You assume too much. Those were problems brought on by the intrusion of big business after gaming became more profitable than movies, and precursors to the current blight. I’m talking about when gaming was almost entirely run by hobbyists doing it on their own time and dime.
How about you get talented people to make the games they want to make, like they did before it became a big business, back when gaming was actually exciting?
You are never going to answer that question with math and statistics, and attempts to do so are exactly why the industry keeps tanking studio after studio.
Do you understand why people play games though?
Warcraft 3 multiplayer was peak “matchmaking” in my opinion, where people created lobbies with certain rule sets and anyone who was interested in that type of game could just join directly. It was a blast, playing lots of different game modes all the time and meeting a wide range of player types, instead of having to invest an insane amount of time (3-10 hours, vs less than a minute to find a game in WC3) into one single game mode even before you can actually start playing.
What you have described is exactly what I was talking about when I called it “playing the game like a job,” where you have to invest plenty of time before you can even hope to enjoy it.
You absolutely certain about that reasoning? Because from what I’ve seen, when automated matchmaking is used, you NEED to play the game like a job just to reach your “correct” ranking and actually enjoy the game. People who don’t play it like that are driven away because of it.
I’d like multiplayer a lot more if they still made games with user-driven match making, instead of opaque algorithms hellbent on ensuring that everyone maintains a perfect 50/50 win rate. That and the death of custom game modes/lobbies have really killed all the fun of online multiplayer.
Forget story and mechanics. How’s the humour? That’s the core of Borderlands.
Not even seeing the movie, just media talking about it catches people’s attention.
Anyone who wants to really. The networks we’ve built have so many vulnerable points, in order to simply function at the scale it does, that it’s absurd.
Everyone else is responsible for our own poor decisions!
__________ is still trying to make ___________ happen, could be used to describe way too many tech companies these days.
This here is what we call “Exhibit A”
Fortunately there are plenty of excellent indie titles which stay true to the original spirit of gaming. I recently got around to finally playing Outer Wilds, and can’t possibly recommend it strongly enough.
Any word on what the change was? That site doesn’t load properly.
Hellgate: London deserved better than what it got.
They can’t make anything else because the creative types who can actually come up with interesting and compelling new ideas don’t get along with the business types that aggressively invaded the video game industry the instant it started making lots of money.
Right, and as someone who has spent considerable time with all three games, I’m sharing my experience with them so others know what to expect, to help others decide which is right for them.
You’d like to think that, but the entire industry is currently collapsing in upon itself because they’ve spent so long doubling and tripling down on things that nobody was buying already. They won’t even think twice about driving beloved studios off a cliff in the pursuit of their corporate wet dreams.
Sure, but if you’re specifically looking for a game like WoW, you aren’t going to find it in GW2.
I’m astonished it took this long for people to start realizing that injecting social media into every facet of their lives isn’t a great idea. Why people wanted anonymous comments on their art, which could be from psychopathic junkies for all anyone knows, is beyond me.