General Discussion

On Sunday, February 10th, MMORPG.com hosted a developer chat, welcoming the Dofus development team who discussed their Hardcore server, where MMO permadeath is a reality!

MMORPG_Taera: Greetings and welcome to MMORPG.com's Live Chat on irc.coldfront.net! I'm your host, MMORPG.com's community manager Laura Taera Genender. Joining us today is the DOFUS team!

MMORPG_Taera: Our guests will do their best to answer as many questions as possible, but due to limited time and a high volume of inquiries, they may not be able to answer every single one. Users are limited to one question at a time, a!d you will be notified if your question is rejected or discarded.

MMORPG_Taera: To submit your question, please /msg MMORPGBot yourquestionhere

MMORPG_Taera: Now it's time for introductions! Feel free to start sending your questions to MMORPGBot while our guests introduce themselves!

DOFUS_wajaja: hey gius nice to see you all here thanks for coming

DOFUS_wajaja: guys

DOFUS_wajaja: my buddy lichen here is in charge of the DOFUS project at ANkama

DOFUS_wajaja: technical and game design aspects

DOFUS_wajaja: I'm in charge of marketing and community management for international aspects

DOFUS_wajaja: we're quite happy to answer your questions tonight

DOFUS_wajaja: and we appreciate your support

DOFUS_lichen:

DOFUS_wajaja will translate quite everything for me, I don't speak english very well ;)

MMORPG_Taera: To submit a question please /msg mmorpgbot yourquestionhere

MMORPG_Taera: Sending me questions will get you NOWHERE! ;)

MMORPG_Taera: [mod]vipirblood asks, when is the server

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When I was a kid back in the early 80's, the word 'doofus' was used in an unflattering way to describe a person.  That's the first thing I think of when I think of the name.  Maybe that slang no longer has meaning though.

In theory I think the permadeath idea is an interesting one.  But there are so many ways to die in an mmo that have nothing to do with your ability, but rather technical problems with a person's computer, the server, the internet, etc.  Also, people cheat, hack, etc so permadeath sounds like a pretty steep penalty when so many things can go wrong that have nothing to do with one's ability to pvp. 

Another thing that struck me as interesting is they are incorporating a hardcore element in a game that graphically looks like something an 8 year old would think is appealing.  Now I hear two opposing views from the hardcore camp regarding graphics.  One is they can't play WOW because of the kiddie, cartoony graphics; and the other is that graphics don't matter.  So it will be interesting to see how much appeal this game has for hardcore players.

Originally posted by Terranah

When I was a kid back in the early 80's, the word 'doofus' was used in an unflattering way to describe a person.  That's the first thing I think of when I think of the name.  Maybe that slang no longer has meaning though.