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Darkfall - my stuffty experience
Visage:
--- Quote from: yuki on February 19, 2011, 02:20:29 PM ---The reason you want your game available to players of all levels of experience and skill, is that you can attract more financial gain and more possible subscribers, who become skilled players and continue investing in the game. You alienate your profit and your community when you try to filter the playerbase in such a stupid and arbitrary way. There is nothing on the website or in any of the advertisements saying that the game is for hardcore pvp richardheads, so obviously they are trying to attract people to their game, but when the gameplay and game mechanics say otherwise, those potential buyers leave. Your argument of "skilled players get bored hurr" is transparent, and doesn't make any sense whatsoever. In the end, you end up with eve more experienced players than before. WoW has this chalked up to a goddamned psychological algorithm. They don't alienate players, they strive to get more of them, and look at their success. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. Fighting rats isn't inherently fun, because they're low-level creatures, but as you ascend the ladder you fight more challenging, bigger, cooler monsters. Making the low-level creatures too strong makes the game seem too difficult to beginners, making them too easy makes the game seem dull. Really, low-level creatures should be a war of attrition. A rat on its own is no challenge, but after fighting consecutive ones you are drained.
These are basic principles of game design you can pick up just from looking at other games.
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Didn't see this massive wall of text. Have you ever thought a game company could actually make a game it wanted, for a player base it wanted, and not worry about making it a mash 1 button for free level-ups game just to appeal to all the kiddies in the world? That is why indie games are usually the best, indie companies make games they think would be fun, not what they think would be most profitable.
Dippindots:
I want to try darkfall now
naturemon:
--- Quote from: Visage on February 19, 2011, 02:30:49 PM ---I have read over your posts and they are easily discredited, also your point is invalid, yet you continue to think otherwise, proving you are extremely stubborn. Really you are way more stupid than your low IQ says you are.
Now try to actually show some proof.
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My IQ is clearly low, yet you steal my wording, how smart you are!
Yuki has continuously proved your reasonings wrong, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you are wrong.
Dippindots:
--- Quote from: naturemon on February 19, 2011, 02:47:25 PM ---My IQ is clearly low, yet you steal my wording, how smart you are!
Yuki has continuously proved your reasonings wrong, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you are wrong.
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He used your wording to discredit you further.
Visage:
--- Quote from: Dippindots on February 19, 2011, 02:44:39 PM ---I want to try darkfall now
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It has a 2 week trial, but it isn't for the faint of heart, as you can see yuki was beat to death, mocked and robbed multiple times in the course of a few hours.