interesting watch

https://youtu.be/bgkoz5EZTok

I played Game Of War for a while.  Unless you want to drop serious cash, you will just be frustrated.  It isn't F2P, it is P2Win all the way.  There are players spending literally 10k plus at the start of a new kingdom(world) spawn to race to the top.

Meursault wrote on Sep 28^th, 2015 at 9:09pm:

Is LotRO back up yet?

Meursault wrote on Sep 28^th, 2015 at 11:21pm:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3XTj5G_SA

Meursault wrote on Sep 29^th, 2015 at 10:39am:


Damn. Now it is stuck in my head too. 

Mmo is dying, mobile games and moba are evolving rapidly, especially mobile games.

MMOLARP?

I wanna see an MMORPG called Guidos vs Ninjas: a time-warping portal opens up over Hoboken, N.J. and various ninjas from feudal Japan fall out of the sky.  Upon character creation, you have to choose, Guido or Ninja.  Guidos must pick one of 5 families" Gamblino, Bonanas, Luccheasy, Ginovese, or Colombus.  Ninjas must pick one of 5 clams: Koga, Iga, Fuuma, Hattori, Azumi.  The 5 factions within each group are war with each other, as well as a game mechanic that forces Ninjas and Guidos into combat based on proximity; if they're anywhere near eachother, they must fight; where as Ninjas can only fight other Ninjas (or Guidos against other Guidos) by choice.  Guidos have access to modern weaponry, while Ninjas get suped-up versions of ancient weapons.  Countless special abilities: e.g. Guidos can get temporary invincibility (Palooka Power) while Ninjas can get temporary invisibility (Shadowmeld).  The point of the game would by to vie WITHIN your sub group (Guido or Ninja) for supremacy against all rival factions, while also maintaining a higher kill count: the game tracks dead Ninjas and Guidos constantly, so the idea would be to make the opposing groups number bigger.  This would be done in the context of also shoring up support for you faction, ensuring you're not overly vulnerable to getting wiped the fuck out by your own kind.

There are many limitations in the MMO genre, and too many developers trying to make a carbon copy of WoW and failing.

With the advent of the smartphone era, the mobile gaming business model is the new trend. And if that's the future of MMO gaming, I don't envision a bright future for MMOs at all. I watched the video you linked and my thought was, "the MMO genre is devolving, not evolving."

Meh. I enjoy playing with my friends, not against them (at least not for more than a few rounds). And playing against random scrubs is also meh. There's the occasional person who is just as cool to play against as with, but it's mostly just a bunch of KNNs.

The MOBA genre and competitive games in general is a different subject altogether. While they're massively multiplayer, they're not RPGs. And my impression was that the video in question which spurred the whole discussion was referring to MMORPGs specifically.

When I think of MMORPGs, WoW, WoW clones, DDO, and this newer generation of half-assed mobile MMOs come to mind. And of these, only WoW and the new mobile MMOs seem to be experiencing popularity at the moment. I think it's at least partly a function of the smartphone era.

So if we're talking in terms of the shift of MMOs' popularity in general from WoW/WoW clones to the newer mobile games, I'd say it's devolving.

If we're talking in terms of the shift of MMOs' popularity from MMORPGs to MOBAs, I'd say it's changing.

Hey strake can we get a way to block knn from our threads? Or just a board he can't access or something.