What's in an End Game?



The end game--is it the end of the line, or a new beginning? In a
massively multi-player online game, the end game can't actually be the
end if you, the gamer, are going to continue playing and paying a
subscription fee. How do developers manage to keep players satisfied
with new and constantly changing end-game content? (Or do they manage
at all?) Medeor takes a look at the end game, and how it might play out
in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, in his latest editorial.


The reality is, when I start a game, I will keep
going until it’s no longer fun. Sometimes that occurs within
the first 20 levels; sometimes it’s a lot longer; and
sometimes I make it all the way to the [Cue the soft orchestral tones
getting louder and louder. Okay, now add the choir and say it with me
with awe and star-struck-ness in your voice please...] End Game.


  • Read href="http://vanguard.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=416">End
    of the Line
  • Talk about it in our href="http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=219">forum



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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2016

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Karen is H.D.i.C. (Head Druid in Charge) at EQHammer. She likes chocolate chip pancakes, warm hugs, gaming so late that it's early, and rooting things and covering them with bees. Don't read her Ten Ton Hammer column every Tuesday. Or the EQHammer one every Thursday, either.

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