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Haha wow, I forgot about that post. Yeah, not being able to see the benefits of the job system is ridiculously short sighted. There"s literally only one draw-back to it and that"s the development team would be encouraged to let all races be all classes and most deveopers get sandy in their...

tl;dr version: You can"t just be as good or simply better then WoW. You have to be -more- then WoW. Also, jrpg"s suck. Anyways... I"ll believe the revolution when it actually comes. People have been saying a new era will be ushered in for quite some time now and it always ends with...

This is really the only part I disagree with, in a fashion that is. Story has been told. The problem isn"t the content in this regard, it"s always been the delivery. We"ve gone over this point pretty extensively but in game cinematics and realizing the potential of a visual medium is going to go...

I think it"s two arguments really. One being the level of freedom players are allowed and the second being if it matters or not. I think we can all agree that no matter the game, your actions don"t really matter because the game designers can and will retcon all your actions to fit the...

I guess it depends on how much impact you expect to impart. Are you going to seal off the cave of 2000 developer hours by yourself 20 minutes after you boot up the game? No, of course not. But phasing has really opened up the gamesphere to more possibilities. You could arrive at a town that"s...

Most players realize they"re in two differnet timelines. There"s the game they"re playing where they are and can be the hero that slays the dragon and rescues the princess. But at the same time they"re playing in a world where it wasn"t them, it was the hero of the book that slayed the dragon...

Oh, and just do what Sony etc...do when they"re scrapped for cash. Create a smaller company to funnel cash in by releasing hentai rape dating games in Japan. You"ll make ridiculous bank.

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This is why on the 4th day God invented the gimmick server. Zone control is fun but it"s not something to base an entire game around. But creating a special server for zone control for the people that enjoy it as well as the hundreds/thousands that would like to try it out? I mean, there"s a...

"But then I"ll just go play a free pvp game like..." No you won"t. Just like you won"t stop paying to play MMO"s because other games offer free single player, multiplayer co-op as well as all the other optional shit like tradeskills, player housing, auction houses and so forth. You"re...

This post is ridiculously long. I apologize in advance and would like to offer any of you on the lakeshore of Wisconsin free pancakes when I make them tomorrow morning as compensation. WoW showed pretty soundly that it"s a bad idea. It seems nifty in concept, but you"ve already got a pretty big...

Pretty sure the vote numbers was just someone throwing them out as examples and haven"t officially been released. I could be wrong though. Even still, to overcome a 25+% deficit the get 10% ahead during the middle of the day over a 4 hour period and then suddenly out of the blue the polls...

It"s a rigged contest. It"s not like it hasn"t been done before. Hire a ringer to allow you to use her photo for a grand or two, promise a good sized reward to the winner of the contest far more in what you paid for your ringer. Then watch as a couple dozen people advertise for your site all...

Thirdeded.

By that definition every game is an RPG then. Over time RPG has gotten a broader and broader sense anyways. Pretty much everything is action-RPG now, especially MMO"s. It"s just a matter of how heavy the influence of each is. Anyways, my point was that the setting of the game only matters if...

Oh and for what it"s worth, Tolkien era had bombs. In fact they would be quite capable of creating cannons, bombs and other industrial revolution era technology. Half the point of the books is that the good guys choose to not use the power of the enemy (explosives and etc..., i.e. industry) and...

Yes yes fantasy blargh blargh blargh. It"s just a skin draped over the rest of the game. Removing robots or replacing elves with protoss won"t magically make a game better or worse. What we"re sick of isn"t fantasy RPG"s. What we"re sick of is poorly made games with shitty controls, bad...

Really? And here people think I"m the Blizzard fanboy. Blizzard released a metric fuckton of untested, broken content and still does to this day. And it"s not just shit that only 1% of the user base gives a fuck about either. Though these days it feels more like monkeys throwing shit at a wall...

Or just split it off into a new thread, have anyone trying to access the old thread from an outside IP automatically redirected to the split off pedo thread and call it a day.

I thought Kat =^_^= had been let go long before that. Siege vehicles and PvP I know they said had been pushed back, we just didn"t realize for how fucking long. More raid content had been promised though, I know that much. And laaaaaaaawl at hero classes. If they ever screwed the pooch on...

The real question is when Sam dies, will we remember him for having the highest burst dps or for being a pedo? Will the reverend Al Shaprton speak at Sam"s funeral about how Sam made it possible for gamers everywhere to be pimps? Will Bill O"reily find it ludicrous that we immortalized a man...

Well, for what it"s worth my mancrush on him is mostly due to while he was in charge of EQ2 several really annoying things were removed (starting out as a generic class for 20 levels, sub-combines for sub-combines for sub-combines, etc...). It was too little too late to draw me back in, but...

Also, and keep this on the down low, if you send Hartsman five dollars and your address, he"ll come to your house and cuddle with you and tell you everything is alright and that he"ll make the bad MMO stop. I"ve had to use this service several times, usually everytime some developer of an MMO...

That would pretty much work as well. Oh, and if you add mounts, make goddamn sure it"s instant-cast. Add a 3-second cast if you"ve just been engaged in PvP or something if you really want but for fucks sake. Realism is out the door when I can already carry an entire goddamn stable in my pants so...

There"d be a schlew of no fly zones as well due to there being area"s you"re not to supposed to get too yet. Which is why I pretty much any content the add that"s attached to the old world will most likely have portals directy to it. Grim Batol, Gilneas, etc...will most likely all be handled...

On one hand I can see why Blizzard isn"t going to add any new 20~70 and subsequently 80 after wotlk content. On the other, after having leveled every class to at least 70 (How else do you think I survived 300 wipes on M"uru), I would have killed for a fucking alternative to thousand needles for...

This keeps being brought up. Until the CT revamp, I never stepped foot in Fear again after the release of Kunark*. After Velious I never saw VP ever again except when iron manning it with some friends during PoP. In Luclin, that was the end of NToV for me. PoP saw the end of VT as well. The...

What Sam really should have done is make his 36 characters all on different PvE servers (To avoid random ganks). Make sure they"re all standing in the same place and then use keyclone broadcasted across all PC"s to level them simultaneously. Then, assuming he can quest/kill at about 1/3rd the...

It is worth noting I think at least that Aion after only a year or so has about 1/2 the subs WoW does in Asia and is still rising so it"s not impossible to break into the market. Aion is basically a vanilla WoW clone with a major facelift. If they can eliminate the tedious grind post 30 it might...

It"s not that it"s been done to death. Nobody is sick of the fantasy setting. They"re sick of the lack of options. There was a veritable deluge of fantasy games in the 80"s/90"s but we didn"t care because for every Pool of Radiance there was a Metroid. You don"t really have that in the MMO...

I think you and I have a different idea of passable my friend. Passable doesn"t mean having to sacrafice a virgin gnome to the gods of raid ID"s in the hopes that your entire guild zones into the right one. Used to it or not it"s not like these issues were fixed inside a month or two. It took...

That"s really the crux of it. VG/War/AoC/etc...showed that there is a significant population looking for something else. It"s just so far all they"ve gotten is a shittier version of WoW with one or two colored stripes stapled to the design so that the developers could say, "See? Different!"...

It"s hard to find fault when a lot of us were dorks. Granted in 7 years most of us got a degree and are now geeks. Fuck, I"d say the same thing about star wars nerds. Then again this may be one of those only black people can tell American Inventor joke things but who knows. Curt"s said some stupid shit...

Yeah but those are star wars nerds and they"ll bitch about anything they can get their hands on. We"re fantasy nerds, we"ll find something actually worth bitching about and -then- bitch incessantly. Problem with a lot of FR books is too many heroes have reached basically god status and...

Ironically everytime I click on the FoHspy this is the post it takes me to for this thread.

What?! He just said RA"s world screams for class specific storylines. The fuck do you think I"ve been arguing for. 8( I wonder if one of the characters will die and it"ll be so epic yet sorrowful and one of the better moments in the storyline because it shows that yes, the heroes are beatable...

Zehn the MMO will have lots of smiley faces.

Eve is a tactical spreadsheet simulation. Most future MMO"s have either been plagued with technical problems (AO), actively encourage you to not play the game (EVE), or try to be a MMOFPS/RPG hybrid and fail(HG:L/Tabula Rasa). I don"t count SW:G as an mmo, I count that as a reason Raph...

Don"t think it necessarily has to be a setting change. We"d been playing the gold box games for years when BG came out and we"d been playing EQ for years when WoW came out. The fantasy setting is fine. Don"t get me wrong, I"d cream a little inside if a decent Battletech or Shadowrun MMO was in...

I said nothing about their imminent demise. I"m saying stuff they"ve publicly admitted themselves. One of those things was trying to create niche roles within roles. They openly admit making mages a "niche AoE damage" class at launch was a terrible idea so over time they"ve made AoE damage...