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There isn't any ultimate goal to the game. In this respect it's a "sandbox", just minus most of the sand and tools. It's an MMO for the mobile generation. Super/ultra dumbed-down only begins to describe it.

Everything will be back to normal after the novelty wears off in a month or so and the remaining playerbase is reduced to the demographic that typically plays Pokemon games.

And that makes him less a feiggot?

If you're detecting even a hint of intentional comedy in those scenes then you need to recalibrate your sense of humor. As for the upcoming movie, I expect every scene to be steeped in or punctuated by forced attempts at comedy so that there will be no such false positives.

he's got my vote

Like Darkfall Online (Norway), Mortal Online (Sweden), and Albion Online (Germany)? Three strikes, they're out. I'll give this one a point for not having a redundant title, though.

The fact that it's European tells me it's just as bad.

Playing asian games puts you on the fast track to MMO nihilism.

"Captain, we've sustained a direct hit to the helm. Head damage reported on deck 8. Sensors are offli-" *muffled explosions* "Torso shields are failing!" "Engineering, reroute all power to the Left and Right Legs. Evasive maneuver Gamma Tau Phi Omicron on my mark."

Games with PvP as the focus, whether it's factional or FFA, are always severely lacking in other aspects. They appeal only to that niche, and that's largely the reason they inevitably die off (e.g. SB, DF, etc.) Speaking for myself, the game I'd want is onenotdesigned around PvP at all, but...

No one is worshiping publishers; you, however, reviled them in every post as the reason we can't have nice things. Stick a cracker in your squawkbox, Polly.

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.

yep

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...