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They haven't made any announcements as of yet. Speculation is that they're going to close it around the time MH3U comes out. Whether that's before, after, or the day of remains to be seen.
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Yes,more or less when mh3U will come out...
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If I had to guess, I'd put the Tri servers shutdown (at least in USA) in May or June (around Memorial Day), just as the USA students start summer vacation and start playing video games for even longer hours, and they get graduation money or get-out-of-your-parents'-hair money to buy new games/consoles.

Latest date I'd forecast is USA Labor Day (~1st weekend of September). School's back in session, so less hunters on the servers. As demand drops off, quietly shut down the servers.


Probably in February we'll see an announcement. Only 4 more months of speculation!
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Atalanta wrote:
If I had to guess, I'd put the Tri servers shutdown (at least in USA) in May or June (around Memorial Day), just as the USA students start summer vacation and start playing video games for even longer hours, and they get graduation money or get-out-of-your-parents'-hair money to buy new games/consoles.

Latest date I'd forecast is USA Labor Day (~1st weekend of September). School's back in session, so less hunters on the servers. As demand drops off, quietly shut down the servers.


Probably in February we'll see an announcement. Only 4 more months of speculation!
As good a guess as that is, I don't think they'll keep the online servers up that long. Capcom has said that it's very expensive to keep the servers running, and the only reason they're still on is because we don't have any other monster hunter games with online in the west. I'm thinking that as soon as MH3U becomes available, they'll shut Tri's servers down within the month, if not week.
Another reason it might not work is that the announcement for the shutting down of the servers is more than likely going to come from Capcom Japan, and they probably don't know our american (never mind western in general) calendar well enough to coordinate that.
But then, it's as you say: Four more months to go!
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anduin55 wrote:
Atalanta wrote:
If I had to guess, I'd put the Tri servers shutdown (at least in USA) in May or June (around Memorial Day), just as the USA students start summer vacation and start playing video games for even longer hours, and they get graduation money or get-out-of-your-parents'-hair money to buy new games/consoles.

Latest date I'd forecast is USA Labor Day (~1st weekend of September). School's back in session, so less hunters on the servers. As demand drops off, quietly shut down the servers.


Probably in February we'll see an announcement. Only 4 more months of speculation!
As good a guess as that is, I don't think they'll keep the online servers up that long. Capcom has said that it's very expensive to keep the servers running, and the only reason they're still on is because we don't have any other monster hunter games with online in the west. I'm thinking that as soon as MH3U becomes available, they'll shut Tri's servers down within the month, if not week.
Another reason it might not work is that the announcement for the shutting down of the servers is more than likely going to come from Capcom Japan, and they probably don't know our american (never mind western in general) calendar well enough to coordinate that.
But then, it's as you say: Four more months to go!

Oh believe me, they know the American calendar. Any international company does. I used to work for Lego retail when I was in college. Lego is a Danish company. Their new toy releases come a few months before the winter holidays, and now also in late spring, right before summer vacations. They may also tie it in with movie release dates, usually a month or two before. Businesses know their customers. It's their business to know. Those that don't are doomed.

(I could go on - I've been an engineer in manufacturing for 7 years now, and have to work with international supply chains. Chinese New Year's a huge headache, since most of Asia shuts down for two weeks. Planning for the slowdown happens months in advance)


Back to Tri servers:

If you've been on the American servers lately, the majority of hunters are from Latin America, not USA (or at least, it seems that way. It does depend on what time you're on the servers, as a number of South American time zones are an hour or two ahead of the USA East Coast). Nintendo is also targeting the original Wii to emerging markets (BRIC). It's well suited for these markets, as it's more accessible than PS or Xbox. So Nintendo and/or Capcom may want to maintain the Tri servers to expand the market and capture the hardcore gamer market before PS / Xbox move in. To give you a sense of the uncaptured potential of South America - Mexico accounts for 70% of video game system sales in Latin America, even though South America has triple Mexico's population. (and Brazil's GDP per capita is more than Mexico)

So I'm not sure it's good business sense to shut down Tri's servers when emerging markets are about to pick up the game for the first time. Maybe at a company like Capcom, margins are too thin to take the risk, but it's something for them to consider.

It might be they shut down the EU servers, but keep the American servers going to keep the Latin American audience growing. It's a stretch to think so, but there is a viable business case for doing so.

Also, if we look at Tri's sales figures in the USA, only about 60% of its 2010 sales came in the first two months. Compare to that to Skyward Sword, which sold >90% of its first year sales in its first two months (granted, Skyward came out around the holidays, but still you can see the difference). The MH series, at least in the west, is a word-of-mouth game, not a flash-in-the-pan game. And that may mean that Tri needs support in the west a little longer in order to up-convert fans to MH3U later.

I could go further into sales figures to show that Tri in the west has had considerable longevity compared to other Wii games. It's just that different from anything else on the Wii. It's almost like Blizzard's Battle.net - and they STILL support Starcraft and Diablo II - games almost a decade old!


But yep, I'm still just guessing. I don't know their server costs, their sales projections for Tri past MH3U's release, their plans for emerging markets. But I'm at least using a S.W.A.G. instead of a W.A.G.


Frankly, for me, it's moot - I plan to buy a WiiU and MH3U in March. But as an engineer with interest in business decision making (especially since I have to make these decisions from time to time), I find it fascinating to speculate on what they're going to do with a legacy game.
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Sweet thanks for the update guys.
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PostSubject: Re: Anyone know the date of when the EU & US servers are closing?   Anyone know the date of when the EU & US servers are closing? Icon_minitimeWed Feb 06, 2013 11:21 am

30 of april it has been announced already the server are shutting down then
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Necro >.>
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What he said please try to look at the date of the last post before sending in your reply. It is not quite necro yet but pretty close to it and everything has been posted on the forum home page.
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This thread is already 4 months old? WHERE IS TIME GOING.
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As said before, please check the dates on threads, especially with question threads like these. And be nice everyone, it's an easy mistake to make.

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