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MDMAlliance on 03 August 2013
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ethomaz said:

MDMAlliance said:

I know of MMO's and have played a few.  However, I hear people using the word "innovate" very tightly around here and say how this and that isn't "innovation" at all.  I get what the innovation is supposed to be, but I keep seeing people use the word as if you need to do something completely new and by definition the MMO isn't. For an MMO, I would believe it is.  MMO's don't tend to have these kinds of elements, I know but for some reason other genres doing similar things aren't innovating?  Maybe you do judge it fairly, but how I keep seeing the word used this wouldn't be called an innovation.

Hummmmmm... Do you think Uncharted is innovative? I do but if you looks for each feature in the game you will see that previous games did the same but not not all together. Uncharted gets the good ideia from a lot of games and put it together in an amazing way.... that's make the delivery something innovative.

It's not innovative in a single feature... it is innovative in how you can put all together and enhancement the old ideias in a way that the final develiver for the game is a complete new experience.

I have issues with the language... so I don't know if I make what I think clear.

SOE is doing something that no other company did with MMO's before like ND did with Uncharted.


I haven't played Uncharted, so I can't comment on it.  I know a lot of people like making weird comments about games they haven't played.  

I simply am making commentary about how I see many users (and journalists for that matter) use the word "innovate" in an unfair way.  They would say that such and such game does not innovate at all, while commenting on another game saying how innovative it is even though both games use ideas that exist in new forms.  Or so it seems, at least because the term seems to be shrouded in obscurity.  Not many people even explain what they mean by the word and are very inconsistent.

For the bolded part: I agree that the game is doing for MMO's what I haven't seen in any MMO I've played or seen before.