12-26-2011, 03:58 AM
The games Vllad listed were Bob's Hot Dog Hut. You're concluding that nobody likes beef because Bob's Hot Dog Hut doesn't attract as many visitors as the 5-star Murlock Seafood Palace which is a hundred times bigger and cost a thousand times more.
It's an argument that can't reach a conclusion because we are both forced to guess. Nobody has ever built a AAA team-oriented PvP game.
But if, culturally, it was all about individual achievement, then few would be playing football or soccer and everyone would be doing track or gymnastics. And really, I think the fact that team sports games remain popular as spectator sports suggests that millions of people understand and can enjoy the concept of team play. Maybe if there was a game that let them experience that sort of thing first hand, without a ton of PvE bullshit in the way, they would play it.
The biggest problem for a new PvP team-play game would be clearing the hurdle that WOW established, which is that "all MMO games are for fantasy dorks who like single player games where you hit snakes for 2 years".
They would have to get over this "image problem" that MMORPGs have developed.
It's an argument that can't reach a conclusion because we are both forced to guess. Nobody has ever built a AAA team-oriented PvP game.
But if, culturally, it was all about individual achievement, then few would be playing football or soccer and everyone would be doing track or gymnastics. And really, I think the fact that team sports games remain popular as spectator sports suggests that millions of people understand and can enjoy the concept of team play. Maybe if there was a game that let them experience that sort of thing first hand, without a ton of PvE bullshit in the way, they would play it.
The biggest problem for a new PvP team-play game would be clearing the hurdle that WOW established, which is that "all MMO games are for fantasy dorks who like single player games where you hit snakes for 2 years".
They would have to get over this "image problem" that MMORPGs have developed.