Could World of Warcraft Classic be a good example of how reboarding has worked? Once your user base peaks and starts heading steadily down then strip it right back and go back to the start. There was definitely a big chunk of nostalgia to going back to vanilla for lots of people but I can also see how much the hard prune of all those layers of complexity made it easier to get back into. The questions are how much of your core user base would stay with you, do you have a big enough number and deep enough pockets to risk it?
Quick note re the subscriptions, I had to cancel my old USD subscription to change to the new GBP based rate (was getting an error when simply trying to switch sub). I'm now getting the message 'You cannot combine currencies on a single customer. This customer has had a subscription, coupon, or invoice item with currency usd'. Please let us know if there's a workaround with this, I may not be the only one! Cheers
This is a big reason why I've missed out on or just plain skipped a lot of DLC for some great games, because by the time the DLC has hit I'm so far removed from the game in question I don't know if I'm able to jump back in. Especially games where a big part of it is about learning and mastering mechanics, coming back into a game like that after a long break is awful.
Monster Hunter is a great example of this, because I loved Rise and the concept of Sunbreak and everything they've shown so far looks great but I dropped off the base game and it'd feel like starting over at this point, but I did that and spent some 60-80 hours there. It's for that reason I never got into the Iceborne expansion for MH World, which again sounded great. I just don't have the energy to feel like I'm starting over and having to figure things out again fresh.
Edit: Oh and very much up for the idea of a Discord channel. Some cool discussion here.
Yes to Hit Points Discord please!
Could World of Warcraft Classic be a good example of how reboarding has worked? Once your user base peaks and starts heading steadily down then strip it right back and go back to the start. There was definitely a big chunk of nostalgia to going back to vanilla for lots of people but I can also see how much the hard prune of all those layers of complexity made it easier to get back into. The questions are how much of your core user base would stay with you, do you have a big enough number and deep enough pockets to risk it?
Quick note re the subscriptions, I had to cancel my old USD subscription to change to the new GBP based rate (was getting an error when simply trying to switch sub). I'm now getting the message 'You cannot combine currencies on a single customer. This customer has had a subscription, coupon, or invoice item with currency usd'. Please let us know if there's a workaround with this, I may not be the only one! Cheers
This is a big reason why I've missed out on or just plain skipped a lot of DLC for some great games, because by the time the DLC has hit I'm so far removed from the game in question I don't know if I'm able to jump back in. Especially games where a big part of it is about learning and mastering mechanics, coming back into a game like that after a long break is awful.
Monster Hunter is a great example of this, because I loved Rise and the concept of Sunbreak and everything they've shown so far looks great but I dropped off the base game and it'd feel like starting over at this point, but I did that and spent some 60-80 hours there. It's for that reason I never got into the Iceborne expansion for MH World, which again sounded great. I just don't have the energy to feel like I'm starting over and having to figure things out again fresh.
Edit: Oh and very much up for the idea of a Discord channel. Some cool discussion here.