Wargfoot said:
This is the dumbest marketing pitch I've read in quite some time, and it reads like it was generated by AI because there is no way something that stupid was written by a sentient human being with a soul.
It's a great mar…
Scot said:
The question we have to ask ourselves is why do we play certain genres? Why do you play co-op and expect to play with others and play a Massively Multiplayer game and interact with no one? This is a solo game mentality being force…
Kyleran said:
Could the same be added to single player games?
Wait, weren't those called expansion packs and DLC's?
Maybe these days the DLC model works better but historically those never did very well. Most people would play through t…
> Lets face it, QA testers are at the bottom of the totem pole. I can also see it as being a more collaborative position.
A solid QA department is worth its weight in gold and then some. At the very least they will save their employer from …
There's some story to it but it's mostly griiiiiind. Or at least that's all it was when I stopped playing 2-3 months ago. They did add another critter type to hunt, but yeah, nothing fights back so not exactly 'combat' in my book.
The same advice applies to a brand new team full of "Industry Veterans".
If you've a brand new studio with a new team dynamic don't swing for the bleachers. Knock out a few single-player or a customer hosted multiplayer games first. Shake o…
cameltosis said:
2) He's building a framework for a metaverse first, then building his MMORPG to be the first game to sit within this metaverse. I view this as a bad thing.
Depends on how this "metaverse" works. Second Life didn't exact…
IMO power banding is the unfortunate side effect of trying to adapt RPG style progression into a multi-player environment. No two people naturally progress at the same rate. It requires effort to coordinate and very often it requires dedicated alt…
IMO of course.
The fundamental problem with leveling in muliplayer games is that current designs segregates the population. Unless you're playing with people in a very narrow level band near yours somebody is going to get punished with reduced …
JudgeUK said:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/447965-In-from-the-Cold-Scenario-any-way-to-skip-it
FFXIV added a solo instance "In from the Cold" in the Endwalker expansion. This introduced several of the characteristics talked abou…
Hengist said:
Only if they anticipate renewing the license for beyond 2023.
2023 is the end of EA's Star Wars gaming exclusivity deal. SW:TOR itself had (or still has?) a different contract.
For a variety of reasons I s…
maskedweasel said:
I think it depends on what you want to do. I think that there are chains that are secure, with SDKs that are already built to make a lot of these features work inherently so you're not trying to reinvent the wheel.
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Gunboot said:
Please, please do some research before you comment.
They’re suing a /single/ private server (not ReImagine, a much bigger private server) for copying the original games website and slapping their ow…
I keep on top of the FF:XIV story drops. To do otherwise risks getting spoiled. I can afford to keep up with FF:XIV because that's the only MMO I play regularly. Single player games are another story. I've got a backlog that stretches back about…
xMorbidAngeL said:
i hope they kick ea also out of swtor and bring back all bw employees and let swtor shine again
ea totaly have made a mess off that game
Bioware no longer exists. The hacks working under that brand name have so t…
sumdumguy1 said:
Remember EA owns the gaming rights through 2023 and any deal would need their approval since the deal that was signed is an exclusivity deal.
EA has also been significantly underperforming on the license. BF2 is mired i…
Elvoc said:
Its just really sad that we cant get a super hero MMO to last very long, this just seems to be a pattern among these types of games. Its amazing DC Universe is still running..
*sigh* It's comments like this that keeps us loc…
Thupli said:
How hard is it to make your own campaign in this? Or should I invest in nwn2 for that instead?
I spent about 9 years of my life as a coder, server admin, and DM for the Avlis NWN1 PW. I own 2 or 3 copies of every expansion…
Sovrath said:
Being one of the few people on the Subway NOT looking at a phone is pretty funny.
Back in my train-commute days (around the dawn of the public Internet) I got really good at folding my newspaper so that I wouldn't smack som…