My opinion from observing from the outside.<\/p>\n
The patch was deployed a few hours ago and I’m reading the feedback. Apparently the most prominent feature is an “align” button to use in fleets that I don’t know what it does.<\/p>\n
For the rest CCP did two things:<\/p>\n
1- Write on a web page a bunch of made-up stories that never happened or cannot happen in the game.
\n2- Spawn an NPC titan in empire space.<\/p>\n
And everyone is giddy.<\/p>\n
What I understand from this? That players can be happy for very little. That’s not so dissimilar from spawning a dragon in Stormwind. Players will be happy (especially if there’s loot to ninja, like in this case of the titan). And it doesn’t require any effort from the dev team.<\/p>\n
I also understand something I knew already. That the players love “massive” in a mmorpg. And that till today not even a single company cared to develop any “massive” in their namely massive games.<\/p>\n
In fact we have smaller and smaller private spaces and irrelevant little carrots to maintain the dependence.<\/p>\n
And today the very best “massive” feeling and well structured combat comes from games like Quake Wars or Battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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