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They've set themselves on a sub-based business model. They're going to try to stay sub-based for as long as they can. If they hemorrhage subs, they're going to adjust whatever causes them to lose them if they can identify what it is (unless it's so embedded in the game design, it can't be...

IFthey want to be one. You still have to unlock the class, get (possibly) some out-of-class utility skills, and get them to tier 5. Plus gear.

If you want people of the same classes play differently, then the solution is simple: have obtaining the "perfect build" be difficult/long. There's a perfect build, but you need 200 hours of specific dungeons and questing and raids to obtain every skills in that build. So, what are you going to...

Yea. Have a small team spend a lot of money churning out 40 different looking mounts. Sounds like a plan.

A challenging crafting system can be challenging across three separate axis: - It is difficult to acquire recipes - It is difficult to acquire craft materials - It is difficult to execute recipes And the last axis doesn't mean "I have a whack-a-mole mini-game each time I craft an axe's...

They speed up content consumption by a factor that is out of whack with their apparent utility. Witness the problem Blizzard is having, right now, with regard of limiting their use during the levelling process because the ultra-fast WoW levelling is made even faster with it and even they...

Well, apparently,no one wants Matt Firor in their Dream Team of MMOs.

No matter what, you WILL have people min-maxing (if you have a choice to make). What causes problems is when people insist YOU min-max as well. That happens only if the min-maxing process is sufficiently easy to do that people can expect a significant portion of their potential playing...

And if you got BOTH the PS and the XB? (not me! not me! But I have a friend who must purchase every console when it comes out. And yes, he's looking forward to the Steamboxes)

At the time, you did NOT have a new gear season coming out every patch.

Including all the copies that were sold months after the game came out, when it's 50% discounted on Steam or something.

Well, the devs usually get only 1/3rd of that. But it's still pretty good money. Enough to pay for a TESO.

Usually, when I talk about an EVE-type game, I mean "a single-world PVP game based about territorial control of resources".

It's already a challenge in space-based EVE A fantasy-based MMO that has the same room and pop as an EVE-universe will probably have to use the same basic tricks: hard zones, zone population caps, quick process migration between servers in your universe cluster, net-buffers concentric bubbles...

The Trailblazer pack is supposed (I think) to be a limited offer. The other two should probably be available at least during beta. I'd be in if the buy page didn't land me on Prosieben.

Actually, the Minecraft landscape is a cubic approximation of a completely smooth Penril noise function. If, rather than generating cubes, you create meshes at a 4-inch resolution, you'd get your smooth terrain (otherwise completely identical to the 1x1 metric cubes). Actually, Minecraft does...

You don't need the Trailblzaer pack to get alpha access, the Explorer pack at 59$ also has alpha access (but not all the items, title and the 4 weeks of beta gifts).

Nah, we're bored. So, like every game thread that has zero info in it, we're making our dream game, and discovering that our dreams are not exactly similar to other people's dreams...

100$ in 1999 gives you 140$ in 2013. So, yea, 7 millions $ for EQ today.

And yet, funnily enough, that's what a game like Minecraft does. In Minecraft, your game world is generated in 16X16m chunks whenever one player comes close to an empty area. Each of those 16X16m areas connects with the four adjacent squares (including those that don't exist yet and will be...

Uh? Why not. The thing with procedural generation is that, if you have the same procedure and same seed number, it generates the same things on the server and the client. It's done all the time with Minecraft, people see a nice vista/location/village/whatever, post their world ID and the loc...

I do remember our first Lucifron kill, we were about 31 I think. We got stuck a bit later (because casual family-oriented guild, not hardcore optimizers) until we got more bodies to throw at Garr. Never did it in Vanilla, but the Naxx10 we killed him once with 3 (the MT, a mage and me). It took...

One of the things I think would work pretty well would be for player activity to influence an established area's building. We're Heroes (even in games where we're not designated as The One True Savior of the Universe). Where we go, where we operate from, merchants and artisans and bankers...

The real question is "what other sources of cash". 38S never managed to get any additional funding for its MMO. EA was ok for an almost-finished single-player game, but no one stepped up to fund Curt's real dream. So, it was "accept a RI loan with unrealistic conditions, or fold and close MY...

Or it means "we've looked at AC1, and we liked how managing item drop on death was a whole subgame". (probably not)

Releasable and earning back how much? At the point RI found itself, it had spent spend XX millions, there appeared to be no chance of finishing the product within the remaining X millions on the loan, 38S failed to secure additional funding (ding ding: no one believed them enough to pay? And...

... and floating turning cubes full of meat hooks and chains and non-euclidean angles.

It's a game about secret conspiracies. Of course it's intentional!

Expressed in simpler words, "we haven't dropped the NDA; we've merely hired for free a number of marketers for our game".

The problem with doors is that they're relatively easy to implement as props, but hard as hell to make as voxels. Meaning you only have specific doors, which can be resized, but not shaped to fit.

Geometry is an endless source of 'sploits. Working correctly in 3D while your AI is still supposed to act only on 2D surfaces is hard.

Goes well with the original idea which was to travel into the past with a list of MMO sploits and use them to RMT the hell of it. If you want to cheat, cheat the biggest way you can.

Because if you don't, I'll sue you. That's the point of patenting things (from the future, natch): when someone wants to make them, they have to license your patent or you can sue them for damages. No work needed from your part (well, a few legal filings, but that's not work, it's lawyer stuff)...

Oh, it is. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I did not consider this one of the many attempts at getting into a genre no one knew existed 2 years ago. The difference between Trove and EQNL is that EQNL does add "realistic" (well, at least Cartoonish) to the voxel world. Trove doesn't...

To make the stuff? Nope. To have the ones who figure out how to make the stuff have to pay you anyway? Plenty enough.

Looks like you've swallowed the capitalist line about money being wealth/value/work/whatever. It's not. As its core, money is a unit of social influence. The most basic and old forms of money are all about swapping gifts and impressing neighbours. When I buy a loaf of bread, they're telling you...

Oh, yea. Definitively. I'm looking forward to EQNL, not so much to Trove. Trove is basically "how do we get quick revenue from the voxel genre", which is most bucks out of least investment. If you don't have a lot of modelers/texturers (which SOE has put in EQNL, since they're already putting...

To provide players who want voxel-based shit with some shinies. Since Mojang proved to everyone that the market for this was huge beyond any expectations (13+ million on PC, 10+ millions on XBox, 12+ millions on Android, and probably soon 10+ millions on for the PS3/PS4), everyone is jumping...

Wehopewe are his target market. But, in fact, he's trying to break into the gossiping-girls-8-to-11 niche, which is exploding due to the fact that they tend to get their smartphone earlier and earlier these days.

Spoken like an engineer. A lawyer would simply bring the patent text itself and not bother with the reverse engineering.