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Bad MMO's a good thing?
movindude
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Most likely with the lack of any decent MMO's now and in the near future hundreds of thousands will no longer enjoy wasting our time gaming and will be forced to be productive pulling us out of this recession. College kids will have more time to get better grades and learn HOW TO MAKE A FUKIN MMO!!! So, soon, in about 4 to 6 years we will all be happy again in a perfect MMO world hopefully before we have to start wearing depends.
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I don't think current developers are unaware as how to make a good MMORPG (it was done in the past), more they don't want to because they can go into easy code mode and sell a steaming turd and still push 800k copies at launch! Look at AoC it's a classic launch with crippling bugs (memory leaks ect.), leave out more than half the features at the last moment that you'd been promising for the last few years (blood money, drunken brawling ect.). Instance and zone it to death because that means you don't need to actually work hard at coding an open world MMORPG, instead you section it off into little bits making it easier. Then at launch promise to put those missing features in soon (TM) and bam you sell 800k copies to mugs like me that thought Funcom might have actually been honest during the last few years they were "informing" us about AoC. They break even easily and make a profit and then go into Anarchy online life support mode and pull in new investment to pay for their third MMORPG in development.
The way I see it, all Funcom has to do is launch 20 substandard MMORPGs and they'll have 1 million subs and only need a 12 man team to develop all of them! Why put all your eggs in one basket when you can spread the risk over many MMORPGs?
Maybe these small studios putting it all into one MMORPG will take the risk and try an open world MMORPG without levels, it seems to be happening this year with first DFO then Earthrise is coming and Fallen Earth. Perhaps after nearly five years of non stop craptastic MMORPGs perhaps this year is the turning point?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
I agree with Agri. I doubt that companies forget how to make the original good games...they just don't bother. Larger companies can go and release a steaming pile of crap. They may loose a few hundred thousand customers...but they can keep going on a smaller player base. They just take money from one project to fund another. Larger companies don't feel accountable to the playerbase for their actions. They take it upon themselves to decide what players want...SOE comes to mind.
I think the smaller indi companies will release the next generation of MMOs. They will make games for the players...not for some bigwig in an office that don't care about the players.
As long as these kids comming outta collage goto indi companies, or make one themselves...we can expect great MMOs. But if they sign on with the larger companies, that offer more money. We will continue to see mediocre MMOs.
Yes they have forgotten to make good MMOs, but not only that. They have forgotten, as an industry, to make good MMOs, games, movies, music, and TV.
Why?
Because now the industry is in the hands of executives with brilliant scores but that have no idea abouit what makes a master piece, they have zero "artistic" talent and vision. So if you ask them what made classic EQ great, they have no idea. If you ask them what made The Lady of Shangai great, they have no idea. If you ask them why the Beatles was such a phenomenon they will say because they were young and looked cool at that time. So they will pick someone and make her or him look cool and make money, that's the only thing that matters to them.
Yeah, this would give me some time to get some things done around the house and maybe have some friends help me. My main problem is these spiders upstairs, they are bigger than my palm. I tried to take them out with a butcher knife but it didn't work, the spiders will just grab it and throw it. I think there was around 10 huge spiders upstairs. I think maybe some branches would entangle them and let me throw them out. I was wonderin' if someone could go outside sometime and kick about 10 branches out of a tree for me..
here's one of the smaller ones:
http://www.myspace.com/jhypsyshah
I worry that the MMO industry has become too big. Too much of an expectation to turn a large profit. As such, many MMOs have attempted to mimic another games success rather than take risk by pushing the envelope and truely be unique
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Exactly.
We are in a recession for a reason.
We are ruled by greedy morons, and our politicans ask these greedy morons for advice, and follow it.
People are getting more and more underpaid and think thats right and dont protest. While a small elite of extremely rich people doubles their wealth every couple of years.
This is especially about europe, though, because I see some hope about the USA. And China is trying a lot to be the winner of this recession, I hope they fail - but it doesnt look like it.