Sony Online Licenses Unreal Engine for DC MMOG 50
GameDaily is reporting that Sony Online Entertainment has licensed the Unreal Engine 3 for use in creating next-gen videogames. One title that is confirmed will be using the technology is their upcoming Massively Multiplayer game set in the DC comic universe. SOE has also announced a new complete version of Star Wars Galaxies, which will include Empire Divided and all of the expansions.
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Consider the pool you're playing in. Most online RPG players spend considerable time in their "investments" [which in and of itself isn't "bad"] and forgo the usual sociallizing that most others take part in.
So you're basically playing with a bunch of anti-socials, who are almost certainly young and really aren't playing the game to relax or have fun. They're on a mission. So of course they'll grief and cheat to get ahead. They think they're accomplishing something when all along it's just supposed to be a minor diversion.
I stopped caring about online games after I played SOCOM for the first time. Playing against people who would only target you even though you had 8 other people on your team and would hunt you down even if it didn't help accomplish the mission was just annoying. Specially since you know for a fact the kid plays 8 hours a day and didn't have college [and a job] to go to. I just wanted to have fun and a reasonable chance of participating and instead I was targetting because I was newbie and never given a chance to really play. Basically each round I would be alive for 30 seconds then have to wait 10 mins for the next round. After a few hours I got so frustrated that I never signed on again.
Might sound like "whining" but many people share the same experience because it's not that hard to really make the game anti-fun. All it takes is a handful of pricks who don't get why the game exists and want to ruin it for anyone else as a sign of their l33t skillz.
Tom