The Technocrati (Malstrom)

[yushire]

Alterego-X said:

yushire, you are simply mixing two different things. UGC doesn't have anything common with modding.

The UGC that Malstrom hates is the idea that developers could just release "construction sets", and "editors" instead of games, and the gamers will all entertain themselves by creating stuff,(more like putting stuff together) or by watching others' stuff.

Modding is popular, because the base games themselves are popular, people love them, and some talented people love them so much that they even make meaningful, enjoyable content for it, also using their programming skills to make it surprising.

UGC games like Wii Music or Spore fail hard, because they rely on "here is an empty game, do something.". For example in Spore, (the one I'm familiar with), there are hardly enough talented fans to create meaningful content, but even if there would be, it would be anything but meaningful. They could basically change the location of the body parts on a creature, or the coloring of a house. No one will feel thrilled for exploring an universe full of purple box houses, yellow pyramid houses, green box houses, yellow sphere houses, spotted pyramid houses, spotted box houses, and lots of penis creatures. (seriously, lots of them.)

They would rather pay for professional content, or even semi-professional mods.

 

 

AND NOW for the hard topic, will Nintendo willing to mod their software then in exchange for the monopoly of their product like most FPS and RTS developers on PCs right now or just making sequels of their products till the consumers just dried up in milking. Like COD and GH games today. And about UGC they did this since the beginning they did it on the NEs they did it on the SNES with mario paint

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hil1F2T19GY

 

 

Who will stop them to doing it now? Just remember the UGC on the NEs was only on home theres no internet at that time so theres no new meaningful content that can shared to anyone and with the internet its possible. NSMB Wii can only done once because after the initial enjoyment you cant enjoyed it forever. People needs new content and making a sequel with more levels isnt the answer. These type of games needs UGC and if Ninty needed to theyre willing to mod their games to make the game have new content.

 

Most traditional games today except for emmersive and story type games(SMG and other 3-d platformers are included) can have new content by modding and UGC. Thats why most modded genres are RTS and FPS.