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Do you worry about losing perspective, though?
SB: That's why we focus test almost every single day. In the wow gold
wow gold end that's what really determines a lot of what we do. And it's not like we spend tons of time -- it's not like there's that many peripherals, to be honest with you. Joystick is just supporting the Microsoft joystick API.
Like you know the [Logitech keyboard] G15? Some of the guys have those and they love 'em so they supported it because they already had one and they wanted it to work. Somebody already had the TrackIR and they supported it because they wanted it to work. So that's kind of where that comes from.
There are a lot of questions wow gold
wow gold right now about audience and accessibility in MMOs.
SB: You know, we've continued to work on accessibility and make sure the wow gold
wow gold UI gives you the right cues, and I think we've gotten combat even easier to play now, from starting out. Anyone who sits down and starts playing this has been really, really good.
The more accessible a game is, the bigger the wow gold
wow power leveling potential audience -- but at the same time, people who get involved with these games for a long wow gold
World of Warcraft Gold period of time like a certain amount of toothiness, you know what I mean? So how do you balance that when you're designing?
SB: It's the whole "easy to learn, difficult to master". That's the magic formula if there is such a thing. And how you get there is tons of iteration. I wish I knew some shortcut. Maybe there are better designers than us that know what it is, but to me it's just trial and error.
Like, "What if we tried something like this" and then we focus test it, we get a bunch of people play it, we see what the wow gold
World of Warcraft Gold results are and we try something else. And so, that's that tricky layer. It's also difficult -- it's more difficult because with a stats-based RPG you can say, "Oh, let's make that sword do more damage" or let's make someone hit more often and they do -- where I can't make you hit more often.
And so if you're really good at flying you're gonna do a lot more damage than someone who's not. And so how tough do I choose to make the A.I. there, and stuff? And that's an interesting problem.
When it comes to MMO design, one decision to be made is whether you really engender cooperation, or let people solo. How did you tackle that?
SB: I think you have to let people solo. My opinion wow gold
sell wow gold is you must let people solo. I mean, I frankly want to solo sometimes. So what we've done is we've made it so that A, seeing other people isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing.
So if you're out doing missions and someone else is out doing them as well we have this concept called "soft grouping" where you actually basically auto-share -- if you're both trying to kill guys and we're out in the field killing them we'll actually help each other out instead of take each other's kills or whatever.
The other thing we do is if you actually do form a group then we'll even share your missions. And so a big problem we have is that, let's say, you've already done this mission but I haven't, will you help me? And you're like, "Ahhn, I already did that one. I'll work on something else."
Well, we'll now give you credit even if someone else has the mission. So like, when you group up you basically just share all the missions. And so there's always a reason myyqqm1030 to play with somebody else. It just means you're going to get even more missions accomplished if you work that way.
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