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Building Community: The Overlooked Challenge of Indie Game Development
https://medium.com/@johnalbano/building-your-community-the-overlooked-challenge-of-indie-game-development-399058faa89a
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"the social elements of the genre are eroding a bit. Should MMOs force grouping..." Grouping and Social have little to nothing to do with each other. Social is driven by the thind, and often most forgotten, component of MMOs. When I worked as a dev…
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Awesome news! Now there will be a lot more diversity in appearance to the sea of useless crap strewn outside my crafting stations.
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Neat list. Most of them aren't my cup of tea but that Soulmask thing looks interesting. TY for the list!
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Asian grinder AND Blockchain BS... sounds WONDERFUL!
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Slapshot1188 said: But at the end of the day, it DOES affect me. It affects all of us. F2P, Cashshop, Early Access, CryptoGaming, Kickstarter Scams... All impact our community. Well said.
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I'd prefer an MMO with no NPCs. However, if it had to have NPCs, I'd rather organic dialog than static dialog. And if static dialog is necessary, there should be an option to slap the NPC when he's asking you to go find the same thing that the past …
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lotrlore said: And it's why you've started to see sites review early access titles like they are released titles ( we will be starting that this year ourselves). I rarely post anymore, but regularly read. MMORPG.com has always …
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Nilden said: The kickstarter/crowdfunded MMO well has been thoroughly poisoned with buckets of lies, broken promises and undelivered games. Not to mention straight up scams. Exactly.
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"So to help the discussion can you advise when the project started, when the Founders Packs went on Sale, how much was raised from that vs total funding for the game?" Standard and Collector's Editions were sold prior to release. Source: https://…
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Slapshot1188 said: LynxJSA said: Nick_Shively said: Albion Online is probably the most successful, launched kickstarter MMORPG so far. Why do people say Albion Online is a kickstarter or crowdfunded MMORPG? Is it becaus…
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Mendel said: making games made with such a kit very derivative. The majority of MMORPGs now are already level-restricted, class-enforced, static-map, tiered-zone, health/mana-regulated, fantasy-based, combat-focused EQ/WOW de…
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Nick_Shively said: Albion Online is probably the most successful, launched kickstarter MMORPG so far. Why do people say Albion Online is a kickstarter or crowdfunded MMORPG? Is it because of the founder packs sold? By that measure wouldn…
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"Kickstarted MMORPGs are dead." Was there any evidence they were alive during the past decade? Like, what is the list of successful crowdfunded MMOs from 2010 to 2023 that you used that would prompt you to today declare something the entire industr…
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ohrecon said: Honestly, I do think people are just tired of the same ol stuff. ... Just look at some of the long time MMO games still running. Minus WoW & FFXIV, you still have people playing games like Destiny 2, Warframe, POE, etc. T…
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giantessfan said: I clicked on this article expecting them to have announced a release date and I was going to be shocked. Same.
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Uwakionna said: Line of inquiry may be, what changes can be done to the core design of MMOs to bridge that gap between niche designs into a "main line". Three distinct components of MMOs seem to be theme park, sandbox, and the social aspec…
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Gear treadmills are the endgame of the level-based, class-restricted EQ/WOW branch of MMOs. The end game of Second Life, Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Online, EVE Online, A Tale in the Desert, Puzzle Pirates, Entropia Universe, and Toon Town were all…
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"But Will It Be Good?" "coming to Android and iOS" An article that answers its own question by the end of the first paragraph.
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"the number of monetization models has grown" What new monetization models have been introduced in the past ten years?
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"Mobile blockchain..." Didn't bother reading past that.
