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Top hyped game on MMORPG - Paradigm shift of MMORPG player thinking?
-Zeno-
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Anyone notice the new top hyped game on MMORPG? It's even higher than Planetside 2! How would such a hated, hardcore, real MMORPG get such a rating here? I also wonder why Planetside 2 isn't higher as its fun and a more locked down style MMO that 11 million players like, right?
Could there be a paradigm shift happening in the world of MMO's? Why are the other WoW clones not higher?
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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Multiple accounts create to skew the hype meter. It really doesn't mean anything.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
This isn't about the hyped game. Its about the Paradigm shift we are seeing with players. I think people are finally getting sick of WoW and its clones and want somethind different. I see enough posts on the forums to see this shift happening and people are saying GOOD things WAY more than bad things about said game. MMORPG's are shift back to where they should be as long as that game doesnt collapse (again!!!) because of it becoming popular.
Edit: and pave the way for more innovative games like it.. like Shadowbane 2 (one can dream, right?)
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
there's definitely a paradigm shift happening in MMOs.
however i wouldn't say the hype meter is necessarily corresponding to that. it seems to be pretty inaccurate for its purpose.
before DF1's release it also was at the top of the hype meter 3 years ago
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Paradigm shift? NO
This site has a disproportionate percentage of sandboxers? YES
Sandbox = Real MMORPG
What role will you play? Instead of what role are you forced into.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
have you not been reading about the MMOs on the horizon?
of course we have to see how many actually make it, but even if they were all pipe dreams, the paradigm shift is so obvious.
its a mental thing. regardless of what fruits come from it, the thinking/planning is far different nowadays.
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also we've had a few examples pass the threshold into reality.
even tho none of them may be different enough for my tastes (where it really counts), GW2, TSW, Tera/Raiderz, DCUO, and probably others i've forgotten, are just the beginning.
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Dungeons and Dragons says hi,
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
The DnD MMO is not a Sandbox.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
I've never understood why so many people think that there are only two sides of the "MMO coin." In this MMO coin world, one side thinks the only "right" way to make an MMO is to copy what someone else has been successful at and the other side thinks that the only "right" way to make an MMO is to make an MMO that they want, irregardless of what other people want. Kinda silly, all around.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but as of this posting the highest rated MMO on the site is currently GW2. (Pull the full games list, not just development.)
Mmm i am pretty sure i have never been focrced into a role, no matter if it was sandbox of themepark.
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