Roper working on Champions' longevity News

Its really really simple... In order for your game not to become stagnant in its "end game" you must NOT make the game static.

but... since they look upon WoW with envious eyes i am sure it will be the usual cookie cutter mmo.
Lessons learnt from Hellgate!? I sincerly doubt the most valuable lessons will be heeded.

Here's an idea. Stop developing it, and make Star Trek Online the priority. Number of hero games that can tide you over is 1 (or 2 if you count Heroes and Villians seperately), number of Star Trek MMOs is none.

"Its really really simple... In order for your game not to become stagnant in its "end game" you must NOT make the game static. "

Why do people keep writing that sort of thing? No part of making a game, not least an mmo, is anything close to being really really simple. If it was, the people with sack loads of experience and some record of success in this area would get it right every single time.

Often as not, when something appears to be really really simple, the observer simply doesn't understand the complexity of what they are observing.

Eh? theres nothing complex about it.

Static worlds 'ala' wow will have a fixed end game... If you wish to get more out of the game at this stage you are forced to play it in this fixed state.

Dynamic world. Where your actions have consequences to the game world and yourself will see a constantly shifting "end game"
In fact if done properly the whole concept of end game goes out the window.

Now which world holds a players attention more?... Something that he is trying to do.

They wont of course because they are all terrified of taking risks and see WoW's dominance as a sign that theres is the path to tread.
You say its very complex... well it shouldn't be, if they are pitching there idea and just cant get there head around how it will work then its doomed to failure straight off the bat... in fact the way he is talking describes to me that he intends to bolt something on to the end of the game to give it more shelf life... Thats a bad idea.

Core concepts MUST be simple if there not players wont get it and you'll have a hell of a hard time selling it to them.
How they actually make those concepts work is a totally different kettle of fish... thats the difficult part.

But when i look back at these titles over the years they are all stamped "Doomed to Failure"
I dont know anything about this new game of his but already the fact it has Super Heroes in it is making me raise an eyebrow.