The Problem With Ankama and Dofus

In this video I highlight what I believe to be some major issues with Ankama and Dofus. The first problem is their lack of focus, Ankama (a small company in comparison to AAA gaming companies) has way too many projects they are working on simultaneously. Dofus, Dofus Retro, Wakfu, Waven, Dofus Unity, Krosmaga, One More Gate, etc. They also have a Wakfu anime and tons of other stuff that are a part of on their online store (mangas, visual novels, general merchandise). Tackling on all of these projects at the same time is not realistic for such a small company. My opinion is that they stick to one or two major projects and invest most if not all of their time and resources on improving that project while seeking feedback from the players. For example, Dofus Unity and Waven should in my opinion be their major focus. However, these games have been talked about for many years without much updates (except that Waven is in alpha).

Another major issue in my opinion is the lack of advertisement outside of France. The international community is a missed opportunity for Ankama. There is no reason Dofus and games made by Ankama cannot be as popular as Runescape or other popular MMOs. It can happen if they are willing to put in the resources. Instead of working on games like One More Gate, they could invest some money in sponsoring a Twitch streamer and having them play their game so that their fanbase will be likely to download it. This would in turn send thousands of players to Dofus. Not everyone will be a fan of turn based games, but the unique and awesome gameplay of Dofus will be sure to excite many viewers (especially if they start to think about how fun games like final fantasy tactics was back in the day or maybe they are a fan of chess). Many people don't even know that Dofus exists! That brings me to my second point, the french Dofus channel is much more frequently updated compared to the international channel. There is a new Temporis server in 6 days and it hasn't even been mentioned on the international Dofus channel?! Who is in charge of this? It makes such little sense to me. They can't even provide English/Spanish subtitles for the French Dofus channel which is a shame. It would take such little effort to have someone translate French to English/Spanish for each video. The last commercial for Dofus was on Miniclip a very long time ago (2005 era) and it was apparently on TV for a short amount of time. Although I have heard there has been Temporis commercials? This might attract old/returning players but NOT new players. For some odd reason, Dofus isn't even on Steam anymore but Wakfu is...How is that possible? Wakfu has a much smaller population of players but Dofus is the one left out? How are new players supposed to find your game Ankama?

I don't say any of this out of hate. In fact, it's the opposite. I love Dofus and the Ankama game universe but sometimes they need to hear the truth. It's ok to love a game and also be critical of it when there are problems.

Thank you for watching and please let me know what you think.

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