{"id":691,"date":"2005-05-02T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-02T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T01:44:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/691\/","title":{"rendered":"Instancing Vs Persistence – Again on the two paths"},"content":{"rendered":"

I save a comment<\/a> spawned around the release of Guild Wars. It’s tied to other comments I wrote in the past and in particular to the two-parts article about the death of the genre (one<\/a>, two<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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\nWe are back at discussing the Original Conflict.<\/p>\n

From the “game design” point of view the use of the instancing technology is the very best way to deliver good-quality PvE. Instancing means control and control means that the devs have more tools to balance the type of “pattern” they are going to offer.<\/p>\n

It’s obvious that the fun of PvE comes from a balanced challenge.<\/p>\n

Now the conflict is between THIS model, that Guild Wars achieved perfectly, and the “original mmorpg myth”.<\/p>\n

This second model isn’t game-y design but more near to a “simulator”. So the persistence becomes the actual pattern to reproduce. The “verisimilitude”.<\/p>\n

That’s the basic conflict between two different models. Old time mmorpg players usually expect to find the second, so they feel upset or dissatisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I save a comment spawned around the release of Guild Wars. It’s tied to other comments I wrote in the past and in particular to the two-parts article about the death of the genre (one, two): — We are back at discussing the Original Conflict. From the “game design” point of view the use of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-game_design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}