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My 360 would melt if I sat around playing MMO games on it as much as some of my friends do with games like WoW. Plus I dont have the patience, I like endings to my games....bring on the shooters!!!
Makes perfect sense. Release it on the PC and make boatloads of money or release it on a console and make less than half that...
Pretty easy decision to make, right there.
Pretty easy decision to make, right there.
But, but my dream games is a full fledge pokemon MMO.............WHY MUST MY DREAMS BE IMPOSSIBLE!?!!
@Eschatos "Also, you need keyboards for a decent MMO."
The Xbox 360 has supported USB keyboards from day 1, and both FFXI and PSU make extensive use of that capability.
The Xbox 360 has supported USB keyboards from day 1, and both FFXI and PSU make extensive use of that capability.
Its quite a simple answer really. The MMO model is broken because gamers like paying for a game, and not having to pay anymore besides. This microtransaction culture is very greedy and dangerous, and to be honest I'm glad MMOs don't do so well, because they are a poor substitute for paying once for a game.
On consoles, and more so on Xbox Live, I'd hate to have to pay £40 a year and more on top of purchasing a game, for one freaking game. Sorry, but that's fucking crazy and the day I stop buying games and play my collection instead.
As far as I'm concern, no game is even worth investing in on a month basis, after buying the retail copy of said game. If MMOs went the Guild Wars route though (buy the game and play online for free), and had more variety beyond hack n slash epics, then I'm sure many of us would invest in them.
And the game that might tempt me into the MMO scene, is The Agency on PS3, the one game I want a PS3 for. Because its not more hokum boring fantasy shit, I'm tempted more. So why can't MMOs offer more variety? That is the eternal question, one only the korean developers seem to be answering. The koreans also understand that allowing more free play makes more sense.
Pirates of the Burning Sea was a cool game, but when on the same system as WoW, it was always gonna struggle. Had it been molded as a single player game first it could survive on console.
On consoles, and more so on Xbox Live, I'd hate to have to pay £40 a year and more on top of purchasing a game, for one freaking game. Sorry, but that's fucking crazy and the day I stop buying games and play my collection instead.
As far as I'm concern, no game is even worth investing in on a month basis, after buying the retail copy of said game. If MMOs went the Guild Wars route though (buy the game and play online for free), and had more variety beyond hack n slash epics, then I'm sure many of us would invest in them.
And the game that might tempt me into the MMO scene, is The Agency on PS3, the one game I want a PS3 for. Because its not more hokum boring fantasy shit, I'm tempted more. So why can't MMOs offer more variety? That is the eternal question, one only the korean developers seem to be answering. The koreans also understand that allowing more free play makes more sense.
Pirates of the Burning Sea was a cool game, but when on the same system as WoW, it was always gonna struggle. Had it been molded as a single player game first it could survive on console.
maybe they should fix their own mmo first. Seriously, it's so empty, and all you can do is fight other ships, and, that's it, no exploration, you can't even explore island that much, maybe if they fixed they're own games first they would have room to talk.
a few reasons why MMOs will have trouble working w/ consoles
a) costs. cost to run & maintain the servers. cost of security & fallbacks. cost to provide help & support. cost to provide upgrades.
b) value. many console gamers are irritated that they have to pay even $3 a month for XBL ($40/13 months). Almost none would be willing to shell out the standard $15 a month to play just one game online.
c) controls. controllers are great for action/platform/sports/fighting/racing/RPG games. But the amount of inventory management & real time nature of most MMOs make using a controller either crippled or non-functional.
a) costs. cost to run & maintain the servers. cost of security & fallbacks. cost to provide help & support. cost to provide upgrades.
b) value. many console gamers are irritated that they have to pay even $3 a month for XBL ($40/13 months). Almost none would be willing to shell out the standard $15 a month to play just one game online.
c) controls. controllers are great for action/platform/sports/fighting/racing/RPG games. But the amount of inventory management & real time nature of most MMOs make using a controller either crippled or non-functional.
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