Comments | wombat_socho: a few thoughts on RPGs

wombat_socho

a few thoughts on RPGs

Dec 20, 2009 21:37

If you've had to sit through this before, feel free to walk away and read something else.
If you have more insight into how MMORPG like World of Warcraft work than I do (THIS IS NOT HARD) I would appreciate your comments.
( In the beginning there was a little white box. )

wargaming

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therevdrnye December 23 2009, 02:26:02 UTC

In closing, I'll say that what you're looking for is not impossible, but i *is* going to have to be a specific *goal* of the game developers. Frankly, I'd like to see Blizzard try it, and they actually have an upcoming opportunity to do so. STARCRAFT II will theoretically be released at some point in the next year or two, and it would provide Blizzard with an opportunity to springboard another MMO from one of their RTS's. They would have a chance to develop a lot of new things in such a MMO without upsetting their great big cash cow, and if they found that some of he new features were popular with players they would be able to port the basic ideas over to WoW as expansions.

If it comes from someone else it will most likely be someone swinging away at the fence, with the logic that they have little to lose and everything to gain if the idea pans out.

wombat_socho December 23 2009, 02:54:27 UTC

CCP is also in a good position to do it; they could build on the foundation that exists with EVE.

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wombat_socho December 23 2009, 15:44:29 UTC

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm none too enthusiastic about showing up for scheduled ops myself.

I think if someone did do the kind of fantasy MMORPG I'm talking about here, there would have to be GMs taking an active part or at least fixing things when they get broken - which they inevitably will. As you point out, people have an amazing ability to break things when you get them together in large numbers.