I understand RARE want to make monkey island story ( instanced ) but why not integrate it into the West tropical side of the SOT open world map ?
I really hope rare will do some sort of merge with it into the world .. its kinda sad all this work will only go toward a tale ... its kinda of a waste even if its a fun addition . Not making it part of the open world is sad ..
@tiglekk To get its environement , they can make open worlds events on it PVE and PVP to encourage players to play there and so on the envioronement is great and could be used and reused instead of wasted on few minutes / hours of tell tales ..
@personalc0ffee said in Will Melee Island ( monkey island ) Ever going to be integrated into the Open world game ?:
Guys, current SoT would not be able to handle it. We already have performance problems in the game world.
The Sea of the Damned is how they are working around that limitation, most likely.
Yeah I feel like it is. The servers struggle so much already with what we have. The SotD seems to be their way of adding locations without adding more stress to the servers. I think it’s a good work around until they address the necessary changes to make the open world more stable. But I do hope it’s not their only solution. I hope the actual world will be expanded one day when it can handle it.
@stew360 It's useless for an ordinary player, personally I would make a tall tale and never swim here + you know the servers of this game, this is one of the weighty reasons not to add this to the main world
@stew360 said in Will Melee Island ( monkey island ) Ever going to be integrated into the Open world game ?:
@tiglekk To get its environement , they can make open worlds events on it PVE and PVP to encourage players to play there and so on the envioronement is great and could be used and reused instead of wasted on few minutes / hours of tell tales ..
I explained earlier that they can't do that, because it's licensed content. When the license expires, and if the agreement is not renewed, this content will get deleted so it's better to keep it segmented away to make it easier to remove and not affect the main game. It's in the disclaimers, and even includes stuff you have bought with Ancient Coin.
There is this page that was put up when A Pirate's Life came out, so I'm not sure if it's the same agreement for Monkey Island since they are both Disney owned properties, but licensed stuff can and will eventually expire:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/terms-of-sale said:
Access to the content you are buying is governed by the terms of Disney’s license to Microsoft. When you select buy, you obtain access to certain Disney content until at least June 30, 2031. If Disney’s license to Microsoft is terminated and consequently you lose access to such Disney content before June 30, 2031, you will receive replacement non-Disney content of equivalent value to Ancient Coins that you originally paid for such Disney content. The replacement non-Disney content will be at Microsoft’s sole discretion and no alternative will be offered. In addition, when you select buy, you agree to the Store terms of sale and you will obtain immediate access to your content and thereby lose any right to a “cooling-off” period to cancel this purchase and get a refund.
So the agreement is until 2031, but can be terminated earlier in which case you'd get equivalent cosmetics if you bought any of the costumes or themed items. If the game is still running and the agreement expires, I guess your stuff just disappears and you don't get any replacement?
@abjectarity said in Will Melee Island ( monkey island ) Ever going to be integrated into the Open world game ?:
@personalc0ffee said in Will Melee Island ( monkey island ) Ever going to be integrated into the Open world game ?:
Guys, current SoT would not be able to handle it. We already have performance problems in the game world.
The Sea of the Damned is how they are working around that limitation, most likely.
Yeah I feel like it is. The servers struggle so much already with what we have. The SotD seems to be their way of adding locations without adding more stress to the servers. I think it’s a good work around until they address the necessary changes to make the open world more stable. But I do hope it’s not their only solution. I hope the actual world will be expanded one day when it can handle it.
I doubt that any expansions to the main map are ever going to happen again to the size of the Devil's Roar. Not only can the game not handle it but they would have to drastically change the fundamentals of the game. Them adding the DR was bad enough for months and weeks the map felt empty until people just stopped going to the DR. The three zones we have are balanced with the 6 crew size limit. The bigger you make the map, the more that balance shifts and the emptier the game feels.
Theres designed to be peaks and valleys in the gameplay and the whole world and everything we have and do is balanced around 6 crew limitations.
@d3adst1ck Then its totally a waste of developpement time if the license can be turned away from them .. They could spend this developpement time on contents that can be played and replayed and reused by the playerbase similar to a Path of exiles or Diablo game ... Where the assets are used and reused for different chalenge difficulty and to make the game redoable and rusable ..
Ive played the Original monkey island and it was kinda of a nostalgia trip to revisit it in 3d but still i would prefer developpement time going toward making more permanents contents addition to the game such as new ennemy types , creatures , PVEVP battles opportunity such a new types of forts, juicy loot, secrets and so on ..that can be reused for many types of gameplay , world events and so on ..
@personalc0ffee yeah I know. When I made that statement it was with the hopes they will drop old consoles, redo the engine or move, etc… stuff that’s extremely unlikely, which is why it’s only a hope.
@abjectarity an engine redo would be best.
support for the old consoles doesn't matter. They've said it isn't what's hurting performance.
