Banjo Robertson
Random Gunz
Rise Of Legion.
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Posted - 2015.05.03 15:19:00 -
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well, lets look at this philisophically. what is the point of a video game? to spend time having fun. why do people leave matches? when they are no longer fun there is no point to staying in the match. if you feel like no ammount of effort you put into the match will help your side win, or if you feel like you cant just earn some WP and isk doing things to pick away at the enemy while still untimately losing, you will want to leave.
There is no point to playing a game that stresses you out more than your job. If you removed the 'leave battle' option, people would just quit the game or reboot their system instead, so you wouldn't keep people from leaving.
so asking the question 'how do we keep people from leaving the battle' then becomes 'how do we make sure people can still have fun even when they are losing', when you figure this out, ou won't see people leave as often any more. it doesnt have to be anything that changes the likelyhood of them winning, but it does have to be something that makes people feel like they are earning something, or even getting some kind of revenge against the other team.
'yeah we are being stomped, they have control over all 5 objectives, but i just did something that will really **** off alot of the enemy team, yeah that feels good' that sort of feeling can be one of many options available to keep people in the game. |
Banjo Robertson
Random Gunz
Rise Of Legion.
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Posted - 2015.05.04 15:12:00 -
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The Eristic wrote:I had to leave a few last night because I only had an hour to destroy a bunch of installations to get my 5 key bonus, and every match I was put in either had no installations (Cal Production Dom 2-3 times), the match was already underway and they were all destroyed or blue, or, most annoyingly, blues ****ed it up for me by hacking or stealing the kill with one forge round to go.
Next time you need to destroy instalations, try to get into a faction warfare match, i usually activate all 4 factions to make it faster. You can destroy friendly installations and it counts towards your mission, so just run around destroying home base turrets and CRU and supply depots and things. |