It has nothing to do with people liking my games and everything to do with people not giving Variety a chance. Imagine if someone released a game with no UI, Totally new combat and randomized quests and Randomly generated dungeons something totally different than what we are used to. All you would see is retards on this board bitching because the dungeons arent as cool or as scripted as WoWs or Lotros and that the Quests dont give them cool rewards like WoW or push them in a certain direction. They would bitch that the combat isn't a Fps happy spamm fest like WoW.
Most of these guys won;t even give a game like that a chance.
How is the genre supposed to evolve if everyone wants to play a new version of EQ over and over?
Variety is a good thing. Also to the games you listed Take out the themeparks that are near death like DF and Ryzom, PotBS is near closing down due to lack of players because the game isnt WoW 2.0 like Aion. As for the rest they're just EQ with one new feature to hook people in.
If you think Darkfall, Ryzom and PotBS are unpopular because they're not themeparks you're totally clueless. PotBS is what you call a themepark it's just not a very good one. I could write a book on what went wrong with Darkfall. Ryzom is a good and innovative game as far as it went but itr suffered from extremely poor devolopment and a lack of focus. Of the three Ryzom is the only one that should have been a success and wasn't.
Off to work.
Darkfall is a near death because Tasos is an asshole and hyped up a indy underfunded sandbox as a WoW killer. Darkfall would have quietly grabbed the FFA pvp fans and been a nice little niche that needed work if he didn't act like a jerk. Ryzom mostly isn't given a chance because of its artstyle and lack of direction and Potbs is a different game then what most people are used to so it failed for that reason.
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If you think Darkfall, Ryzom and PotBS are unpopular because they're not themeparks you're totally clueless. PotBS is what you call a themepark it's just not a very good one. I could write a book on what went wrong with Darkfall. Ryzom is a good and innovative game as far as it went but itr suffered from extremely poor devolopment and a lack of focus. Of the three Ryzom is the only one that should have been a success and wasn't.
Off to work.
Darkfall is a near death because Tasos is an asshole and hyped up a indy underfunded sandbox as a WoW killer. Darkfall would have quietly grabbed the FFA pvp fans and been a nice little niche that needed work if he didn't act like a jerk. Ryzom mostly isn't given a chance because of its artstyle and lack of direction and Potbs is a different game then what most people are used to so it failed for that reason.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum