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by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 10:22 (3993 days ago) @ electricpirate

I'm actually directly answering what you are saying. These games *could not be* what they are without investment systems. If you remove the investment systems the entire core design wold be something else. Dark Souls generates a huge amount of tension by giving you an investment system that can be used as a reward, but that you can lose at any time. EVE battles, scams, and schemes are meaningful because the actual result of hundreds of hours of game play are on the line.

Oh I'm not disagreeing with you. That's absolutely true. Designing these games without investment systems would fundamentally alter their design for sure.

But I'm convinced that the result would end up being better.


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