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GaliemVaelant · 10-20-2007, 03:55 PM

Emulators are often buggy and incomplete.

I like the open source thought a lot though. If players could spot a problem, go into the code, find it, find a fix, and say to the developers, "Here's your answer to that bug," then that would be pretty ideal. The downside is that it would at least at first lead to a lot of cheating.

Liscensing by the developer/publisher to external teams so that commercial servers are diverse would be awesome too. It has the same benefits of open source, without the cheating if the teams were cut into sub profits.

I'd just like to see more player involvement in MMO development. Considered as a technology, MMOs are starting to feel more like a platform and less like a genre to me.

Thanks for the insights!

10-20-2007, 03:55 PM	#5 (permalink)
GaliemVaelant An Excellent Driver Join Date: May 2003 Location: Louisiana Posts: 1,699 +0 Internets	Emulators are often buggy and incomplete. I like the open source thought a lot though. If players could spot a problem, go into the code, find it, find a fix, and say to the developers, "Here's your answer to that bug," then that would be pretty ideal. The downside is that it would at least at first lead to a lot of cheating. Liscensing by the developer/publisher to external teams so that commercial servers are diverse would be awesome too. It has the same benefits of open source, without the cheating if the teams were cut into sub profits. I'd just like to see more player involvement in MMO development. Considered as a technology, MMOs are starting to feel more like a platform and less like a genre to me. Thanks for the insights!