Who writes it? You do, in City of Heroes.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Last week, NCsoft’s massive multiplayer online rpg City of Heroes went live with a new update that allows the players (you), to build and orchestrate your own story arcs for other player generated heroes to participate in. It is no secret that us here at BusyGamer.com are no novices to the MMOG realms, and the fact that in this game now, there will be user generated content – something that is rare to find in a large scale MMO.
Only one after NCsoft released their player-created content focused Issue 14: Architect update, and players have already crafted more than 20,000 mission arcs.
In a letter to the community posted on the official City of Heroes website, Matt “Positron” Miller revealed that within the first 24 hours of the new updates’ existence, players in both hero and villain factions had created more than 3800 story arcs, each consisting of five missions a piece – more content than the development team had created during the game’s entire existence.
Players have been busy trying out missions and critiquing them in the forums as well. Out of the more that 20,000 arcs now available in game, 2,860 of them have been rated 5-stars by players, with only 582 rated at 1-star. Popular themes include the 5th Column, featured in 794 arcs; the super-heroic Statesman, starring in 134; and time travel, which is the subject of 112 arcs.
The dev team is completely overwhelmed by the response to the new feature.
Several of the larger game publications are talking great things about this innovative feature that NCsoft has implemented into their online game, granting them a nice edge on the competition.
Ever wanted to see your own story line in the game? Now you can. And others can too.
-Crutchboy Out
