Comments on: Blue Protocol developers talk about what went wrong with the MMORPG

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:41:55 +0000

“The developers refer to themselves as “hardcore” MMO players, and admit to being surprised by the number of casual gamers Blue Protocol attracted. This made some of the hardcore mechanics (such as repetitive gameplay and low drop rates) that they brought over from their favorite MMOs overbearing for the average player.”

Making repetitive and tedious content is not hardcore. It’s just a padding to force you to keep playing the game and eventually burning out people.

Honestly, it’s too late to course correct the game.

By: Redrover

Redrover — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:59:29 +0000

When it said that the devs refer themselves as hardcore players, I wanted to scream BS. Even “hardcore” players hate constantly grinding forever just to get the one item or weapon that would give you the slight boost in combat.

By: John C

John C — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:16:50 +0000

I can agree that repetitive tasks are just bad overall in an MMORPG. It needs to have satisfying gameplay depth and things to do otherwise people will get bored.

Hopefully they can turn it around and take in what both East and Western Audiences would like as a whole and have feature parity otherwise it will just lead to it only being popular in Japan and dead in the West.