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Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.10.28 15:16:00 -
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Slag Emberforge wrote:Meta Game -- how to project unfulfilled doucheyness into a video game environment.
Friendly fire abuse and team grief have no place in a fps, except to clearly illuminate players who are asshats.
People said the same thing about MMOs. Many people in the MMO communities don't like meta gaming and therefore regard it as taboo. Eve Online challenged that notion by embracing that taboo and making it the norm instead.
Say what you will about the meta-gaming aspect of any game, but it's here to stay. If you don't like meta gaming then Dust is not for you. I tried games like Call of Duty and Halo. While those games are quite good, they are not good enough for me. The social interaction is severely limited in those game and the sense of impact that you make in those games is virtually non-existent. That and meta gaming is usually discouraged in those communities.
But Eve and Dust have meta gaming and they highly encourage it. Because of the meta gaming, I wasn't as bored with the games as I expected. I developed social bonds with people around here and I feel that I'm making an impact now that I'm part of a learning corp that is backed by a well-established Eve corp.
And Fox is right. Dust and Eve would be very boring indeed without the meta game. I can't bare the thought of having my hand held as I play a game. |
Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.10.28 15:53:00 -
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Slag Emberforge wrote:I play with a ds3 controller, I do not KBM. Social interactions aren't really the focus of console games, if people really wanted such deep seeded social connections why are they playing this instead of EVE?
I think CCP was trying to reach out to console games with dust, but I would "imagine" maybe console gamers are console and not mmorpg players for a reason. I've played both, but honestly the social aspect of many big games is what changed me to a console gamer.
TL;DR I hate my gaming experience being ruined by scrubs and people drama, why would I want that to bleed into my game?
Here's your problem.
The console industry is changing and forever will be as the market and console demographic changes. The console crowd is getting older, the controls are becoming more intuitive, social networking becoming engrained in lifestyles (Twitter, G+, Facebook, etc.) and now into our consoles with things like Nintendo Land, Nintendo's Street Pass, Sony's PS Home, Microsoft's player invites through XBox Live, etc. It's becoming more and more common to see strong social groups in many games including first-person shooters as players begin to coalesce around common interests. It's only a matter of time before meta gaming becomes the norm in FPS games as well especially in a sandbox universe that Dust is connected to. |
Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.10.29 03:27:00 -
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@Surt God End
I remember seeing the twitter feeds of angry CoD players threatening a fellow developer's family with **** and murder just because an internet pixel gun had its stats adjusted for balancing.
CCP, please fix the Nova Knives. Thank you.
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