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General Discussion / Final Fantasy 7 Online
« on: 2003-02-14 06:48:47 »
MMORPGs are a pain in the ass to make. Not only will you have to worry about getting it to work, but you will have to make constant (everyday almost) changes and bug fixes. Not only that, but you need to also make it as secure as possible, and making code unexploitable is a tough job to do, you get lost while going through 1 Million lines of code. Then there is the server maintance, and the constant DoS attacks or brute force hacking.
Then also, you need to expand it, cuz then you'll lose customers because they will get bored with the same old thing. Expanding it will mean you have to code more, have more bugs, have more people abusing it, then people who abuse it will have an advantage over those who don't abuse it, and it becomes a real mess. Play an MMORPG first and you'll see how tough it is. This may not happen much in countries like in Korea or Japan, because people play by the rules and don't try to exploit bugs. Here in the U.S. is a different subject, most people that have been rude and jerks were people from the U.S.
Versions of the MMORPG that are in Korea and Japan don't have constant hack attacks as the version for the U.S. It really makes you wonder if the american culture is really rotten (No offense to people that live in the U.S., but it's frankly the truth)
Then also, you need to expand it, cuz then you'll lose customers because they will get bored with the same old thing. Expanding it will mean you have to code more, have more bugs, have more people abusing it, then people who abuse it will have an advantage over those who don't abuse it, and it becomes a real mess. Play an MMORPG first and you'll see how tough it is. This may not happen much in countries like in Korea or Japan, because people play by the rules and don't try to exploit bugs. Here in the U.S. is a different subject, most people that have been rude and jerks were people from the U.S.
Versions of the MMORPG that are in Korea and Japan don't have constant hack attacks as the version for the U.S. It really makes you wonder if the american culture is really rotten (No offense to people that live in the U.S., but it's frankly the truth)