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[Column] Landmark: My Wife and the Unlikely Hero of Landmark
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My wife loves to game, but she doesn’t like MMORPGs, as a rule. So finding an MMORPG that we can play together has always been a frustrating process. Me, I’ll play anything. An entire generation of milquetoast WoW-rehashes and Korean grindfests imported via Google Translate have lowered my expectations to basically rock bottom. My wife, however, has standards. And she’d like to tell you 5 things, just 5 things, which really piss her off…
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~9% of males (~50% of the population) plus ~0.4% of females (~50% of the population) equals ~4.7% of the total population.
(9/100)*(1/2) + (0.4/100)*(1/2) = (9/100 + 0.4/100)*(1/2) = (9.4/100)*(1/2) = (9.4/200) = (4.7/100) = 4.7%
Not that that invalidates the color blindness argument... bad math just bothers me is all... carry on.
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same here. had before 40+ fps and no game is 20 fps:/ guess i need buy new pc when EQN is released.
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SOE Community Council Member 2014
Landmark Representative
Twitter: @AndriiMMO
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
- President Josiah Bartlett
On the new Blueprint, optimization is #1. That's what they plan on spending September doing.
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SOE Community Council Member 2014
Landmark Representative
Twitter: @AndriiMMO
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
- President Josiah Bartlett
My wife and I sat down and wrote the whole together after I had her brainstorm 5 topics for me. It was a collaborative process. We actually fought about a few passages here and there.
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SOE Community Council Member 2014
Landmark Representative
Twitter: @AndriiMMO
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
- President Josiah Bartlett
Yeah...my wife doesn't like mmos either, only the "easy ones", the ones without the grindfest and with a lot of features like auto path, auto chain, etc...
This ^-^ and this is assuming ALL 4.7% are even interesting in PC games or MMO's.
FFXI was challenging right out of the hop,no waiting around to be challenged.Normal mobs in the open world can be as challenging as other games so called BOSS fights.
FFXI used ZERO hand holding markers,none on maps no ? over npc heads.
FFXI's UI was HIDDEN and NOT cluttering up the screen, very few if any other games have done that.It also thrives on macros which YOU get to enter the commands to have them perform as you want and of course remain hidden until you want to call them up.
As for graphics,i found FFXI's to be better than Wow and the game was made for PS2.Not better technically but better because Blizzard did nothing to make the graphics look good,at least in FFXI the textures were MUCH better and the global lighting was better because it kept every bit of detail bright so i could see it and enjoy it.I hate games where i can't see ANY detail because it is all gray dark and gloomy.But NO FFXI did not have great graphics but the article did touch on the NOW and FFXIwas not made for the NOW it was made for 12 years ago.
How this whole article came across to me was nothing more than someone making it sound like Wow was the best and every other game is copying it in a poorer fashion,that is what i got from this if reading between the lines.I read soooooooo many articles and it always seem like everyone is just a WOW player and know VERY little of the "other games".Instead they look at the Wow copy cat games with budgets under 10 million and try to make it sound like the industry is weak when compared to Wow.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
For what it's worth, both my wife and I hate WoW (although we enjoyed it immensely at one point).
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SOE Community Council Member 2014
Landmark Representative
Twitter: @AndriiMMO
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
- President Josiah Bartlett
and here is a wildstar is dyeing post woo. when will you morons learn that their servers can hold more people then those of your typicle mmo. i play on the RP server and honestly i see people in every map. and no not 1-2 people im talking groups of them. Its the pvp servers that are low and that is because they are burnt out with trolling one another.
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The pvp servers are not the ones hurting. Pergo - the most populated server - is a pvp server.
There are a lot of twitchtv streams, that will show a lot about the game and the streamers will explain and teach anything if asked nicely.
Well, we now know what irks her (I have my own grocery list), and you DID want to know "why".
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"So lets see if we can figure out why. In my next article, well talk to my wife about SOEs new game."
For God's sake don't ask her to try yet another game, instead ask her to read my short blog posts, "Stripping for Game Developers" and "Dwarves in Micro Skirts".
I should very much like to read her response to those 2 posts in this thread, just to make sure I'm not crazy or going through some kind of hormonal changes.
Just leave the chocolate and wine right there and back away slowly! ; )
My computer beats me in Strip Poker, but doesn't stand a chance against my Kick Boxing! >: D 3
do you make it a habit to know the smell that men's genitalia gives off?
Nice article, I enjoyed reading it and both agree and disagree with points made. Cheers!
"In what other genre do players have to keep up with social media to get valuable information about their game of choice? If you said “only MMORPGs”, then you get a cookie. I play your game to… play your game, not alt-tab out every 5 minutes to check on a tweet, post in a forum, or watch a Twitch stream, or look at a tutorial on Youtube. Everything I need to play your game must be in your game."
In no other genre has this obsession gaming studios have with making their games a social media phenomenon as pushed down our throats as MMOs. This links in with dumbing down our games to make them the sort of games players on social media platforms like. Players are being used as a marketing tool for the game, when will they wake up to this?
One thing I would add to this list is the "minimum system specs" required to play games...
This one feature I think has really hamstrung game design as we want everyone to play our games yet don't think of what is needed to improve them and hate to face the reality... You are friggin dreamin.
No matter what realm of delusion you happen to be sitting in, there is no way to cater to the masses and be fair about it. Not if you want the best damned game that changes the genre for the better. You want people to play a super bad ass MMORPG that is in your face and a game changer? Make it how its supposed to be and let the gamers figure out how they are going to play it.
This is how it all started with the gaming industry. Developers made the games, publishers put them out and players dished out the dough to make sure they could play them.
Played: UO, LotR, WoW, SWG, DDO, AoC, EVE, Warhammer, TF2, EQ2, SWTOR, TSW, CSS, KF, L4D, AoW, WoT
Playing: The Secret World until Citadel of Sorcery goes into Alpha testing.
Tired of: Linear quest games, dailies, and dumbed down games
Anticipating:Citadel of Sorcery
Actually according to devs its the RP server that has the most members then pergo sadly the other pve servers are not doing as well but still not empty, i have server hoped (spent about 100 bucks) to test the other servers, and its not as bad as people think. Though most end up not raiding or pvping due to the high level of difficulty and most new gen mmo players are use to having things handed to them. I did hear from a EU friend that only one or two servers are doing good for them the rest are beyond dead. Lets wait and see what this "new tech" they have been working on it..perhaps a rift or GW2 aspect of shards/guesting?
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+1 on being irked with that math :P But, i enjoyed the article nonetheless and agree with having colorblind support. Also, the basis of statistics is to correlate percentages of a sample with an entire populace. If 4.7% of the entire population is colorblind, it's reasonable to assume that approximately 4.7% of all gamers are colorblind. Remember, not 100% of the population is interested in PC games either!