TimTheEnchanter

Sorcery as a power pool maybe? *shrug*

You can do that for free though.

The "collectible" genre of toys has always been pretty sad. Unfortunately not as sad as the populous that repeatedly falls for it.

I also attributed much of the design to the classic superhero look. Though I would've preferred to make it possible to make girls that are smaller in one place and bigger in another, at least it's easily possible to make a character who is modest.

You can't even go for a hike in B&S without it looking like a catwalk at a fashion show.

I'll bet

Yeah, heh there's a few things in this video that I still haven't been able to reverse-engineer in my head.

Very impressive. I partially agree with some of the sentiment here though. Shoulda gone with the original classic song.

IB4 Jessica Rabbit fanclub.

That garbage will happen in any game that has stats. If it wasn't bickering about houses, they'd be bickering about wands, which CANONically have affinities for different kinds of spells. And any other rare item in the game that you can get.

Just imagine the real story as an MMO for a moment and imagine a player argument about Time Turners, Liquid Luck, Invisibility Cloaks, the Marauder's Map, etc.

If Voldemort comes back, that can be one of the epic pieces of content that calls for co-op zones where the factions can work together.

Keep the faction-unique powers out of it as well. Though affinities for certain things should perhaps be kept in. If they go with a Hogwarts-based game, the personality traits the sorting hat uses for assigning students to houses would provide some nice modifiers for base stats.

Mos Eisley cantina in SWG was pretty infamous as well. Star Wars, having the Twileks who were pretty much created just so the women could be sex objects (and the Zeltrons if you count stuff in the tabletop RPG - perversion is pretty much a religion for them) But I think it goes without saying that the more you use sex to sell your product, the higher percentage of those types of people you're likely to wind up with playing your game.

Well, to be fair, hope is at least in the title of the thread. I don't see any point in bickering hope, religion, etc further. I think a lot of us have said everything we need/want to about it and are more than happy to move onto something else.

Such as the Alcubierre, which I just remembered I didn't follow-up on. This article is why I figured it was a NASA project. http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/...ht-warp-drive/

I wouldn't have mentioned it all if someone wasn't trying to (speaking of religious/political discussions...) rewrite history.

Yeah... probably best to get as far from the Harry era as possible.

And if they want multiple factions, the "bad guy" can just someone with a different viewpoint instead of a devil character. Might have a better chance at not having horrid faction imbalances that way, and nobody going around acting like they already know the end because "The horde is supposed to lose!"

Typical propaganda from someone accusing people of propaganda.

The thread was not about why the game died. It deviated from the original topic of giving up, to whether or not people have a right to have hope. And then hope was compared to religion. And since the people it was coming from see religion as something that is only meant for cro-magnon men and children who believe in Santa, hoping for the game to survive was labelled as being equally misplaced. And that is how it became about religion.

The pony thing though... someone was spamming ponies on pretty much every thread, at least for a while.

The 'conclusions' of the thread as you say, boil down to the same 3 or 4 people who have been making the same arguments in every thread. That you're now gloating and trying to claim victory just proves how much of a troll you are, in that you are only arguing in these threads to win. Whether you care about the topic or not is obviously secondary.

It's also funny that you chose to single me out. Do you ever have a target that you stick with, or do you change your mind on who is the lord of Titan evil on a daily basis?

And to the other 3 or 4, aside from A_F, this is not directed at you. The only one who has truly proven themselves to be a troll is A_F.

Yeah that's what I mean. Not bookish enough according to her. Though after trying Pottermore, that only seemed like a metagame grind, and the only objective I found was winning points for your House.

The first rise of Voldemort before Harry's family gets killed.

Considering that Rowling doesn't like MMO's, I'd agree.

As much as I would love that, I am NEVER playing an MMO again based on an IP that the developer doesn't have the rights to. Outrageous licensing fees just make the profit demands on the game even harder to achieve.

Yep that's it! Thanks!

I think ponies and religion kinda go hand-in-hand these days, and occasionally have makeover slumber parties.

Absolutely. I may have a slightly jaded view on that though. I was in SWG when the biggest example of why NOT to care about what other games are doing, hit the fan. The NGE, which is STILL the biggest stain for SOE (and possible for ANY MMO developer), was an attempt at reinventing the game to make it more competitive against WoW. And how did they plan on doing that? What else? By trying to clone it.

Half of the innovations that made the game stand out, were scrapped in favor of copying WoW, including some of the mistakes.

I know there are, but that doesn't mean much of anything from a business standpoint. The same problem exists in Hollywood. "Inception" is an example of a movie that tried to avoid the typical formulas. Christopher Nolan was only finally able to get it funded though as a deal sweetener tied in with the Dark Knight series. Nobody had any confidence in it. It demanded a lot of brain-power from the audience to even understand half of it, making it a "poor bet." The film still made over 800M though, which is nothing to scoff at, especially for a film targeted at a niche genre that didn't even have any random/pointless sex appeal to get the pervs to buy tickets. But it still didn't change anything. Everything went back to business as usual. Sure, anyone else can make a sci-fi movie, but if they want funding for it, they need to pathetically tie it in with a famous board game and have Rihanna star in it. Who cares if she's never acted before? She's hot, so people will go see it, right?

Indeed. The huge investments being made in MMO's these days don't seem to ever pay off. Whether this is just a WoW issue or not, I don't know. EA seemed convinced though that just by spending more money than Blizzard did, they'd be able to take the crown. Of course, also their definition of an innovative MMO, was cutscenes that had voiceovers, even though other MMO's have already done it.




Interesting thing too about the Delorean. http://delorean.com/sales/

Though I suppose it's anyone's guess at how popular the Delorean would be now if it weren't for one iconic piece of advertising courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Cars may not fit as well into what we're discussing though because they're a status symbol that you can easily flash around in public. Cars even fit into humanity's version of the peacock mating dance. One can easily think that a Corvette, not only by being an eye-grabber, but also by being known for a bank-breaker, will immediately tell everyone in your vicinity something about you. Our choices in entertainment aren't really capable of that, and certainly not our choice of MMO.

About the location and the staffing, maybe it would, maybe not. But I wholeheartedly agree with the shareholder comment though. If you're someone who cares about what you're doing, and not just involved to get rich, don't ever go public. Going public just begs the world of investors to turn you into a clone.

If a game today had 200k subs, that would be considered niche. Pre-WoW, that would be considered a smash hit.