The Paradigm of MMORPG

faldlou

The Paradigm of MMORPG If you try and appeal to the Hardcore MMORPG player (a weekly Play time of 15+ Hours), You will lose the casual RPG player (a weekly play time 1-6 hours). So in essence you should always gear your MMORPG to be as casual player friendly as possible I.E. short leveling times, tons of  Solo content, make joining group easy and group dynamics adjustable. By making your MMORPG casual player  friendly you will not lose the Hardcore players they will stil play your game. They will however run out of content and leave for another game after a few months; But that is fine because they make up a small portion of the total player base.

Chessack

I think you mean "paradox" of the MMORPG. A "paradigm" is kind of a pattern, or a system. So the "paradigm" of the MMORPG would be, for example, "Make a character, stat him out, kill, loot, level." A "paradox" is an unsolvable riddle, or a "no win" scenario, etc.



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faldlou

No i meant  Paradigm, The pattern in study is the loss of casual players vs the leveling time, force grouping  and other apects of the MMORPG.

godpuppet

Yep, you cant appease both audiences. Unfortunately, the casual/solo audience is decidedly larger then the hardcore audience, which inevitably cuases the majority of MMO's to be geared towards the casual gamer.

odysseas70

Originally posted by faldlou

The Paradigm of MMORPG If you try and appeal to the Hardcore MMORPG player (a weekly Play time of 15+ Hours), You will lose the casual RPG player (a weekly play time 1-6 hours). So in essence you should always gear your MMORPG to be as casual player friendly as possible I.E. short leveling times, tons of  Solo content, make joining group easy and group dynamics adjustable. By making your MMORPG casual player  friendly you will not lose the Hardcore players they will stil play your game. They will however run out of content and leave for another game after a few months; But that is fine because they make up a small portion of the total player base.

Well, according to MMORPG.com's recent poll (among others), "hardcore" players are more than 50% of the total player base, so a company won't lose "just a small portion", but the majority of its customers ;-)

faldlou

Casual RPG player don't  have time to take online polls they have barley have enough time to play there games. They are the over whelming majority of players in MMORPG today.

CSFurious

Originally posted by faldlou

The Paradigm of MMORPG If you try and appeal to the Hardcore MMORPG player (a weekly Play time of 15+ Hours), You will lose the casual RPG player (a weekly play time 1-6 hours). So in essence you should always gear your MMORPG to be as casual player friendly as possible I.E. short leveling times, tons of  Solo content, make joining group easy and group dynamics adjustable. By making your MMORPG casual player  friendly you will not lose the Hardcore players they will stil play your game. They will however run out of content and leave for another game after a few months; But that is fine because they make up a small portion of the total player base.

i am sorry but you have paradigm confused with paradox



paradigm can be best defined as a "perfect example"; therefore, "The Paradigm of MMORPG" would mean that the devs have made the perfect MMO



on the other hand, "The Paradox of MMORPG" would mean that in order to appeal to the casual gaming market the devs alienate  the hardcore player  base who  will either think the game is "carebear" or quickly run out of content to play, thus there is a paradox because the devs are "robbing Peter to pay Paul"



i would also state that hardcore gamer is better defined as more than 25 hours per week



other than that, i think you are exactly right

Taera

Originally posted by odysseas70

Originally posted by faldlou

The Paradigm of MMORPG If you try and appeal to the Hardcore MMORPG player (a weekly Play time of 15+ Hours), You will lose the casual RPG player (a weekly play time 1-6 hours). So in essence you should always gear your MMORPG to be as casual player friendly as possible I.E. short leveling times, tons of  Solo content, make joining group easy and group dynamics adjustable. By making your MMORPG casual player  friendly you will not lose the Hardcore players they will stil play your game. They will however run out of content and leave for another game after a few months; But that is fine because they make up a small portion of the total player base.

Well, according to MMORPG.com's recent poll (among others), "hardcore" players are more than 50% of the total player base, so a company won't lose "just a small portion", but the majority of its customers ;-)

That poll suggests more, to me, that 50% of all forum and news site browsers are "hardcore" gamers.

godpuppet

Originally posted by Taera

Originally posted by odysseas70

Originally posted by faldlou

The Paradigm of MMORPG If you try and appeal to the Hardcore MMORPG player (a weekly Play time of 15+ Hours), You will lose the casual RPG player (a weekly play time 1-6 hours). So in essence you should always gear your MMORPG to be as casual player friendly as possible I.E. short leveling times, tons of  Solo content, make joining group easy and group dynamics adjustable. By making your MMORPG casual player  friendly you will not lose the Hardcore players they will stil play your game. They will however run out of content and leave for another game after a few months; But that is fine because they make up a small portion of the total player base.

Well, according to MMORPG.com's recent poll (among others), "hardcore" players are more than 50% of the total player base, so a company won't lose "just a small portion", but the majority of its customers ;-)

That poll suggests more, to me, that 50% of all forum and news site browsers are "hardcore" gamers. Yes, ime casual gamers dont often visit forums.