Vapourware What would a new MMO need to do to get you hooked?

[J1M]

Whether you are addicted to WoW, wasting time on F2P garbage, or completely checked out, what would it take for a new MMO to get you to spend 100s of hours playing it. (As you have presumably done before if you are reading this forum.)

What would it need to do to win your attention?
What would it need to do differently than current releases?

 

[ADL]

Emergent gameplay systems and meaningful player interactions that actually take advantage of the fact that you have hundreds or thousands of concurrent users on a single server.

Because as is... You currently have third rate questing games that are inherently held back by the limitations that come along with having hundreds of thousands of clients connected on a single server but you don't have anything taking advantage of all those players or meaningful interactions. It's all the same "go to X waypoint, kill 10 things and bring me Y item" tab target shit that would've at least had Dragon's Dogma quality combat if it were a 4 player co-op game.

 

[Mortmal]

Emergent gameplay systems and meaningful player interactions that actually take advantage of the fact that you have hundreds or thousands of concurrent users on a single server.

Same, that will NEVER happen. Even on small scale lwith 20-30 look what happens, stuff like conan exile plenty of interactions good lore, but so unstable and so many bugs.

 

[Sranchammer]

Cute girls and a way to donate to them X)

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Emergent gameplay systems and meaningful player interactions that actually take advantage of the fact that you have hundreds or thousands of concurrent users on a single server.

BINGO

 

[J1M]

I thought the genre was more about providing the illusion of persistent growth for people in dead-end jobs. But none of your answers talk about that.

 

[luj1]

• deckbuilding skill system
• multiclassing
• skill-based PvP formats
• emergent world events
  

 

[Bigg Boss]

Well Vanguard had one giant world with no zones so I liked it. It didn't feel like some game you were playing it felt like a huge world. You could go and kill a noob in noob town if you wanted to. Then City of Heroes added a good degree of freedom in moving about the environment and making your character unique with powers. The whole point is to make you try to survive a harsh world, not be hand held the entire time. Becoming a Lich in Vanguard was the high point of my short MMO career. I had to travel to enemy territory to do quests which meant I would need to avoid the other factions that lived on that continent. I went over there with a friend to grind out the enemy faction quest that let you get a panther transformation and run real fast. We fought off multiple waves of whatever faction those guys were playing as while farming some mobs to get the points to get the reward. Why the game got so much hate I will never know. MMO's always have bugs. Vanguard offered freedom unparalleled in MMO's, but WoW existed so everyone went to playing it or Dark Ages of Camelot.

 

[Ranselknulf]

Big boobs.

 

[Agame]

I thought the genre was more about providing the illusion of persistent growth for people in dead-end jobs. But none of your answers talk about that.

Hamster wheels within hamster wheels. Really makes you think.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Big boobs.

Age of Conan did that then I think they removed it. What a waste.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

ive got conan exiles and elder scrolls online on my gaben but havent touched them

have i already got the ULTIMATE mmo in my collection?

 

[Bigg Boss]

If it has zones the answer is no.

 

[Ninjerk]

I thought the genre was more about providing the illusion of persistent growth for people in dead-end jobs. But none of your answers talk about that.

Not sure any game can stave off the imprending sense of doom anymore

 

[Nito]

I think the reason why MMOs as we knew them have/are ending is because the core of what made them special (social interaction, shared goals/cooperation, competition, a sense of discovery and progress) has fractured into other forms of online media or other games. MMOs were very much a fixture of the pre-social media age. I think in order to make an MMO (as we understood them before) you would have to enforce a sense of exclusivity and culture around their communities, as it's the communities, and the nature of the internet, that have changed.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Real-life friends to play them with, like how it was in high school and college

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Real-life friends to play them with, like how it was in high school and college

I've never been able to get this to work in MMOs. Groups all start together then

• 1 dude no-lifes and ends up 20 levels ahead of everyone else within like a week
• 1 dude can't stick to a schedule
• 1 dude gets bored and never shows up cuz the game sucks and he too busy getting laid constantly (this is me haha)

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Real-life friends to play them with, like how it was in high school and college

I've never been able to get this to work in MMOs. Groups all start together then

• 1 dude no-lifes and ends up 20 levels ahead of everyone else within like a week
• 1 dude can't stick to a schedule
• 1 dude gets bored and never shows up cuz the game sucks and he too busy getting laid constantly (this is me haha)

Well it depends on the group of friends, but I really never have this issue. Usually, the no-lifes have some alts and he plays with us with his lower level alts to have fun together.

The schedule was not really an issue as well I guess, because we usually hangs after school or on Friday in an internet cafe playing together while ordering cheap sugary fruit juice and eating instant-ramen together. Now most of us barely have time to play game even on weekend, with work, families, and all that comes with joining the society

On the other hand I never enjoy MMO when playing with randos on the net. Like I just can't. There is grand total 1 MMO where I did well with randos, even then my friends also played that one. I just can't care about some other random people playing these games on the internet.

 

[Alphard]

• deckbuilding skill system
• multiclassing
• skill-based PvP formats
• emergent world events

first 3 you described GW1

 

[Reinhardt]

turn based and with full party creation

 

[frajaq]

- interesting setting
- good class fantasy (they need to have their place in the world)
- good looking plate armor and transmog system
- people that actually play it lmao

 

[luj1]

• deckbuilding skill system
• multiclassing
• skill-based PvP formats
• emergent world events

first 3 you described GW1

I know. And the fourth is GW2.

 

[Alphard]

• deckbuilding skill system
• multiclassing
• skill-based PvP formats
• emergent world events

first 3 you described GW1

I know. And the fourth is GW2.

 

[luj1]

Really shat the bed with that one