Mersereau wrote:Think about all the friends you have that have never played Genesis, but probably have played other games. How many would you suggest to try Genesis, that wouldn't get frustrated and want to quit playing it?
I wouldn't suggest Genesis as a game for any friends I haven't met from it, because it's stupidly hard given the way the quests are. By the way the rules are written you can't give much help, so if want to help them a lot you have to cheat? Is that really what you want to do? What message does that say?
In World of Warcraft or other modern games it's a hell of a lot easier.
Need help with a quest? Go to wowhead.com.
Need help speccing your character? Go to elitistjerks.com.
Need help not standing in the fire? Go to curse.com and download the proper mods.
I know Blizzard is in it to make money, but they wouldn't be at 7.8 million subscribers if the game was stupid hard, and didn't allow for assistance from the outside.
Like I said, I dont think we should compete or compare ourselves to WoW and it's community.
Genesis is designed to be hard. For good and for worse. A small portion of people is probably going to enjoy it IS hard to learn and hard to master. I mean it's a game where most players create their own scripts to play. Obviously it's not a mainstream game and I dont think we need to make it into one to get players to stay.
Yes, most who try it will find it too hard. Thats how it is. But not everyone who tries WoW will stay either. I tried it when the beta came, didn't stay. Most of the games I try these days I try for 15 min, then I usually think they're basically "too childish", have too easy quests/puzzles, and really poor story.
And I have never ever used guides and stuff for ANY game I have ever played, since I generally think it removes the fun to read the manual on how to do it. I have used quest solutions for Genesis though, but I have also completed at least a third of our hundreds of quests without them. And enjoyed both ways of questing.
But thats me.
People are different, they enjoy different things. WoW and similar games are something a lot of people enjoy. But not me. And not everyone. It's mainstream gaming these days, people are used to it, and most people enjoy the general level of challenge, etc, so they and similar games have a really big numbers of players. But like I said Genesis belongs to a very small and very different niche of games.
I think there are people around who WANT a challenge. No, its not for everyone, far from it. But I am almost certain if we only do some serious promotion we will find enough players who like the game just as it is. And will become part of the community and eventually help develop and improve it further.
That being said, sure we could make things a little more logical and easy to learn. But we should not forget what we have either. And what we have is something that a group of people actually enjoy. Not everyone. But some do. And if we enjoy it, others will too. Maybe not your sister and your WoW friends, but some will find our world and our challenges to be fun and interesting. All we need to do is let more people know we exist, and I am almost certain enough players will actually stay. Maybe 1 in 50, 1 in 100, but thats probably enough. We dont need that many.