CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.22 16:42:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:Patrick57 wrote:True Adamance wrote:Patrick57 wrote:Some people just want to sit back and have a laid back match. Not everyone wants to be pressured to win a match so that their faction of choice gets/defends a district. Then they should run the public contracts and leave the real work to those who care. I was answering the OP's question..... Ugh I hate saying this ....but casuals are what is ruining the Souls series, they may also be the bane of this game.
I quoted both your responses, because I think you are actually BOTH right (...except the opinion about "casuals" in a game. It's too early to tell for Dust, and I think the "type of player" their video game should serve is still a hot topic for developers).
If the game is supposed to be an MMO, then it would be shooting your game in the knee with a scrambler rifle if you try to limit a "MASS MULTIPLAYER" audience to just the admirable players who want to get with the program and work hard towards a long team campaign.
I think if you DID try it, your multiplayer audience won't ever become MASS in size, not even by optomistic cult fan game terms.
Video games originally started as non-pressure, laid-back activities (OMG, remember Atari, and Pong?)---today's "games" can be SO obscessed with "emersing and transporting the player", that it's getting hard to accept that many of us STILL access a video game for a casual laugh, eye-hand-puzzling, and some kicking back, that's all.
I love that Dust is stepping into its deeper New Eden realm, but I always hope this game and other games leave a healthy section for Casuals. Hey, sometimes people are classifyable as one or the other... sometimes odd eggs like me swap Diehard to Casual and back again during a year, so...
But the Public Contracts section serves in at least three other ways too, doesn't it?:
---The classic Lobby Shooter players who just want to trade their CoD NP5 in a HumV for a SciFi Mass Driver and a HAV for a while.
---The Entry-level player who is just wants to demo the game (and honestly needs more than some typical 'demo' download to even BEGIN to grasp how to play this game and decide if you want to be a Newberry).
---The advanced player who wisely picks the Public Contracts to test-bed her new fittings/modules. (Since Dust is ALWAYS about risking money loss, the Public Contracts allow you to risk only yourself as the guinea pig, without your experiments harming or causing setbacks for someone's real campaign or district ).
I hope these are reasons enough to want to keep an Instant Battle/Pup Contract playroom that's disconnected from The Real Deal. |