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I would have pegged you for the Samantha poster on the wall to the left.

Pisciphiles of the world, unite!

It will definitely kill off EA pretty quickly. A few dozen poopsockers might hang around that long, but it's going to be just like Pantheon at this point, so 2-3 months in and then there won't be any need to worry about instances anymore.

The OG Hawk Tuah.

Instancing is currently the only known method to prevent this from happening. Unless you 100% randomize spawns and/or loot high level guilds will dominate every last camp just to prevent people from coming up behind them. That happened in EQ, and in every single MMO since then that hasn't...

This actually is gonna rock, so I can see Disney and Sony dragging him in with some large paychecks.

Instancing is currently the most feasible way to prevent soft PVP ie spawn camping. It is a core element of how the end game functions, or won't in this case. Forcing people to compete for camps and rare spawns will absolutely tank your game. So what are they planning to do to prevent this?

Yes, and they are busy getting their shit pushed in because they fucked around with someone else's IP without getting a license. A lot of these projects could become actual games of their own if they stopped trying to make EQ + XYZ. Some could actually compete with EQ or DDO or LOTRO etc in...

It's only weird because you know how it will play out, but wish it wouldn't. Their absolute refusal to instance anything means they are DOA. Fix that one thing and the rest would be manageable. People aren't going to waste time in a game that revolves around competing for camps. End game is the...

I'd rather be celibate.

No. You can't. People will build tools to manually make the db if your system doesn't let them see it. That's how it always has been, and how it always will be. Plan accordingly.

Yeah, that would definitely not be OK. People really need to stop trying to fix EQ without getting a license from DBG first. And if they can't get a license, put that tech knowhow into something new instead.

Roberta Williams.

SMS and Sega Genesis were absolute bangers.

Her divorce and the public image issues from his degeneracy were what tanked Jack Ryan's career. That was the direct reason why Obama got elected in IL, which was what got him national attention and why he became president.

Is it on CR?

A small vocal group of autists. That's who. They are the driving force for the graveyard of failed MMOs. A game doesn't have to be massive to succeed. It just needs to be complete, relatively balanced, and accessible to everyone. That means instancing, for better or worse. You can put them on...

Whatever it takes for people not to have to fight each other over camps or whatever 'rare' shit is important in the game. It's a failure MnM and Pantheon share currently, and one that will sink both of them if they don't figure out a way to avoid it.

There is a very vocal subset of autists that screeches really loudly when people point out that instancing isn't optional if a game wants to succeed in Current_Year. It's not a group large enough to sustain a game, and also not one that sticks around if content isn't coming out hot and fresh on...

Fits with this season then. Isegay Office Worker, Noble Gentlegay, and Roll Over and Lesbian. Androidsex is fine.

Costs and egos. The people who made that dogshit decision are still the ones in charge most of the time.

Ended up doing that teriyaki salmon. Dad had bought a restaurant sized bottle of glaze a couple weeks ago. So I added a big squirt of ginger paste and chopped up a few cloves of garlic to add to it. 2 bags of frozen brussel sprouts that turned into oven roasted sprouts very nicely. Did the home...

The idea is to stop looking for big investor bucks. Have a solid and finalized game plan before you start coding. Get just as many people as needed. Have a leader that can keep people on task and just focus on grinding it out. If the game is good, and brings enough money in, you can expand on...

It just makes or breaks a game.

They are making every decision to never succeed.

Steve was an actual scammer, and the game was a scam.

Without the 27 years of QOL upgrades.

Definitely up my alley.

Man, that sucks. Sorry things never turned around, but glad you got to be there with him at the end.

Yeah, the Joppa and Steve types who add a kajillion things 5-13 years into development will never put out a finished product. The 2 guys and a hope like MnM also won't ever get there. You need a tightly focused plan from the start, and enough specialized devs to get all the pieces covered. Get...

WOW. By blowing up as big as they did they made big corpos expect their corposlop to perform just as well. They went all in on the mega huge budgets instead of focusing on making games that were fun. That era of gaming is finally dying out, so it's possible to see smaller groups make smaller...

Live by the quarter, die by the quarter.

6 kids? Daaaaaaaaaamn.

Only the Dark Men of Odus can guide you towards the light.

5/27 is going to be fucking awesome.

To the bean counters that is 10% less headcount/payroll.