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What? You used to be cool Obsidian. Seriously, yours is the ONLY Kickstarter I have given money to based on your excellent design chops. Then you go and give some of that money to this moronic ADD monkey that couldn't manage a kindergarten block building project. His Kickstarter DESERVES to...

I would add Firefall to that list. It is still in Beta and very much lacking content, but what it does have demonstrates the ability to have lots of interesting and dynamic content.

As a Unity developer I would recommend you go with Hero. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Unity and think it is a great engine, but we have a fantastic back-end that some brilliant programmers have been hammering away on for 2 1/2 or so years now. That seems a bit out of scope for what...

They have some fairly annoying database issues when it comes to the items. Relogging usually fixes it for me, but I guess it took extra time to propagate for some reason. I am VERY curious about what kind of database they are using.

That sublime text plugin stuff looks pretty slick. I am not a huge fan of MonoDevelop, but it does have a usable debugger, I don't think I could make the switch to Sublime unless it also had debugging capabilities. Unfortunately I think it is just a text editor.

My girlfriend stumbled across this today: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...eturn?ref=live Now, this isn't as egregiousness as some projects since the top open contributions are essentially the cost of the game. But why on earth is a very successful company using kickstarter to fund...

Only if you are self-critical enough to learn lessons. In theory you could do it more efficiently, but usually what seems to happen is you just make a whole new set of mistakes. I just have little to no faith in Jacobs. There are several problems with "reusing" DAoC code. Firstly, Jacobs...

Network/Server code and databases in Modern online games are DRASTICALLY different than it was back in the DAoC days, at least it is if you do it right and not in an archaic way. I would bet even WAR was built on outdated tech given its time-frame. You would never, ever reuse even a line of...

Except that is the dynamic and exciting part of world PvP, otherwise it ends up essentially being a game with a slow and poor matchmaker. DAoC came out at a time when there was no mix of persistence and PvP, so you put up with all the nonsense because there was no alternative. Now nearly all...

My understanding, and I could be utterly wrong, was that Rift was pretty cheap to make by MMORPG terms, about 20 million USD.

This is, as far as I can tell, exactly what he has done. I do not understand this game at all, it makes no coherent sense what-so-ever. So it is a PvP game, but with an open world, but that world doesn't have PvE, but there is crafting as a full time profession, but... What the hell is...

Thanks for the advice. It sounds like the kind of game that would benefit greatly from waiting for a powerful rig, as opposed to a super nuts and bolts kind of game where power doesn't matter as much. I will pick it up when I build my new rig, sale or no sale. If I get lucky it will be less...

So the verdict on this is a should buy for full price? I am thinking about waiting, building a new rig this summer to replace my ~6 year old one. Perhaps I should wait and maybe get it on sale, then play it maxed on Ultra? 15 hours seems reasonable to me for a game like this. I don't...

The MoBA comparison is makes a little more sense if it is directed at the PvP specifically. The problem is that it is only like 10% of the game. I am a bit puzzled why so many people even care about it since there are 728543 PvP games out there just like it, but the PvE is very unique and fun...

Perhaps I am really missing something here, but how is this a MoBA copy? It is basically a traditional class based MMO structure. Your battleframe is a set of abilities and stats that define a role, you then enter a match to fill that role. As they flesh out the frames with more abilities...

Making a good and/or successful game requires a shocking amount of luck along with everything else. As much as it pains me to say, I'd say it is overwhelmingly luck. The simple fact is there are infinitely more states for a game that are bad than that are good. You do your best to use...

Totally, and those WoW battlegrounds too, completely aping the MoBA trend. I mean, what other kind of game has classes and instanced PvP?

You're kidding right? Firefall already had fun core game-play but was lacking in frame/ability and NPC behavior design. This led to a fun game with little longevity and balance issues. The recent patch notes indicate a VAST improvement over the most glaringly weak parts of the game...

Maybe a kind moderator could merge the other posts into this one. This topic is spread all over the board including in the Other Games section. Would be nice to have the discussion centralized since many people have already commented on it.

I admittedly might be overreacting a little, but to me many of his statements, assuming they are in context, are blanket insults to the entire profession. I can't help but take it personally. The job is somewhat nebulous in nature, but that isn't what he talked about, he basically said that...

I don't know why any designer with a modicum of talent or self-respect would work for a guy that would so publicly bash his or her profession. He may have shot himself in the foot.

In the first place? Naivete. You are totally right, Garriott isn't helping. Him blabbing his mouth is self-defeating because that is no way to attract the best and the brightest to the industry and it is something he and everyone else would ultimately benefit from. In my experience most...

He is a useless ass. How about being positive? How about using your podium toimprovethe design discipline? How about instead of disparaging would be designers, and PLENTY of us could have been programmers by the way, you encourage them to learn and practice? Seriously, fuck you. Being a...

I was all ready to agree with Garriott here, because I too think the state of the design discipline in the industry is woefully sad, unfortunately all I got were the completely misguided thoughts of a pompous egoist. It is TRUE that the industry struggles with designers, but it isn't because...

Was busy being not lazy

I'll comment more about Garriott's interview later, but for now I have a simple message... Go Fuck Yourself.

Is anyone else having problems loading level through the Master Archives screen? I am trying to go back and get the achievements (finally 100%ed WoL!), but a level takes roughly 8-10 minutes (I timed it) to load for some reason. So every time I miss one of the achievements by like 1 second, I...

I suspect that is what the Rift system did. I didn't play Rift so I don't know much about it, but from a surface understanding it seems like a pretty good compromise between the cost of doing a dungeon vs. the cost of doing a rift, with them both bringing roughly the same benefit of outdoor...

It is all about cost-benefit. Non-endgame dungeons have a high cost compared to their benefit. If things are going well then you can do things that aren't efficient, because they will improve the game and you have some time/money to burn. However, if things AREN'T going well and you really...

You are absolutely right, that interplay between people(usually the positions are something like Creative Director and Producer) is critical. A proper balance is desired, if the Producer is too much of a 'no you can't do that' killjoy then you end up with a stale, soulless game... if the...

I think he meant Michael Mann, who is a quiet, mild-mannered, and all around nice guy.

Assuming his Facebook page is accurate, he is working at SOE.

Overall I enjoyed the campaign, but I liked the WoL campaign better. Pretty much facerolled it on brutal in 2 long play sessions, it was a bit easy. I actually prefer the gimmicky levels as there are so many other ways to play a "normal" match against AI, and the added time pressure/unique...

The angst you see on the MMORPG forum (from me included) isn't present so much elsewhere, such as The Other Games forum, which is much more forgiving. It is partially to do with the people that post here, and mostly to due with the state of the genre. For most of us, MMORPGs are beloved...

Right, so... nothing different from any MMO out there? I am actually kind of surprised, it will probably be more boring than I originally thought. So many ways to do an Elder Scrolls MMORPG... such a wasted opportunity.

I don't expect TESO to be any better (or worse) than the massive slate of high budget clones that have been shuttled out the door the last few years. And neither should anyone else no matter how many people shill for the game. Companies actually do pay people to do things like this, there...

I guess I just sort of have a thing for sort of self contained stories. Also I find myself disliking lots of science fiction other people like for some reason. For example, I can't stand Peter Hamilton's books. I think I just might be really picky with my fiction or something.

The gathering/crafting system is in and working right now. How the system works right is once you unlock a piece of non-accord equipment on a Tier 2 battleframe, you can then craft a version of it off that unlocked base template. Crafted equipment is based on the stats of the resources you use...

I have to say, my opinions are the complete opposite of yours. Taste is taste of course and Abnett is by far my favorite author in the series. McNeill's books I actively despise. I think, since they write so completely differently, it is a matter of if you prefer one you probably don't like...

There is a lot of decision making, most of it bad, that goes on around sunk costs. Software, and games, are especially prone to this since you are basically spending most of your money on thoughts, which are abstract and ethereal. If your building project goes bust and you have a warehouse...