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How many people buy MMOs together?
laxie
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Does anyone know in what sized groups people buy games together?
If you decide to pick up a game with real-life friends, how big is the group usually?
Are couples most common, or groups of 3, 4?
This is not considering people you actually meet in the game - e.g. playing with your friend and then meeting 3 other people in-game to regularly play with.
If you decide to pick up a game with real-life friends, how big is the group usually?
Are couples most common, or groups of 3, 4?
This is not considering people you actually meet in the game - e.g. playing with your friend and then meeting 3 other people in-game to regularly play with.
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MMO Group Size.
Once you actually start reading the thread he goes on about groups of people buying games together lol.
Wtf are you going on about?
Do you mean what is your MMO group size or what do groups if people buy games together.
The title and your post don't make sense.
I just wonder how many tightly knit people play together.
If I were to design a "mini-guild" system aimed at tight-knit communities, what number can I use so that I won't lock out the majority of people? I would like a number between 2-4.
If the majority of people play in groups of 4 RL friends (for example), I don't want to design a system that supports 3 - which is the reason behind my question.
If they do not like the game, I have alts, many, many alts.
As for RL friends that I game with, there are 7 of us that tend to stick together, and migrate from game to game together, but each of us also know a few other people that tag along from time to time as well, depending on the game.
The only game we all still play is modded Minecraft on a server that I host. This is our default that we fall back to.
When a new game was announced we would usually have a group discussion about whether we wanted to play it or not. For most of us, the guild was more important than the game so we would only move if a new chapter of the guild would be started.
So, when I was playing LotRO and WAR was announced, about 20 of us made the move and I ran the new WAR branch of the guild. When WAR turned out to be shit, most of us moved back LotRO. When RIFT came out, most of us didn't want to go so I think only 2 people bought it and moved. When SW:TOR came out, most of us wanted to move so about 30 of us moved, including most of the leadership so our LotRO guild had to end. When Wildstar came out, we decided against it so only 1 went.
These days, the guild is no more so my decision making is singular again.
About 4 or 5?
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So perhaps another consideration should be will the game design support or perhaps even encourage multi boxing?
A paid account is a paid account, regardless how many players are actually present in the game world.
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He is definitely talking about a group of people buying games together. But why is it important that they not be people you met once and then regularly buy games together?
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
My game is set in ancient Egypt. I've been thinking about social groups. And next to cults (factions) and trade partnerships (guilds), I was toying with the idea of a household or a family. This would be a social group that's very small and essentially shares the fate of its members closely. If one person gets famous, the others would share part of the reputation. Similarly, if one becomes a villain, the others would have a hard time.
This is mainly motivated by lore at this point - there was a lot of focus on households and smaller communities. So I've been wondering what that would even mean in terms of gameplay. And most importantly, if this would resonate with players.
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But other then the people I meet in game I don't play with the people I know in real life. Most of us are just into computers and networking in general and usually spend a lot of time talking about that.
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