A TALE IN THE DESERT YOUTUBE SERIES

A TALE IN THE DESERT YOUTUBE SERIES

Animal Crossing as a series may not be an MMO, but it also lacks combat and as long as the gameвЂ™s been online, communities thrive for years without a lot of updates between new games (until ACNH, and many of those early updates really helped keep people playing). Heck, IвЂ™d argue EVE and the original Darkfall do this even better than most MMOs, as players have enough tools to engage in simple PvE combat before applying those items/tactics to players and player communities.Д«ut look at A Tale in the Desert. The AsheronвЂ™s Call series will always be king of this in my opinion, but Horizons/Istaria and TERA with its political system did this well too. The challenge is not in balancing the content of your raids, but balancing raid content with content that engages the community. Why play a game and surrender your social life for weeks before you even begin to get to the challenge when games like Monster Hunter can push online multiplayer challenges within a few hours? Combat is easy to develop, easy to consume, and very easy to forget. Not all, but I feel difficult combat is not only a niche product, but especially for MMOs, a niche within a niche. I remember that and player events better than even one encounter in ZulвЂ™Gurub (which I had to google to remember, and my first server-first was in there). WoW alone actually seems more memorable for its events than its structured raids: the gates of AhnвЂ™Qiraj, the tainted blood, the zombie plagueвЂ¦ I donвЂ™t think I can remember even 1% of the raids I did, and I was a three-times-a-week raider in a top raiding guild. What is truly interesting is how developers can create worlds and experiences for players, and itвЂ™s largely in our past. So if combatвЂ™s the content you want, and you want to be a big, successful game, clearly you should go that route.Д«ut what raids are actually memorable? How often do game sites and mass media cover the latest raid unless itвЂ™s for a guide or bug? Especially as more games are online and multiplayer, I feel looking at our genre as simply a combat delivery system is fairly depressing. I canвЂ™t speak for EQII, but WoW was doing well in its heyday as it made raiding more accessible while still offering a challenge to those who wanted it. Notice that the definition does not include combat or conflict, let alone raiding. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.вЂќ Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development.

Wikipedia notes that RPG mean вЂњa game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. вЂ‹ Andrew Ross dengarsw): MMORPG= Masssively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

How hard should MMOs be? WhatвЂ™s the sweet spot for difficulty, challenge, and accessibility? Which MMOs do the best job of finding the balance between hardcore and profitable, and which ones have failed miserably? So letвЂ™s dive in to difficulty in this weekвЂ™s Massively Overthinking. And then youвЂ™re handcuffed to an inaccessible design.вЂќ Not only are they frequently jerks to the sub audiences you need to ALSO attract, they also raise holy hell when you discover your vision needs softening. The problem is that the audience you attract is very, VERY gatekeeper-y. ItвЂ™s HARD! We definitely went with the вЂitвЂ™s hardcore!вЂ™ angle on Shadowbane. вЂњThe вЂdifficultyвЂ™ angle usually comes from game devs trying to seperate themselves in a crowded marketplace. You might notice that WoW and EverQuest II still exist.

For example, he noted that Vanguard was set up as the anti- WoW/EverQuest II, the hardcore solution to вЂњsoft MMOs for wimps,вЂќ complete with brutally punishing corpse recovery as in the Old Days. The chunk I want to look at today is about how different games, including MMOs, handled difficulty and inaccessibility, sometimes to their own detriment. This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs in fact, weвЂ™ve already dipped into the part on вЂњload-bearingвЂќ playerbases, and I said I would circle back to it later, and here we are.

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