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Indie MMO Spotlight: Is Palia The Next Indie MMO To Fall? | MMORPG.com
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Indie MMO Spotlight: Is Palia The Next Indie MMO To Fall? | MMORPG.com
This week, Palia cuts its staff by 40%, while Monsters & Memories and The Qunifall prepare for upcoming tests.
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Now after all this time and I am reading somewhere between 30 to 50 million dollars... there are still only two zones and almost nothing to show for development beyond a couple temples and more cash shop. My Time at Portia was a more fleshed out and interesting game made for a fraction of the costs. I made it through all the game's content in a couple weeks and even stuck around for a couple holiday events but I can absolutely see why the game did not do well and is not sustaining whatever the heck they were doing to blow through millions of dollars. I am sorry for all the developers who lost their jobs that most likely had zero to do with this game's horrible project management but I am in no way surprised at its fate.
For me to stay interested, they need to add more zones and a few group dungeons or puzzle type things. So many other games are coming out that Palia will quickly be benched until new content is released at a steady pace.
I still like the game, I've put hundreds of hours into it playing alone. I just hope S6 will be around to improve upon the world of Palia.
1. It was woke, with their androgynous gender choice.
2. Lack of content
3. Possibly pocketed, or blew, most of the money instead of investing properly
4. Kept the fact it was in beta hidden from Steam and other places.
5. Made a cash shop that didn't appeal to people enough.
I think they would have done better if they finished the game first, released it with multiplayer options and cross play. That way you can invite friends, or host a server; or play solo. Charged $30-40 for a finished game. It had potential to be a 3D Stardew Valley.
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To me Extraction games are the LEAST rpg a rpg can get, unless it's a rpg rocket launcher, then yes, rpg rocket launcher.
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I think Minions and Monsters has the potential to fare better considering the type of game it is will breed a more hardcore playerbase and it'll likely at the very least garner a small cult following to keep it afloat financially. Palia on the otherhand caters to casuals who have less incentive to do things like play daily or spend money ingame.
The traditional tank's "taunt" ability is just another form of crowd control. That's all it has ever been, and that's all your "threat" system is now. Instead of pretending every armored idiot with a sword has the magical ability to manipulate his enemies' minds, maybe instead just give your tanks ACTUAL crowd control abilities?
If the tank can immobilize, stun, disorient, confuse, incapacitate, and otherwise disable the enemies, there's no need for an artificial "taunt" mechanism. Enemies stuck near the tank will attack the tank. Enemies that see someone locking down all the other baddies will realistically try to take out that source of crowd control.
Similarly, you can give so-called "squishies" better defensive options so that they don't fold quite so quickly if one or two enemies come their way. This is, in fact, the way it works in D&D, the inspiration behind nearly all MMOs everywhere, and it's extremely dumb that the video game industry has moved so far from its roots in this regard.
The thing is these things are additional to taunt but taunt has been king in a lot of games. I think taunt should just be one of the many ways to draw the enemies' attention to the tank. You can also use vines to grab them or grapple them or pull them to you in some ways or other annoying things that can do real damage if ignored.
So the taunt didn't work in real life -- not even as a tool for pulling.
I just feel a lot of games use taunt for tanks because almost all of then design their tanks to have low damage. Which is exactly why City of Heroes have great tanking. They can do a lot of damage too if they have the right powers. City of Heroes where the Trinity goes to die because an all Defender group is a thing of beauty to watch.