It’ll take a lot of effort to keep the systems from being exploitable like that, I expect. And maybe so much structure will be needed that it’ll become rather un-fun.
I use to be excited about such systems and ideas in games. But I’ve come to realize that players will break and ruin anything you put in front of them.
Oh, that’s probally true. But those were a long time ago. And the users were still self selecting and in the right headspace.
We have crossed a threshold with the internet and awareness of possible places to be a shithead at these days. If you know what I mean. A certain mentality bands together to seek out how to fuck these spaces up, now.
It’s like the early days of VR. The social spaces were great until VR got cheaper and more common. Now you need to hunt out the good groups and social circles and they are hard to find.
It’ll take a lot of effort to keep the systems from being exploitable like that, I expect. And maybe so much structure will be needed that it’ll become rather un-fun.
I use to be excited about such systems and ideas in games. But I’ve come to realize that players will break and ruin anything you put in front of them.
Didn’t it work in archeage kinda, and that one star wars mmo (or so I’ve heard)
Oh, that’s probally true. But those were a long time ago. And the users were still self selecting and in the right headspace.
We have crossed a threshold with the internet and awareness of possible places to be a shithead at these days. If you know what I mean. A certain mentality bands together to seek out how to fuck these spaces up, now.
It’s like the early days of VR. The social spaces were great until VR got cheaper and more common. Now you need to hunt out the good groups and social circles and they are hard to find.