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hy more generally my initial impression of the pandaria expansion storyline not yet having read the book was extremely mixed i felt that the pandaren stereotypes serene but hungry were jokes that got overused and that the faction tension appeared artificial with the two sides in the conflict somehow taking on the same foes as they work across the continent now i understand the narrative decision that brought us to pandaria and the seemingly odd decision to pre announce that the horde s own faction leader would be the expansion s final boss the entire continent is a narrative gimmick used to introduce the concept of sha physical corruption of people who have negative emotions to take garrosh s story to the end of his career as warchief knowing that this is what the story is about and knowing all the context that was only available in the book now makes me much more interested in seeing this seemingly bizarre detour in the story of azeroth through to its ending it also emphasizes how inadequate the in game treatment of the story was when a player could go to the level cap covering a fair amount of the content in the process and have no idea what was going on posted by green armadillo at 9 16 pm 0 comments labels my characters pvd wow thursday july 18 2013 things i missed in game the downside to being away from mmo s for a month is that stuff happens when you re not around a few things i observed from afar another round of double exp weekends in swtor a bit disappointed to have sat this one out the exp rate would have gotten my third character through their class story and made a decent dent in a fourth ffxiv s third closed beta phase received invite indifferent to having missed this as characters were wiped at the end of beta 3 and supposedly characters will not be wiped at the end of the open beta phase 4 not sure how they re going to have both a non reset open beta and a pre purchase headstart program guess we ll know in a month or so growing pains in marvel heroes the game s launch was a bit of a mess the patcher kept re downloading the entire game client to the point where technical support was recommending that you install the game through steam there were a variety of bugs and quality of life issues associated with quest rewards perhaps most interesting the studio has announced plans to move away from the completely random drop system for earning heroes in game and instead use a token unlock system given that playing real characters from the ip is a central selling point of the title i don t know if it s more puzzling that they refused to give ground on this point for so long or that they reversed so suddenly either way the game looks like it s in much better shape than it was a month ago other things i m not tracking so closely include rift s business model shift came down just before i left haven t really heard much discussion since and tsw quietly putting out dlc at a decent clip after the game s relaunch and the relocation of its studios it could have been worse seems to have been a relatively quiet chunk of summer i also learned today that wow s patch 5 3 world event is apparently going away in the next patch but i m hoping there s still time to catch that what else has been going on in game this summer posted by green armadillo at 7 31 pm 0 comments labels ff online my characters pvd rift star wars tsw wow wednesday july 17 2013 adapting to mmo churn i enjoy the occasional time offline from my hobby reading and writing about mmo s it s a change of pace and a chance to get perspective on the way things have been going both in my personal gaming life and in the bigger picture my thought sitting back and observing the major discussions of the last month is that this entire genre players developers financiers is still struggling to adapt to the current reality that mmo s are no longer a long term commitment to a single title business model discussions remain the hottest issue in mmo s in part due to blizzard s effort to create the infrastructure and groundwork for a significantly expanded cash shop in world of warcraft the upcoming title wildstar is actually announcing in advance that they intend to make a business model announcement in the future this environment is affecting the direction of game development as studios struggle to recoup ever rising costs but no one seems to have found a solution that is as mutually acceptable to both producers and consumers as the monthly subscription was in the days where players stayed put for the long haul increasing portions of the innovation that we re seeing in mmo s focuses on lowering entry barriers to combat the effects of churn on pve groups and guilds wow announced a new raid format with flexible group sizes in early june swtor is rolling out story mode flashpoints which remove the requirement for the holy trinity and has also added guild bonuses that require players to be in guilds that have at least 25 active accounts titles including ffxiv and wow are adding instanced content intended to train players to function in groups these features simply weren t necessary in the old days where players stuck with games for the long haul and were forced to learn to group as they leveled another topic of the day is the decline of mmo bloggers especially blogs that focus on a single title in an era where more and more people are hopping in and out of games the investment required to set up a dedicated blog for a single title is harder to justify and sustain the same seems true for single game podcasts the recently concluded 200 episode run of casual stroll to mordor is the highest profile example but i ve been seeing both smaller numbers and shorter runs on game specific podcasts for a while now i think the story of the pandaria era in wow is that blizzard attempted to use incentive design to replicate the level of daily engagement that players had in azeroth back in the days where people stuck with the title for years my view is that people stuck with wow in 2005 2006 largely because no other title on the market in that era was as focused on solo play and that people formed legitimate social bonds that led to ongoing long term engagement as an accidental consequence of not having anywhere else to go you can get players to log on for daily quests dungeons and raids but you cannot replace genuine social ties with an alliance of convenience motivated purely by the fastest path to the daily incentive reward instead the artificial drive for commitment leads to faster burnout people who lived through the old days and liked them continue to hold out hope that some future niche focused title can recapture the level of stability that mmo s took for granted 8 10 years ago i wish them the best but i see this outcome as highly unlikely the wide array of titles on the market today is a huge driver of player mobility and a major challenge for retention i believe a title that succeeded in this approach would need to be revolutionary not merely evolutionary such that no one who played the new title would be willing to return to anything we have today if the road back where we came isn t likely and the place where we are now isn t financially sustainable then the only hope is to adapt to modern demographics and find a way forward it s just not clear whether and how this can be done posted by green armadillo at 7 19 pm 2 comments labels baseless speculation business models ff online pvd star wars wow newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe subscribe to pvd about player versus developer i m what they call a wow tourist wow was my first mmo and being able to set my own schedule is a dealbreaker at any given time i can be found ducking in and out of half a dozen different mmo s this blog details some of my own personal exploits but it also focuses on a meta gaming issue that i find very interesting the decisions developers make on how to reward player activity and the decisions 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