[G4] Champions online interview



You can read the full article over at G4, but pay close attention to the player based content. We see how that worked out for CoH/CoV ... think it could be better for them?

Q: Cryptic MMOs are all about user-created content, but what about users who are bad at creating content? Like, if you’re playing Lord of the Rings Online, and you run across LukeSkywlker741, it’s a little bit jarring and it takes you out of the game. Are there any sort of safe-guards against that kind of thing?

JE: Well, there's the the typical name-filter stuff, but we found in City of Heroes there is a weeding-out process that is a subscription fee. People tend not to pay a subscription fee to play a game in which they don’t have a desire to be a part of it, if that makes any sense. It does happen. I’m not saying it doesn’t. Sometimes people just make silly characters for the purposes of silly characters. The great thing, though, is that, hey, comic books have had Howard the Duck, Bat Mite, Ace the Bat hound. Mr. Mxyzptlk is a major villain in the Superman mythology. At least some of that is within the corpus. So, it isn’t as jarring as it might be in a different situation.



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