 | Sorry, Jeff — MTV gave me your lineJanuary 9th, 2007 |
An interview with MTV News just went up, mostly about the overall landscape of MMORPGs and how they have and haven’t changed since the MUD days.
When doing the interview, Stephen Totilo said to me that an Austin designer had told him that I measured MMOs based on “time to penis.” I told him, “I think I’ve heard that, but I don’t think I said it. But it’s a good metric!”
Now, of course, we know the term is properly called “time to cock” and it can be credited to the fertile (er, sorry, must pun) mind of Jeff Freeman (whose recent post about thermostats interfaces is a must read for game designers. No, really. Ponder it next time you look at your character sheet).
In any case, some stuff I said in the MTV interview:
“I think we often don’t make the games as good as they should be. I think if you played most of the MMO games and you played them as single-player games, we’d grow bored of them really, really quickly.”
What makes the MMOs enjoyable, he says, is visiting these worlds with friends. But are they really fun because they’re great games? “I think because they are such cool places and so full of cool possibility … it props up the games to some often large degree.”
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I think he meant “although not the most successful” or something!
an awful time playing it. I like, you know, actually doing things and the social aspect of these sorts of games is usually what drags them down for me – I like a light dusting of multiplayer on my hack n’ slash, basically. And, of course, in MMOs the social game is about all they have going for them. But it’s an interesting move and one, I hope, that will lead to good things for an innovative and captivating game. I mentioned the fascist (like fastballs) Strunk and White the other day so let me just pass
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