Sunny @svnnymoney A lot of people are concerned about Ft. Tarsis not being a social area. Players like seeing other players. Take The Division, Destiny and Warframe for example, social hubs that allow us to see others. Socially connected games have longevity.
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Sunny @svnnymoney Dont get me wrong, Im gonna play Anthem regardless, but this is what im hearing around different communities. This one in particular came from listening in on a Destiny stream by @gothalion this morning
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I'm gonna assume there's something like this already in the game, or they've got something planned as part of the live-service.
If it isn't sandboxed, that's gonna be a hard pass for me and a lot of other folks.
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If I was a boss, I would totally 100% do this.
Just Phone some random person which works at my office, and ask him: "IS OUR GAME FUN!! What can I change?"
Sunny @svnnymoney A lot of people are concerned about Ft. Tarsis not being a social area. Players like seeing other players. Take The Division, Destiny and Warframe for example, social hubs that allow us to see others. Socially connected games have longevity.
Michael Gamble @gamblemike We hear you loud and clear
Sunny @svnnymoney Dont get me wrong, Im gonna play Anthem regardless, but this is what im hearing around different communities. This one in particular came from listening in on a Destiny stream by @gothalion this morning
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I'm gonna assume there's something like this already in the game, or they've got something planned as part of the live-service.
It's not in the game and I don't see the point of adding it considering the gameplay flow and I suspect BioWare didn't put one in because they also didn't see the point of it in a 4 player co-op game.
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Sunny @svnnymoney A lot of people are concerned about Ft. Tarsis not being a social area. Players like seeing other players. Take The Division, Destiny and Warframe for example, social hubs that allow us to see others. Socially connected games have longevity.
Michael Gamble @gamblemike We hear you loud and clear
Sunny @svnnymoney Dont get me wrong, Im gonna play Anthem regardless, but this is what im hearing around different communities. This one in particular came from listening in on a Destiny stream by @gothalion this morning
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Ugh! I hope they mean we hear you loud and clear and will continue to ignore your dumb idea!
Social hub, phooey. I've played Destiny, Neverwinter Nights (the MMO) and Champions Online (another MMO), and tried to avoid the social hubs like the plague. Tremendous waste of time, or in the case of the MMO's, tremendous pressure to me-too buy the same mtx crap that everyone else was buying.
Oh wait, I forgot about Path of Exile Beta, where there was also a social hub of people non-stop begging for equipment trades/wanted/for sale.
They've stated Fort Tarsis is your solo story-mode area, where only you exist as far as "real world people" and your decisions there shape your personal story. Then, you have the outside world, that who "our world" shared space thing.
I see no reason why there might not be a little city hub out there in "our world" where Freelancers can gather to have dance parties or whatever other social stuff they wanna do. As an optional place to go to, that doesn't affect Fort Tarsis and "your world".
It'd be a place those who want to be social could go to, and those who don't can avoid it, lose nothing, and not have their Fort Tarsis affected. Seems like a win all around for all flavors of players, if that is the case.
Also, I wouldn't be concerned about people begging to buy/sell/trade. BioWare has said, I think, that trading and otherwise swapping gear is not something this game was built to be capable of doing.
I'm gonna assume there's something like this already in the game, or they've got something planned as part of the live-service.
It's not in the game and I don't see the point of adding it considering the gameplay flow and I suspect BioWare didn't put one in because they also didn't see the point of it in a 4 player co-op game.
How do you know it's not in the game?
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I'm gonna assume there's something like this already in the game, or they've got something planned as part of the live-service.
It's not in the game and I don't see the point of adding it considering the gameplay flow and I suspect BioWare didn't put one in because they also didn't see the point of it in a 4 player co-op game.
That's OK, I guess it'll be only unlocked in the mature version anyway.
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It's not in the game and I don't see the point of adding it considering the gameplay flow and I suspect BioWare didn't put one in because they also didn't see the point of it in a 4 player co-op game.
How do you know it's not in the game?
Because the devs would have mentioned it by now instead of saying: - Fort Tarsis is 100% solo - rest of game is max 4 players - no global chat
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Because the devs would have mentioned it by now instead of saying: - Fort Tarsis is 100% solo - rest of game is max 4 players - no global chat
Yea, but we know that there's still a lot they're not telling us, plus the game is designed to be constantly updated with features.
And the fact that the last answer in that string of tweets was a sunglasses-cool-emojii makes me suspect they clearly have something they are not telling us yet because NDA/surprises/etc.
I'm just saying, unless I am working for BioWare on the game, that I don't know 100% what is entirely in and entirely out of that game. None of us really do.
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Because the devs would have mentioned it by now instead of saying: - Fort Tarsis is 100% solo - rest of game is max 4 players - no global chat
Yea, but we know that there's still a lot they're not telling us, plus the game is designed to be constantly updated with features.
They showed/told us pretty much everything that will be in the game at launch feature-wise, I even suspect some stuff mentioned last year were removed because they stopped talking about them or didn't show up since (like terrain deformation, it was officially said it was removed).
They aren't hiding anything outside story spoilers and how the game is monetized outside box price at this point.
Also, while the game is designed to be constantly updated, that doesn't mean they are going to turn their 4 players co-op games with low social interactions into something else just because some people wants to see more than 3 people running around them.
Yea, but we know that there's still a lot they're not telling us, plus the game is designed to be constantly updated with features.
They showed/told us pretty much everything that will be in the game at launch feature-wise, I even suspect some stuff mentioned last year were removed because they stopped talking about them or didn't show up since (like terrain deformation, it was officially said it was removed).
They aren't hiding anything outside story spoilers and how the game is monetized outside box price at this point.
Also, while the game is designed to be constantly updated, that doesn't mean they are going to turn their 4 players co-op games with low social interactions into something else just because some people wants to see more than 3 people running around them.
Do we really know everything there is? What do we know about those Shaper Storms and why did it look like the group was flying into it at some point? We generally know what the game is about - but we don't know many details, including many significant ones.
Also, nobody said that they're going to turn their game into something else. A potential space for some kind of social hub ain't necessarily something that would require changing the game from what it is now.
Not that I really care that much about it ATM. I just don't think they'd be teasing it if they didn't have something to offer in the game, in February or sometime in the future.
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They showed/told us pretty much everything that will be in the game at launch feature-wise, I even suspect some stuff mentioned last year were removed because they stopped talking about them or didn't show up since (like terrain deformation, it was officially said it was removed).
They aren't hiding anything outside story spoilers and how the game is monetized outside box price at this point.
Also, while the game is designed to be constantly updated, that doesn't mean they are going to turn their 4 players co-op games with low social interactions into something else just because some people wants to see more than 3 people running around them.
Do we really know everything there is? What do we know about those Shaper Storms and why did it look like the group was flying into it at some point? We generally know what the game is about - but we don't know many details, including many significant ones.
Also, nobody said that they're going to turn their game into something else. A potential space for some kind of social hub ain't necessarily something that would require changing the game from what it is now.
Not that I really care that much about it ATM. I just don't think they'd be teasing it if they didn't have something to offer in the game, in February or sometime in the future.
What their post-release update will look like is one of things I’m most curious about.
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Yea, but we know that there's still a lot they're not telling us, plus the game is designed to be constantly updated with features.
And the fact that the last answer in that string of tweets was a sunglasses-cool-emojii makes me suspect they clearly have something they are not telling us yet because NDA/surprises/etc.
I'm just saying, unless I am working for BioWare on the game, that I don't know 100% what is entirely in and entirely out of that game. None of us really do.
True.
Even the alpha you played was not the most recent build they had at the time, and as you say the GAAS aspect leaves many open doors for the game.
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