• JuJutsu

    White splotchy cats are overpowered!! They need to be nerfed!

  • Sentack

    What? Don’t you know anything about balance?! Just buff black cats, it’s so obvious anyone should be able to see that! Don’t nerf my cat just because yours under powered!

  • Fraeg

    The older cat hiding underneath the slide is clearly exploiting

  • =j

    black cats are fine. lrn2play. less QQ, more pew pew video looping.

  • VPellen

    You guys are clearly missing the point of the video.

    The analogy is for a replacement of standard advancement systems in MMOs today: That rather than having a person advance normally, advancement should be akin to trying to run up a slide: The more effort you put in, the further up you get, but if you stop putting in effort, you slide right back down to the bottom. This means that player power and ability is relative to effort and activities they put in and perform. As there would be no point at which you get to “the top” (because you’re constantly slipping downwards,) you would find players adapting a comfortable skill level relative to their abilities and dedication. It also has the fun side-effect of almost completely eliminating the appeal of selling characters, as a high level character would require mass upkeep or else it would slide back down to normality.

    There may be issues with catassing and bots.

    I must investigate this design further. Thanks, Scott!

  • Sentack

    I think you REALLY read too much into that. It’s just a cute video and nothing more. Sometimes a cigar, is just a cigar. In this case, I think the video was more of a joke about ‘da grind’ but, it’s kind of just more of a cute video. Nothing more.

  • VPellen

    IT IS A PROFOUND STATEMENT ABOUT GAME DESIGN AND I WILL NOT LET ANYBODY CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    I like kittens more than puppies.

  • Cedia

    So basically what you’re saying is that MMO players are as stupid and useless as cats? :p A dog would never do that. Then again, if you designed an MMO for dogs, most of the time we’d be stuck sniffing each other’s butts and eating poop. But we’d all be happy and get along most of the time, I guess. Dog zen is a wonderful thing.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    Dogs that eat poop are called Sh*t Eaters and considered “retarded” by anyone who knows dogs, you are supposed to put them down/remove them from the gene pool.

    An MMO for real dogs would include, wrestling, leather chewing, begging for love and lots and lots of laying around licking one’s self. Sounds awesome.

  • Sinnach

    So, I can’t help but to ask – tractors?

  • Vetarnias

    Then there is the Shadowbane/Darkfall school of design, which places someone at the top of the slide to pour down boiling oil/garbage down at the poor kitty. And this is supposed to be fun…

  • Jarnis

    Vetarnias :
    Then there is the Shadowbane/Darkfall school of design, which places someone at the top of the slide to pour down boiling oil/garbage down at the poor kitty. And this is supposed to be fun…

    Of course it is fun – for that someone at the top of the slide. Downright hilarious, at least according to some people.

  • Vykromond

    Broken Toys is quickly approaching the blog redesigns/blog posts=1 frontier.

  • http://metrogamer.wordpress.com Shiro

    Better theme than the last, IMO. Props.

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com wowpanda

    Thanks for the cat videos, we really enjoyed it :-)

  • Tolmar

    This seems more like a model of roguelikes than it does of MMOs.

    Mind you, learning something from roguelikes would definitely go a long way towards fixing these games.

  • http://www.david-mcgraw.com David McGraw

    So. You give effort, and give more effort… But you’re still the same individual in the real world no matter how much time, effort, and skill you try to put into the game.

    In the end, you’re still a cat.

  • http://toolshed.wtfno.org Jeff

    Site needs more tractors.

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Zubon

    Everyone who does not play Darkfall is a pussy?

  • thunnyrer

    friend has given the link has not regretted that has come

  • JHB

    I find it highly relevant that there were no hamsters in that video.