How to incline the rpg industry and make a buck or two

[Jaime Lannister]

Listen up game developers. Toggle all quest markers off by default and include instructions so that no one actually NEEDS the markers to play.

Now here's the genius part. Offer a FREE in-game walkthrough on the official website that does nothing but toggle the markers on. Once this catches on, you can start selling the "in-game walkthrough" as DLC.

But Jaime, you might say, how does combining the of quest markers with the of DLC give you ?

I dunno man it's complicated math, it just works.

 

[Konjad]

horse armor would sell better

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Horse armor won't help you when you're stuck and you could read but redding is teh hard.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Entomorph.

 

[baronjohn]

Outcast had the great feature that you could ask any non-hostile npc where other some other npc was and the npc would say something like "I last saw Reza to the northwest, Ulukai" and point in the direction.

Such a simple and immersive solution. Why wasn't it adopted over the quest compass?

 

[20 Eyes]

Now here's the genius part. Offer a FREE in-game walkthrough on the official website that does nothing but toggle the markers on. Once this catches on, you can start selling the "in-game walkthrough" as DLC.

So you're appealing to their greed in an effort to stop the decline by encouraging them to charge for features that were created from their greedy desire to decline their games to appeal to as many retards as possible?

It's fucking confusing, but somehow it makes sense and seems plausible.

 

[MicoSelva]

It's fucking confusing, but somehow it makes sense and seems plausible.

 

[Irxy]

Outcast had the great feature that you could ask any non-hostile npc where other some other npc was and the npc would say something like "I last saw Reza to the northwest, Ulukai" and point in the direction.

Same for Daggerfall.

 

[DraQ]

Listen up game developers. Toggle all quest markers off by default and include instructions so that no one actually NEEDS the markers to play.

Now here's the genius part. Offer a FREE in-game walkthrough on the official website that does nothing but toggle the markers on. Once this catches on, you can start selling the "in-game walkthrough" as DLC.

But Jaime, you might say, how does combining the of quest markers with the of DLC give you ?

I dunno man it's complicated math, it just works.

I proposed it like two or three years ago.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Great idea in concept, but you know they'd add NPCs (complete with exclamation marks above their heads, so the player knows who to ask) coaxing you into buying it by giving the player overly complicated directions.

 

[20 Eyes]

Great idea in concept, but you know they'd add NPCs (complete with exclamation marks above their heads, so the player knows who to ask) coaxing you into buying it by giving the player overly complicated directions.

Player: Do you know where the leader of the Derps is?"

NPC: Nope. (click HERE to be redirected to bioware.store.moneys.com to purchase a one-time use quest compass for 5.99. Also, might we interest you in a glowing sparkle trail that leads directly to the Derps' hideout? Please, come to our online store.............. theeeeeere's Tali.)

 

[Phage]

Or they can just include the option to turn off quest markers for superior beings like yourself.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

And then you have no idea where to go because the advent of quest compasses means they don't bother giving you actual directions anymore

 

[Oesophagus]

And then you have no idea where to go because the advent of quest compasses means they don't bother giving you actual directions anymore

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Making quest compasses reduces the time and effort required to make quests (no need for writing). Since most people paying for games are consoletards, the designers won't give a flying fuck about moaning codexers and the like, seeing as they'll sell their games anyway. The sad truth is that designers don't care whether you're happy or not as long as they get their (not so) hard earned denars

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

If it aint Fixed, Break it?

Sure as hell worth a try, the increasing herp derpitude of streamlining is killing the industry, if the greed is so great that they will cater to the dumbest dumbfuck deadshit nobrain gamers on the planet, why not appeal to their greed in to fucking those deadshits out of more money.

 

[snoek]

how about a transparent horse model... you could sell it for 20$ a pop

 

[Havoc]

how about a transparent horse model... you could sell it for 20$ a pop

With wings!

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

To be honest, directions were a complete fail since long time ago. The only game that I played where reasonable directions (go in that direction, look for an orientation point then go in another direction until another orientation point and then go in another direction) was Entomorph.

 

[flabbyjack]

You are dumb. I just patented this. I win.