Find a team that doesn't care about making money and you're golden!
I think this is likely to be pretty close to the truth. While the big money is obsessed by WoW sized markets they're unlikely to consider niche games. I think it will be indie developers trying to make games they themselves would want to play, grinding out semi successful niche games through stubborn obsessiveness, that show the money there's profit in it and then the money will join in.
I am very disgusted by the little effort some developers put into stopping people use such non-roleplaying names, especially on what they call "roleplay servers", even reporting often has such a little effect that people can't be bothered doing it anymore. If a game is released for roleplaying only I would be suprised if people with weird names like XXPawnUXX would want to play anyway.
Lol. They'd be queuing up for weeks because the griefage potential would be so huge.
A griefer's idea of heaven would be a full loot FFA role-playing PvP server where they were a priestess for the God of apple pie and fluffy bunnies in the most goodie of the goodie races with a name like Mangina PsychoD**e, corpse camping level 1 newbies till they quit.
I think RP names need to be implemented as a first/last name drop down list based on the race. If what you wanted wasn't in the list then you could email in a request and if accepted that name could be added.
I'm in England, therefore I play on EU servers alongside a lot of different nationalities since most games only put out dedicated servers for a few of the more common european languages like english, french and german. There's typically only a couple of dedicated RP servers per language.
Hence, the english RP servers get most of the scandinavians; the spanish, italians and belgians, the eastern europeans, the russians .. some from as far away as India. And it's cool, it's awesome to chat to the russians who sound like Zangief on vent, or the scandinavian ladies that are actually natural blondes, and who doesn't love trying to explain to a belgian what marmite is.
But the names, man.. the names. Some of them suck so badly when it comes to names! .. as well as having a penchant for picking terrible and generic names based on class/race, it's an extremely common and irritating practice to append an abbreviation of their countrycode to their names, presumably to make it easier to identify others from the same country. So we get GnomeMageDK from Denmark, HunterSWE from Sweden and the like.
Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift
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I think this is likely to be pretty close to the truth. While the big money is obsessed by WoW sized markets they're unlikely to consider niche games. I think it will be indie developers trying to make games they themselves would want to play, grinding out semi successful niche games through stubborn obsessiveness, that show the money there's profit in it and then the money will join in.
Lol. They'd be queuing up for weeks because the griefage potential would be so huge.
A griefer's idea of heaven would be a full loot FFA role-playing PvP server where they were a priestess for the God of apple pie and fluffy bunnies in the most goodie of the goodie races with a name like Mangina PsychoD**e, corpse camping level 1 newbies till they quit.
I think RP names need to be implemented as a first/last name drop down list based on the race. If what you wanted wasn't in the list then you could email in a request and if accepted that name could be added.
Yeah, the name thing.
I'm in England, therefore I play on EU servers alongside a lot of different nationalities since most games only put out dedicated servers for a few of the more common european languages like english, french and german. There's typically only a couple of dedicated RP servers per language.
Hence, the english RP servers get most of the scandinavians; the spanish, italians and belgians, the eastern europeans, the russians .. some from as far away as India. And it's cool, it's awesome to chat to the russians who sound like Zangief on vent, or the scandinavian ladies that are actually natural blondes, and who doesn't love trying to explain to a belgian what marmite is.
But the names, man.. the names. Some of them suck so badly when it comes to names! .. as well as having a penchant for picking terrible and generic names based on class/race, it's an extremely common and irritating practice to append an abbreviation of their countrycode to their names, presumably to make it easier to identify others from the same country. So we get GnomeMageDK from Denmark, HunterSWE from Sweden and the like.
Playing: EVE, Final Fantasy 13, Uncharted 2, Need for Speed: Shift