Comments on: What can MMO devs learn from Fable 2?

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:51:06 +0000

Is it that devs are shortsighted, or is it that there’s no funding for anything but “this will KILL WoW, we promise! It’s just like WoW only better!”?

I suspect the latter. Games designers are usually creative, box-busting people, but if the money’s not there for creative and it *is* there for doing what’s been done for a decade, then it’s easy to guess what they’ll do if they want to be able to pay the rent and send Princess to college in a few years.

By: DM Osbon

DM Osbon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:21:42 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Pete – glad my comment gave you some material. I personally think MMO devs rely too much on what previous MMOs have offered & not looked at winning a ‘new’ audience by taking the good concepts from other gaming genres & moulding them into a new vein of MMO gaming.

MMO gaming will suffer if devs keep rehashing the main elements of WoW plus a few additions(see WAR).

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:56:08 +0000

Argh. I need to stop reading other people’s blogs. They are just making me want to buy this game. And I don’t have enough time for the ones I have already! Darn you all to heck.