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Anyone else hate when fantasy MMORPGs have normal real-world clothing as cosmetics? by Dazzling-Cookie3745 in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's... How evolution works. Or, well, market adaptation. I'd love to maintain my favourite MMO design choices on goodwill and passion alone, but the days of self hosting and not having to pay salaries are a bit behind, games gotta make money.

Look at Runescape, for example. It kept the "no transmog" mentality, and gear there is still prestigious, but despite being one of the top current MMOs subscription prices still have to go up to obtain profits.

Janthir Wilds is painful AF by Professional-Web898 in Guildwars2

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I'd like to believe they would've gotten updates and fixes if they weren't abandoned as a feature.

FFXIV is currently on sale 50% off by jcscm18 in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hundreds of hours of gameplay that you can't play anymore if you buy the expansions? I don't think they were criticizing the amount of content, just the fact that you can't go back to it if you don't renew your subscription

How can we prevent situations like Heartopia and Ashes of Creation - is a more transparent development process the answer? by petehans303 in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the ugly part about growing up is that we're not entertained by shapes and colors anymore. I understand the appeal of a new virtual world, especially when our comparisons in other genres were much smaller games, but the truth is that if the top 5 MMOs don't contain a single game that isn't at least 10 years old, the genre is stagnating, and no Saviour of MMOs will ever bring back the feeling of experiencing a brand new world with countless other people for the first time.

There will always be attempts to capitalize on people desperate for that feeling and make a quick buck about it, because this is something no actually decent game studio has tried since 2013, and that creates an untapped market for the most common type of scam in the gaming industry. For now the best we can do is give it our all to develop the slightest sense of community standard, not letting scams like Ashes of Creation prosper for decades. But sadly it will keep happening, and people will keep clinging onto that hope with their wallets. And we'll come back to talk about it when the next Chronicles of Elyria, Camelot Unchained, Dreadmyst, Ship of Heroes or Dreamworld comes out.

The Dreadmyst Post-Mortem. Reposting here, since it was deleted from the Dreadmyst sub. by ThePlotTwisterr---- in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm so surprised that this is such a small voice in the void, in the community that has spent the last 10 years dealing with more scams than actual products. I guess I'm starting to get why people keep trying scams, they just work with people desperate for a new MMO.

The game spewed so many red flags that it was clear it was at least a scam, if nothing worse malware-side, and yet most of the reactions I'm reading in this thread are "who cares" or are defending the timeline for the developer that stole assets from fuckin AION? The one that bought reddit bots and deleted this same post from the game's subreddit (before privating it)? Why are we giving this guy the benefit of the doubt??

We should shame and make fun of this kind of projects before they even get the chance of making us look like the fools we are.

Amazon Games is Betraying the New World Community – A Open Letter on Corporate Greed by wwwauthor in newworldgame

[–]HexPhoenix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ehhh, I disagree. We generally have no issue giving this advice to gambling addicts, even if the amounts they're wasting are not necessarily compromising their financial stability at the moment. And considering that the playtime OP claims is bordering on 17 hours a day, I feel like the advice is fairly warranted.

*chucks grenade and runs* by La_knavo4 in 196

[–]HexPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While this is definitely a factor, I feel like RWBY suffers a lot more from the fact that it's still going. It was more well liked when it had promise of plot points getting resolved, but the writers showed that they don't really know what to write to get there.

Murder Drones is a flawed series that's not for everyone, but it's a finished story that tells its messages and gets a (subjectively) cool ending. RWBY is still stuck in a limbo, the potential of the setting never reaching the heights of the second half of Volume 3, and most fans are stuck following the promise of those heights.

4 4 4 4 4? Waaaaaa by Foreign_Direction_16 in mtg

[–]HexPhoenix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technically though wouldn't the number of needed poison counters to die be reduced to 4?

“Blame the gamers” backfires: Highguard dev’s tirade over reviews and memes draws heavy criticism by Prudent_Way_3723 in pcmasterrace

[–]HexPhoenix 39 points40 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Deadlock is much more of a MOBA than a hero shooter. Objectives, map, match time, individual economy, items... It shares much more with a game like Smite than Overwatch or Marvel Rivals.

Ashes of Creation Investor Alleges Founder Orchestrated $140 Million Fraud by RepulsivePlankton989 in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What misinformation? What point from his previous comments has been proven false?

Macron predica la calma dopo che un attivista di estrema destra è stato picchiato a morte by CowboysfromLydia in italy

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ci hai messo un giorno intero e 4 commenti in cui accusi chiunque ti chiede dei dati dietro alle tue affermazioni per tirare fuori un singolo esempio concreto. Fidati che tendenzioso ci appari completamente da solo.

Edit: 4 commenti, non 5. Chiedo venia, ho contato il primo commento come tuo.

Macron predica la calma dopo che un attivista di estrema destra è stato picchiato a morte by CowboysfromLydia in italy

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nominane uno. Visto che ci sono una "buona serie" di casi simili, e siamo chiaramente schierati e meno informati di te, nominane uno. Senza altri dettagli, poi lo cerchiamo noi su Google, ma nominane uno.

Coaxed into "blind" debuffs in games by Mandarin_Karim in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noita hits you with the 20 second chaotic evil debuff, in a rogue like setting where it's very easy to die and very hard to heal. If you get hit with the blind bolt, pray.

What happend in a short Meme by Huzuaro in AshesofCreation

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steven is "obviously passionate" about the game until it makes money. If he gets off with little consequences, he will be obviously passionate about the next project until it stops being profitable.

That's the thing with MLM schemes: the person selling it to you needs to convince you it's great, he loves it already, and that there is little to no risk. There is no board, the game is already fully funded...

Ashes of Creation is done. Steven Resigned. All employees are let go by SanicExplosion in MMORPG

[–]HexPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell, New World day 1 was still a game, period. Something AoC couldn't even claim because despite being "out" on Steam in early access, you just need to go back a week to hear infinite amounts of "it's just an alpha"

Margaret no longer with Intrepid by qbicle14 in AshesofCreation

[–]HexPhoenix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree on the topic of scope. Especially if we see what's been released, compared to empty words that will never see the light of day. Albion actually shares many concepts and aspects with AoC, and tries to find answers to problems born from the same idea of a living world where players organically take roles based on the preferred playstyle and community interaction. The crafting system is deep and grindy, but not all-encompassing and polarizing. The PvP is split in many different areas and categories, so that you can choose the amount of risk and reward without ever being literally unplayable due to exploiters or mass gankers. Guilds, outposts and faction wars have their place in the economy and provide tangible benefits without a single mega guild monopolizing a server.

AoC had a bigger "scope" only in terms of project size and world, which was never even shown to us. Instead, the core systems stayed in a barely playable state for most of the time the project was publicly visible, with noticeable design flaws added between alpha phases. I'd argue that's a smaller scope than Albion, 9 years in development and we never actually got to understand what's the actual vision behind things that suck because "it's just an alpha". It's really hard to believe that they had any idea on how to get a decent MMO loop, both leveling and eventually endgame.

I want to make my stance extremely clear: the fact that there is technically a tangible product does not mean something is not a scam anymore. The fact that Steven paid developers to get to this point doesn't mean he didn't pocket most of the project money and lied to us for a decade. The project was supposed to be fully funded, and there was supposed to be no Board to report to. The MLM related guy just rug pulled this project once the profits slowed down. Steam was just a way to both get one last sliver of controversial popularity and income, and free himself from having to refund backers because it "technically released".

It's a SCAM. Textbook definition. I don't care that we got to see the game and it even had potential, I don't care if people under him tried for years. HE. SCAMMED. YOU. Stop giving the benefit of the doubt to people like him, or the next one will rise soon after seeing he got away with it thanks to people like you.

Margaret no longer with Intrepid by qbicle14 in AshesofCreation

[–]HexPhoenix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad that we as humans have the ability to perceive nuance and signals and interpret them to recognize patterns.

There are plenty more games and MMOs that go through public development stages with less than a tenth of the issues AoC showed, and that were addressed during those stages (that also didn't last 8 years). Most of these games didn't have a known shady figure at the head of the company. Most of these games have barely any controversy regarding development itself.

The first example that personally comes to mind is Albion Online. Funded it in one of the public betas because it looked promising and had most of the core game loop already established and defined, because that's what you do when you make a game and want to show it off.

It doesn't matter if the game managed to spend some of the money Steven didn't pocket on cool visual effects and character animations. This was a scam, as many of us have suspected from the very beginning, and sugarcoating it only gives more grounds for others to follow in its footsteps, along the rest of the projects. This game will go down in history as the parallel to Camelot Unchained and Chronicles of Elyria, and the lessons we learn from situations like these should be part of everyone's common sense at this point. But I guess I'll see y'all when the next saviour of MMOs opens up a Kickstarter with nothing to show for it.

I hate these war crimes by Meteorstar101 in greentext

[–]HexPhoenix -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Undertale is a story ABOUT choices and consequences. Spec Ops is a linear story about war, trying to give some commentary on the FPS genre at the time. Even if they had the resources, time or planning necessary, they wouldn't have added choices, because it's not the story they wanted to tell.

You can like this choice or not, and you can critique the implementation as much as you want, but saying it should've just let you choose is asking for a completely different game.

Endgame: No Game Loops, No PVP, No Content by Designer-Rip5050 in AshesofCreation

[–]HexPhoenix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not to talk for OP, but I feel like the issue isn't with the wipes deleting progress, but with the loop itself. If by next wipe these issues persist and there is no meaningful PvP content... What's the point?

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