Post by xchrs84 on Jan 5, 2018 23:14:19 GMT
I heard the terrible news! This MTE version over a decade of amazing effort and creativity from all kinds of players, and then the version before it that set a lot of groundwork for a great format of players creating and sharing boards. Hopefully Big Fish and affiliates realize the value of keeping particular games running indefinitely. It says a lot about a business where members can know that a game and the records, the high scores and creations etc, are preserved forever! Sigh, imagine in the future, players trying to complete layouts that were made 20 years ago? Imagine beating a high score that was standing for 20 years? I believe this MTE had the potential to sustain such a reality. Even with advances in technology, the game fundamentals are not affected- still gotta physically move your hands and mouse or even touching your touchscreen and pads as fast as you can. That's kind of beautifully classic. And of course a large, long puzzle is classic as well, over an hour to complete and sometimes easily over 200 attempts lolol.
Anyway, I posted a little something on the Big Fish MTE forum and I thought I'd share it with everyone here as well. Thanks for all the fun everyone, it's been an amazing run. If anyone is working on getting Big Fish to change their minds, feel free to use any of my ideas expressed in my posts or feel free to use the entire post in order to support arguments that MTE should not be removed from online/servers. If anyone has ideas about more petitions or supporting arguments to send to Big Fish, feel free to contact me at xnyc.chris@y7mail.com, let me know what you have in mind, perhaps I can provide more insight, more discussion about why Big Fish should support the game and how to maximize the value of the game and better interact it with other Mahjong titles and gamers as we move forward.
Side note: seems like a good opportunity for techies to come together and design a similar version of the game and game format. Doesn't take much to secure server space to host this kind of game format.
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Mahjong Towers Eternity forum - " Chrs84, Farewell MTE, maybe for now or maybe forever
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What a game this was. What passion and creativity went into those shared layouts. What dedication and time spent completing those shared layouts.
To anyone who cares, we can't lose sight of the bigger picture, the natural AI development of all internet interaction - it all plays a part in that collective consciousness. This version of MTE has been going for a wonderful long time, over a decade of energy and identity, effort and time, passion and love etc exist in the depths of the data that makes-up all those created and shared layouts and all those times posted. There's no way I would dump this game and data off the internet! In fact, Big Fish and all those involved with making and supporting this game should showcase the beauty of what they have created. Let gamers know about how long this is running etc.
One of the biggest services and reality gaming companies and providers can offer is a "sharing" of the passion and time put into these games, both the creation and support side as well as the user end, player's side. Players want to be part of a reality for the game, in some "enriched" way, even if it is the dynamic interaction/communication with other players. Let me further explain with a few classic understandings:
Players spending great effort and time achieving high-scores, completed objectives etc is awesome but maybe bittersweet if it goes unnoticed and erased after the game-play is over. Therefore, games which share high-scores and keep records of high-scores so that other players can see them and try to beat them is an incredibly valuable and enriched reality for any game.
A player being able to operate like a designer/producer of the game. Simply put- competing against your friends or against a challenge the game provides is great and classic but if a player can intricately modify or create challenges, through the game, that other players can interact with and try to complete, then what we have is one of the ultimate reality-enriching options available these days- putting that creativity in the hands of the gamer and allowing the gamer to share his or her ideas with others.
There's also a promotional business side. Allowing a game like MTE to continue to exist, indefinitely, shows the gaming community that there is dedication and lifetime commitment here. Things you do here, accomplishments, scores etc may exist forever, immortalized! That's a valuable feeling that keeps members dedicated to the site.
All my Love,
Chrs84
Anyway, I posted a little something on the Big Fish MTE forum and I thought I'd share it with everyone here as well. Thanks for all the fun everyone, it's been an amazing run. If anyone is working on getting Big Fish to change their minds, feel free to use any of my ideas expressed in my posts or feel free to use the entire post in order to support arguments that MTE should not be removed from online/servers. If anyone has ideas about more petitions or supporting arguments to send to Big Fish, feel free to contact me at xnyc.chris@y7mail.com, let me know what you have in mind, perhaps I can provide more insight, more discussion about why Big Fish should support the game and how to maximize the value of the game and better interact it with other Mahjong titles and gamers as we move forward.
Side note: seems like a good opportunity for techies to come together and design a similar version of the game and game format. Doesn't take much to secure server space to host this kind of game format.
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Mahjong Towers Eternity forum - " Chrs84, Farewell MTE, maybe for now or maybe forever
"What a game this was. What passion and creativity went into those shared layouts. What dedication and time spent completing those shared layouts.
To anyone who cares, we can't lose sight of the bigger picture, the natural AI development of all internet interaction - it all plays a part in that collective consciousness. This version of MTE has been going for a wonderful long time, over a decade of energy and identity, effort and time, passion and love etc exist in the depths of the data that makes-up all those created and shared layouts and all those times posted. There's no way I would dump this game and data off the internet! In fact, Big Fish and all those involved with making and supporting this game should showcase the beauty of what they have created. Let gamers know about how long this is running etc.
One of the biggest services and reality gaming companies and providers can offer is a "sharing" of the passion and time put into these games, both the creation and support side as well as the user end, player's side. Players want to be part of a reality for the game, in some "enriched" way, even if it is the dynamic interaction/communication with other players. Let me further explain with a few classic understandings:
Players spending great effort and time achieving high-scores, completed objectives etc is awesome but maybe bittersweet if it goes unnoticed and erased after the game-play is over. Therefore, games which share high-scores and keep records of high-scores so that other players can see them and try to beat them is an incredibly valuable and enriched reality for any game.
A player being able to operate like a designer/producer of the game. Simply put- competing against your friends or against a challenge the game provides is great and classic but if a player can intricately modify or create challenges, through the game, that other players can interact with and try to complete, then what we have is one of the ultimate reality-enriching options available these days- putting that creativity in the hands of the gamer and allowing the gamer to share his or her ideas with others.
There's also a promotional business side. Allowing a game like MTE to continue to exist, indefinitely, shows the gaming community that there is dedication and lifetime commitment here. Things you do here, accomplishments, scores etc may exist forever, immortalized! That's a valuable feeling that keeps members dedicated to the site.
All my Love,
Chrs84