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Square recently talked about their roadmap for FFXIV and it's a ten year plan, they aren't dropping that to maintenance mode. Who knows with Blizzard and WoW given the Microsoft acquisition. There will be successes like Lost Ark but the market is going to be more fragmented than in the peak of WoW and such.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Didn’t the director or some other higher up with Final Fantasy recently say he wanted their MMO to be accessible in terms of *not* being a daily grind, peoples’ time was limited and he wanted them to be able to enjoy it in short bursts, or as something they could play all at once if they did have a chunk of time to play then could put the game aside until the next expansion? And his opinion was MMOs need to take that direction in the future or the genre was not going to survive? Yoshida the producer/game director, yeah. And he's had that design in place for years and actively encourages folks to take breaks between content dumps.
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The man is on record practically pleading with people that if they're not having fun, they can unsub and come back to it when the next big content update happens. MMOs would be a lot better as a whole if more of the lead devs were like Yoship. It helps that Square-Enix reorganized not long ago, and the XIV team is their own whole division. They do nothing but work on XIV, and Yoship is lead of that division; he gets the final say on what happens. Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Tortolia posted:Yoshida the producer/game director, yeah. And he's had that design in place for years and actively encourages folks to take breaks between content dumps. Shouldn't have wiped my house during one of those breaks then 
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Draynar posted:Shouldn't have wiped my house during one of those breaks then This is why they encourage it, the nonstop housing shortage 
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Hah, "house". Friend, I've somehow managed to get 4 wiped over the course of the years.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Didn’t the director or some other higher up with Final Fantasy recently say he wanted their MMO to be accessible in terms of *not* being a daily grind, peoples’ time was limited and he wanted them to be able to enjoy it in short bursts, or as something they could play all at once if they did have a chunk of time to play then could put the game aside until the next expansion? And his opinion was MMOs need to take that direction in the future or the genre was not going to survive? It's easy enough to take that position when you're on top, but I've worked with a couple people who used to work at turbine and they're irrationally terrified about completely normal gameplay decisions, because they have PTSD from "a bunch of people stopped playing between content drops and then the game went into a death spiral because every person who quit made it marginally more difficult to find people to play with, leading more people to quit".
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Good news everyone! Some episode 2 content is about to be released!quote:This will be a new scene in Release 100 and a scene for Episode 2 Access holders. This medium-sized village features Kobolds in a coastal setting. Low-to-medium threats may be encountered toward the edge of this scene.
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Mar 27, 2022 04:19
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lol they started episode 2 years ago, but to be fair they failed to get funding for it.
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yoloer420 posted:Good news everyone! Some episode 2 content is about to be released! Episode 2 Access holders? What is that? Is that a subscriber or something? FreeWifi!! fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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Mar 27, 2022 19:39
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Well, when you fail, go blockchain: https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/richard-garriott-is-building-a-blockchain-mmo-following-the-failure-of-shroud-of-the-avatar/
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Feels like he's just coasting on 20+ year old nostalgia at this point.
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RagnarokZ posted:Well, when you fail, go blockchain: https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/richard-garriott-is-building-a-blockchain-mmo-following-the-failure-of-shroud-of-the-avatar/ The time to do that was a year ago when Reddit was drunk on GameStop money
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quote:We note here for the record that we were offered a chance to interview Garriott about this new game, but we were told we could not ask about the many outstanding issues and irregularities revolving around Shroud of the Avatar, which are obviously critical when it comes to the credibility of any new Garriott project, so we declined to participate.
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Apr 12, 2022 20:27
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Lol what a douchebag. Good for massivelyop for turning him down
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Rexxed posted:Feels like he's just coasting on 20+ year old nostalgia at this point. That point was 20 years ago.
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Apparently Chris Spears is also in on this which is the biggest LOL https://mobile.twitter.com/catnipgames/status/1513981875890577418  Sure, the last time you gave us millions and bought
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Arms_Akimbo posted:The time to do that was a year ago when Reddit was drunk on GameStop money There is still a *ton* of profoundly stupid money flooding into the hands of anyone who says the words "blockchain", "NFT" and "play to earn" in a sentence. Case in point, uh, this.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:23
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Remember Ultima Online? *proceeds to throw thousands of dollars at NFTs
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But really what is with all these NFT games touting it's a way to "be financially involved with the game". I don't want to be financially involved with my video games beyond a one time purchase, I'm not here trying to earn money I just want to play something fun.
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Popete posted:But really what is with all these NFT games touting it's a way to "be financially involved with the game". I don't want to be financially involved with my video games beyond a one time purchase, I'm not here trying to earn money I just want to play something fun.
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If you're not returning 22.00% yearly on your MMO investments, what are you even doing with your life?
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RagnarokZ posted:Well, when you fail, go blockchain: https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/12/richard-garriott-is-building-a-blockchain-mmo-following-the-failure-of-shroud-of-the-avatar/ Hahaha I love how Massively trashes him. quote:For those not aware, Shroud of the Avatar is a Richard Garriott-helmed MMORPG that was heavily funded by gamers by way of a 2013 Kickstarter, weird crowdfunding stunts, frequent donation telethons, whaling packages, and an $800K equity crowdfunding investment round, during which Portalarium claimed a valuation of $25M. However, the game was mired by controversy, layoffs, delays, design issues, and ultimately a tiny playerbase. Garriott himself stepped down, the new CEO denied taking over, Portalarium shuttered its office, and then it abruptly folded outright and transferred SOTA to a newly formed indie studio. Through it all, company reps stonewalled and insulted press and dodged legally required SEC filings and accountability to SeedInvest investors as recently as this very year.
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And of Course Richard Garriot confirms that he is the fraud that I always thought he was.
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MassivelyOP: Stop giving rich people money to make failed MMOs
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Ha! Great read. Idiots will still fund it though.
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I have no idea who his target audience is. With SotA, his gameplan was clear: make a game as cheaply as possible, then use 35 years of accumulated goodwill to milk the whales dry. Except that all these whales are now sitting in their $5000 virtual castles which are being admired by absolutely no one.
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Everyone, please remember how awesome Ultima Online was. Ring a bell? Good. Now, be prepared to donate anywhere from $300-$100,000 (or more!) for this crypto-NFT-blockchain-playtoearn project that Lord British Himself is working on. That's right, Lord Motherfucking British. I don't see how this could be bad.
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I'm honestly not sure what the target audience is. This is the parent company to Garriott's new venture: https://deverse.dehorizon.fun/
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The funniest thing about this to me is you can still spend $500 on a house in Ultima Online if you really want. Seems like a better “investment” to me lol.Dementropy posted:I'm honestly not sure what the target audience is. This is the parent company to Garriott's new venture: Wow, nice website! Can’t wait to give them all the money HungryMedusa fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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Dementropy posted:I'm honestly not sure what the target audience is. The audience for pretty much every entry on this website. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ As I said, there is a *lot* of money right now going to anyone who can stream the words "blockchain", "NFT" and "play to earn" in a sentence convincingly. SXSW Interactive this year was full of blockchain play-to-earn project announcements and they were all lavishly funded. The target audience is not PC/MMO gamers, at all. It's the same audience this is pitched at (a blockchain/NFT launch that also picked up a couple of game designers, this time from the tabletop RPG community, as window dressing) https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-nft-gripnr-blockchain-dnd-ttrpg-1848686984 I personally get so many job offers from fly-by-night NFT/P2E projects doing cold calls from LinkedIn desperate for anyone with game development experience that I edited my profile to say "not interested in cryptocurrency/NFT/P2E projects, ever." It's helped reduce the barrage a bit! Lum_ fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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Dementropy posted:I'm honestly not sure what the target audience is. This is the parent company to Garriott's new venture: I love my MMO webpages to have an "Economics" link that goes to a bunch of completely incomprehensible graphs. That's how I know I'm in for a fun, player-focused game.
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Shroud of the Avatar was NFTs before NFTs. It came out at that time where games in development/crowdfunding just had to do FOMO poo poo (limited quantities, sales stopping upon release, etc.) on transferrable digital goods and they'd sell out to people who didn't care about the game and just hoped they could resell it for a profit later. I haven't really seen that stuff lately, I guess because the market evolved and actual NFT-based games are the hot poo poo now.
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de horizon dot fun
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Man, if I wasn't lazy and if I had no ethics it seems like it'd be *really* easy to make a million bucks or so from morons who want to own tokens that point to a .png EDIT: I still feel like I'm missing something when it comes to understanding NFTs but I'm not and it really is exactly as stupid as I think it is.
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FrostyPox posted:I'm not and it really is exactly as stupid as I think it is.
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I think that now there's too many concurrent scams competing over the same 10-20 thousand marks so it would probably be hard to get in now
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This is f2p now? I am installing it. I hate you guys.
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