THE VIDEO SHELF · mmo game design
TUN: Un-Ruining the MMO
MrBtongue argues that modern theme-park MMOs lost what made earlier sandbox online games compelling, and that MMOs could be saved by returning to sandbox design.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters call it one of the best, most insightful explanations of sandbox versus theme-park MMO design.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- MrBtongue
- Topic
- mmo game design
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Everyone who played MMOs talks with utmost fondness of their unforgettable time in their first MMO. Be it Everquest, Ultima Online, Runescape or WoW, it seems no other genre in video gaming elicits such fondness, or reaches immersion levels so deep as the MMORPG. The …
andrepd on Hacker News · 2016-02
In 'RuneScape' Can't Escape 2007> If you find mining asteroids or mission running enjoyable, all the power to you. most new players only find out about this aspect of EVE - running grinding missions for petty coin etc - because they've been conditioned by the stereotype of World of …
chii on Hacker News · 2017-09
In How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History> we're stuck with WoW (and its clones), which was an excellent game in its own right, but it wasn't a true MMO because most companies didn't realize what they were copying when they copied WoW. True MMO - aka, a sandbox game. See this …
chii on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players
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