Indie MMO 'Love' goes into paid alpha testing

make that PC "gamers" ^^^^^

WTF are you talking about?

The only negative comment in this whole section right now is yours. Preemptive persecution complex much?

Oh quit your whining you console cry baby, not like you ladies don't raise a stink about paying $10 extra per game.

Hell, you ladies risk breaking your gaming hardware so you can get pirated games to work on it.

The $10 extra per game I always assumed was because the console makers require a licensing fee. So I don't complain about that- I'm sure some people do. People love to complain.

It makes sense. You don't have a multi-million dollar backing.

If EA or NCSoft were asking people to pay to enter a beta (alpha) test, I am sure there would be a well-justified uproar.

I'm pleasantly surprised that most of the other posters here feel the same way.

Good luck!

@Z (uburi) -

I couldn't agree more. Anyone complaining about having to pay to get into the alpha (as if someone is forcing them) is an enormous douche bag. Considering the cost of servers, and how it comes out of Eskil's pocket (I'd assume, I could be wrong), it's obvious to anyone that there couldn't be a large alpha/beta unless the servers were paid for somehow. My only fear right now is that there might not be enough people in the alpha to provide the necessary data and feedback, since there are a lot of people that simply can't/won't pay to get into an alpha. That is why I mentioned how a partnership with a larger company could potentially solve that problem, but I realize that the risk to artistic integrity might be too great (or that there may not be any companies willing to help in this economic climate). It certainly is brave to launch an MMO on your own, especially when you've created the entire thing by yourself (I can't think of any other independently created MMO's)

@Eskil -

Don't worry about the people complaining. They are they same people that would most likely be glad to pirate your game if they could. I hope that this alpha program brings in enough money and data to help with the completion of the game.

Hey Eskil. Any chance of this coming to consoles later on? From what I understand the chance of making a lot of cash and getting financial aid for releasing indie games is much bigger on consoles?

Nudge nudge wink wink... ;)

consoles? one guy porting the game would take forever. he would have to work out a deal with a publisher and have the pub get a dev to port it over.

There were rumors going around that multiple companies were looking at the game. It's a shame that none of them ever made a serious offer, but I guess it is probably for the best, considering how they may have completely changed the game after acquiring it.

It's interesting to hear that there has been interest from the console makers. I can't think of any MMO's on the current consoles, and Love could easily fill that gap. I don't even want to think about the certification process that would be involved for a procedurally generated game though. The Cave Story port for WiiWare was submitted for final approval a month ago, and the developers still haven't gotten any word on the status of the game (despite it being small).

Anyway, I hope the alpha test goes well.

Haha, never mind. I was just being impatient, it came back up :D