Wargaming acquired TA IP.

Atari didn't pay money for it specifically; they inherited it.

@theseeker2

lol

Wargaming made world of tanks, world of planes, world of warships, three F2P games

Ergo...

TA2 will be F2P.

no. >=< no it won't. (actually I have no guarantee, but I just have an educated guess)

There are lots of people who play the game, but there are still loads of people who whine about pay2win and 'gold shells op pls nerf'. It's gotten better since premium shells no longer need to be purchased with gold, but the point still stands. In an RTS game, you simply cannot afford to have ANY hint of pay2win. Unlike world of tanks, where there are 30 players in a match and one person firing gold doesn't matter much, individual player advantages matter a lot more when playing 1v1s in an RTS.

We can thus infer that IF they decide to develop a TA2, it will not be free to play.

they made a ton of $ with f2p, but they made normal RTS before and I think I somewhere read that they did like doing that.

Aye, a 'normal' model would work fine. As long as there are no microtransactions, they may be able to pull it off. They could make an MMO out of it, just not a free one.

You guys are funny. World of Tanks makes hundreds of millions of dollars per year. They made an estimated $372,000,000 in 2013 alone. That number is only getting larger, not smaller. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...of-legends-2013-revenue-topped-USD600m-report

Assuming Wargaming did TA2 you can estimate that they would spend at least 3 years and $20,000,000 to make it. The upper limit for a flat price RTS is probably around a million copies sold. Take into account sales, retail cut, digital distribution platform cut, and they might be able to pull in around 25 million dollars per million copies sold. Maybe they knock it out the park and sell two million copies generating 50 million dollars of revenue. Assume that takes 3 years dev + 2 years selling and they've generated an average of $10,000,000 revenue per year. World of Tanks has been doing more than that per month every month since 2012. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...monthly-profits-hitting-double-digit-millions

Wargaming is a big company. They make big games that try to make big money. TA2 would be a niche title that makes niche money. Some devs would be thrilled to carve out a tiny niche to make themselves a tidy home. Wargaming is not one of those companies.

</crusher of dreams>

exactly!

btw @cola_colin here: http://www.cnc-inside.de/sites/default/files/podcast/ufpodcast19_christaylor.mp3 at 0:28:36

And now explain why they actually bought the IP? Just for lolz?

EDIT:
If you have a ton of money you actually tend to invest it into everything you can, just because you can. I mean look at what weird stuff google invests into xD

you're so mean.

Just because you have the TA IP, doesn't mean you have to make another RTS...

Strangely I would prefer some kind of Total Annihilation HD than some TA2.
What do I mean by Total Annihiliation HD is to redo TA with the same feeling with beautiful crispy pre-rendered terrain. Keep, the mix of 2d terrain and 3d units with better models, balance tweak, gui improvement ala zero-k and awesome matchmaking.
In short, keep unimpressive goals but polish it to perfection.

( and release a complete editor with modding capabilities to win the world )

dude read. at a few hundred K $ a pop, it's not something you can do just for kicks.

plus it's basically confirmed. listen to chris : https://forums.uberent.com/threads/wargaming-acquired-ta-ip.49795/page-10#post-1029756

oh an listening to the postcast more (0:33:36) you can tell TA2 is gonna be F2P since chris seems pretty much in love with the F2P model now.

I was saying they could make a different type of game such as a MOBA or something similar to World of Tanks but with robots. (not that I'd necessarily want that, but everybody seems to automatically assume its another RTS)

@krakanu listen to the podcast. it's definitely gonna be an RTS. he uses this metaphor that he creates at the beginning of the podcast about him going all out nerd. 0:2:40 -the "punching through concrete wall metaphor", 0:10:20 until "nerdy", 0:28:32 until 0:31:15,

If I remember correctly he was not hired to make decisions like that.

all I'm saying is he's being really compliant and rather happy about it, I'm perfectly aware of his current position.

when you make $370+ million a year, you pretty much can drop a few hundred thousand dollars for kicks

Not that publishers are keen on doing it for "kicks".

Might as well continue and drop 50M on a TA2 for kicks