Persistent universes, are they a good thing, really?

[ciderPunk1877]

Everybody (not technically everybody, of course) wants the next big thing. People like to get in on the ground floor of the next WoW/Destiny/Ark/whatever.

When developers talk about that stuff, it's a sales tactic to attract those people.

In other words... it's a good thing to people who want it, and irrelevant to people who don't.

[isturbo1984]

Originally posted by isturbo1984 View Post

Bad implementation does not mean a system is bad, it just means lazy devs botched the job. MMORPGs, usually, do a good job at having persistent worlds and events, with your more single-player questing or personalized story-based gameplay being quarantined off in "instances." Honestly, I don't see how a person can learn one way or the other here, when it is obvious that it is just another mechanic that falls prey to bad game design.

Edit: I didn't vote. I would have chosen the "neither" option, but pretending my reasoning is simply because I didn't care would be false. It's not my fault the op can't see any possible reason.

Yet you couldn't cite a single good implementation of it. It's a little hard to argue for something if there are no good examples of it. It's like marxism at that point, it looked good on paper, but we ended up with millions starving and 100 million dead when we tried it.

The fuck you talkin about? I said MMOs, lol. I did you one better, I said "usually" MMOs, meaning most of them. So take your pick. If you want a specific game, then you'll have to ask nicely. Being a cunt doesn't look good on paper either, hun.

[Courtneylius]

You're right, it doesn't look good. Cool it.

[isturbo1984]

I know I am right. So why are you talking to me about it? Why don't you chill the fuck out?