18/AUG/2014 - New City Graphics Options!

You misread - I said part of the revenue from Illyriad was likely used for the AoA equity stake - the rest was obtained from crowdfunding (loan or equity I don't know).  Obviously, on cash costs, Illyriad is cash positive or it would close.  The lack of development points to limited funds being available to increase functionality (and I imagine a lot of coding is done without payment).  If the player base is 2,000 and 60% buy prestige £20pa = 2,000 x 0.60 x 20 = £24k. So I'd guess it clears maybe £1k cash per month after cash expenses.

Well Devs, do what you do... we'll continue to shout and complain, laud and sing your praises., and wait. 

Edited by Diva - 07 Sep 2014 at 20:39

I would be surprised if Illyriad had ever generated positive net revenue in the first place, so I doubt that it could have been used to bankroll AoA.  On the other hand, the existence of Illyriad demonstrates that the Illy dev team is capable of producing a game that is playable, so in that sense it probably encouraged outside investors to put money into AoA that they might not have otherwise.

Yay!
Pathfinding! Battle magic! Faction quests!
Soon(TM)

I agree with Rill, don't wait with releases until they are done. I like being teased, and we are still building roads on a release that was "coming soon(tm)" in august 2010. Honestly, I like building roads and I think it is a good idea that should be introduced to the game as soon as possible. But this post is not about roads or about things that have or haven't been released - it is about maintaining that suspense of this great game become even more awesome sometime soon. I think that what is needed for that to happen/continue/be recreated (delete as appropriate) is to
1) Talk about plans without giving specific dates
and
2) Actually launch things once in a while.
None of these happened for over a year while a dwindling playerbase waited for the Broken Land to have a grand release. I feel a change now and the devs are talking about things and things are being released. Not that big things so far, but I hope the small things keep coming rather than a one big thing being released very far into the trademark of a once soon future.

Keep it up, please!

Honestly I think things were more fun and interesting when the devs talked more about stuff before it happened.  Sure, we complained when stuff failed to materialize, but it was fun to hear about the thinking and vision of the developers.