[MUD-Dev2] [Design] [REPOST] Food in MMOs

[Michael Chui]

On 5/16/07, Lachek Butalek <lachek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why is it that when an enemy corporation suddenly launches an assault
> on your home system in Eve Online, players scrambling to evacuate
> and/or organize a defense, it is seen as "fun and immersive gameplay"
> but when an NPC mob does it in YAFMMORPG it is seen as gamebreaking
> and disruptive?
>

Because enemy corps are not boss monsters. They're other players. EVE is
just a really, really complex version of Monopoly. It's not gamebreaking and
disruptive in that game, because there are no fundamental tropes of "I'm teh
hero! I pulled teh sw0rd from teh st0ne!"

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-Michael Chui
The Information School
University of Washington