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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Gen Z HATES MMORPGs
ZYBAK
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https://youtu.be/aaUmb0p9iC0?si=LP7Q_gIl1g_QmtOTI've been making MMORPG related content for 13 years. Viewing my YouTube analytics my audience has shifted from 90% of viewers being 24 or under to ZERO PERCENT!
Needless to say I'm concerned with the genre as a whole if it doesn't appeal at all to younger gamers.
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make minecraft, habbo hotel and roblox videos and you will get their attention
Glad I grew up in the golden age of gaming instead of this capitalist consumer age.
It becomes even worse if the game doesnt have autoplay, microtransactions or the credit card button.
Also, the guild/group concept is going into extinction, for them, a group can only have max 5 Gen Z....
Imagine if they discover about lineage 2 castle sieges.....
My best friend's kids are very into console-gaming and games like Fortnite. Single-player games that you *can* work together for - but can equally be played as a lone player. Yours truly misses the days of big guilds in SWG, and MMO's that feature group-content and group-oriented goals.
Before Kickstarter though, it was *entirely* up to the AAA companies to produce MMOs and big-title games. Hopefully, AoC will gain success and a strong foothold. If it does, then hopefully there will be far-sighted AAA companies that will also follow suit, giving us better-quality games that don't nickel-and-dime their players, as a business model.
It's part of the reason I worry about how much instanced/queued content they want to add to the game. The first year(s) of an mmorpg in general is some of the best experiences. What unfolds in the after years is worrisome if they don't stay true to their design for the sake of "success" aka selling out integrity and design for money like many games and companies before them. I'm seeing the foundational implementation of similar designs being added with dev updates. So I hope they're not overlooking certain things too carelessly.
I work in performance marketing and have weekly calls with Meta to speak on performance for our clients. One thing Meta always stress about is relevancy and that you can't go against the data. You cannot go against the wave. That's bad business. Good business is riding the wave and improving that wave. It's called skyscraping. Apple is a good example of a business that is skyscraping. Android have been doing everything Apple is currently doing years ago, Apple just takes those ideas and improve upon it. Intrepid is actually doing the same thing, they are taking bits and pieces from other games and improving upon it. That's good business.
Data is important. Meta is the king of the world and every business in the world rely heavily on them.
A few of my nephews game on pc. The rest of my nieces and nephews do all gaming on their phones. It is what it is. They will flock to what is fun in their eyes and where their friends hang out.
Oh certainly more factors. But the reality most game on a phone/tablet now result in no mmorpg logging in. Phones simply can't handle it at this stage.
True, although those gaming smart phones are getting a lot better surprisingly much like the steam decks. Those gaming phones are essentially just a computer with a telecom card in it. I've considered turning my desktop into a cell phone before haha.
Considering how good GPU's are getting (or even CPU/GPU hyrbids), things could change quite interestingly over the next decade with mobile gaming from hand held to smart phones. Consoles are more GPU integration vs CPU since OS and background functions for design are more specific driven compared to PC gaming. Nvidia is going all in on AI chips, they dont really care about the GPU gamer market (even though they'll keep selling over priced products to gamers with fomo). AMD making some foot prints in the industry now too. They're going into AI chips now too but keeping gamers in mind.
Big things coming in the tech world
MMORPG's have been ported over to steam decks, shouldn't be long before gaming smart phones get there with what was mentioned above
A generation is commonly about 20 years. (used to be anyways)
Assuming Gen z is mid 90's-ish that would mean the youngest of the Gen Z is in their teens.
Generation A(alpha) or as I like to say Generation Artificially Intelligent, their oldest would be early teens/pre-teens now.
One thing is for certain, they keep debating and retconning generational start dates with micro generations with generations now being like 16 years apart.
It's dumb regardless but they definitely changed it over the last few decades.