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Yep. A PVE game needs sharply defined roles in a group, or it degenerates into a every-toon-for-itself-dps-fest. What a game does not need, however, is a "DPS" role. You have between 3 to 6 core roles that are required: tank, heal, CC, pull/scout, buffing, debuffing. But nobody is "a DPS"...

Ooooh, a rip-off from the Change series byS. M. Stirling. Here's a hint for the devs: please avoid direct references, like having your main character called Mackenzie (well, better than Havel - that would be even more obvious).

Well, it's very simple. If every class does not have about equal opportunity to partake in all aspects of the gameplay there is, then what happens when the player discovers after 20 h... 50 hours... 100 hours... 200 hours... whatever that his choice when he began to play months ago locks him out...

To be correct: You need some activities that are useful available solo. The most obvious would be XP and getting craft materials, but you can include others. The idea is that, if you have time (over an hour), you can seek out a group; if you don't, you can do stuff solo. Oh, and if you want a...

PvP appears to be a straight copy of GW2, only with a single map instead of splitting it in 4. The rest... all those moderns western RPG look the same to me these days...

That was on Sebilis, the french Ubisoft-run server.

Well, you can't really figure out crafting until you've figured out itemization first, and we've got very little about it. The core ideas on classes, we know; the items... not so much. All we know is that you have the usual armor+jewelry+weaponry set, those have no stats on them but effects...

I think PVE-wise, the most memorable raid was one of our Agnarr the Stormlord kills in BoT. I don't even remember exactly what went wrong, but basically, we entered his room, got all slaughtered, and one ranger started kiting him round and round and round. Meanwhile, we rezed everyone where we...

That is almost certainly going to be the case for the 8 or so "core classes" in Qeynos. Check on wiki the trainer, see how much it wants, bring it, done. Then you're going to get the faction-based trainers which are going to require you to be on the lookout for opportunities to get faction...

There's probably going to be an intrinsic bonus in that the (common) equipment is going to favor sticking to your class skills. Remember the panel where they said "if your warrior tries to use a wizard TP in the back of the enemy then use a rogue's backstab, he won't have enough energy to chain...

No. FOTM requires a relatively small (for the hardcore-18-hours-a-day-play catasses) time to get from whatever to the so-called FOTM. When your games does not support selectable skill-based system, but lets you grind from character creation to "operational" in a week or two, then you get FOTM...

Try to gain a new skill in WoW without levelling. The distinction of horizontal vs vertical levelling is done because you have two directions of progression: vertical, giving you higher power, horizontal giving you different powers. But the main point why we're giving those direction names is...

The ability to be in multiple guilds simultaneously in A Tale in the Desert was extremely interesting, game-wise. At one point, I was in: - A serverwide french-speaking guild - A local guild with people I worked various tradeskills with - The Bedouin guild for mutual help on passing tests...

Nope. That's not horizontal levelling. That's vertical levelling. Vertical levelling: 5 tiers. Tier 1, my sword does 100 dmg. Tier 2, my sword does 150 dmg. Tier 3, my sword does 200 dmg. Tier 4, 250 dmg, tier 5 300 dmg. That's vertical levelling: your power value increase. Horizontal...

Probably. Note that you're supposed to be able to pick additional tiers for other classes while playing as, say, a Warrior, so the additional classes end up being a source of "new skills" you use for your main class, even if you never ever use that class itself.

Have you looked at the allakhazam link I did put to refresh your memory? I did play DAOC, and did questing, and I constantly had 10+ quests in progress all the time until around level 25. Fedex, collect, etc. The quests may not have given you enough XP to level just doing them after level 12...

Because tiers aren't horizontal levelling, they're vertical. The horizontal part is getting tier 5 in forty different vertical silos, each independent from the other, each that can be progressed completely independently from the others, and the fact that you're tier 1 or 5 in the wizard class...

There's however a major difference. XP is fungible. One point of XP gained killing a bear, completing a fed-ex quest, uncovering a new mini-map area, is equal to the other point of XP. As a result, you can go to the place where XP is most efficient, and do it to the exclusion of nothing else...

Because you can't trade $15 month subscription for in-game value. Remember: the guy who is buying CREDD for $20 isn't going to buy it for a 1 month subscription: he buys it to sell in-game for gold. So the question is: are you going to get more gold for $20 from players or from farmers? The...

That's from the fact that you didn't had glowing yellow exclamation marks around. There were a ton of NPCs giving you exactly the same quest systems as WoW (fetch me this; go there to give this guy this token; kill bears and take their asses)... it was just easy to forget about them since they...

I beg to differ. Dark Age of Camelot had almost exactly the same questing system. The only significant difference I can think of was the quest marker above the NPC's head. (they had a severe lack of quest content at the later stages of levelling, but the system from 1 to 30+ felt like WoW)

That's not shortsighted. That's what people WANT. Obligatory car analogy: When cars appeared, they were clunky monsters. People would endlessly tinker with them, dismantle and rebuild them from scratch; swap in and out parts to get better mileage and faster speed. Fast forward to today...

Well, considering the max sub number occurred after POP... nope, most people didn't stop playing EQ after Planes. Most people stopped playing EQ when WoW released, period. Maybe YOUR guild dissolved at that time, but in general, no, people kept on playing. Another anecdotal experience: I...

Fair or not, people ARE going to judge that game based on this. Not everyone, probably not even the majority (since you tend to get hardcore gamers and pure fans at that stage) but quite a lot. Me? I've judged the game BEFORE playing, and passing over it. No big deal.

It was very different however, since Mojang didn't support servers for people; everyone could pick and stay at whatever version (stable or not). They redid the world gen (oh "Gargamel", how we miss you...) multiple times. Heck, our group's play world still bears the scars (chunk borders) of beta...

Worse. The player might think twice about buying the item if he has to go thru additional loops (like finding bookmark, logging in, using the authenticator if any, navigating menus...). Impulse buy for the win!

You haven't thought that out. Really, really out. We're in an alternate timeline. The basics are that the Combine Empire is at war with the Ring of Scale, for centuries, has been kicked out of Amaril/Tunaria/Antonica/whatever, and are only coming back. You learn about those two dragons...

P2W means any item that gives you a gameplay advantage that no player not using the cash shop can achieve in a reasonable time frame. Anything else is convenience (sometimes real big convenience, such as a 2nd character slot, or more than the paltry bank slots you being with) or cosmetic (same...

Remember when the original funding goal was $2M? And the industry apparently thinking that there's no more market for a space sim? https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

Well, to be honest, you do have a virtual magic hint book. It has a Google rainbow logo on it. The only question is, do you open the hint book you have in-game, or do you open the hint book in the browser windows next to your game? You all seem to have difficulties about the difference...

What are those quests thing you speak of? You mean the epic weapon quests, right? First thing: If you do assume a WoW-theme-park-exclamation-point-quested-gearing-model, then, yes, it fails. If you don't, then it should not. You always complain about the on-rail-thing, and the very first...

Korean MMOs are all style, no substance. The quintessential McMMO. And don't forget: it's F2P (of course), meaning it's P2W (being Korean market).

It is going to be only semi-dynamic. It's mainly static because Rallying Cry have only one end. Halas IS founded. Qeynos FALLS to the dragons. You can speed it up or slow it down, but you won't be able to alter the final result. What is going to be different here is that, unlike Asheron's call...

Yes. And the game really begins at max level, we know that.

Sandboxy Rallying Call: Players on server A have provided about 70% wood and 30% stone, most of the buildings in Halas are large log halls. Players from B provided 80% stone, 20% wood, and the buildings are all about sturdy stonewalled homes. Actual EQN Rallying Call: Players on server A have...

Recipe for a sure-fire "key" access to zones: - If one of the characters on your account is enabled for the zone,everycharacter on the account is enabled - You can be enabled by obtaining the key (loot / quest / flag)orby defeating a majority of the encounters of the zone (zone has 5 bosses...

Nope. Gaining abilities via levelling is: 1) Fungible (XP gained on killing Orcs in Crushbone is completely equal to XP gained on killing Gnolls in Blackburrow) 2) Linear (you get The Mighty Bash first, then the Small Kick next, then the Vital Knock next) 3) Static (every warrior gets...

It does two things: 1) You can choose to become a wizard out of combat, swapping gear, weapon and skills. 2) You can pick any of the 4 generic wizard class skills that match one of your warrior class skills. If the war is (see above) 1 offense, 1 movement, 2 defensive, and the wizard is 2...

Nope, they're faction/race/specific character-locked. They specially took Paladin as an example to say you couldn't improve the class if you didn't "live the life of the paladin". Meaning that, if you fuck up your faction, and the class trainer doesn't want to talk to you, then you can go from...

It's a bit simplistic. The "aggro" is a good basic model, it dictates your target. What you need, rather than the base model of increasing aggo with modifiers is a per-ability aggro list with highly dynamic values. There's a general "threat" value, which is, for example, equal to the current...