This is a shame. Blockland really had the makings of greatness. I am Commandrew, and I have seen the hundreds of add-ons some very smart people have made. I mean, some of these weapons are pure genius. But most add-ons are never fully used to there maximum potential.
Let me use an example. Think about Halo 3. Blockland has maps, weapons, vehicles, more vehicles, and you can fly with jets on you feet, for crying out loud. But even though more people have a PC or Mac then an Xbox 360,
Halo 3 made WAY more money then Blockland ever will. Why is this so? I'll tell you why. If you go buy Halo 3, you can take it home, and bam, you have an awesome video game. You’re fighting covenant, battling flood, taking on brutes.
Now let’s consider Blockland. Once you buy Blockland, you will likely then spend 2-3 hours downloading all of these add-ons, then you have a couple options,
1) play a laggy online match with only half of the add-ons you downloaded,
2) spawn in the bedroom and use your newly-downloaded weapon to shoot the wall,
3) waste 6 months of you life to build a two massive forts, so you can have a TDM with yourself, or
4) get a degree in networking, attempt to forward your ports, pray to Jesus that it will work just so you can host option number one.
Badspot needs to stop telling everyone “Beware of add-ons! Install a bad add-on, and your game will crash!”
He needs to look at the code for an add-on, and give it a Yes or a No. If yes, then he includes it in the next version of Blockland. If no, then put it in some place in the forums called “Bad/Incomplete add-ons.”
Also, it would be wise for Badspot to go and buy some dedicated PCs to host some Blockland servers, instead of having the Average American Kid screw up his router.
I'm going to judge e-speech by the paragraphs I've broken it into:
First, who are you to judge this game? What games comparable to this have you made?
Nothing too wrong with this except for the fact that it's mostly composed of spam.
That's not why Halo 3 is so sucessful. Halo 3 was highly anticipated by the fans of both Halo:CE and Halo 2 (Which had become a large amount by then).It had a huge advertising campagin directly from Halo 3 advertisments and indirectly through the sucess of Halo:CE and Halo 2 and by word of mouth through fans of the previous two to their friends/co-workers/school mates/etc. Not to mension the game itself is easy to pickup and play, as you said. Also, the fact that Xbox LIVE was pretty much a must have in most houses with 360's, the great online feature drew most of Bungie's customers.
Yes, downloading addons when you join a server is quite the hastle, but that's 2-3 hours out of countless hours you'll be having fun. If you're that impatient, then you need to read a book or something.
1. It's only laggy if you have a crappy computer, horrible internet connection, or an insane ammount of bricks/emitters/vehicles on the map.
2. Or you could build something on that map or one of the many others included.
3. It doesn't take long to build something cool if you've ever played with legos before.
4. Yes, portforwarding is tricky, but it is do-able and is quite easy once you figure it out.
Also, one option you forgot is modding. Why do you think there are hundreds of addons and serveral sections of the forums dedicated to this subject? That's because this is one of the best parts about the game. Built an awesome race track, but you don't have an awesome racecar to go with it? Make one yourself! You can pretty much add anything you want to this game and have endless possiblities.
Yes, a bad addon will crash your game, but if you delete the bad addon, your game should be good as new. No big deal. But if Badspot didn't warn people, he'd have a ton more complaints than nessisary.
Badspot doesn't have the time to go through hundreds and hundreds of addons, he's to busy fixing/updating the game that runs them all. Besides, Ephi was nice enough to build an entire system (RTB if you didn't know) that does this for you. Also, if Badspot was to add all the working addons to every version of BL, you wouldn't wait 2-3 hours downloading addons after you got the game, you'd wait 2-3 hours just to download the game itself! Plus, addons come out so rapidly that it'd be hard to check them all. Not to mention the addons that people don't release. And Badspot would have to pay for extra bandwidth on his site just to have the game download avalible.
He has one dedicated server that doesn't require any addons (Badspots Block Party). If you don't like that, then you're out of luck.
