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If you are making a mass market game, you can not cause players to lose experience, levels or gear as long as A) xp is a large portion of the game that takes a lot of time to recover and B) Gear, for the most part, takes a long time to get, is rare and hard to come by. If loot is like Diablo...

Standing in one place pulling static mobs is oldhat and boring. WOW dungeons are also shit as well. Find me something else. Gear importance is relatively the same in any game give or take some percentages of power.

Those aren't features those are small design elements. WOW has armor loss which equates to currency loss. EQ has xp loss which equates to time loss. It also has gear loss which leads to high time loss. WOW's penalty doesn't prevent players from continuing to play, but provides zero incentive...

Link me that thread because I'm lazy.

Not impossible, because nothing is, but very improbable. Yes you can get some indie game with indie systems and indie quality, but you're not going to get the polish you see with AAA titles. You're going to get Darkfall Online and all the bugs and queer support they offer. You might see a...

What features would you like evolved that haven't been already? I believe most of those features have evolved in modern settings with all the games out there today. I'm having a hard time thinking how Modern EQ would like like without taking away from current games. I mean is it WOW with...

If it's Sony making a modern EQ with all the modern systems that have made their way into today's MMORPGs plus whatever additional new stuff they bring (if any) will sell anywhere from 600-850k boxes for sure with decent marketing. However, I'm willing to put a little money on EQN being F2P...

When did I say I don't want input? If I didn't want input I wouldn't of wasted my time typing all those words to you.

Yeah, but the more piecemeal you make your game without customizing it, the shittier the game becomes. If you want a decent game and not some cheapo game, you really need to do some hard work to make all the pieces talk to each other appropriately. Otherwise it's just a mess or a hack job...

When I had the devs on my show, they said leaderboards were not coming any time soon. I got the sense they were like 5-6 months out rather than 1-3 months out. I talked to Habib who actually puts out the spreadsheet scores once a week and he can't wait to be done with it. The PVE stuff will...

My expectations were "leaderboards and WVW progression stuff". I got that. I wasn't expecting any detail today.

Any MMORPG at this point that tries something new is worth playing for at least a month.

Sure, but that's not the only piece of software you need for game development. Server architecture, database software, billing software etc. etc. etc.

So... EQ just with better graphics?

Any 3D MMORPG in 1998 would of been successful regardless of design decisions.

If you could make a game that guarantees 1-2M boxes and 500k subs, you will be game developer of the year hands down.

Lets play with numbers. Let's take out the "whole world" from the internet and focus on markets, namely EU and NA. According to that source there are 175M For Europe and Central Asia and 275M for North America. That's assuming those are all English speaking people. (unless you want to...

Virtually everyone has said they wanted EQ but with better graphics and you have an instant hit. Now if Sony did that, they would probably get a ton of boxes sold, just because Sony sold something called EQ. They have the money to market the game on the convention circuit. Neckbeard Inc...

Really? My expectations were pretty low and I think they were met. But I don't have the W3 details yet. Could get better or worse.

This is spot on for what I feel. I'll be playing this game casually on and off.

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Qwerty I'm not going to respond to you when you quote my post 500 different ways and respond with a single sentence each time. Either learn how to communicate or don't bother posting.

Lineage crushed EQ is subscriptions/users, but that's because Asian. Now when you say "if a game can have a largely domestic playerbase of 400,000 under those circumstances then what makes you think a similar game would have fewer numbers today?" do you not consider the fact that because they...

All that requires is a lot of money. You now have the development costs and support of two games. That's even more expensive. Plus internet polls suck and would never work. The only true poll is when people vote with their wallet.

When you say huge numbers? What do you mean and how are you substantiating that? You're just assuming the popularity of EQ from about 20 different posters and extrapolating across the internets. Here you have the history of FOH and the EQ community which is why there are like 5 threads about...

And SWTOR would probably shoulda woulda settled steady at 2.3 million subs.

The neckbeards of today are nothing like the neckbeards of yesteryear. The majority of neckbeards of today's age grew up on Looking for Dungeon, Minimaps, and Quest Icons. Neckbeards today are those kids who wear red shirts and ask Furor why some lore character can't fuck an orc or something.

Lets start a Kickstarter game called RerolledEQ and assuming we don't get sued for copyright/trademark infringement, we can set the goal at $10 million. Then we can hire some devs and try to make a game. Who is in? edit: I'll management the production of a video game that caters to all of...

Oh you.

Affiliates and CPAs: That's what we are running now since google saw some titties. Revenue generated by those ads is at best 20-30% of google ads. If I wanted to maximize revenue, there are a ton of annoying things we can do. Giant popup ads that come up when you come to the site where you...

You can not create links in forum titles. It's text only.

What you should be excited about: Leaderboards and tournaments. This will help a lot. WVW skills and a progression system. Open World development. Finally we may see some more interesting things done with the event system all over the world.

Ok I'll bite on this because at least you put some thought into your response. First: When you list a game like Minecraft and Angry birds, it's obvious you missed my point. Angry Birds is a free game that you can also spend a few bucks to buy more of. It's also a simple 2D game that is...

Define modern. But, generally yes. If you want a high production value game, your design documents have to be incredibly broad to attract the most users as possible. The more niche design you create the less money you're going to be getting to develop your game. MMOs need a lot of money to...

Unless you know an advertisement/marketing firm that will give a good rated contract for traffic, porn friendly ads are 4-6 times less than google ads on average.

Here's the point though. Those lurkers who never post, but come here to look at pictures don't contribute to the community. Sure they may pad the traffic sites, but traffic means nothing if it doesn't generate ad revenue to support the site. I could put everything back to the way it was if...

The reason why we are doing this is to attempt to hide all the porn behind a wall so google doesn't take away our advertisement. I can return the forums back to the way they were if you want to ban all porn.

Smed isn't taking notes. He won't be making a game that would peak at such a smaller number of users. He is also not making a game for neckbeards. What you guys want can be found in a web browser/flash game. Any major game studio is going to make a game with current graphics. If your...

Gangster episode was pretty awesome if I remember correctly. Always loved holodeck episodes.

Eve has like half those people. Probably even less if you count people with multiple accounts.