The Technocrati (Malstrom)

[yushire]

liquidninja said:

yushire said:

thats when mods started anyway, the people who makes multiplayer maps and skins and send it online or in floppy disks. (and yeah, CS till 1.6 maps can fit into a 1.3 mb floppy disc)

 

even in the NEs days Nintendo are pursuing online(YES. They're that ahead of the time of course its just a plan a prediction) and UGC and share their UGC online making battle city, wrecking crew and excite truck maps. But because of the technology at that time they cant do it. but with the technology we have today they can do it

The reason "User Generated Content" games don't do very well is because they are just the platform you need to build and run a good game on. But for any game to be attractive to customers you have to have a good content for it first.

Most people won't just start making good levels for a game just to watch the games publisher to get rich. If they compensated level creators then UGC could take off but then that would be like paying amature game designers to come up with the selling point for the game.

 

Do you know why Blizzard, Valve and Id are still making money even their games are almost 10 years old and why most PC publishers and developers are changing to consoles? THATS RIGHT... UGC. If Nintendo want to the user can mod their existing game THEY WILL. In fact, thats what Nintendo wants they want to be like Valve making money on a old game. Thats why Wii Fit, MK Wii and Wii Sports was still selling and they want to monopolized it more with UGC. Thats what they want and since most games that uses UGC are traditional games theres no loss for Ninty. 

 

For one thing, you still need to buy on steam the original game to play most mods in HL and HL2. And most of the popular mods were bought by Valve like CS.