What are the impediments to designing the ultimate game?

[Espon]

The problem is difference of opinions. People want different things from a game, so you cannot satisfy everyone without extremely bloating the game. And not just players, but the developers as well.

A company also has a limited number resources; be it money, people, or simply time. You can only throw so much money and people at a game before it all starts to bottleneck. You want the game to be a quality product and not riddled with bugs and other issues. The more that gets added at once, the more testing is required.

[Vidu]

The problem is difference of opinions. People want different things from a game, so you cannot satisfy everyone without extremely bloating the game. And not just players, but the developers as well.

Just to ass an example here:

the detailed storylines and world building of FFXIV

This is already a "controversial" feature of FFXIV since there are a lot of people who dont care about the story and want to jump straight to endgame - at the same time there are a lot of people who enjoy the story or play mainly because of the story (and care less about endgame). Trying to really sastify both cmaps seems like not such a great idea to me - I mean: Why would you if you could just make to different games that excel in their respectives aspects (story/endgame) while sprinkling in a little bit of the other.

[Minarisweet]

Just to ass an example here:


This is already a "controversial" feature of FFXIV since there are a lot of people who dont care about the story and want to jump straight to endgame - at the same time there are a lot of people who enjoy the story or play mainly because of the story (and care less about endgame). Trying to really sastify both cmaps seems like not such a great idea to me - I mean: Why would you if you could just make to different games that excel in their respectives aspects (story/endgame) while sprinkling in a little bit of the other.

I really think if they would design more substantial and long lasting content that wasn't done in 2 or 3 days like bozja a lot of people like me would be satisfied, it doesn't take many resources to do stuff like that.

[KageTokage]

I really think if they would design more substantial and long lasting content that wasn't done in 2 or 3 days like bozja a lot of people like me would be satisfied, it doesn't take many resources to do stuff like that.

I'm kind of concerned that given all the "new" content on the table like the Criterion dungeons and Island Sanctuary that we're not going to get a new exploration zone, as those historically have been some of the best content for keeping people occupied at length, and I loved the large scale raids like Baldesion Arsenal personally.