If a large company like Blizzard or ArenaNet asked YOU to oversee a super multi million mmorpg no questions asked. What would your overall synopsis be:
I would ignore the public completely and have low end graphics and concentrate on a HUGE world. I'll leave HUGE world to your interpretation.... Out matching hardware/software battles are leaving mmorpg gamers in the cold.
Points:
-I'm a believer pro-graphics people will adapt. I'm 100% sure of this. However It better be a "very good game" and I'll leave very good for interpretation (that's not the topic).
-Everyone want's to play. Unrelated to mmorpg's, read Steam discussions for ANY GAME. Most all complaints are hardware issues, that's if the player purchases the game at all because they don't have what it takes.
-Millennials had shifted from video games to social media. They gave up on PC Hardware to smart phones. They have cheap laptops and rely on Xbox because they no longer care about the price wars, it's not that important to them anymore !!!.... This is not to say they couldn't be brought back for a " very good game". However it better play on a laptop they have in their closet.
Millennials want the easy softer way that's fun... They can have that in a "very good game".
-Immersion my ass!!!.... You have a power rig and you want to show it off like a sports car... Don't be selfish because YOU have the money.
-Priorities in life. Many here care about mmoprg's, many don't !
Many would like to try....Many don't even know it yet.....Let's not make them pay $2,000.00 to try.
Let's wrap things up with this:
Pantheon (visionary realms) is making a very big mistake. I for one am loosing confidence.
They have the right "vision" of a true mmorpg. They will fail with their high end graphic choice AND PROGRAMMING.
I'm mad, and feel let down. I think they will knock the comeback of first generation into the stone age.... Their only chance is to spend 10 more years in development.
Reference: see Vanguard (good game, bad game)
Then again, who knows, a LOT is kept secret. The secret is getting old !
disclaimer:
Yes, I'll be playing any way too...Remember this word "YES"...People like to twist things here for later use
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Just look at Dex today ( https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/ ), it is already good for everything you need from a generic laptop or desktop. Besides the high-end PC and console games, but for those a generic laptop ain't sufficient either. But in return it is good for all the mobile games, which market is on the rise (unfortunately, says my PC gamer self).
You might say it is still just a mobile, with all its limitations on the software side - and you might be correct. Except that from this month you can put Ubuntu on it... and with that it's now pretty much a viable PC replacement - minus gaming.
ed: https://youtu.be/11T-6ZnUK9E?t=116
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
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But, hay you could read a lot, someone did a lot of before-hand-writing.
I'm confidant it will all be a reality.... When is a different story, because their above their heads with graphics.
Their messing around too much.
It's almost like they haven't even started making the game yet.
It is akin to females.
Gameplay = personality
Graphics = looks
It is a toss up you know, but the power of looks man.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Back in 2012 i built a I5-2550k (same as a 2500k little faster clock no onboard video) matched with a 7870 Sapphire with 2 gigs of VR, with 8 gigs of DDR3 and i was playing EQ, Eq 2, Archage, Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert Online, Tera, Neverwinter Online, Albion, etc, etc. BDO is probably the most demanding of all that. During Archage i accidentally dropped a glass of water on my 240 mm vent on top of my case and killed my mobo, psu, and later my video card. I salvaged my gaming rig with a cheap mobo and better psu, and later had to buy a video card which i got a low end 1050ti(because of crypto miners... cards faster than a 1050 ti where stupidly priced). So now with a old I5 cpu and a 1050ti...I can still play any game including FPS atleast on medium settings.
My point is there is no MMO coming out that requires a high end hardware to play in 1080 gaming. If you must play on a laptop or something more portable than there is plenty of streaming solutions such as Steam Link,Nvidia Shield, and other solutions that will let you play your games using your PC and casting to your Tv or playing on the Shield and there are others that will let you cast to any laptop.
Oh btw, I did spend 600ish dollars during Black Friday on pc deals to upgrade to a new pc. using only my case and Psu...I will now have a Nvme m2 boot drive a 500 gig ssd gaming drive, 16 gigs of ddr4, moving over to Amd on the cpu with a Ryzen 7 1700x, a Rx580 8 gigs of vr Asus (2 free games Division 2 and Dmc 5 Sweet!!!), and B450 Tomahawk mobo....I am going to be set for years for only 600ish no where around 2k....Funny thing is i will spend most of my time leveling alts in Everquest one on coirnav or the next tlp that may come for the 20th anniversary and i can play that on a 50 dollar potato)
As for mobile gaming, everyone has a phone and there are more people that will never own a console or a pc to play games but will play games on the phone, so obviously thats a big market that will entice some big game companies like Bethesda and Blizzard to make phone games, thats going to happen no matter what.
If at first you dont succeed, call it version 1.0
Graphics involves the character model,so you want a robot stiff or more vertices making your character at least move more realistic even if the textures are low end.
That is the thing,i often hear people making excuses for bad graphics ,saying stuff like "i like them".
You can have graphics you like to look at and still be done properly/well.
We should also remember this is NOT MUD gaming,this is not board gaming,this is VIDEO,people know what the term VIDEO means?
Definition:a recording of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape.
Keyword is VISUAL,so for anyone to say,i don't want good visual in a visual standard is what,in the wrong game/design?
it is like a car's paint job,to say "i don't want a nice looking paint job is ridiculous.
In life people almost ALWAYS like things to look nice,you like your kids to look nice,your clothes,your house,your carpet,your lighting fixtures,it is ALWAYS like that.
Then the obvious,this is VIDEO GAMING,we need BOTH,the video and the gaming.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
There was a question on the DAoC "forum" (VN boards) back in the day asking why DAoC couldn't have graphics as good as WoW and the response was - something along the lines of - wtf their art team was three times bigger than there entire staff.
Blizzard's produced stills, story boards etc first. with lots of detail; they were not "cartoon" like. These were then animated. Blizzard then "reworked" the graphics - simplyfying what they had by combining individual pixels that were about the same into what they called "big pixels". For every scene. Which is also why WoW never looked like a cartoon - it was full on style subsequently simplified.
So it did indeed take a lot of work - and money - to produce.
I guess most want pretty and demand a good game too ?... But pretty first.
We have a nurse staying over every night watching her disabled grandchild. We needed to get a nurse's station for all the machines and medications.
Their was ONLY ONE ANSWER, we had to build it. The wife said no it will be ugly and not fit the purpose.... Totally ignoring ONLY ONE ANSWER. I made blue prints, even in 3D. No matter what I did she couldn't grasp or visualize it.... She was dead-set and hung up on the world homemade.
I built this extravagant thing with strong halogen lights and outlets all over it, and panted it white. No bullshit, it was beautiful, her and all the nurses and EVERYONE agrees.
The moral of the story ?
Sometimes you have to ignore the public and do what needs to be done.
It's only 2018.... Were not their yet !!!!!
Hardware and software is extremely expensive on both ends... In fact it's still on the scientific level with experimental cost. An mmorpg can't afford both game play and graphics.
Most of you are alike my wife..... And have to be ignored !!!!