Dungeon Runners is Shutting Down

They haven't been able to sell any ads. All I ever see is the Tabula Rasa ad. They could at least put in an ad for a game they still sell.

Yeah, no kidding.

I know they had been kicking around the idea (way back when) of going to a microtransaction system, but the community seemed horribly opposed to it. I wonder if they could've survived had gone that route? Was this a time when listening to the smaller, loyal community may have been a bad choice business-wise?

(I haven't played recently, so I'm assuming microtransactions were never implemented.)

They were relying on people subscribing in order to get to use the best items. I think there were also some things for sale.

I subscribed and enjoyed it for a long time. I even have the bling gnome. Buying the game was well worth it just for that, in my opinion!

I'm trying to think of why I eventually wandered away from DR and I think it is because that, after awhile, just running and killing can get a little boring. Oh, I always come back to that formula for kicks but I tend to also take breaks from it. I may play Diablo/Sacred/Titan Quest for a few months, quit for a few months and then come back.

I'm not sure that you can get people to subscribe to that kind of gameplay formula for sustained periods.

I know a lot of people really liked DR but I just could not get into it.

It was good for the laughs.

I'm not surprised, I didn't really care for it myself.

Really, I'm surprised it lasted this long. But that's just me.

Darnit another mmo that I was fixing to play gets shutdown before I have the chance to play it, and I still have the installer for this somewhere on my computer too lol.

It wasn't really a true MMO. It was more of a hybrid, like FFXI, with everybody able to meet, trade and team up in the public area, but all the bad guys in private instances.

was FFXI any good, i got the picture that it was pretty awful

I didn't like FFXI at all, you can't solo at all, you have to group just to take a walk, plus it has the worst UI of any MMO I've ever played.

Dungeon Runners is much easier to solo. Just expect to make a lot of trips to the graveyard. There's no death penalty other than time lost, though.

@Iskhiaro

It was good. People just hated it because they thought it was a forced party game which is only partly true. Some classes couldn't solo while others could, in some cases you just had to figure out the right combination of jobs. I was one of the few players to get to max level soloing because I figured out what monsters to kill and stuff on my galka warrior/ninja hybrid.