Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Chris
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They would have make MORE content for Coop because it removes the player generated content of an MMO. People are also less motivated to do shitty grinds if they can't show off their stuff.
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Pharone
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I still say that the future of MMORPGs is where you run your own servers. The company creates the server/client, manages the user accounts, etc. The user has the option to buy the game and/or a server license. The user runs the server on their own computer, configures all the rules and stuff, and sets the security settings (private server with password required, IP based private server, public server, etc). The character accounts exist on the company's server.
That way, the company doesn't have to police anything on the servers. It takes their responsibility out of it which saves them time and money. The user who runs the server is free to combat cheating how ever they want. It's their server.
Then the company charges the owner of the server a monthly license fee, addons, expansions, etc.
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Chris
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Communities will be too small.
It's actually going the other way with servers being linked up to increase the size of the pool of players.
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Daidraco
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Both can work, I think it just depends on the company size and the direction they want to take their game. Overall, companies want more control over their users than they do now so the bigger companies will move more towards a mega server like Chris is saying, imo. More control means more opportunities to extort.. er.. show Microtransactions to their player base. Nevermind the ability to completely control the mod scene and possibly monetize it like Bethesda.
I personally think we're only seeing the very beginning of how monetized video games will be.
I personally think we're only seeing the very beginning of how monetized video games will be.
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Shmoopy
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The tradeoff is "needing less content" vs. running 24/7 customer service, running your own servers, databases, login system, vastly higher network requirements, etc.
Making some zones and quests is vastly cheaper than bare minimum MMOG infrastructure ...
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Old school FPS games (Quake, Half-Life etc.) used to work this way, which is how things like CTF, Team Fortress and Counterstrike could even develop. But then you had to have a "server browser" like GameSpy, and people also hated the local server admin powertripping and accusing everyone of cheating that was better than him.
Since then even FPS titles like Battlefield have moved to some form of permanent progression, and you can only do that on "officia"l servers. Which killed private servers. You can only rent servers from accredited server providers.
Modern anti-cheat mechanisms include scanning the user's computer. For example Blizzards watchdog scans the titles of the windows that are open while you play. Even old school games like EverQuest scan which DLL files get injected into the game process, which is how Daybreak bans people who try to use MQ2 on progression servers. This can ramp up on the technical scale to full-fledged rootkit level of anti-cheat systems, e.g. with Valorant.
I sure as hell wouldn't want any private server operator to collect any data from my computer.
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Daidraco
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Makes it really hard to believe this is coming out when basic networking with client to client or client to server login, item management / inventory, looting, animations, combat including abilities, User interface, mapping, basic AI and a huge library assets to purchase, is all included in the base package of UE4. (Hell, if they start using UE5 - watch out, the tech demo's are going to come into this decade of tech!) Especially when everything theyve shown is concentrated into just a handful of areas and they have barely anything out of the ordinary. Unless you're that excited about climbing, they aint doing too much.
Daidraco
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Im always fine with more games coming out. I really dont give a shit about the drama surrounding this title. But the more I learn about UE5 in my spare time, the more I feel like this is vaporware at best.
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