I work at a company that makes and sells MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The focus of these games is usually leveling, gaining power, earning money, earning items to help you level and make you more powerful. That type of thing. There are crafting systems in these games and economies in these games, where people can create items and sell them and sell the materials required to create items, etc. My coworker and I were talking about this and I wanted to share what I want in a game.
I want everything mentioned above plus land ownership. I want the massive leveling, hunting, raiding aspects of an MMO, but I want to be able to purchase land or a house or a shop. I’m not into the end game content of most MMO’s. The raiding for hours upon end and fighting tooth and nail for a drop.
I’m into the crafting and collecting side of things. I want to be able to work my ass off so I can buy a shop in a town where people visit and put things out in the shop for people to buy. I want to decorate my shop and place items around wherever I want, then I want people to be able to click on the items they want and purchase them from me. I want my store to be empty and bare if I don’t pay attention to it. I want to have to have good quality items so I can sell well and pay my rent at the end of the month.
And I want it to be pretty.
That is the game I want to play.
I think I would like to play your game, Moe. You should make it.
Make it and they will play.
That sounds like ur momma’s shops done virtual.
So basically you want to do all that stuff in a game that no one wants to do, like run a tavern or a shop. Surely there’s some game out there that lets you do these things already?
Yeah, but not in a pretty, interactive way. There’s 2nd life, but that’s all it is. There’s no progression in leveling and raiding and such. And I’m not the only one that wants to do this type of thing. Trust me. There are a lot of people like me.
There are games with good crafting systems, but I don’t know of one that gives you a physical place in game to showcase your work and sell. It’s a visual thing.
If you ever get this game going, be sure you don’t lock your kid up in your shop. Probably the virtual Police will come and lock you up.
Look under everything…might be asleep under something.
All of this from a girl who’s screen name in games was once Beheader.
LOL Love Ben’s response.
Dark Age of Camelot had this almost exactly. You could buy a plot of land, buy a house, upgrade the house, put a shop keeper to sell your stuff. Decorate the house. Plus guilds would get an inn and all the houses together in one neighborhood.
Neocron had where you can buy an apartment, individual or clan, and decorate it with furniture and stuff as well. No shop keeper though unless you got a gm to add it, which sometimes they did, but not regularly.
Ever play the FPS games, like COD:World at War or Modern Warfare 2, over xbox live? Always looking for others to snipe at…..
Your sis Andra and I went to college together, and intro’d me to your blog. Cool stuff.