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Originally Posted by Gnome Eater What I am saying in conclusion in - Do you feel that any other game will follow in the footsteps and have a 9+ months beta with loads of testers, or publishers still won't let you do this even after seeing the economical benefits? |
That's actually a good question I'd like answered as well. Shit, I remember on the Diablo I CD there were cinematic previews for some upcoming Blizzard games, including one called Shattered Nations (or Unions?). It was going to be a post-apocolyptic RTS where you gained upgrades and new units from piecing together various parts you found or looted or designed in the game.
I remember e-mailing Blizzard a few years after seeing that preview and asking what happened to the game. Turns out they changed it into StarCraft. Why? Because despite being an interesting concept (one I'm still interested in), it simply wasn't working. So they change the entire story, the game mechanics, the title, the characters, etc. because they
knew it was shit.
More developers in the gaming industry as a whole, not just MMOs, need to take a page from Blizzard's book or the number of skeptical and jaded gamers will grow out of control. I already find any way I can to get a "demo" of a game before I buy it, simply because I cannot trust most developers to not push out a shit game.
