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What is OpenEra? What We Know So Far About the In-Development Blockchain MMO | MMORPG.com
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What is OpenEra? What We Know So Far About the In-Development Blockchain MMO | MMORPG.com
OpenDive's upcoming MMO, OpenEra, essentially plans to create a RuneScape-like game, but in the Crypto age, but what do we know about the game so far?
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That said, this seems promising and I really dig the art style.
Furthermore the game looks like crap,so the yare putting more effort into the $$$ part than the game,why am i not surprised and WHY are we giving this crap ANY notoriety at all?
if they want to advertise fine,shove an an advert banner over there but don't try and con users with some bs about this crap game.
I love the rhetoric as well...
it is an EXCITING time,then ends with a statement "well there isn't much information out there right now",well how the hell is this EXCITING then?
Google just gives me a bunch of correlations with Tennis but no game,so there is no way this site just stumbled on to this then thought "oh wow i bet gamers just want to hear about this scam game".if it looks like crap>>it is crap.
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How did those work out? Free to play games increased revenue. Cash shops brought in more money. MMO's on console last longer and make more money than just PC only games. Mobile is the biggest platform on the planet.
At one point we all, even myself, looked at the shift in development and laughed. For all we know this could be another industry shift in the making.
No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.
The lack of perspective in that statement about bitcoin games was so bad I did a thread, just hoping someone on MMORPG's staff takes an investigative look at bitcoin games rather than just praising them.
Weren't you the one talking about how crappy the last one they posted looked?
People need to think about pay to win differently when it comes to blockchain gaming. Pay to win is a scam on games you dont own the property but in games where the cosmetics and items have real value, and are encouraged by the developers to sell, its a real victory for players. I just hope with better security than games in the triple A industry, block chain gaming fixes the rampant disease called cheating. Cheating is ruining competitive gaming and there is no sight to it ending other than the block chain revolution. Hard to cheat when everything has IDs with ledgers that tell you the complete history.
Check out mirandus for the next step in block chain gaming.
There will be a few games that I think will break through, I don't think mirandus is on that list tbh. This game may or may not. There are a lot of games in development like this.
Strangely enough the best one I've played so far has been Blankos Block Party. I think there's still a long way to go before we can figure out which games will change MMOs. I do think blockchain gaming is the future, but nothing I've seen yet has convinces me that it will become "the future" over anything else in development.
I am concerned about Gala games and how they will interact with the government when crypto is about decentralization. I really like the look and sound of mirandus though. The graphics are cool and I like the idea of kingdoms going to war. The graphics are very unique, reminds of runescape and minecraft combined. Mirandus is a gamble imo, but if I am going to gamble, mirandus is a dream come true.
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But for some strange reason this is supposed to be a cause for celebration among gaming fans, bonkers. I would understand it gaming studios had been financially in the doldrums, finding it hard to make ends meet. But we all know that they where raking in millions, the "online boom" started in about 2001.
More billions are being made, but are the games better? Well the graphics mostly are but not even there is that always true, many mainstream studio titles favouring cartoon over realism. As for the gameplay that has been sacrificed on the altar of easy mode, and in multiplayer you can't change the mode. I could go on, but coffee calls.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Nothing virtual has real value. Of course that doesn't prevent real people from assigning a value to the virtual. It also doesn't prevent them from disassociating that value at whim.
The whole thing is rather high risk, essentially attaching gaming to a speculative market where one could lose 20k in a week rather than earn it should conditions turn unfavourable.
As far as victories for players go, that's pretty questionable.
Still, I'll check out Mirandus to see how miraculous it appears to me.
Is blockchain going to make those large player battles run smoother and be less of a slide show?
20+ years of software, hardware and infrastructure evolution and these mmo’s still run like shit when you plop a couple hundred people on the screen at the same time. Is blockchain going to fix that?
Or is blockchain just going to promise me that I can make money by playing a game? If that’s the case, it’s a suckers game.
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If game developers tell you that the point of their game is that they're using Java to make it, or that they're using Vulkan to make it, or that they're using Unity to make it, then you should be extremely skeptical of their game. Those are all just tools. They are all a means and not an end. The real question is what interesting things are they doing with those tools.
To be clear, there's (usually) nothing intrinsically wrong with using a particular programming language, API, or game engine. But using that particular tool must not be the point of the game. If you make it into the point of the game, then you're surely using the tool all wrong.
And so it is with blockchain. If the point of the game is that they're trying to find some use for blockchain, then they'll surely use it badly. If you're using blockchain well, you'll want to talk about the cool features that you create with it, not the fact that you're using blockchain. That blockchain was one of the tools used to create the game should merely be incidental, as with any of the other tools that you used, not a bullet point of why people should play your game.
Some of these blockchain companies come out with the premise that a game is a blockchain game, with an idea in mind that those who play it automatically know what that means.
But it's clear from the few threads on here about blockchain games that many people don't know what it means, nor do they understand what you can do with a blockchain to begin with.
To tell you the truth, I don't blame them. It's okay to be careful when presented with something new. Especially since blockchain gets lumped together with other volatile endeavors, where people are often on the "make it big" or "lose it all" sides of the spectrum, and the media only loves to talk about those two ends of the spectrum. If somethings not "soaring" or "crashing" they don't want to talk about it... and that's why when interesting games attempting to try something different crop up, using buzz words that are as often used negatively as positively, they don't want to take the time to understand what is going on.
From the perspective of the player, f2p and cash shops haven't worked out well at all. They aren't really winning planks to build a platform around, here anyway.