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I am re-starting this thread here because we can use more sandbox mmo's and I hope to see it succeed. Website:https://goblinworks.com/ Pathfinder Online is based on the Pathfinder IP (Paizo publishing) and will be a sandbox MMO, for what that term is worth. It is made by some industry...

Damn, again too late to reclaim this epic thread as the threadstarter!I know, I know, I am sad. Still, I hope this thread goes places. Not having any high hopes about the game though.

Exactly. Players need to care about their world/city and then dynamic changes will hit home and create grand stories. Funny that you use Freeport as an example: after all they razed it allright(the devs did). Having said this, what you propose will be hard to swallow by the average MMO player...

I assume you are talking about games here and not how some people simply do not like to read books at all? In that case I think you may be right. I can read through Jordans Wheel of Time series for a 3rd time no problem but when I am behind that computerscreen I almost get annoyed with every...

How to tell a story in videogames (not just MMOs) is getting some attention these days:Hereis a very recent article from Gamespot about it. A quote that grabbed my attention: I feel this hurdle is rather huge for me. Looking back on 16 years of gaming I have come to the unsettling conclusion...

Why not, voted.

Saruman ruining the woods and lands around his tower to cater to the mass production of an army is a nice one too.

Yeah, I am ready again for some gleeful anticipation myself. I am trying to get exited about SWtOR but it just ain"t happening. Just not Starwars fan enough. I am such a sucker for Wizards, Platemail and old Inns with serving wenches. Copernicus seems the only big western Fantasy MMO on the...

When Ngruk said that I honestly felt he was just joking about us all, himself included. Hell, Ngruk can talk more passionate and nostalgic about EQ then I even can, it is obvious he feels at home here when we talk about this shit; no way was he being an arrogant sportshero that distantiates...

Haha, same here. In my mind he has become the "Main Guy" of the books, so I am probably setting myself up for the fall. He will probably die a messy unglorious death in the next book. I still have some hopes for Arya Stark to come out on top as the Heroine though.

Wow, don"t do it, don"t give up on RR. Martin! I was totally in the "Hero should conquer everything" team, but after the initial shock of Eddard Stark dying on me, I started loving the characters more and more. And lets face it, Honor only goes so far untill it gets creepy, Eddard had it coming...

I feel the same way about WAR. I loved my Witch Hunter as a class, I loved the PQ"s and open grouping system, and I liked the RvR areas if there were people around, but I did feel the world was lacking from a PvE point. Everytime I looked at the world map, with the paired zones and the way they...

Yes, no skill system it seems. I like skill systems. I am glad we do not get class-branching though(it seems), which never was fun for me but I hope there is a unique twist to the class system. Did Ngruk already comment on something like subjobs? One of the more unique approaches seems to be...

When you throw around the numbers like that everyone gets giddy. Those 1.8 million may all be female but I am sure they do not all play WOW for the same reason. Thinking of men and women as two segments that you both need to attract is probably not the right way to look at it. Not saying...

Aren"t you referring to the very short scripted and instanced part of those first 5 levels? For Humans you had to free a couple of halflings and it ended with that Black Rider. That was indeed pretty amateurish. But the part after that is pretty ok, where you do Quests for 5-6 levels in Archet...

Actually EQ was the game that did have several long continous zonelines between zones, examples being between Qeynos newbie area/Qeynos Hills, West karana/North Karana and East Commons/West Commons. Also EQ did not really work with Questhubs in the beginning, their "hubs" were the starting...

I think someones comment on something I said in this thread accidentally got lost in the reputation system, it is a bit hard for others to see your opinion on the matter that way. It is also a bit awkward to reply to since it is an anonymous comment, but hopefully this answer will reach the...

I think replaying certain content is not that bad at all, because it can involve different emotions then when you played through it the first time. Replaying old content can involve nostalgia and revenge for instance, to name two. Nostalgia has gotten a bad rep for some reason but is a major...

EQ really did this imo in a couple of great ways. An obvious example would be the Enchanter animated Pet spells which from level 8 onwards were only obtainable from an NPC in Highkeep. Highkeep was in the middle of Norrath, far away from both Freeport and Qeynos and required you to traverse the...