Some cool things that could have been (MxO)

[Barloke]

(08-02-2010, 07:34 PM)Valaro Wrote: WOW! I still dont understand, what happened. Who was the one man that screwed up lol The ideas this game had were endless! This game had limitless possibilities! All this crap about oh it was hard coded and oh it was such a difficult game to code stuff for.

Lets look at: The Playstation 3! How many developer companies said. "Oh no its gonna be so hard to cde for this console" Now adays they sing a different tune "We are only now unlocking the full potential of the PS3" Its takes time for things to get off the ground. Unlimit Powers would have rocked. I always did wonder why repills couldn't take advantage of that stuff. There was only one reason. No dev power used effectively... Another thing that gets me is why didn't the wachowskis get more involved? I mean they were huge MMO players once upon a time. D&D and then they get THERE OWN MMO! And they go "Pffft, We have an MMO?" "News to me". Surely they would want there baby to have a better chance. Or to have gone down fighting. Bunch of Quitters is all this game had really... And yet the community (That knew the game existed, and were the reason Monolith devs originally had jobs) stayed around in hopes to see there game kick ass... Jesus what a fucking let down.

I agree totally and it was one of the most frustrating things to hear the same group of folks that would parrot the words "The game is hard coded so it's difficult to change things" in the Development Section (DN1 forums).
Granted, a few ideas were a little outlandish but there were alot of them that were way less ambitous then what Chadwick had planned and were feasible to make.

I'm only mentioning this now because when you guys started talking about folks coding and how it would look to a red pill I remembered a photoshopped screenshot (can't find it now) of a holographic image of a keyboard and screen that would appear as you coded.

Little things like that I think would have made a difference but we got so used to the words "it can't be done" that I think killed alot of ideas or made a few folks worried about voicing their own.

Rarebit makes two new constructs and while everyone was amazed at it some of us wanted to know if we could expect new areas in game that wern't constructs and again we get the same parroted excuses.

Shit, we even had people with some know how offering to tutor the staff in SOE how it could be done and it was either met with silence, flatout refusal, or ridicule from other players. I know part of the problem was that we didnt have a test server which was a huge mistake on SOE's part.

But geeze, seeing Chadwicks blog only confirms what I have long suspected about SOE, they had the resources and know how to make a difference and instead they chose to do nothing because they never had any intention of investing in their product. Instead they handed out bullshit excuses when they wern't using their code of silence.