So,

Put a quick poll up on this one because I am curious.

Game is Vendetta Online and I hadn't heard of it until a post on Penny Arcade giving away some month-long passes.

Apparently it has been around for 10 years.

It is a space sim, with realistic physics and actual combat, trading, pirating, mining. The graphics are adequate, nothing special, but it seems like the gameplay is quite well fleshed out and balanced. Three 'nations' in game you can play (two of them at war with each other, and one neutral nation). PvP is encouraged and the game is setup so player death isn't too big of a deal (you lose your ship and cargo). I have about 10 hours in and actually quite like it. So far have mostly been doing trading and mining, with some bot (AI) destroying.

Anyway, it seems like their problem is low user subscription, as they are currently only able to fund a small dev team (4 people I think).

I just wanted to put up this poll because I was honestly surprised that I haven't even heard of the game before, and also, doing a search here, there aren't any threads on it. I am wondering if they do some work to spread the word a bit more that it might help grow some interest. I know it is competing with the monster that is EVE (which I haven't played), but it seems to be different enough to be worth a look.

Thoughts?

Cheers.

unfortunately, i have no idea about it.

As for a competitor with eve, well eve has the best market/industry/finance/commerce system i have ever seen in a game. its pratically a commerce simulator with space graphics. however eve is still point and click with absolutely no relkevance with space physics at all. so if vendetta has newtonian physics, in a mmo, then it has a niche all of its own

I have not heard of it before. I just tried to sign up but no email link sent.

Never heard of it but downloading the client now. Hope it's not point and click combat like EVE though.

Seems like actual combat using Newtonian physics. I picked the top faction out in the fringe.

From what I can tell though even the largest ship is just a glorified fighter. There are some capital ships but they seem to be AI controlled.

Sorry for the delay.

Yes, the commerce system seems a bit simplified, but seems to do the job.

Combat is definitely not point and click. Do a quick YouTube search and see.

For those that are trying it out, let me know your thoughts once you have some time in.

Would increasing there subscriber numbers just be a matter of raising awareness of the game?

Curious for everyone's thoughts/ideas

Cheers!

Edit:: I think there are capital ships but you have to manufacture them or something. I think there are only like four in existance??

I played the tutorial and am now at a capitol system. Graphics aren't great but the do the job and certainly aren't horrible. Great that you can dock yourself. Combat was good although the target lead icon jerked around and was off-putting, liked the Newtonian physics though and the feeling of being in a clunky starter ship was nice with the humming engines.

Are you involved in the development MojoFlow? Or just a player that wants to expand the player base?

Like I mentioned, hadn't heard of it until a week ago. I understand why you are asking though. Basically, it made me really curious as to why I had never heard of this game before. It seems to me that a game that depends solely on subscriptions would make more of an effort to make themselves at least known about by players that would be interested. Looking at the current poll results shows this has not been done.

I think I might have heard about it before, but I'm not sure. In any case, if I heard about it, the reason why I skipped it then and will still skip it now is the subscription. Subscriptions always seem to ruin the gameplay, transforming everything into a grind and turning games into advanced pokie machines... Not for me, I prefer to be able to enjoy a game at the pace I want, paying for the content once and then being free to enjoy it when I want.