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How to build things with StoryNexus
Possible Concern: many worlds will dilute the Nex
ZappBasker
Posts: 56
8/28/2012
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I just thought of something.
It is so very easy to switch between Cabinet Noir and Fallen London that you can play both games as a larger whole.
Nex are used mainly for two things, right:
1) unlocking exclusive content in Fallen London, Cabinet Noir & Co
2) accelerating gameplay through purchase of more actions (and in FL, cards).
But I'm realizing that already with two games at my disposal, I am much less often to use Nex for reason #2 above.
That is because it is now easy to fill up my entire coffee break playing these two games, where before my twenty FL actions was almost always "not enough" to sate my appetite (and fill out my entire break time).
Therefore my prediction is: as you add more games (that remain as easily switchable as CN & FL) people will buy less and less Nex, at least unless they want locked story content.
It simply is too easy to switch game once your actions in one of them run dry. Essentially, you've more than doubled my action allowance, FBG. And here the disjointed nature of your games work against you - it is as easy to switch storylet from one game to the next as it ever was to switch inside one game.
For which I thank you, obviously; though I am not certain you are being generous on purpose... In fact, I predict that you will want to tie actions to our accounts* instead of individual games. The purpose of having limited actions, after all, being that the limit should be low enough to trigger "wallet frustration".
Thoughts? Do you agree? Do you disagree? What's FBG's thoughts on this (hopefully it's not a new concern for you guys)?
*) Of course you could circumvent this by using multiple accounts. But you always could do this in FL... and having to track progress in one game twice is too much of a hassle (to me).
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Diptych
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8/28/2012
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This premise rather relies on StoryNexus games being the only browser games worth playing, and, indeed, the only pastime worth pursuing. I may be a serious contender for FBG's Craziest Fan, but even I find something else to do in a break once I've used up my Fallen London actions - read the newspaper, do a quiz, play a couple of rounds of Parson's Pubis, assemble a scale model of Chartres Cathedral out of petrified snuff, or something similarly diverting.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Nigel Evans
Posts: 212
8/29/2012
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, we have thought about this issue in some detail.
We don't see it becoming a serious problem for us.
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