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At the current time, Mermaid Cove has come to a slow crawl. Real Life Plus' staff has been working on other projects, Keep in mind... This is NOT their only project! Real Life Plus in it's entirety is a gaming company with other clients, this is their personal project. They are hired to work on other games/apps/projects etc.

That will give you some insight as to why Mermaid Cove has been slow, They are working for other companies right now to help acquire funding.

I agree they need to abandon their other projects and work strictly on vSide. I absolutely can't stand vSide, mainly because theres no updates & nothing to look forward to. I'd love to know how much vSide is costing exitreality. I'm pretty sure its costing a large amount, because I don't ever seeing it break even. The game really needs to update its serves and the game it's self.

Well that isn't entirely true. On the CEO's personal blog, he has a list written of the company's cost. The company was only 1,000 short of breaking even. Which is amazing compared to what it was. The company can't afford to run without funding unless it has some sort of membership fee.

I'm about to start updating this list...

Introduction: Realife Plus will fail if it will not be free to play. This is a social world which will be based on socializing, therefore it requires a large player base to function. If the player base is low, it will only get lower. Here are some tips to make sure realife plus succeed by taking other companies by example.

#1 No Feature Limitations

Most virtual worlds fail because they decided to limit a free user from using any features. This does nothing but annoy a player, ultimately not making them stay long enough to even consider paying for the game. Also, this is not good for those who join the virtual world with their friends. The friend that is paying for the game will have a good time, but their rest will not. Making everyone leave all together.

VIP Membership
Restricting PMs
Interaction Limitations
Emote Limitations
Access Limitations
Restricting VIOP


#2 Earning Fake Money

Real money should always be more valuable than fake money. Meaning, that fake money should take days to obtain. If fake money is too easy obtain, no one will ever pay for the game. Earning money overtime by just being in the game, is a great way to slowly earn fake money and have players be part of the community at the same time.

There should also be tasks or quests for earning fake money, which would be fun but not easy. These tasks or quests should not remove players from the community, like Secrets and Trivia did in vSide. There should be bonuses for having to make money by working with a team, since this is a virtual world based on community.

In addition, their must be daily rewards because this keeps the community active. The invite a friend feature is also a very successful way to encourage players to advertise a game and improve it's community, while giving free users the credit that they deserve.

Trivia
Hidden Secrets

Least you could do is ask us some questions, get some feedback or something. Right now we're in the dark and don't have the slightest idea if this hype is truly worth it.