Out of Pod Experience

Read and behold:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf

Be warned: it's not for the faint of heart, specially if you love EVE or trust CCP.

I'm glad that goofy World of Darkness crap is gone. I don't understand why they wanted to branch out and start making different games.

Next up in danger seems Dust 514, and we'll see how Valkyrie turns out, as Elite dangerous and star citizen are serious competition.

Seems more of a disgruntled employee perspective. Not saying rah-rah CCP, clearly they made mistakes, but this I think spins it into the negative missing aspects of the story.

Like it wasn't mentioned that a lot of players were frustrated with FiS development, and especially repair of the broken parts of FiS were about abandoned for a time/years while all the WiS development went on. But he was a WoD developer, right? So the WoD version of WiS meant everything, thus for him the riots were mostly/purely about $1000 jeans and nothing mentioned about the broken FiS game that people were frustrated with, a boiling point. WiS was horribly buggy after all that work and with the ignoring of FiS, all being a part of the big picture as to why CCP didn't go back to reiterate WiS, most players just did not want it. Certainly didn't want it just for a platform to sell barbie doll accessories at premium prices.

But it's more than just not having enough time to sort out WoD, imo. The big factor is just that it should have never been an in-house game engine project. That's basically two projects, as some companies such as Epic have armies of developers and years of development working on UnrealED which is widely licensed and used in many games. Reinventing the wheel can be very time consuming, and over-reaching as it clearly resulted in.

Dust was a flop? They used outside investors, investors made money. Wasn't the article before that about CCP going beyond what was reasonable, trying to be above the industry or whatever? Pushing too hard to be different such and such? I mean dust has uniqueness with it's EVE universe interaction, but they didn't go the whole reinventing the wheel rout. So which is it, pushing too hard to outdo the rest of the industry, or just making a game that works? I go with just making a game that works, myself. Too many developers and their marketeers look at player activity counts compared to other games and make their judgements from that, yet while that game itself is a success at least as far as operating and paying back investors and making them money. But a "flop" it was not, no matter my opinion of the actual game-play itself, unless he actually does believe in surpassing the industry standards.

Oh what else... the business climate in the US just flat out sucks. It's not just the gaming industry, but most everything related to business. Beyond that though, more specifically to the game industry, it's no surprise that there are hard times. I've said it for years that the f2p model is pure fail. True quality games are mostly behind us, it died with the abandoning of the subscription model and sticking micro-transactions into the non-mmo games. It's all abut marketing now, and yes most marketeers should be escorted off of the property, let them psychoanalyze the the pavement on the street.

I wonder why Blizzard wanted to branch off and make different games

I will not speak in absolutes, but your statement shows you are not really CEO material.

And sometimes you fail, which is very basic business as well

When did I sign up for business class? I was talking about that crappy game they failed to make.

Blizzard is actually making tons of money with their insane marketing decisions that turn people away. Want to know why? It's because investors are rétarded. They adamantly refuse to invest money in something hat hasn't been done before, instead only putting money in on projects that look like they would have gotten brief attention ten years ago but are obviously going to flop today because 85% of the playerbase already has seen it and knows its garbage and the other 15% are under the age of 12.

Then you know what happens? That 15% buy this stuff up like no tomorrow, and the profit is made. Company dumps the game and starts a new project to grab the same audience in a way that has been done so many times before. And they're only antagonizing adults here. Adults aren't the main source of income unless they could figure out a way to keep them loyal for a long time.......psh, like THAT could ever happen.