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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...

When you need to hit a fucking stretch goal just to get simple things that qualify as expected content in a medieval rpg, that oft-cited advantage of crowdfunding "freeing us from the fetters of a publisher" begins to sound pretty useless.

Even EQ's pvp servers were distinguished by FFA/teams and loot rules. If these guys were really up to the task of "building something new, something that's never been done before" (as they claim to be doing), they'd have worked on defining uniform rules and mechanics adequate for pvp in a...

There won't be a good full-loot mmo until some developer wises up and moves beyond the standard "HP up and down until 0" combat model, the typical character power curve, item-centric progression, and the thoughtless conventions governing inventory capacity, item ownership, criminal law, player...

Open-world-sandbox-full-loot-territorial-siege-warfare-pvp-player-driven-economy-did-I-mention-sandbox-freedom-blah-blah-fucking-blah. Buzzwords carry no weight. And you're completely off the mark. If Koster were lead on this thing it'd at least have a chance; alas, he's just a consultant.

Lofty proclamations that have all been made before, and with nothing to back them up but an uninspired title, some generic, inoffensive concept art, and hints at systems that will undoubtedly be too rigid and simplistic to allow for anything but a parody of what they're promising. It won't be in...

This shart will be flushed in less than 6 months just like the first one, because it's under the same clueless management.

The reason they think no one's on is because theshard can't break 200 clientseven during primetime with triple-boxing allowed. This turd can only circle the bowl for so long before it finally gets flushed.

An "instanced" dungeon in UO... *vomits*

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