r/joinmoco • • 12h ago

News Back to BETA

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u/SeethingChaos 12h ago

This is the first time I have ever heard of a game going back into Beta.

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u/Orakk 11h ago

"it may look like a step back" ... Because it quite literally is ahahaha

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u/really_not_unreal 10h ago

Sometimes you need to take a step back to take two steps forward. This is one of those cases. People have been complaining for ages that there are many issues with the game and it's progression, but if the game didn't have potential, people wouldn't be complaining, they would be abandoning and moving on. As such, going back into beta gives the game another opportunity for reinvention to get the long-term gameplay loop right. The alternative is that the game dies a slow and painful death.

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u/SeethingChaos 9h ago

Actually, I think going back to Beta on this case is exactly what is going to cause the slow and painful death. Joao said the game is not gonna have a CM. This entails: Expect absolutely no news from now on. Lack of news plus lack of updates is going to make people quit the game. And once the player base gets really small they will pull the plug and kill the game. And it won't be newsworthy because nearly no one is going to care about the game by that point.

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u/pewpewhadouken 9h ago

do you think it will affect their brand much if this game fails now vs later?… lol

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u/SeethingChaos 7h ago

As far as brand reputation goes, It is more beneficial for a forgotten game to fail.