How has "Player Made Content" in MMOs developed over the years?

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• Wizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

  July 2019

  Not evolved at all.Gaming in general has become way more a business of marketing and money way more than it used to be.Social media and the internet has not improved gaming,it has improved the ways these devs do business,the business of making money.
  
  Fortnite wasn't even finished and became the most popular game,Star Citizen barely even began and became the most popular sci game.Player made content is just a matter of rearranging the assets,a very boring concept.
  So now i look at modding and it seems most relevant in survival games.Voxels might make it easier to implement ideas for the developer but a pile of lego blocks is like taking a step backwards rather than forwards.
  
  Bottom line,i do not see any ideas incoming to improve upon modding,that will remain the best asset to gamer's but still an idea not catered to well enough by developers.You would THINK catering to ideas to allow players to do the work for you would becommon sense for devs but to them it is a matter of WHY.
  WHY should they go that extra mile when they can make millions operating a pvp map in FN or a few maps and selling heroes in Overwatch,a few heroes in HOTS,way easier to do less work and make more money now a days,thanks to terrible consumers.

  

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• Quizar1973 Member UncommonPosts: 251

  July 2019

  One of the first games i played with Player created content was Little Big Planet and long time ago
  
  

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• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,429

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  I see less modding going forward, they don't want modding in a GaaS. This was meant to be a feature of FO76 now it is coming no earlier than this November, if it does come out I will eat my swatter baseball hat.
• Mendel Member LegendaryPosts: 5,609

  July 2019

  About the most important thing (to the developers, anyway) is that the ability and tools used to build in-game user-created content has been monetized.  I wouldn't call that advancement, though, at least from the customer's perspective.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• MMOExposed Member RarePosts: 7,400

  July 2019

  With the time consumption it takes to make new content you would think Player Made Dungeons and Raids would be a bigger thing now days. 

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• Phaserlight Member EpicPosts: 3,078

  July 2019

  Wizardry said:

  Player made content is just a matter of rearranging the assets

  Hardly.  At least, not always.
  
  I've been through peer review, editing, and a final submission process in order to get content I made into a live MMORPG.

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• Azaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829

  July 2019

  MMOExposed said:

  With the time consumption it takes to make new content you would think Player Made Dungeons and Raids would be a bigger thing now days. 

  Players can't handle such power responsibly. All it would accomplish is a waste of time for the devs, with constantly having to remove the easiest possible raids and dungeons that give the best rewards as players abuse the system to maximize gains, instead of actually creating something fun.
  

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• cheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404

  July 2019

  City of heroes had some awesome player made content in Architect Entertainment.