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the post cataclysm dismal levelling but to indulge in some pvp guild wars 1 is still going because people go and pvp in it good pvp is going to bring in money long term and without extra outlay because an awful lot of people get to enjoy it compared to only the number of people who like to gank having fun illustration no 2 many people enjoyed wrath of the lich king fewer people enjoyed cataclysm it s safe to guess that zerging things in wotlk was fun for more people i should think and performing perfectly in cataclysm was fun for fewer but the costs to the company of creating raids would have still been there whether they chose to please the few and made less money or the many and made more money so it s a fairly simple correlation to figure out and i m pretty sure people making games do recognise it at first and then do they get frightened by the sneering dumbed down casual care bear ring any bells hey i got news for all you so called hard nosed business people if ya can t stare down a sneer because you can see past it to a fat bottom line you re not very good at business there is also the argument that a branded name of hamburger is very popular but not good quality true does fun come in graded qualities you can force some system of measurement to the quality of fun i daresay i think i ll leave that for the few people who think imposing a qualitative measure on fun is a worthwhile thing to do with their lives meanwhile here in real popularity is a pretty useful measure in video games of how much money they will earn just as it is in the hamburger business and finally there are the infinite obstacles small and large inserted into gaming in the name of monetisation fun pretty much gets lost in that mix all too often the players and the game are competing for the same resource a competition the game will always win zero fun in that this is structural and i ll do a post later on it essentially all the subtle variations of buy to win the game sellers are always going to prefer that you pay them money for something over you play for something and are in a position to nerf gameplay in favour of a sale which brings me raither neatly to the fact that we ve been having more fun in older games than in newer ones something i m sure a few readers will have noticed at the end of my last post the newer games the 2014 ish launches are absolutely not lacking in production quality they are fabulous from that standpoint and fun is not lacking either but it s gated and that means fewer people and that means less sales which is fine a nice interesting choice for the companies involved bottom line though we d rather fire up terraria here in this house than struggle with a thin economy in eso we d rather romp about in eq2 than battle to get fabkits in wildstar new and shiny though it is it s a pretty consistent thread of preference we re gaming there to enjoy and we play what delivers so here s our current fun list with all the fun parts attached and some things i found interesting bolded you never know a strolling dev might come by and find an angle skyrim no surprise i m sure i love this game i log in i lose myself completely i ve got things to do and npc s to meet it looks fantastic i can kill dragons i m not simulating me it has weather i own a house or three lydia is quite the most interesting pet i ve ever come across my wealth increases as i play plus i get to loot treasure or steal it it has tales of epic adventure and intrigue i get to use all the best weapons the best enchantments and read all the books there is no preferred playstyle anyone who logs in gets to play the full game and play for all the best shinies terraria i already bolded this for skyrim there is no preferred playstyle in terraria either that s probably a feature of single player games really where basically if you don t deliver fun capital f you plotz because there aren t any other things to distract from the client pays money client receives fun transaction terraria is also loved because it s deep deep deep and because it s quirky and funny there is much discovery and exploration i love that i can sit in a mud hut with a campfire while zombies batter the walls futilely to get at me such a cosy feeling it has atmosphere and achieves this with pixel graphics crafting is completely relevant i m going to do a post on crafting rather than detail here but the essential is preffered playstyles kill it because if your raiders pvpers guilds whatnot are getting all the good stuff it leaves crafted items with no value i m still playing wildstar but pretty much on the strength of the combat now and unsub isn t too far off the addon that adjusts fov helped my headaches enough to reach level 14 and i do have a house it s quite nice all presets but cute enough but there ll be a struggle to do anything with it i ll be unsubbing for almost the same reason i unsubbed from eso stingy economy in this case i can trade openly which is a relief but thar s a big problem huge i think i now know where all the austerity economists are hanging out they ve attached themselves to video gaming it s the exact same thing inadequate earnings unavoidable and rising expenses unlike in real life though austerity in a game can be avoided by walking i probably will i do enjoy the combat in wildstar same thing as eso in combat i don t move like a slug while the mobs whizz around and that s lovely i think this game is pretty solid really and no reason it shouldn t do well unless it forgets to make sure that plenty of fun is there for the many in it s quest to captivate raiders i am not sure that describing uemeu as a game does it justice it is more like a toolset it has in fact become a tool for me in yet another post already written in my head i ll detail where we re at with thingie our long long long term project briefly there are apps and programs we use to explore ideas and prototype uemeu is the fastest way i know to for example lay out a city or check what the physics will look like when something happens it s pretty amazing and i m totally enjoying watching it develop but the fun part it s so open ended i have fun by sitting down for an hour or two and just playing with the infinite customisation i can literally spend a week just fooling about with one composite shape it s been known or a simple shape for that matter or a lot of both or a world or portals or traps or miniquests or springs or all of them or the new things there are always new things in as much as it s a game it s a game where you build things worlds can be linked multiplayer if not already fully implemented is possible sometimes the team run player sessions where you can see this in action there s a lot to write about on this one and i ll be using that new patch as an excuse and i m leaving neverwinter for the next post because this one s pretty long and i d like to do some detail with neverwinter since it is the only game i know that actually gets the time money relationship amongst other things it jolly well deserves a good look and a thorough pick aparting last words fun is subjective this makes people who like things in boxes and in measured quantities run for miles and miles screaming and waving their arms that alone makes fun a valuable thing here endeth the second wall of text i share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading categories fruit salad game design and creation things in general vague rambly stuff big catchup post what i played where i m at a lot of rambling part 1 posted on june 23 2014 by avatarsofsteel some extra news uemeu is due to release a new patch later this week and it s quite a special one judging by this video https www youtube com watch v q4xa1prih7y woh i have 8 blog posts i counted them circling in my head like aeroplanes waiting to land but before i embark on those which are in fact all written with only the writing missing i am going to gather all the small disparate bits and bobs that are also sitting in my head marked wistfully blog and do a blah here it is then it has been an astonishingly busy year but not much has happened the busy is mostly people treadmilling harder and harder to stay afloat much activity hardly any movement people want to see you more often more forms need filling in whatever it people do they ve been doing it more for all they re worth bless roughly every two weeks something has fallen apart too cuts in staff do that it has taken over a year for some totally routine passport stuff to make it s way through a backlogged system having to field the problems all this causes is death to productivity but wahey everyone s very very busy so that s ok then wee grumble there predictably everyone is also very very tired punchdrunk i call it so the summer hols are rolling in not a second too late and with the make busies all off their treadmills or winding down space and time have expanded and i can blog yay as always my sanity has been preserved and protected and safely girded in the legendary armour of armourness by being able to log into a game when the day s work is done gaming keeps my wits in and my countenance serene in a way that passive media just cannot actually the passive stuff just induces impotent fury one thing i won t be blogging in detail about is the independence referendum here in scotland it s little known but the rules regarding blogging tweeting about it in the run up to the day are very catch all so far nobody has cited them but its power with a capital p that this referendum is about big wheels gnashing not everything totally fair or square on the other hand i can t exactly ignore something so huge so there will be general comments i m pretty sure i am allowed to say that the debate has been amazing the debate really has been amazing if you give people a whiff of democracy they perk up no end the main media has been using the tired tribal model to report our referendum like some sporting event gnnnnh err that was impotent fury i stay away i can tell you faithfully from here in the middle of it on the ground that what i m seeing is nothing so infantile i see people finding stuff out thinking stuff through and having lively interesting discussions about just about every aspect of our governance it s a privilege to be here at this time and i get more accurate news from twitter by now anyway my how i used to hate twitter but now it s something i don t think i could do without interactive peer reviewed news suits me perfectly well it s fine and it s weird i did used to sit in a chair for hours idle passive watching like it s strange to think of watching tv now what a peculiar thing to do i haven t unpacked mine yet i haven t watched it for think 3 years or so it isn t missed the set itself is ancient too pre switchover whatever that was and won t be replaced no chickens when i want relax i go computer and the gaming s been great added to that our long saved for computer has opened some new doors so between twitter and video gaming my sanity has been perfectly safe and now i get to write about it too truly life is wonderful there s a lot of ground to cover i have been playing new games and old games and games that are still being made i have discovered skyrim and i am totally besotted with it and as a result i m gradually reaching a grudging state of not minding too much about steam which is now having a sale so even more games there i ve discovered android gaming it s been wild i tell you wild and relaxing i ll start with the new games that i don t intend to do whole blogposts about but i was there at the beginning so here s what i thought is what i d like to write those would be landmark elder scrolls online and wildstar i played a little of the alpha on landmark and i ll visit again when it s properly launched it s very pretty and looks to become a nice game but i stopped playing quite fast two reasons one having to hold the left mouse button for ages to chop wood it made my fingers hurt i know there was a workaround i could have adjusted my hardware but i wasn t gripped enough to do that and two this is silly my avatar s legs reminded me of milk bottles thin thighs big whitish sausagey calves the mouse problem is maybe solved by now at least i hope so i m not sure i m ever going to get over the sausagey calves but i ll try i know it s silly but it was that thing where once you ve noticed something it keeps attracting your attention when i was playing all the building tools and interfaces weren t working properly yet though some were there i think mainly for this game i ll try it when it s done it was ok it is a pleasant looking world and building is right up my street i m not sure about the procedural generation i have a feeling the human brain needs a lot of elements to feel interested i climbed hills to find more of the same but then player made structures will presumably change that and give places a more unique feel we ll see it s on the try a few months later list i very much liked the elder scrolls online it does not have the visceral grip of skyrim which literally reached out of the screen and pulled me into that world the first time i played but eso is a fine game and there were many things i really loved about it yet i hit the unsub button the economy is thin players earn little ingame coin and spend much inventory mounts and repairs as in real life if people can t thrive and survive on what they can earn legitimately they find other ways i ve never seen so many bots usually one would manage to garner extra ingame currency via an auction house trading with other players but in this game there s a wall at the time i was playing i would have had to belong to a guild which could then trade with some other guilds i read that this is some notion about localising markets well they are localised right enough to the extent that non guilded players are barred well i am a busy woman i do not have time to join and maintain relationships in one guild let alone five which meant at time of playing i couldn t do ah trade and that last point was the unsub my self esteem just isn t low enough to pay full price and a sub at that for a gimp i am delighted that guildy people have a guildy game but i won t be humbly subsidising the preferred playstyle anytime soon at least not on a regular basis eso is on the visit sometime list i do want to play this that s because the weather is fantastic the lore is huge and satisfying there are critters and i for one liked the combat in particular i liked this about the combat my avatar did not move like slug while the mobs moved like quickfish well it did but the differential wasn t as big as is usual in other games i found that if i had been playing eso then played another game it was very very noticeable that the enemy got to move normally or fast and i was moving in slow motion the eso balance feels far more natural and enjoyable i like this game 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