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Comment ...and I want (Score 1) 462

by anarche (#32096288) Attached to: Do Gamers Want Simpler Games?

Since we all seem to posting what we want...

I want multiplayer games. CS is still my number 1 game, although I plan on giving Mechwarrior a crack.

The last one player game I played was Fallout3, finished it on goody-to-shoe and never bothered again. And I love that game.

Multiplay has the random human element; even in CS on good ol' dust2, people do wierd things. Games AI will never match the entertainment value of chatty, bored online players, although an epic story/graphic can match that of a decent movie.
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Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? 462

Posted by Soulskill from the i'd-say-no-but-i-used-to-love-frogger dept.
A recent GamePro article sums up a lesson that developers and publishers have been slowly learning over the last few years: gamers don't want as much from games as they say they do. Quoting: "Conventional gaming wisdom thus far has been 'bigger, better, MORE!' It's something affirmed by the vocal minority on forums, and by the vast majority of critics that praise games for ambition and scale. The problem is, in reality its almost completely wrong. ... How do we know this? Because an increasing number of games incorporate telemetry systems that track our every action. They measure the time we play, they watch where we get stuck, and they broadcast our behavior back to the people that make the games so they can tune the experience accordingly. Every studio I've spoken to that does this, to a fault, says that many of the games they've released are far too big and far too hard for most players' behavior. As a general rule, less than five percent of a game's audience plays a title through to completion. I've had several studios tell me that their general observation is that 'more than 90 percent' of a game's audience will play it for 'just four or five hours.'"

Comment Re:Great. (Score 2, Interesting) 279

by anarche (#32079958) Attached to: The FCC May Decide Not To Regulate Broadband

Bullshit!

Telstra in Australia still screws Aussies with "their" network they built while being a Government company 100 years ago! They refuse to sell "their" network back to the Government cheap enough that we can get round to building decent broadband infrastructure, despite said network being installed - and for all bar the past 10 years maintained - by the taxpayer!

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