[RunningDog]

Originally Posted by DisgruntledOrangatang

Actually player created content is awesome, you can just allocate a landmass to a player and have them create what they want with it with a SDK. Or make a dumbed down more userfriendly UI version. There are tons of players out there that have cool ideas. THere are actually a few MMOs that do this. I don't remember or have any links offhand though.

Also those players had to pay like 2000 dollars to do it. Which is a great move, with some refinement you could really have this down.

Take WoW for example (because I love the combat system and how raiding is), take a game like WoW, now imagine if you had your own A x B island to populate with geometry, mobs, quests, rewards, scripts. THe only thing you couldn't do is make new models which isn't that big a deal. After a player makes the content, the dev team reviews it at it's current difficultly level, assigns loot appropiate for its difficultly level, and sends it live.

What if it's a peice of shit? What if the raid encounters suck /aren't fun? What if the zone looks retarded/ugly? Who cares? Assume a setup like one peice anime, you have a player controlled boat in a vast open ocean with the player populated islands. If a player makes one that is shit, then no one will go there. but blizzard (or whoever else) still made money off it. If it's a good island, players will actually go there for a while just like any other blizz released zone. More content at minimal time/cost to blizzard + extra cash.

And you KNOW there are rich kids out there who would fork over the 2k or whatever, or guilds could chip in and design a zone together. I just think there is a lot of potential with this kind of system.

I think a few seconds thought will reveal all sorts of horrible issues with allowing user-created content in game. You might start with the Hot Coffee mod, carry on through Monty Haul syndrome, and end by calculating how many people they'd have to hire to check and play test all those submissions.