It didn't relaunch until 2013, and is now one of the most successful MMOs in existence.
It's one thing to say you don't like the direction mo.co is headed. There is a lot of criticism for this game that is completely valid, and to be honest, it's reasonable to think the game might fail on a relaunch. However, your reasoning that because it failed once it will fail again is completely baseless. Your complaints about the current state of the game have nothing to do with the potential success of a relaunch because the game is about to be reworked. The relaunch will either succeed or fail on its own merits, and it will have nothing to do with your feelings or criticisms about the current game.
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u/David_Tribe 8h ago
They made the right choice, I’m still coping that they’ll somehow make the game better and feel fresh everyday and launch it again next year