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The kids can take their own tools to a real, literal sandbox, but gamers cannot take their own tools to a video game sandbox can they? You get what is provided for you, and the argument from my point of view is that MO doesn't provide much in the way of sand. When we're talking about a sandbox MMO, surely the "sand" is the world itself? It's where all player interaction, both PvP and PvE takes place, it provides the context and motivation for player interaction. When two guilds wage war on each other, it's to make some kind of impact on the MMO world such as territory control and to somehow advance the success of their avatar within the game.
From the open beta, I found MO's world to be very lifeless and static simply because there isn't anything to play around with. The open world is empty with just some respawning wildlife and res nodes in it, the NPC cities are just empty buildings with some vending machines in them. You can point to MO being PvP-orientated, but without a fleshed-out, living, breathing world to provide motivation for such activities, it becomes PvP for the sake of PvP. The world is little more than a giant arena for players to bash each other over the head in. That isn't sandbox as far as I'm concerned, any more than UT3 is. Ultimately, a guild could conquer the world in MO, but ultimately the world doesn't care, it just carries on, unchanged and uncaring.
While I'm playing UT3 I can use my imagination and pretend to be a legend in the bloodsport arena, but I wouldn't call it sandbox just because of that.
Sandbox games like Dwarf Fortress, GTA4 and the like are "good" in my opinion because they provide the player with tonnes of content for them to go nuts in and play around with. When playing I'm constantly thinking "I wonder what happens if I do this..." and that is why it's so fun. MO on the other hand goes the other way and gives the player nothing to mess around with, just a crafting system and FFA PvP combat, both of which are in other MMOs anyway.
Reading by the MO forums I would say it will shut down very soon. Even the die hard fans are losing patience and are pissed.
Ya know, I think it'll last a while, just look at Warhammer...
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This. Or check Asherons call. How old is that game and how small is the playerbase? Yet it is still there and you are able to play it. As long it gives at least 0.0001% profit it will be alive :P
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Since Avi seems to be keeping DFO floating with very little cash I don't see any reason why SV can't.
DFO released in extremely bad shape too but they fixed it up, I don't see why MO can't do the same.
Understand we're totally speculating here, you should remember that that AV limited the number of accounts it was willing to sell. The demand was grossly beyond what AV wanted to meet. None of us have hard numbers but having been on the DFO server at release and the MO server at release there is like no comparison what-so-ever to the number of players. DFO's virtual world is conservatively 10x greater (probably more than that) than MO's world and it was PACKED. MO is hardly packed.
The point I'm making is AV appears to have had a much larger influx of capital to work with than SV and 40% or more did NOT cancel after the 30-days of DFO like appears to be happening in MO.
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Considering the only thing to do is PvP, and considering
View Poll Results: Are you happy with the current PVP system/balance?
This poll will close on 11th August 2010 at 16:39
Yes the combat is perfect dont change anything.
1
1.64%
Somewhat, the combat could use a small tweak.
19
31.15%
Not really, it needs some work.
31
50.82%
No its horrible (insert reason).
10
16.39%
Voters: 61. You have already voted on this poll
One person likes combat, I would say not long.
Mortal Online is a piss poor sandbox just as much as Darkfall is a pvp game and not a sandbox. UO and SWG were the only two really good sandboxes that I can remember, with uo, imo, being the better of the two in every way except crafting/gathering. Look to the worst themepark mmo and tell me that people who like themeparks won't crush it into dust. Bottom line is that MO is in late alpha stage and its looking pretty raw, unfinished, and unprofessional.
No, it is more Gamma stage then Alpha stage right now.
Difference is, while MO dont mind being niche, DF always wished to get high amount of player base. DF spent more years and more money during development plus the army money. MO lack money, but i dont think they got dept problem like DF have.
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That long....
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All i can say about MO is that I did not play more than 30 mins. I was really sad when i started to play bacause i though the game concept and system was worth the cost but as a mmo player i think i deserve more than nice skies and nice weather animation to play a game. The game is broken, when you use your axe to get some lumber it is always the same animation... they didnt even take the time to make different movements. when you kill a dangerous beast like a squirel, it dies flat on the ground ... no falling animation, just teleported on the ground with the same blood patch for all the squirel corpses. Why do they release a game when they know it will not do the job? Some of the developper might have kids ... let them try the game before release ... they would probably not play long on MO.
I think we (the MMO player community) deserve more than this game. It sickens me to see that devs just dont care about us even if they make games for us.
For the pool i wish it was less than 1 month but i know some sheeps will continue to pay the sub wishing it gets better so i think i t will last about a year.
Two months in what can only be described as life support quality before the game shuts down. There will be a patch and multiple hotfixes which will not be able to solve any of the problems that currently plague Mortal Online. There are some of the fans who are willing to look past the problems but the number of them is getting fewer and fewer.
MO and Darkfall are examples of how a game needs to get its most basic functions down first, then go on to try and do all these different things. If the Mortal Online gameplay was really, really fun then I'd probably be playing right now. Just, that wasn't the case. Literally ALL of the resources should have gone into creating a decent feeling when you swing weapons, etc. Don't worry so much about book skills and all this nonsensical garbage.
Same with DF. The game feels terrible to someone who plays any decent video games. Everything is just not good. It's really no wonder that only the MMO following crowd ever hears of these games in the first place.
When there is sooooo much that is going wrong with said game, I just find it funny that you point out things that are meaningless and easily overlooked. God forbid you actually run into a *real* bug with it.
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Sorry to ruins your version of the reality but i think these things are bugs and if you are able to play this game, well do it ! youll be alone soon anyway. There are many other mmos that gives me the minimum requirement i deserve. If you buy a car it needs to run but it needs also some desing and some extras, same thing in a mmo, it needs to run but also some extras and some desing, wich we dont have here.
What is up with everyone relating MMOs to cars lately?
If you really want to go with that assumption, then the points you made are more like getting miffed over a stain on the upholstery when the engine won't start.
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whatever floats your boat man !
you did understand my point, if you didnt, well go play solitaire, its complicated enough. MO was way under what we deserve and thats all im going to say.
Variety in chopping animation and detailed animation for dying is what floats your boat?
No there are only the 1st things i have encountered when i started to play ... but they are more ... i can make a list but the post might not have enough character for me to list em all . anyway if they fail to make basic animations i dont want to see combats.
We got it. You dont like the game in this state, like many others, but still i dont see game dieing any soon. Ive seen games surviving with extremly low population (Vanguard, Asherons call and some others).
I recommend you for next time, use your brain and inform yourself about the state of the game in forum.
I think there wasnt a week without a thread where the state of game was described.
Hype is for lemmings :-/
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When you say what "We Deserve". Deserve it a game, you do not any rights in telling anyone in what we deserve. Game are a product, and if you like what their selling you buy. Deserve, lol.
Well, since you suggest reading all the post[s] before commenting let's go back to your original post in the thread. You say you played for 30 minutes and specifically criticize the lack of variety in the chopping animation and the lack of detail in the death animation. To me, that sounds like the criticism of someone who chopped a tree, killed a couple rabbits or weasels (since I don't think there are any squirrels), then decided the game was not your cup of tea. Thirty minutes may be plenty of time to decide YOU don't like a game, but not enough time to be well-informed about the state of the game.
If you don't participate in MO, why do you wish it lasts less than a month, or even care about it's continued existence. Does it's continued existence in some way offend your sensibilities, are you somehow compelled to keep looking at it, or are you somehow unable to avoid all the advertisements?
If you really don't want to see it, don't look.
P.S. If you really want to have an honest discussion, its best to not use the term "sheep" to refer to the people you disagree with.
He is probably pissed because they made a lot of statements about what they were going to do, charged a lot of money, and gave us a shit game that doesnt even run properly.
Not soon enough..
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