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Re: Santae Exposé

[(Anonymous)]

success is always a balance thing. you can succeed in funding, but fail elsewhere. longterm success requires competency.

FR raised 38k and has lasted over 10 years. accounting for inflation, that's the equivalent of 50k today. being able to make a petsite live this long with 4-digit concurrent players daily ever since year 1 (and rising annually) is a rare feat that only a few petsites can attest to. even considering the shortcomings we've seen, staff has regularly been able to put out content of quality that much of the playerbase finds value in, and staff is always trying to improve on how they deliver fixes to raise the quality of their product. we can bitch and moan about how they 'don't do enough' or screw things up, but they do take action to resolve their problems more than the community gives them credit.

conversely, Lorwolf raised 46k last year, and stagnates at low 3-digit concurrent players, in part because they've fumbled so much that they've likely lost most of their original playerbase. on top of that, there's other highly successful wolf-focused petsites that players can go to. they could possibly bounce back, but it's going to take a lot of fixing.

i could even go on about dead/dying/stale petsites that do nothing and go nowhere, but i've seen enough wither from 4-digit players down to 2 digits, and sometimes single digit concurrent players. i've worked on a couple where there'd be 6-digit player IDs and only 20 people online at prime hours.

i rarely ever want to see petsites fail, even if i have very heavy criticism for how the owners are handling santae so far. petsites always struggle, and very few live long enough to find actual success. i don't want to see people's investment into the site turn into nothing, and i'd like to see the players enjoy a game that they clearly want to play. it's the owners who need to fix their shit so that they can lead the site successfully.