User Generated content in mmo's?

[Reoh]

Checkout this article, seriously cool. More content generated by the userbase in 24hrs than the dev team in years. Thats a major resource companies can harvest, so is this the future of online gaming? I know others have this feature also, Ryzom from what I gather and I'm sure there will be others on the back of this success.

Kotaku - City Of Heroes Players Create More Content Than Devs In 24 Hours - City of Heroes

[roob]

Nice to see some reading OP are considering resubscribing.

it's a great game when there's a lot of people on to do stuff with. it's a boring solo game though. (duh!)

Myself and Lurch usually get back into it once a year or so and with global chat we always see the same people playing and get back into SFs and such usually in the first night.


One of the guys that's always on when we resub loves dominators and has 13 different ones and maybe 1 or 2 other classes.
if he wasn't so damn good at playing a Dom, i'd say he was crazy for not trying the other toons out


-roob

[Reoh]

I tried resubbing.

Turns out if your accounts 'off' for a while, they delete your toons.

[Sente]

Originally Posted by roob

One of the guys that's always on when we resub loves dominators and has 13 different ones and maybe 1 or 2 other classes.

Yay, someone who might love dominators even more than I do
I only have 6 of them (covering all powersets) and only 5 at 50.

Back to the original topic, Mission Architect is a great feature and you can do a lot of stuff with it, but will still be within the general mission design formula. It is both good and bad - it makes it very easy to create story arcs, but does not give you full freedom.

A tool like Ryzom Ring does give more freedom in some ways, but also a lot of work to actually create something. With mission architect people can create and play a mission in 5 minutes.

The problem is that a number of people do just that... And a number of people also take advantage of the system to farm xp or tickets (mission architect's reward currency).
The search tools are not good enough to filter out the junk, so it can be a bit tricky sometimes to find to good ones - one has to rely on other sources to get a better hit rate.

[Drac]

I resubbed to CoX a few weeks ago, but it's totally dead on the server all my toons are on. There was a massive total of 3 people in the Atlas City zone when I was last on, and one of those three was me.

Considering issue 14 was just released, that's pretty dire. I've never seen Atlas's statue looking so lonely and barren. I think this MMO is on it's last legs.

Champions is better anyway

[Reoh]

They were probably all in the architects office, lol =P

[Zhul]

User generated content can be very very good. However, it can also be garbage or even extremely offensive garbage unless it goes through a developer review process. I'm assuming it does.

[Reoh]

Originally Posted by Zhul

User generated content can be very very good. However, it can also be garbage or even extremely offensive garbage unless it goes through a developer review process. I'm assuming it does.

Thoughts of the many 'creative' spore creatures comes to mind...

[Drac]

Cryptic said they have a lot of plans for user created content in Champions too. We already know about the Nemesis system but they've said post-release they plan to focus on end-game (omega) content, more PvP and more user created content.

There's also talk of being able to play your own Nemesis creation in PvP areas.

[Reoh]

That would certainly add some more interesting elements to their pvp scene.