> How do you build a game that blurs the line between singleplayer and multiplayer, where players can meet others simply by hitting "play Destiny," without any traditional matchmaking and lobbies?
What? How can you blur the line? It's either online multiplayer or it isn't, there's not really an in-between. You can't "kind of" have other people connected to your game. They're either there or they're not.
> It's an enormously complicated problem, and Bungie solved it.
....how is this any different from normal multiplayer?? What's so enormously complicated about this problem compared to every other multiplayer game? Yeah, there's no matchmaking. Great. This is still essentially like all MMORPGs, isn't it? Except it skips the lobby and just sticks you straight into the world?
What? How can you blur the line? It's either online multiplayer or it isn't, there's not really an in-between. You can't "kind of" have other people connected to your game. They're either there or they're not.
> It's an enormously complicated problem, and Bungie solved it.
....how is this any different from normal multiplayer?? What's so enormously complicated about this problem compared to every other multiplayer game? Yeah, there's no matchmaking. Great. This is still essentially like all MMORPGs, isn't it? Except it skips the lobby and just sticks you straight into the world?