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If you want to make group content that is for 3-4 just be aware that class balance issues are going to be magnified immensely. The more accessible something is, the more people will complain when they are not wanted for it. No matter how easy it is, if it is much easier with class X in the party...

You heard it here first: single dudes who show off pictures of their cute children and dudes in bands get a lot of tail. Hot tip!

Dumbing the game down for multiboxers is asinine. Also: lollercaust at the 40% number. Really?

Need a mechanic where a pack of mobs has shared hit points and aggro but are not AE-able.

I"ve thought of it myself, Grave, and I think it"s the next step.

I don"t believe anyone should remove general questing from the game as long as it"s done well. I think questing merely for the sake of leveling, and having no class identity is just as wrong an extreme as what you"ve painted.

Wolves are only boring if poorly implemented. Don"t fuck with wolves.

I agree with a certain amount of what you say but I disagree on what made EQ or immersive or WoW non-immersive. While I think WoW has really jumped the shark in some ways regarding respect of its game world as a world rather than...whatever it is...it is the overall design that is at fault for...

Could be worse. You could be a pet class or Druid.

I can tell you what the point of not having each rank be named is. Can you tell me what the separate names is? What it adds to the game? A better approach, by the way, would be to learn from Blizzard about ranks of spells (rather than going through all of that shit again) and just have the...

Not having a class quest since 40 is ridiculous. I"m saddened by the fact that a touted feature has been so readily abandoned.

Yep. It"s called simplicity vs. a completely pointless RP feature.

There"s nothing wrong with a genuine, heartfelt display of emotions posted by a guy famous for his chocolate starfish and stealth-porn on a rude and jaded messageboard full of perverted gamers.

What are you talking about?

Having a "job system" doesn"t necessarily mean sub-jobbing/multi-classing/whatever.

If you"re going to have BoP loot be the standard, then not having a job systemsucks.No matter how many hours I spend in the raid zone, I will never be able to pick up healing loot as a Warrior, but a Druid can fill all four major roles on one character. If I could send real loot to an alt it...

I"d like to note once again that I was one of those, having predicted it would reach seven digits in subs months before it released. Just sayin.

Yeah, you are just wrong about this, Flight. Closed beta was not easy to get into, for one, and the buzz about World of Warcraft was massive.

ITT a bunch of fags post about what gay is.

I love McFarlane. I used to collect spawn toys until I realized how impossible that was if you didn"t keep them in a locked glass cabinet. The Freak on a Leash video, at the heyday of TRL, shot Korn into superstardom, and his animation had no small part in that. Suffice it to say I am excited...

There was a pro football player in the "70s -- think he was a running back -- who was interviewed by NFL Films and said he hated the game and only played for money. I don"t think they ever aired that interview until they did some retrospective a few years ago on NFL Films.

Lesson of the last two pages: "It takes all kinds to make a massive video game."

I also think we"re still talking about completely different levels of game design. Yes, when you"re designing a game at the level that 38S is, you"ve got to have very high-minded designers to be able to pull it off without rapidly escalating budgets and many pieces just not fitting together...

I"m not a doctor; I cannot understand how surgeons amputate the wrong foot.

Quick couple of things to point out: First, obviously, this board was built on certain individuals being "better" than the developers of EQ and rubbing their noses in poo every time they screwed up. Let"s just say for a moment that two of the biggest voices in the raiding community went to...

I think ultimately it"s more of a commentary on the devs than the community. There are a lot of people who should be listened to in the community, but honestly...things like the Holy Light glyph, or the old DnD glyph. Some stuff should just not ever happen because someone should be saying "uh...

That"s sort of what I"m saying. This has been taken in a direction to say that the devs should have their batphones and that"s it, but that"s not my point at all. I don"t think a lot of myself when it comes to game design, and yet I know some things just should never have passed the smell test.

My point was muddled. I mentioned Sarth 3D only because it is another example of extra effort along with the achievements that go into GotR. I didn"t even do 10s this week, and I have like a dozen achievements to go with them.

Also: part of me wants to get a 310% proto, and another part just doesn"t give a shit as long as we"re farming the best loot every week. Am I alone in this? Last two weeks we haven"t bothered with the third drake on sarth because we can get the best loot from two, and lag has been so terrible...

I think if Ulduar was out right now most people wouldn"t be complaining about how easy the end-game content was. It was meant to be entry-level. On the other hand, unless all of the hard-mode versions of bosses in Ulduar have extended loot tables like Sarth, Ulduar may be disappointing as well...

I keep wanting to write a response to all of this but it feels like I"m talking to Ghostcrawler at this point. People waving their hands going "you can"t possibly understand how hard this all is!!!" doesn"t change anything. I am actually a reasonable person. I understand the difference...

If they can do X, they can do X+/-5. Or they can just not do X because it"s a bad idea. I do actually comprehend the complexity of the picture even if I haven"t seen it first hand. See my Japanese translation analogy.

OK, I stumbled on an analogy: I can"t read or speak Japanese. I can, however, read and speak English perfectly well. I might be hopeless at the job of translating a manga or anime or JRPG; however, were you to show me the average translated product the odds are that I could improve the...

- Every class would have energy - All classes would have an "agree with the developers" keybind - Tokenized loot would give way to drop-down-menu loot - No instances - No such thing as "rewarding, small-scale PVP" - /played would combine with UO hours; nameplates would include "Played UO"...

Yeah, I think I"m saying "let me run that by guild chat" has proven a more effective testing method than whatever they do -- technical issues aside. I also think when someone says "let"s do X" it is sometimes obvious that they could do Y instead, but are too "smart" and "experienced" to do it...

You"re making it sound harder than it is. Sure, these games are overwhelmingly complex, blah blah blah. In the end though, people are making lots of individual changes. Some are big; some are small. Some of these changes are predicted by the community with overwhelming accuracy to be too good or...

Well, Blizzard chuckles at it too I think, considering the fact that, in the midst of all the terrible recommendations that are given here, real solutions which are never implemented are suggested. I may not know as much about the devs currently working on WoW as some of the industry insiders...

Oh I agree. I don"t know at what point they got the phasing technology implemented...I think it"s an interesting question to ask. It"s a feature that seemed to be nonexistent for the first...I don"t know, 75% of the quest content in Wrath, and then suddenly you start seeing it put to epic use...

Well, I hope more of you have been playing WotLK than not. Regardless of whether you intend to approach WoW"s numbers (I"m sure you"re more realistic than that; WoW is a phenomenon at this point), you should be seeing the sort of bar they"re setting. Despite all of the complaints, they have...

I"m sure they"ll have Beta forums and game forums just like any other MMO. Prior to that I think there"s little point. Let the communities discuss it, and have your future community managers follow those sites and respond. It"s the best way to keep getting exposure; obviously, once someone is at...