Can we have a Sandbox game instead?

[Dubont]

Think about it. Making pre-fabricated content is way more effort than it's actually worth. It's much more cost-effective to develop the systems for players to make their own fun. "Give a man a fish and he can feed for a day" and so on.

People play the same Call of Duty maps over and over on multiplayer mode, not because they are such amazing maps, but because playing with others is. You never know what someone else is going to do.

Applying that convention to the MMO setting, you get the sandbox design philosophy. A philosophy which basically stipulates that players should have some, if not all, control over the game-world.

Of course, the downside is the developers have less control over what people do. For example, maybe some cruel person will build their house on a hilltop which was someone else's favorite vantage-point.

But the upside is that it's really hard to give meaning to MMOs without these aspects.

I don't play the same COD maps repeatedly because I like to play with others on it....I try out the multiplayer and get the trophies (if available) then never touch it again...because COD multiplayer is terrible. Back on point, there are enough horrible sandbox games. There's no need to pack on another.

[giftforce]

Back on point, there are enough horrible sandbox games. There's no need to pack on another.

Wrong. There are lots of horrible sandboxes, leaving a vacuum in the market for a good one.

[Dubont]

Wrong. There are lots of horrible sandboxes, leaving a vacuum in the market for a good one.

I think SE needs to get the MMO part down first, before trying to make another sub-genre...otherwise, it WILL be just another horrible sandbox

[Anonymoose]

I think SE needs to get the MMO part down first, before trying to make another sub-genre...otherwise, it WILL be just another horrible sandbox

As much as I hate the uncalled for levels of XIV-Bashing this forum so often provides, that's actually pretty legitimate. Still, just because something is far off doesn't mean that there can't be a quality discussion to hammer out some ideas for the devs to store away for that era of development. Hell, the thread in my sig is exactly that.

[giftforce]

I think SE needs to get the MMO part down first, before trying to make another sub-genre...otherwise, it WILL be just another horrible sandbox

There is already content in development to satisfy the themepark sub-genre, which is more or less what I am asking they sacrifice.