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An article I think may be worth reading

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Mon, 11/11/2013 - 00:38
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An article I think may be worth reading

This is something I found just BS'ing around in the internet, reading up on MMO stuffs. It's pretty old, but it poses a few decent questions. Since this is the Speak to the Dev's forum, I figured I'd post it up. I'm not looking for answers to all of these questions, I just thought I'd post it and you could take a look. Anyways, here is the article.

http://devmaster.net/posts/14034/so-you-re-designing-an-mmorpg-have-you-thought-it-through

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Mon, 11/11/2013 - 06:01
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Quote:
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Target market? How many MMO players are female? How many are over 35? Are these demographics you want? (answer: surprisingly many of both - and PvP discourages both)

What is the customer service plan? To deal with all incoming support queries, for every 100k users you will likely need \~10 support people 24/7, scaling more at peak times, and scaling with growth. That is, 80-160 fulltime support people per 100k users, plus management structure overhead.

How to you prevent bugginess/poor testing? What is your QA plan? QA does not end at version 1.0.

What is your recovery strategy for hacks that go undetected for a long time?

Do you care about bots and cyborgs and gold miners? Will you even have goldminable tasks?

What do you do for the “elder game”, once people have “won” (completed all available quests, maxed their stats, etc)?

Teleporting: teleporting reduces exploration and immersion. How much should you give? If you give summon/join, then someone WILL make a taxi service between major areas. If you give it a cost, then that’s a good tax, but what are the downsides? Initially I thought “teleport to any friends” was so important that it should not be prevented (and has precedent in the wizards’ trip to a beach): now I’m less sure.

Poor marketing kills MMOs. What’s your marketing strategy?

These points seem especially relevant.

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Mon, 11/11/2013 - 14:29
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I agree. There are some

I agree. There are some questions here that require some serious thought to answer fully. Which is why I thought it was important enough to post it here.

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