So somewhere in the past i made a pitch about trying to get Chris to sell this game to Deca games. I'm back again because its been a year since Deca games has started, and took over one of my favorite games, Realm of the Mad God. Realm of The Mad God is not at a point that many thought it would never reach and is at levels its never been before. Deca games knows what their doing. I'm back with this pitch because Deca games has update their website and have said some things that weren't really said before. 1. Their contact info about selling your "dead" game is now up : [email protected] The issue before was since I dont own realm I didn't want to contact them about selling a game I dont own. Maybe once again those with Chris's email can contact him and tell him about this website. | ||
From his email, I can take away a few things: 1: Money is an issue, but that's not the core issue. He doesn't want to sink money into games when games aren't what makes the site money. From a pure financial perspective, I get it. 2. He's open to Deca or making changes. This is a good thing. I think that gives us the freedom to speak with them on his behalf and work out a proposal. If we can come up with a way to improve the site and get him more ad revenue, he'll love it. So we need to do the work for him. He's not going to do it himself. | ||
Good morning all, I am not the best with negotiation and such, but I sent this to Deca Games. Good morning Staff of Deca Games, I hope that you are all doing well, with no lag and great download speeds. Some time ago, a little website called Urbaniacs, was created. It drew all kinds of people from all over the globe towards its funky scene with danger around every (second) corner. A place where you can be a Hero, Villian, Beatnik or a Nomad. It is a forum based website (site link) with a section for (ugh!) flash games. (games link) As you can see, this is lank old school and the colour scheme does not hide this at all. Unfortunately for the community, the original creator had to hand over the website to a lovely lady who did a good job keeping everything together. Life happened and with much sorrow, she crossed the rainbow bridge towards a better place. | ||
The site, in its current state, will not survive. The current owner, well, does not want to do anything. This is a problem seeing as there is a community of people without any creative influence in the place where they hang out. We have contacted the current owner, but he only states that he can't provide cash towards the site, as he does not have any. The minimal ads on the site bring in money for him that he needs. We already have the ultimate answer of 42, but hopefully this will be the ultimate question - Are you willing to take command over the content, fix her up and spring new life into this retro site? We have received full permission from the owner to contact yourself with this proposal. I am not sure how financing will work, or if it is even possible. All I can do is ask. Hope to hear from you soon. Kind regards, | ||
I agree with Chris. This website died in 2010. The only reason the few of us are here is because of sentiment. None of us get any utility from this website. The only semi-usable feature is the forums, which are completely abandoned besides this one topic. I really don't want to be the bad guy here, but it's been 8 years since the initiative to save Urb started. Urbaniacs died because it lost its appeal in the late 2000s. I think we should be grateful that Chris has found a way to keep the website running economically. While it would have been nice if the original developers stuck with the site and kept it current, I think they bailed a decade ago. I think Chris's idea of turning the site into a comic-sharing site is bad because there's more popular websites for that, and the appeal of Urb was its own comic world. Also as he said, anything would be a passion project without regard to return, so it would basically be someones time, which no developer has given in the past 10 years. | ||
I'm assuming Chris can't put the time in himself because he doesn't know how to code. He's owned this site for yonks, there's no reason to believe anything will be done with it unless another company sees potential in the artwork and concepts and wants to buy it. I don't see that happening however. Many of the lovely players here have put in their time to keeping the place active and up to date, to the best of our abilities. But there's not much to be done at this point. I'm glad the website will be kept online at least. Urb doesn't strike me as a very personal community like other games, and I guess that's why no one has connected off-site. The time has already come when we don't check the site more than once in a blue moon. I'm for scuttling the place and connecting off-site, like a subreddit or something. At least in case the inevitable happens and the site's just gone one day. It's nice to share common memories with people, I guess that's why we're still here. | ||
Great job, Mantis! I think there's a chance for Urb to beat the odds. Let's see what happens. Urb lost its appeal because it was buggy from the start. That made adding more features and updating impossible. It needed to be more competitive overall down to buying items in the shops. Then the code got worse, so of course players are only going to frequent the one part of the site that works - the forums. We wanted to play games, battle, have new opponents, have tournaments and win trophies. The problem was, the site never worked correctly to facilitate this. I wrote up a comprehensive list of improvements that would have revitalized the site with premium features that would have generated income - but there was no funding. Of course no one is buying premium items anymore. There was a bug preventing cash purchases that I don't know was ever fixed. The part of the control panel to add new items bugged out. And the site doesn't even work - why would we be buying cash items now? | ||
Chris doesn't know how things were when the site functioned better and we could actually battle and play games. By the time he came, the site had been broken for quite a while, so he doesn't understand that we came as gamers, not as people who just like to hang out in the forum. I don't think he has a concept of what things were like back when Barry was still here coding. Anyway, that was my rant. The site could have been really special, but the foundation was rocky with flawed coding. Urb is still funky and cool, so it's entirely possible that it will spark interest at Deca. Let's think positive. | ||
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