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Why do Game Developers think they know what the players want? What games failed you?

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02-05-2013

man, the combat system in gunz was freaking awesome. probably the most keyboarding mashing/APM game. i only got to like lvl 51 or something. but oh wells

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02-05-2013

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Technical reasons.
Follow-up: Do you have any further thoughts you'd like to share on the subject?

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I love how this gos from a whole bunch of games that were a letdown to LOL to WOW to smashbrothers to WOW. I love this thread. I even learned that metaknight is OP as hell. Just go with the meta.
...knight.

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02-05-2013

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Follow-up: Do you have any further thoughts you'd like to share on the subject?
It's one of those natural things that can happen when you make a game, but once it's there, i think you leave it. It's not very problematic and players are used to it (if we were talking about a new game, likely would be more deliberate about it either way).

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02-05-2013

The Mega Man X series after X6....

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Mass Effect 3
Command & Conquer 4 Tiberium Twilight
Sims 3
Dragon Age 2

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02-05-2013

I'll be honest, I do like Riot's balancing team, but I didn't know you had such a good sense of "why" you're doing things. My respect for you guys has only gone up. I've begun to believe that a lot of developers didn't know why they did things anymore; they just do things for money/appease their fanbase.

I lost faith when Diablo 3 happened. I beat it in hardcore and softcore and still felt like it was lacking in depth and design direction, especially since all they do is nerf, nerf, and nerf, when their beta videos had so much intuition and had an interesting thought process.

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It's one of those natural things that can happen when you make a game, but once it's there, i think you leave it. It's not very problematic and players are used to it (if we were talking about a new game, likely would be more deliberate about it either way).
Is minimization of animation canceling something that influences your future designs (Syndra for example can pretty much move freely while casting without much effort to cancel) or do you think its a positive mechanic to have.

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BTW, this happened a lot with DotA players with League when we launched. Denying and fog-juking "made MOBA", but I think it's pretty clear that's not true :P
Except Dota is an ARTS not a MOBA... Please respect the names the developers wish to prefer it by. MOBA is a term made for this game.

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Is minimization of animation canceling something that influences your future designs (Syndra for example can pretty much move freely while casting without much effort to cancel) or do you think its a positive mechanic to have.
I think it's a lot of "free power," and I'd only include move-while-cast if the feel of the character were reliant upon it. Additionally, stopping to cast or attack is one of the biggest visual queues that action is occurring in many cases, and gives your brain just a little more time to react.

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