Crowfall

Draegan_sl said:

I would put that as my phone wallpaper but I think it would scare the crap out of my daughter.

That's hilarious.

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Muligan_sl said:

Just think... in a matter of hours, we'll be in single digits for the announcement and something else to talk about.

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Anyone who pre-purchases the will be able to play on our servers regardless of territory (i.e we'll always take care our customers). We think it unlikely that Europe would use a different business model than in North America, but we simply can't guarantee it at this point. As we've said, we want to do all the English-speaking territories at a minimum, and would like to do the rest of Europe also, but that may not be something we can pull off. What we will promise is that we will be transparent about what we are doing in other territories as soon as we can be!

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In general? MMO's are large, complex, multi-process, big data, client/server, real-time applications, scaling to thousands of players in the same playspace which have to also be fun. Isn't that a enough?

Seriously though, the biggest technical obstacle in my experience is always adequate testing. Any large, complex system is going to be difficult to test to a solid confidence level unless you have crazy levels of resources. Fortunately players are excellent at letting us know when we've missed something, and no uncertain terms!

Those are just the normal, run-of-the-mill MMO requirements though, and inour next information drops we'll be talking more about the additional technical challenges we've taken on to bring you the Crowfall experience.

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There certainly can be! Our system allows us to make any number of Worlds, and any number of rules sets. The amazing thing about this design is that it allows for a huge degree of experimentation! Most MMOs get one chance - at launch - to find a mix of rules that appeals to the players. The great thing about the Campaign architecture is that we can be trying dozens of ideas in parallel, all the time. It's like a generic algorithm for MMO design: the good ideas can be replicated (and riffed on), the bad ideas can be filtered out.

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Muligan21, on 16 Feb 2015 - 09:08 AM, said:

How will Crowfall create this same sense of community and bring people closer together than facilitating a place for people to "hide away" in instances?

GordonWalton, on 16 Feb 2015 - 11:04 AM, said:

Strange that you think this, as we literally don't have any instances in our game, and our design focus is on the interdependence that drives strong community ties.

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