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Originally Posted by john70t
I've played ARMA3 (deadly hide and seek) and seeing what not to do in a company.
B.I. Studios and Steam seem to be intent on sinking their own creation after putting so much into it:
1). The U.I. is spread out with redundant menus which are bewildering at the same time. There is no "verify files installation" button because it's hidden away. Favorite 3rd party servers can't be found or often just dynamically disappear from your saved profile. You have to go to their individual websites or connect through an aggregate gaming site but then the history doesn't appear the next time you play.
2). The few good servers are always jammed up which grinds them to a un-playable 5-25 FPS crawl.
(I guess a lot of dynamics are handled server-side instead of locally...but IDK computer stuff.)
Instead of making more of what the players really want, they go off in different directions.
3) The game graphics are amazing but little effort was put into making it "fun". Huge gorgeous maps such as the 22GB Khe San, Chernarus, and others are not specifically available in the editor as well i think. The organization is a mess. It does 5 things at once and gets them all wrong. The game goes in all directions at once.
4). You get errors trying to play on official servers with official DownLoadableContent paid for. First they demanded players download a "task force radio" from some sketchy russian website, then the CommunityBasedAddons
required for running official mods (but not automatically included and installed, duh) began creating line errors of items such as "bush not found".
Just a whole bunch of little things that all should have been fixed automatically before release....
Third party servers usually don't have info on what is needed or how to get it. The game also doesn't had a sandbox de/activate menu for addon items/groups on the DLC tab which would have solved everything from the start.
5). The end result: A lot of the best servers with old familiar players just getting to know are gone with turnover. The official servers are usually complete garbage with poor mission creation, no dynamic probabilities, and not much replay-ability.
A lot of cheating happens in PvP, the game cheats and kills you if you get too good, and repeat game crashes or being kicked off for no reason, which leave players frustrated. It's been used as a test-bed for voice spoofing at times using high quality emulators. Other times it felt like a psyche test was occurring and admin was playing with you like a rat.
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People who should know better make bad movies, plays, crap books, **** songs all the time
Games are no different than any other entertainment product.
After 30 years in the industry trust me, you can't just say "i'm going to make the perfect game" because everyone starts out with that goal.
Literally no one says "lets make a buggy piece of crap"