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You'd need to design an MMO where the fun part is getting TO the quest, rather than just looting the Obelisk of Bear-Butts and going back to town.

There's just a lot of different games that scratch different parts of the MMO itch but at different intervals. Want a game where you loot a bunch of shit and if you get lucky you pwn a bunch of newbs for free? Play Fortnight or any other BR with colorcoded loot levels. Want a...

Voice acting was good, gameplay was good, story was a little generic but fine.

Was my comment in any way restricted to catholics? You realize there's a lot of religions, right? And they're all the exact fucking same when it comes to grooming and exploiting kids? Let's not forget Muslims... The only thing "unique" about catholics in this regard is that they have, for...

Yeah, nothing is ever going to beat churches and bible camps for grooming and/or molesting kids. Nothing. Ever.

Technically all of this is already possible, with dynamic/procedural "monster ecologies" planned for the earliest MMOs. This was possible back when MMOs first started, but abandoned in favor of a more static DIKU content model. Obviously, tech has improved since, but design philosophies...

Again, WEIRD, not BAD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_fiction

So, speaking of the games industry being turned upside down, apparently the first game that Dunkey's publishing company Bigmode released is actually incredible? This is the shit that needs to happen. I'll wait a few days to see how the reviews shake out, but I'm already impressed.

So apparently some Microsoft Exec was quoted today as saying they need more games like HiFi Rush on Game Pass, lol. The video game industry fucking sucks lol.

I think they can turn it around at 60. I was really wary about this phase going into it, expecting all of the problems that showed up. There's no point in hardcore gear grinding because all of the content is pretty trivial, and I don't expect it to be very hard at 60 but I could easily be wrong.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Deadlands and Weird West meets Firefly.

I was referring to Starfield about the bad. Read the quote my quote was quoting.

This looks fun, is there a FoH server?

I said WEIRD not BAD.

Someone needs to come up with a good genre that's particularly suited to what MMOs make possible. 3 words: Weird Space Western

yes but AI doesn't poop

I want to see this, but in a different setting like Eberron.

Good career. #1 choice I'd say for anyone who doesn't want to go to college. The AI overlords will keep the HVAC techs around for servants long after they liquidate everyone else.

I only wanted Legos and stuffed animals for indoor toys growing up, aside from the occasional SNES game (which were fucking expensive, when you think about it now.) Art and drawing stuff too. I had my own architectural/drafting tools and was obsessed with stationery, which we now know as a...

I find this crazy because Hi Fi Rush was a big Game Pass title, wasn't it? Doesn't Microsoft need studios like this to create value for Game Pass? Unless they plan on getting rid of Game Pass.

Hestia was always the least sexy and most controversial goddess even for the day. These people are memeing you. You're the punchline.

lol i was gonna post this

In this ONE case I am okay with PE firms destroying a US company: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/private-equity-firms-circle-peloton-for-potential-buyout.html

I feel like this is almost possible but no one, not companies or players, want to invest in it.

Oh yeah, I constantly forget that a whole bunch of mobile games are just clones of WoW with most of the pathing automated.

The Dune game looks alright, aside from way too much sand. Sand? In *my* maud'dib? It's more likely than you think.

Good fucking post.

No, I'm pretty sure this is what Sony always was. Remember that Sony and SoE were never the same company.

fuck retail WoW

The biggest unforced error I've ever seen in gaming. The Unity devs thing was close, but there were actual economic incentives to do it. Real names on Battletags is the closest thing I can think of. Oh yeah and maybe WotC and their attempt to un-open-source the D20 system.

The only IRL people I know that still admit to playing a lot of Retail WoW are three biological women all in their 30s who work in IT middle management and are also very active TikTok users. 2 are very high rated M+ healers, and all of them have like a bajillion pets and mounts. Like an...