Topic : 06/03 Virtual Chaos

Quote From: seenfff

     Yeah, the game has no fault whatsoever.

 

    By the way, I'm formerly an Eastern Human Bard of Freeport known as Lynata, a level 60 powerpath Minstrel with 1236 class mastery points. On the playstation 2 version of Everquest Online Adventures on the Mar's Fist Server.

    Yeah, it's not the game's fault that it takes 24 hours of gameplay over two days 12 hours a day to gain just one Class Mastery.

    It's not the game's fault that Skaynir and Lady Vox only appears (spawns) two-three times a month.

    It's not the game's fault that Noxxious, Twins, Cazic-Thule, and others spawn even less than that, and there's always more than one household (guild) scouting their spawn points.

    It's not the game's fault that after level 45; quest mobs spawn more typically between five to fifteen minutes to appear once.

    It's not the game's fault that it takes at least 20 players minimum to kill level 60 epics

    It's not the game's fault that four years ago; the development team admitted character inbalance and begins class balancing forcing players to place even more time to develop their character at even the most basic elements of the game.

    It's not the game's fault that content above level 45 consists of requiring killing a single type of mob many many times for a single item to drop and requires the player to repeat the process an additional four more times.

 

     Just to make sure, I'm on the same page. The game's designers/producer should not take any responsibility for deliberately programming a game several factors to guarantee that a player must dedicate excessive time to attain a sense of accomplishment.

     If you're not a gamer, this is how MMORPGs work.

The game begins with a Continuous Positive Reinforcement. Players level their characters rapidly or gathers class mastery points rapidly.

Then, the game begins using a Fixed Ratio Method of Positive Reinforcement. Players begin leveling/cming less rapidly. And then less, and then even less until it takes 24 hours of game play to achieve a single level or class mastery. After that, it takes even more time to accomplish the same success therefore sense of accomplishment.

    These game's thrive on this design.

 

    The players must take responsibility too.

Quote From: riley130

I say this for all of us who actually have to deal with the addict, this is not a joke. Your comment is not funny. These games actually tear apart lives!

Quote From: phlpdkrt

i have something to say to those who think that it's the video game's "fault" for making their family member's lives go down the drain.  i want to know what the families of these game players were doing as they saw their family crumble. i'm only 17 and i know that if something was wrong in my family, we would all try and fix it the best way we can.  if i was having a problem with video games, my parents would just pull the plug on it.  why wouldn't these families do the same!?  its absolutely disgraceful that they would not take that step to help them out.  it's pretty much a no-brainer.  if they truly cared about their family, they would have done SOMETHING instead of just watch their lives go down the drain.  so really, who's fault is it that these people have video game addictions? the developers? no one has the proof to say that developers make games because they are addicting.  developers make games because it is their job.  the way the public reacts to the way they do their job is completely out of their hands and on the sole responsibility of the players.  think of the millions of games that are arguably "addicting".  now think of all the cases in the last 20 years of when some kid somewhere went crazy and did something drastic. maybe 5.  and that's a generous number.  now think of the ratio of games sold to addicting habits formed because of the game.  the number would be something in the range of less than one ten-thousandth percent.  is there really a problem? perhaps. perhaps people blow it out of proportion because they don't want their family member to be remembered as a loser who couldn't control something that is easily controlled.  so why don't you get the facts straight before you start pointing fingers.