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Or if you want a primer on how to fail at observational comedy.

He can qualify it with as many weasel words as he wants, it's still a direct admission that CIG will be foisting a woefully incomplete game on the public. I cringed when he abused the definition of "finished" by comparing SC to EVE and WoW, claiming,"I don?t think people would say EVE is...

The difference is that in life you can change your affiliations and allegiances. This possibility lays the groundwork for stories of deceit and betrayal, for shifting politics that influence wars that can have a real impact on history. Static factions prevent any of that from happening in a...

They're not exactly building castles in the sky, either. If the concept of "money in, game out" is too radical to someone in this industry, they should consider taking up a creative endeavor that isn't so consumer-facing. Venture Capital(ist) publishers? No major MMO publisher is structured like...

Being called a cultist is comparatively polite treatment because it extends the benefit of the doubt that you've merely been led astray but might yet see reason. It's preferable to being called a fucking slackjawed fool too stupid to balk when Roberts flat out says things like they'll be...

What's dangerous for the industry is continuing to throw money at a glorified pitchman whose last project also promised far more than it delivered (Star Citizen is on track to be Freelancer 2 in that respect). If you think people are risk averse now, if/when this game fails to live up to...

Not sure what relevance either of those assumptions have (except that neither game had hardcoded factions?), but Darkfall was dead on arrival and I played on Siege Perilous before Trammel was even a twinkle in Gordon Walton's eye, so neither were of any consequence to me. The latter isn't a...

"Kingmaking" is bad design.

At this point, Star Citizen shares a lot more in common than just its initials with Roberts' last flop.

From the sound of it, maybe leaving the car in drive wasn't the only mistake you made related to that incident.

The ethical thing to do would've beennotcontinuing to fish for more funding using stretch goals as bait for another 2.5 years after the initial campaign ended.

Pretty sure I still have a sack of tarnished Aladdin's Castle tokens just like these moldering away in a drawer somewhere. As a kid I couldn't wait for consoles/PCs to rival the coin-ops; the realization that it'd kill the entire industry was the last thing on my mind.

Oh boy, yet another Mark Jacobs game with hardcoded factions and shitty combat. The future is now!

Yet another thing to blame EA for: http://www.raphkoster.com/2014/06/19/privateer-online/

With Chris Roberts at the helm, SC should've been a mobile game. Without the leash of strict hardware limitations to rein him in he's like a frothing kid in a candy shop.

It's funny too because it's not even really anime, but the sort offauxanime that's produced by an American animation studio. Couple this with the chronic comic relief and it's just cringeworthy. Now I don't hold the original to be some masterwork; it was a kid's cartoon, with the...

The only thing keeping this guy's head above water in this industry was all that fat around his neck.

More like min/maxing entropy. The "heat death of the universe" philosophy of game design.

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I found it interesting that so much creative effort is spent on such uninspired, derivative work.

Shopping Commander 2016. Now all that remains to secure the teenage girl demographic is virtual social media so they can post selfies onSpacebook.

These crowdfunded, "early access", perpetual beta tests they call games these days makes me wistful for the era of "evil" publishers and feature-complete releases.

What, praytell, makes themyourmobs? (Aside from your delusional sense of entitlement.)

Anyone favoring FPV in EQ either didn't play on a PvP server or was constantly being coined. The FoV was so narrow you might as well have been wearing blinders.

It's like you expect them to give away everything but the kitchen sink for free.

It isn't, unless you're looking to be disappointed.

Yeah, they're a breeze. What's years of research, reverse-engineering, and content implementation (if not development from scratch)? The time and effort invested into a successful, quality player-run legacy server still dwarfs what the rights-holding company would expend to achieve the same...

All this time spent jury-rigging a proprietary engine could've been spent writing one in-house that's more suited to the task.

Yeah, characters as mouthpieces is one of the hallmarks of a bad writer.

It's what happens when something goes from being an exception to an expectation.

If you believe that satisfying customers long-term and turning a profit are mutually exclusive endeavors, it's comforting to know that you'll never be in a position to exercise that philosophy.

If they could find a way to do it and still turn a profit, they would. These shit games aren't designed for longevity; they're just cash grabs on a 2-3 year cycle.

Haha, you should be thankful they don't, otherwise the only thing they'd be maximizing is their profits after their behavioralists advise them on how to best exploit every monetizable flaw in the monkey brain.

That makes you a shitty tester.

They do a "big" patch every month.Yesterday'sintroduced: more low-level content that even new players don't need because they were outleveling what was already available in an hour or so, while the dearth of high-level content that players have been complaining about for months persistsan...

cooldowns, diminishing returns, rage generation....*yawns*

I think, even more fundamentally, they've been shitbecausethey're PvP MMOs. They're just too narrowly scoped for games in the worldy MMO category.

That's comparable to the power scale of magical items in pre-publish 16 UO, a game in which the scenario you've described never happened, for several reasons: no gear advantage was insurmountable; items decayed or were otherwise consumed; and last but not least, all items dropped on death...