tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post4038157437399268426..comments2023-06-19T10:45:56.724-04:00Comments on Player Versus Developer: Has Cryptic Doomed Us To Another Decade of WoW?Green Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-60655292053781251502010-04-12T12:53:28.237-04:002010-04-12T12:53:28.237-04:00Very interesting point. I for one would be willin...Very interesting point. I for one would be willing to pay a little more for something that was better than WoW. I love the game but after all this time (and I tend to think a lot of players feel this way) I am ready for something new and not just another expansion. We are playing it because its consistently satisfactory. Ive had a lot of fun over the years, but nothing content wise has been as fun as the years in vanilla. Id hope people would realize that a few dollars more could bring us something that makes the phrase "Whats WoW?" a little more of a reality.Yogihttp://www.flexyourgeek.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-87728266397774290042010-03-18T22:35:59.766-04:002010-03-18T22:35:59.766-04:00i honestly enjoy your posting taste, very interest...i honestly enjoy your posting taste, very interesting,<br />don't give up and keep penning due to the fact it simply well worth to look through it.<br />excited to read way more of your own posts, have a good one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-66167345323687973942010-03-17T22:04:45.917-04:002010-03-17T22:04:45.917-04:00I have a feeling that sub based MMOs are on the wa...I have a feeling that sub based MMOs are on the way out. The ones we have right now aren't going to go anywhere, but FtP seems like a much easier business model to get off the ground for a number of reasons. LoTRO may very well be the most successful sub based MMO since WoW launched, and even in that game there wasn't enough content for a lot of players at launch (e.g., the dead zone in the mid 30s that Evindim plugged). <br /><br />I suspect that Bioware's SW mmo, and/ or possibly whatever Blizzard is working on are going to be among the last truly big budget sub based MMOs we'll see, for better or worse.Yeebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08028940396189544294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-49510174480627773902010-03-17T14:52:46.315-04:002010-03-17T14:52:46.315-04:00Doomed to another decade of WOW? No thanks, I'...Doomed to another decade of WOW? No thanks, I've got EQ2 :)<br /><br />Your description of the upcoming Star wars game, along with Jims comments sum up though what I believe is wrong with new games, and also these days WoW.<br /><br />They aren't immersive, they sacrifice their worlds just for ease of game play features, in the short term it sounds right (just like the cross server LFG), or the ability in STO to just zoom from small instanced planet to small instanced planet. <br /><br />They talk of appealing to casual gamers but I have to question who really wants to play STO? Yet another heavily instanced theme park world with the dangerous bits dialed right down.<br /><br />But long term it sucks, if you strip away the world, story and all the characters in it the gameplay of EQ2 isn't that special. <br /><br />Add back in the world, lore/storyline, and characters and its the most enthralling online experience I can recommend. I think that goes for a lot of the big long term MMO's, Eve shows where STO should have gone, but d fell flat for me.Lomaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218308323651929031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-30759787577347837332010-03-17T11:35:33.958-04:002010-03-17T11:35:33.958-04:00The new Star Wars game is supposedly the most expe...<i>The new Star Wars game is supposedly the most expensive production EA has ever financed, but even that budget is sounding like it will produce a Dragon Age style series of disconnected maps rather than an open world like Azeroth, Norrath, or Middle Earth. </i><br /><br />I think this is where new developers are going wrong. The reason people love the other games is the big open living world. While breaking the game up may make it easier for the developer it is killing any chance of competing with WoW.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04949497353184183912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-91279647864917082042010-03-17T09:14:49.766-04:002010-03-17T09:14:49.766-04:00Every time a new WoW patch comes out, it feels lik...Every time a new WoW patch comes out, it feels like the bar has been raised a bit more for every upcoming MMO out there. I'm not entirely sure a new MMO can ever have enough funding and developers to have the variety/quantity of content (PvE, PvP, raiding, crafting, social, etc.) necessary to compete with WoW. <br /><br />Is WoW the best game out there? I don't know. I do know that each time I've tried out a new MMO, I find one or two features that make me go, "oooh, that's really cool!" That tells me there's room for a competitor. The fact that it's usually only one or two items tells me that, for whatever reason, game studios aren't willing to suck it up the extra 1, 2, 3 years necessary to fill a game with enough of those omigod features to tempt me away from WoW.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11004017317873898627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-91108602761677961582010-03-17T07:42:25.087-04:002010-03-17T07:42:25.087-04:00I think what people forget is that people get very...I think what people forget is that people get very bored of just playing the one game.<br /><br />I'm an ex-WoW player and there really wasn't anything fun left to do when I stopped for me.<br /><br />Love the game, admire its craft but you reach a point where you need to move on.<br /><br />Looking around the blogs it seems most people are a bit bored. 3.3 got bloggers excited about WoW for a pretty brief time. Now they've ODed on LFD, they've hit a wall in ICC and they've done every class as an alt already.<br /><br />The WoW tourist phenomenon shows that there is a huge market of former and current WoW players looking for a new MMO, one that gets people to stick better than AoC, War, Aion or CO.<br /><br />I think Cataclysm will be the beginning of the end. Going back to Stranglethorn is the best way to sell copies of the new expansion but the worst possible thing for the longevity of the franchise.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.com