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Riot Games MMO?
d_20
Member RarePosts: 1,878
Is this a tease?
Marc Merrill asks: Should we build a MMO? Yay or nay?
Marc Merrill asks: Should we build a MMO? Yay or nay?
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's very easy to throw the game in the first 5 mins, then everyone can be "trapped" in that game for up to an hour. Likewise game is set up for competitive/predatory gameplay, so you end up with gross trapped wolf mentalities.
Likewise the game is set up such that there will always be new mechanics and subtleties to trip you up (even after hundreds of hours). IE: you can get one class type to high rankings, then trying to learn other types of classes will leave you at average level (making you a king of throws).
Putting those players in an infinite progression system, against AI, and set up where mistakes just delays a win (MMO style mechanics like wipes)... I'm sure that average friendliness will go up a bit.
Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent.
"At one point technology meant making tech that could get to the moon, now it means making tech that could get you a taxi."
Regardless who dominates a game
Past: Hardcore players who could choose to have no life and play a game.
Present: The sheer plethora of casual players who bring their wallets to force companies to make games catered around them.
Regardless of the viewpoint it doesn't change the toxic community that comes from
1) Hardcore players being hardcore and expressing it in a chat-box
2) Casual Players branding themselves as hardcore players and expressing it in a chat box.
Just remember...
In this day and age, if a professional with a masters degree and many years experience, who is not hired to be a civil servant gets into an exchange with a basement-living, uneducated forum-dweller, that is enough for said professional to lose their job, regardless of the toxic attitude coming from said professional.
Riot Games can make whatever MMO they want.
Their primary fanbase they are banking on is on league of legends.
The toxic nature of League of Legends is legendary to the point that Honest Game Trailers made a trailer about them entitled "League of Assholes." I don't think a genre change is going to eliminate the present toxic nature.
Can't play a single MMO that follows the following rule:
"The farther you get, the higher the chances of encountering an ass, and once you get to pure endgame, watch out....as beyond tolerance lies a world truly void of light and filled with darkness."