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[Poojam]

I'd say the reasons are pretty obvious – They're selfish reasons and there is nothing wrong with that:TFP make the game the customer loves, so the customer wants TFP to stay in business and keep working on the game.

And the Player of the game –The Co-Op player specifically– loves the game so much, they dread the day the game dies and they have to play alone or move on to another game.

Therefore everyone described above tries in their own way to support the game. Some people go full "fanboi" and argue with the critics on forums til their fingers fall off from typing. Some people create mods. Some people run servers and organize server communities. And some people who (think they) know "the biz" try to influence TFP with their unsolicited wisdom. ^^

In any case, however fruitful or useful these efforts of the fans are, it's just your typical fandom's passions at work.

Well said.

I fall primarily in the "create mods, run servers, and organize server communities" and enjoy "trying to influence TFP with their unsolicited wisdom". But frankly speaking, I'm tired of everyone I know passing it over or quitting after a month. The reason has a common theme. They just don't want to work so hard for such limited action in returns. I can login to a 35 man server, 8k map, run around looting towns within 3k of 0,0 for 6 hours and still not find anyone to interact with. You can't hear anyone. There is rarely a reason for people to compete over a resource. I've got over 2000 hours in game, and 90% of that is on large multiplayer servers. Based on the number of people I've seen come and go, there is a market for a slower, world building, survival PVP, with crafting, and story etc. It's just - this ain't it.

 

[Roland]

I can login to a 35 man server, 8k map, run around looting towns within 3k of 0,0 for 6 hours and still not find anyone to interact with.

Send out friend requests and you'll find them if they accept. Work together and you'll interact.

 

[Guppycur]

I'm with Kam on this one.

 

[SnowDog1942]

Firstly, I agree with everything you just said.
Let's build on that then.

So we know this is "primarily" a SP PvE game.

Once we accept that then we've got to also accept the responsibilities that come with that style of game.

The current climate in the industry, thanks to the Evil A-holes [or EA for short], the SP market is under attack.

That's forced developers to up the ante a LOT more than PvP games.

Now they are expected to have great story lines and decent voice acting.

Players are coming to appreciate it as well aren't they.

A live performance of the voice actors from "The Last of Us" doing all the character lines sold out.

That really tells you how much people come to "love" a good story.

If we're going to give TFP a pass on PvP stuff and all the responsibilities that come with honouring that clientele,

don't we then also have to expect TFP to come through with what has come to be Industry Standard?

I think rather than seeing 7DTD focus on PvP, they should hire an excellent writer and give us a compelling story.

THAT is how you win awards.

THAT is how you make people fall in love with your game.

THAT is how a SP game gets a large community.

Or.... I could be completely wrong.

I'll accept that.

Just an opinion.

I personally love the fact that there isn't tons of dialogue or cut scenes. I wanna play a game, not watch a movie. I'd hate for them to waste their budget on hiring Morgan Freeman to do voice overs or Stephen King to write a story, when they can pay for another Developer that puts actual content in like Faatal and all the others.

Last of Us... no interest in watching that movie and playing a mini game around it.

Red Dead Redemption 2, no interest in watching that movie either.

Lastly, with both of those movies - once you watched them.. you watched them. Zero rewatchability. I'll take amazing Random Gen over Deep Talking Pro Voice actors and yet another zombie story any day.

 

[Poojam]

Send out friend requests and you'll find them if they accept. Work together and you'll interact.

Oldest trick in the book. I want to find them to kill them, and steal their stuff. Or I want to track them back to their base, and steal all their stuff. Basically, everything that Madmole et al would hate having to suffer through because I think they stink at it. Heck, Madmole got owned by a pig. I suspect that is the real reason PVP is "not supported". Hillary levels of butthurt.