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How do you make a Wild West Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?

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How do you make a Wild West Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?

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In addition to what middleclasstool meantions you needing, you also need some expensive server rooms and bandwidth, and people to maintain them. MMORPGs are the most expensive and complex games to produce and maintain. The reason you haven’t seen a mainstream steamput MMORPG is partly because of that – the margin for profit in an MMORPG is slim, because the setup and maintenance costs are large and ongoing compared to even a AAA title, in turn demanding a larger audience than the usual multiplayer/online games to break even, in turn restricting the games to just a few things/themes that have sufficiently broad appeal to hope to gain that audience. Steampunk isn’t big enough. 30 years ago westerns would have been, so were they to make a renaisonce the way pirates recently have, it would be good. The demographic overlap between gamers hardcore enough enough to subscribe $$$ for games, and people into westerns, might not be as large as you hope. So basically, you’re looking for a way to d

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