Comments on: Things continue to look grim for Sony and SOE. http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/gaming_industry/things-continue-to-look-grim-for-sony-and-soe.html Game Design, MUDs, MMOs, and Virtual Worlds Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:34:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Muckbeast http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/gaming_industry/things-continue-to-look-grim-for-sony-and-soe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3070 Muckbeast Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:24:20 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?p=240#comment-3070 Champions Online ruined itself by going with the combination subscription + microtransactions. Regular readers know I am a big fan of the freemium/mictotransaction system. But to combine it with subscriptions is just lame double dipping. It totally destroys the whole benefit of a microtransaction game - the fact that you don't have the inexorable ding of that subscription hitting you every 30 days whether you are playing or not. Champions Online ruined itself by going with the combination subscription + microtransactions. Regular readers know I am a big fan of the freemium/mictotransaction system. But to combine it with subscriptions is just lame double dipping. It totally destroys the whole benefit of a microtransaction game – the fact that you don’t have the inexorable ding of that subscription hitting you every 30 days whether you are playing or not.

]]> By: Outsider http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/gaming_industry/things-continue-to-look-grim-for-sony-and-soe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3063 Outsider Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:54:11 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?p=240#comment-3063 DC Universe Online has the potential to be good. Of course, they are guaranteed to screw it up. They are including some notable features that Champions Online should include, but isn't for some foolish reason. Eg, running up walls, hero vs villain pvp, etc. Problem is though, they are making it into another raid/loot game. When is the last time you saw Superman pick up a sword and start hacking people up with it? Loot makes no sense in a superhero game, unless you go to great lengths to reflavor it(like CoH did). As far as I know, Sony has no intention of doing so. Maybe I should look into it again to see if they've come to their senses yet. Last time I looked into the it though, the offical site for the game was a freaking -MYSPACE- page. There's no way I'm going on myspace to learn about a game. DC Universe Online has the potential to be good. Of course, they are guaranteed to screw it up. They are including some notable features that Champions Online should include, but isn’t for some foolish reason. Eg, running up walls, hero vs villain pvp, etc. Problem is though, they are making it into another raid/loot game. When is the last time you saw Superman pick up a sword and start hacking people up with it? Loot makes no sense in a superhero game, unless you go to great lengths to reflavor it(like CoH did). As far as I know, Sony has no intention of doing so.

Maybe I should look into it again to see if they’ve come to their senses yet. Last time I looked into the it though, the offical site for the game was a freaking -MYSPACE- page. There’s no way I’m going on myspace to learn about a game.

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