10-13-2003, 08:44 PM
Quote: Paying for the game and not being able to use it unless you keep paying is what bothers me. If the manufacturers included a single player mode or the ability to play over LAN or something I would be more inclined to buy. Even if the single player version was only a small portion of the game.
Single player version of WHAT? You can't make the zones client-side because that would just make it open season to cheat. You can't make a completely seperate 1-player game because there is absolutely nothing in the MMOG that lends itself to being a 1-player game in the least. You would have to make a completely new game and package it in the same box - with its own bugs, development cycle, patchs, etc. Completely inefficient and unneeded... You play a MMORPG to play a MMORPG. What's the point of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game if it's not massive, not multiplayer, and not online?
And even if they did for some unknown reason stick the same zones on your computer client-side and just let you run around in them all by yourself online... what's the point? Yeah, running around empty zones talking to nobody by Bob the Weapon Merchant and Sarah the Shield Merchant sounds fun!
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A MMORPG is a MMORPG. Wasting development time to make it anything other than that would be a betrayal to the real customers.
On a side note, the Mythic Content Producer provided me with this link for further discussion on costs of running a MMOG:
http://www.gameconference.com/conference/j...icamulligan.ppt (It's a Powerpoint presentation)
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London