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Shanghai wrote on 2013-08-19 22:04
Your opinion means little if the majority of the game's population is enjoying the games they play as they are. The business model works, and that's their ultimate goal: to make money. Developing these things on a wide-scale for all sorts of people to enjoy takes a long time, and investing resources into that may not be so cost-efficient if people end up taking it for granted/not liking it. You'd have to program these features, add them to the game engine, squash the bugs associated with it, and fluff them up so it's not just pure code with graphics/models/art/FX/whatever eyecandy people like. If it's not worth their time, they won't go through with it.
You also have to note that some game engines just aren't optimized or designed to handle certain features, because they're built that way. To start up another from scratch, and re-include all the content from before... Nigh impossible with a game like Mabinogi who's had 10 years of content added on to it.
No MMORPG is perfect. They cater differently to people's tastes. You just have to find out which one fits you.
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Cyrene wrote on 2013-08-20 16:57
Quote from Shanghai;1137903:
Your opinion means little if the majority of the game's population is enjoying the games they play as they are. The business model works, and that's their ultimate goal: to make money. Developing these things on a wide-scale for all sorts of people to enjoy takes a long time, and investing resources into that may not be so cost-efficient if people end up taking it for granted/not liking it. You'd have to program these features, add them to the game engine, squash the bugs associated with it, and fluff them up so it's not just pure code with graphics/models/art/FX/whatever eyecandy people like. If it's not worth their time, they won't go through with it.
You also have to note that some game engines just aren't optimized or designed to handle certain features, because they're built that way. To start up another from scratch, and re-include all the content from before... Nigh impossible with a game like Mabinogi who's had 10 years of content added on to it.
No MMORPG is perfect. They cater differently to people's tastes. You just have to find out which one fits you.
Its not like I expected my opinion to change anything I just wanted to post what I hated.
I'm hoping more games go the way of ultima online/mabi/archeage. Themeparks to me are just to me bland as hell if they are all done the exact same. That's why I enjoy uild wars 2 because it took themepark and did it in a different way. Guild wars 2 is a game that almost anyone can have fun with on the first level. It's not like ie aion where it takes you a day or two (it used to) to get to level 10 and get the ability to fly for barely 15 seconds. Then you need to kill 11 of these and 5 of these and then grind for that last 10 percent exp because you ran out of quest. For maybe that "average" hardcore mmo player but not for a guy like me who likes the actual world to vary. Where I can explore everywhere without penalty.
In my opinion to sum it up. Sandbox>>>> themepark. Till death do us part mabi
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Kurayami wrote on 2013-08-20 18:03
The only thing I can't stand in an mmo is bad combat mechanics, for example one where you just stand still and hit the monster while the monster hits you.
Its just boring in my opinion.. Mabinogi doesn't have any dodge or block mechanics like some action mmo's but you can still pull off some nice combos to make the combat interesting.
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Tropa wrote on 2013-08-20 20:08
the things I hate how mmorpgs... Classlock, Genderlock and Level cap.
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Darkboy132 wrote on 2013-08-20 21:02
All seven of your points literally summed up how fucking bad Grand Chase is. You REALLY don't want to know how pathetic and stupid and dumb the monsters get at end-game point, especially how lame the game's primary antagonist is.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-08-21 16:20
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2G_8c-u2qc]
oops
this is a subscription mmo
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-08-21 16:20
[video=youtube;w2G_8c-u2qc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2G_8c-u2qc[/video]
oops
this is a subscription mmo