Now that the word is out i can confirm that BattleForge sales of the retail boxes were more than disappointing. On the bright side the Microtransactions part runs really well: “The average spending per user was off the charts,” Gibeau said. “If you got someone to play the game, they became passionate about it.”
Read what else Frank Gibeau has to say about BattleForge in this article.
I like this quote. It’s from the worst review i’ve read in my entire life.
I’m not saying this because they give BattleForge a 5 of 10 but because the review is terribly written, contains almost no information and is basically just a rant about microtransactions and money winning the game. For example:
“People have every right to be wary of downloadable content and microtransactions. [...] PC gamers don’t put up with that sort of thing as much, which is why we suspect this will not be a hit.”
Things are written in this review which do not make any sense except for showing the reviewer’s inability of supporting his arguments, or even making an argument in the first place. I think it’s hilarious when David Jenkins of Teletext.co.uk wonders why EA bought Phenomic in the first place:
“They seem a curiously non-casual company for EA to want to buy but that’s none of our business.”
I concur, it is none of their business. So why does Mr. Jenkins even bother writing it in the first place?
Of course, there are also sentences that make no sense at all. Could be a simple typo but it shows the lack of effort that went into this review:
It’s only the fact that the underlying game isn’t terribly interesting that stops this being all a scandalous con.
BattleForge got a few reviews in the 60s and i can understand their argumentation. But what is becoming more and more obvious is that the lower the scores, the more the reviewers seem to hate micro-transactions. So this one marks the low end of BattleForge reviews, and what’s been (and will be) reviewed around this area of review scores (meaning below 6 of 10) is in fact the article writer’s disgust of the payment model. I would be surprised to see a review below a 6 of 10 score whose argumentation doesn’t build mainly on conveying reservations (to say the least) against the micro-transaction business model.
A few days ago i wrote a post about people trying to find illegal BattleForge serial numbers and tools that generate them.
As it turns out, a few of the search terms that lead to people visiting my blog seem to be about where the BattleForge serial number is located in the box. So in short words, let me explain where you can find the BattleForge serial number inside the game’s DVD box:
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- Open the BattleForge DVD box
- Take out the game manual
- Turn the manual around, look at the back cover
- At the bottom there is a box labeled “serial number” or similar. That’s your serial number.
I hope i could help.
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