Why We Call Albion Online A "Sandbox" MMO?
All players would like to call Albion as one of the best mmo game in 2017, but not all the guys know why we call Albion ''Sandbox" game instead of a RPG. Today, AOSilver will tell you the reason:
Just thought I would throw my 2 cents of experience in on the sandbox vs themepark.
A Sandbox mmo is a game where there is no linear progression (Set Path) for all players to follow. You start in the game and decide from there where you are going and what you want to be. The quests are lacking on developer side because in a sandbox a lot of the content is supposed to be created by the players (Role-players and such).
A Themepark mmo sets all players on a set path.. You choose your class and from there you follow the same path as anyone else that shares your class. You typically start same place and complete quests in specific areas (due to level restrictions) until you can proceed to the next level and so on until end game. The content is developer created and is set up to walk you from level 1 to max level.
The best MMO that ever existed in my opinion was SWG Pre-CU. This was a Sandbox game with Themeparks built in. The majority of content was still provided by the players though but you could goto certain planets and start a themepark to follow a small quest line for some fun. You choose what your class was by choosing skills as you level up and could mix and match all professions to make a truely unique character. Albion is trying to do something like this. The reason there not succeeding thus far is that there is no back story for players to build off of. They provide us nothing to build on.. SWG had the whole star wars back story filled and could build off of that. Here they show videos of oxes being guarded walking through the lands and being ambushed.. They show guilds prepping for war over this! But what they dont show is the 30 minutes of the oxe guards saying "are we there yet?" and the oxe driver saying "only 5 more zones to go!". They dont show the 2 hours of waiting around before the full guild war team is ready to ride out of town to fight.. basically they are not succeeding due to the long wait times to organize these types of player engagements.. Also for story how enticing is it to scream they stole are hide! kill them! Basically they need more back story and lore available to all in game if they want to add some excitement to the actual player driven content.. Even RPers need a place to start and build off of.
They need 2 backstories to really fill it out:
Camelots side and Morgana! you choose a side upon character creation and join player guilds set up in your faction.. This will help divide the players and make certain zergs not able to ally.. From there fill in some story and watch the 2 sides battle for the continents!..
Alright you are understand why Albion is sandbox game now, but you will still lose all your loot in the game, whether it is sandbox mmo or not. So you definitely need more Albion Online Silver to make up for lost loot, then there will be a question: where to buy the albion silver? AOSilver is absoultely the RIGHT CHOICE - It has full experience in the Albion Online gaming industry and has good reputation among Albion players.
This article is from: https://www.aosilver.com/albion-online/news/why-we-call-albion-online-a--sandbox--mmo/
Just thought I would throw my 2 cents of experience in on the sandbox vs themepark.
A Sandbox mmo is a game where there is no linear progression (Set Path) for all players to follow. You start in the game and decide from there where you are going and what you want to be. The quests are lacking on developer side because in a sandbox a lot of the content is supposed to be created by the players (Role-players and such).
A Themepark mmo sets all players on a set path.. You choose your class and from there you follow the same path as anyone else that shares your class. You typically start same place and complete quests in specific areas (due to level restrictions) until you can proceed to the next level and so on until end game. The content is developer created and is set up to walk you from level 1 to max level.
The best MMO that ever existed in my opinion was SWG Pre-CU. This was a Sandbox game with Themeparks built in. The majority of content was still provided by the players though but you could goto certain planets and start a themepark to follow a small quest line for some fun. You choose what your class was by choosing skills as you level up and could mix and match all professions to make a truely unique character. Albion is trying to do something like this. The reason there not succeeding thus far is that there is no back story for players to build off of. They provide us nothing to build on.. SWG had the whole star wars back story filled and could build off of that. Here they show videos of oxes being guarded walking through the lands and being ambushed.. They show guilds prepping for war over this! But what they dont show is the 30 minutes of the oxe guards saying "are we there yet?" and the oxe driver saying "only 5 more zones to go!". They dont show the 2 hours of waiting around before the full guild war team is ready to ride out of town to fight.. basically they are not succeeding due to the long wait times to organize these types of player engagements.. Also for story how enticing is it to scream they stole are hide! kill them! Basically they need more back story and lore available to all in game if they want to add some excitement to the actual player driven content.. Even RPers need a place to start and build off of.
They need 2 backstories to really fill it out:
Camelots side and Morgana! you choose a side upon character creation and join player guilds set up in your faction.. This will help divide the players and make certain zergs not able to ally.. From there fill in some story and watch the 2 sides battle for the continents!..
Alright you are understand why Albion is sandbox game now, but you will still lose all your loot in the game, whether it is sandbox mmo or not. So you definitely need more Albion Online Silver to make up for lost loot, then there will be a question: where to buy the albion silver? AOSilver is absoultely the RIGHT CHOICE - It has full experience in the Albion Online gaming industry and has good reputation among Albion players.
This article is from: https://www.aosilver.com/albion-online/news/why-we-call-albion-online-a--sandbox--mmo/
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