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Man, Mortal Online is absolutely terrible!
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MO is a good concept, sadly its implementation sucks. I'd love to see MO in the hands of someone competent.
Where have all the "good" shills gone?
Sorry, as a user experience person myself I felt the need to comment. Usability/user experience =/= ergonomics. If playing the game gave you back/neck strain issues, then it has a problem ergonomically.
If it were impossible to use the UI, that would be one thing, but difficult to navigate UI, UI that lacks features seen in other modern games, lack of documentation, etc. still negatively affect user experience.
Usability generally consists of three interacting components: the user (player), the system (MO), and the environment (nebulous here; could be the computer system MO's running on). The user's background knowledge and expectations, either a lack of or mismatched expectations, could negatively impact the user experience, but likewise the game lacking features that gamers have come to expect (e.g. tutorial, feedback for actions, etc.) could also negatively affect user experience.
Often, usability is measured with the metrics effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. From ISO standard 9241:
effectiveness: the accuracy and completeness with which specified users can achieve specified goals in particular environments; efficiency: the resources expended in relation to the accuracy and completeness of goals achieved; satisfaction: the comfort and acceptability of the work system to its users and other people affected by its use.
So here we might define effectiveness as "whether a player can complete an action such as chopping woodat all."
Efficiency could be thought of in this case as "whether the UI, or controls, allow the player to complete actions efficiently."
Satisfaction should be obvious.
Just throwing these thoughts out.
Edit: What you might have been thinking of is cognitive ergonomics or human factors. Still, I would argue that usability is more applicable here.
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So much crap, so little quality.
Here's to hoping goblinworks don't fail.
their game has 0 similarities with MO.
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
I had the same experience as the OP. Started off and it was night, I could see nothing. After a while, I just quit.
Kinda like going to a movie, and having the first 20 minutes being a blank screen. Not a good first impression.
I did see some of the world, rubber-banding deer and huge empty spaces.
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I meant as a sandbox in general (or least half sandbox according to their blog). However they don't actually have a game as of yet, just ideas on paper. So here's hoping they pull off those ideas. Personally I think the UO style sandbox (as much as I love UO), which is what MO draws from heavily is outdated. MO's style of gameplay only breeds asshats and clowns, there needs to be mechanics that actually make that behavior a real risk.
Don't they only have like 3 employees left? How does anyone expect their product to improve with less people?
5 permanent employees + temporary contracted employees.
The game is improving since the beginning. Im having fun playing it with my guild.
I have a better idea.
You can sit on your ass, stare at the ceiling hoping all you want for shit to happen, and I'll keep on playing games I enjoy. How does that sound?
plenty of people have ideas on bits of paper, Embers OF Caerus etc.. But im sure MO looked amazing on paper but the reality is a little different. Hopefully they do succeed like you said but i would rather have a full sandbox over a half sandbox. I think archeage suits those looking for a half sandbox better than pathfinder.
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
I honestly doubt MO looked great on paper. You would notice if MO was actually based on an existent design of a game. If there was a proper thieving system planned, or a proper combat system, or a proper horse breeding system, or a proper anything system, you could watch StarVault working step per step towards implementing said systems.
I doubt MO follows a real design. From what I know about SVs devs, I doubt they're able to formulate their goal on paper. I'm much more inclined to believe that the design of MO, if it exists, reads somewhat like: "And then we're going to make everything absolutely awesome by implementing awesome guards that will work awesomely, and then we have guards and thieves and illegally goods and combat in town but the awesome guards will make everything much more awesome for the player, so they can continue doing other awesome things. Oh and there'll be that one kickass sword in that awesomeness event. That'll be awesome." ;/
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They have been promissing that for oh, YEARS! Not something I would hold my breath for.
Fail game is a fail game. Like some other things..........They know who I am talking about.
So much crap, so little quality.
Heres a better idea, how about you learn how to make a complete sentence. Then we will work from there.
So much crap, so little quality.
You seriously had a problem with understanding what I tried to say?
Darkfall gives plenty of danger feelings.
I downloaded the MO beta? some years ago, holy goodness it was bad. Uninstalled almost immediately.
so what your saying is they completely winged 4 years of development time with no concept plan or anything? because i specifically rmeember a press release and i dont remember a single bad comment by anyone about the mentioned features of it.
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
apparently he needs to learn basic english.
Apparently stating the truth in my sig is "trolling"
Sig typo fixed thanks to an observant stragen001.
best comeback when you cant think of anything it to critic someones grammar.
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
You dont say? But while I'm at it let me help you out. Fixes are underlined.
So much crap, so little quality.
You don`t say, failed grammar nazi
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That's a pretty good burn.
Also, it's criticize, you noobs
I've always been curious if one should replace period with smiley or use both. Using both is kinda awkward, on other hand there is no rule saying one can skip period if smiley is used, is there?