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DDO does it the best, they give you a leveling path from lvl 1 to endgame, but that path is very narrow. Some f2p players will be happy to do it a second or third time with alts, but most people will want to explore sideways a bit, so they will be content packs that allow them to skip the f2p...

It was inevitable it was going to happen, the same thing with all this craziness of paying to pay ´pre-release´ games. The problem is that the average game doesn´t have patience. Everything MUST be bought on release date. For this reason, the devs know that it doesn´t matter at all how good...

Agree with this, the problem isthat most of these games are f2p with and you quickly get to the point where playing is more aggravating then anything unless you pay, and once you start paying, you have to keep paying to be competitive with other players. I do not mind microtransactions, but a...

The problem with the turn-system is that it feels unnatural for a lot of players. It is great to be innovative and try a a new technique to see if it works better, but the problem is most people are coming from other games where it is not used, and therefore feels ackwards for a long time. A...

And at what point will handhelds allow you to surf the web.. and then make phone calls.... I think if PC gaming can exist with consoles, then mobile can exist with hand-helds.. but i do think that handhelds are going to start blending into being more like tablets.

Yep, everything from bejewed on down are just basically a knock-off of Tetris. I think that is the reason some very simple games become famous, because they feel completely new. I loved Plants v Zombies and Angry Birds becasue they felt so different than anything else. Stuff like...

Sega used to have a golf game that was a lot of fun. It was at a time when some of my friends were just starting to golf for real. It was little to easy an predictable, and pretty soon you are going -20 fairly easy and constantly hitting the stick from 100 yards out.

Boo .. how can you not love a minaturaized giant space hamster who goes for the eyes.

They can go two ways... SWTOR and the worst possible implementation of F2P where you continually feel choked by not spending money.. or DDO where you get to play the game for a long time completely free, learn to love it, and then pay money for extra content, or new classes or races.

I think that is part of the problem Hearthstone had in being adopted by people new to the genre. Card games are more about ´ I won x amount of games out of 20´ rather than stewing over the fact that you lost a single game because of bad RNG. I lot of new players don´t get the fact that...

I agree, but micro-balancing a 1v1 pvp game of any type is a nightmare and would be a never-ending series of buffs and nerfs to cards. The less RNG you have in your game, the more pinpoint you need to be with your balancing or else every fansite in the world is going to be posting the...

One of the really bad things about playing Betas is you don´t know if something is bad by design, or it is bad because you aren´t seeing the full implementation. It sounds to me like they are testing stuff and screwing around to see what works and how it all comes together. The things you...

Thanks. Yeah, I have been following the game pretty closely, and I agree with you, that if you are going to sell a pre-alpha version of your game, at least they are very honest about what is finished and what is not. I´ve bought enough games that were probably in alpha, but the developers...

I´ve heard good things about these games, but for me, jump scares is not really a scary thing I enjoy. I much more enjoy spooky stuff with twisted plot-lines and evil overtures.

I think it will be this way in the years to come. The difference is that Steam is getting very lax with their standards and what games they sell. This means that the winter sale seemed to be a lot of games nobody ever heard of, or will hear of. A few years ago, almost all of the game on Steam...

haha, I would love to have a list of words I have learned from games and then see how often I have used them outside the game. Also, it is difficult to gauge because you don´t know if someone who doesn´t play games knows those words. I remember a lot of the early games i played taught me...

Back in Vanilla WOW, the hardcore guilds would often force their players to relearn professions from 0 to cap every week depending on the boss they were having problems with. Last expansion, they would force their members to run LFR in order to get a minor gear upgrade which would probably be...

My guess they are trying to steal some from Twitch, but using the assets they have ( already established social networks) as a way to do it. Don´t be surprised if Facebook doesn´t try to do something to integreate this also. There were a lot of big articles last year talking about how much...

Well, the Steam one is very new, and Twitch is very easy to cheat the numbers. In Twitch, it is more about creating more bots than the other people are creating bots so that you rank higher.. it is like a meta-game deciding which programs will work to get you higher view counts without getting...

I am a bit conflicted. I hate buying pre-alpha games and then being nothing more than a beta tester for 18 months, which ruins the game IMHO because you see it coming in pieces. This is one title that I am really anxious for, but not going to buy it until it is finished. But would love...