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I wonder how much streamers will act as a pressure release valve to the old 'designing content for the 1%' trope? A lot of people experience games largely through streaming / let's play now. Back in the day, raid strats were trade secrets and guilds were not apt to share them or post streams...

They don't have to be the majority. The majority of people in Orgrimmar bank were not poopsocking, but they sure remember seeing the guy in full raid gear and aspiring to be like him. Unattainable content makes the edges of the world feel infinite. Once you complete the content, you hit the...

MMOs have always thrived on their community of poopsockers and no lifers who are permanently online. They shouldn't design them around suburban dads who have an hour to play before tucking the kids in to bed. Those people are welcome to play, but if you design the world for them then the...

Yeah, basically you have race/class/deity and the order you walk those will determine the final class distributions. Seems Class->Race->Deity is best since equally distributed classes is probably more interesting than races/deities. edit: fixed

I mean, ultimately the response to this is 'tough shit'. Do you think the traditional mmo market in EQ/WoW was made up of outgoing, extroverted chads or a bunch of autistic RPG players? It's always been the complaint of the community that finding groups can be difficult/stressful, but that is...

Yeah, you could add having to roll with new models vs old, but at some point it just becomes inhumane.

One of the top 5 things he does like about wow is ad monetization.

Bards were more fun when you were 19 and it was pre-melody and you had to have ADHD to be successful.

ENC/CLR is very strong, but what people are forgetting about what the 'vets' pick is that they know they are going to be running these characters in raids. ENC is just replying to tells for haste/clarity and sieving a few bosses. CLR you will be parked in a CH rotation. Sure, some bosses have...

Yeah, if you are in an era where charm is strong then you just need enc/clr and then a puller. CH is really the only heal that will keep the mob up and a puller with FD to offtank / split camps is useful. Even PoP era a fiery steed in pof is enough to carry a groups dps.

Having the best game developers attracts a lot of people who are fans of the company, more than they are the kind of people who make the company renowned. Eventually the original developers leave and all you're left with are people who want to "work for Blizzard". Doesn't help the companies...

Players drawing dicks with droppables when bored is exactly the kind of content you DO want in an MMO. I want to hang out with my friends and bullshit in the game and do stuff that isn't 100% active gameplay all the time. If your game is just a 'well designed' single player experience that...

Layout and hotkeys are in the root eq folder (UI_char_server.ini / char_server.ini). Audio triggers, loot filters, etc are in the userdata folder. If you didn't want to sync your entire eq folder, you could also try storing all your ini files on google drive/dropbox and then using symlinks to...

I wish there was a version of MQ2 that was DBG sanctioned to help with some of the pain points of the EQ client. Things like /face and shit from back in the day. Also, would be nice if GINA was open source so we could extend it a bit. Would be great to add things like states / variables /...

Exclamation point chasing quests are cancer on MMOs. They were neat when they started but it really sets the game up to be a boring single player game with other people playing vs an MMORPG. The nice thing about returning to EQ is there is no wondering 'what part of which questline are you on?'...

Warrior/Rogue?

The only thing that could make 18 hour expansion release grinds better is if I was forced to wear a sweaty headset the entire time with no ability to alt-tab.

I think it's somewhere in the middle. Tigole clearly had a big effect on the design of WoW that helped it become as successful as it did. You can see, as a designer, that he really understood MMO players at the time. Old school Blizzard accessibility helps as well. Obviously nobody was going to...

Yeah, professions, like everything else in the game, had been balanced down to who gives a shit territory for a while anyway. Now it's just for gold.

Most mobile game developers should be put up against a wall and shot. Mobile 'games' should be more regulated than slot machines. They prey on the same impulses in people but are not age restricted and available to everyone in their homes. At least at a casino when you spend too much money...

The goofy forced gating always leads to the same cycle for me. 1. Start out playing a ton and completing my homework each week. 2. Slowly gets later in the week until I'm doing all my homework Monday night before reset. 3. Miss a reset and then say fuck it and don't play until the next major patch.

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Apparently I donated enough back in Jan 2014 to get that tier. Any suggestions?

Asmongold had a good point when he said he doesn't want to use those abilities because they're meta or overpowered. He just wants to use them because it's a game and he wants to have fun. Locking 3/4 class abilities away from you outside of leveling is kind of goofy. Also, I've found min/maxing...

Did they fix necro dots being ridiculous for dps racing in classic?

Yeah, Gold DKP. It allows people to farm 'dkp' outside of the raid, but in the end the 'dkp' is redistributed to the rest of the group so it's not that bad.

It doesn't help that Everquest has a sophisticated AI that can detect when there is a big pull so it can break your charm and make all of your mezzes resist. For long xp grinding, your best friend as an enchanter is another enchanter (or necro/bard). Without an outside mez, you can never afk...

Is gdkp better than just pooling all the loot, selling it off and sending splits to the raiders? Guessing people try to pick up shit for cheap so they can flip it themselves? I've never really done gdkp, just small groups farming out of era and selling/splitting.

:emoji_thinking: That's the lifecycle of playing for nostalgia. First you have to do it 'right this time' and play the meta. After you do that for a cycle, you can come around to playing what you want instead.

It's an actual described phenomenon called the Peter Principle. Basically in any system where you are promoted based on merit, you will naturally tend to stop being promoted once you are put into a position you are no longer excellent at. In that system everyone would ideally be in the n-1 position.

Gurgthock and Hamlette are over there. And Holly lolll. I wonder where Tigole is going? Would be pretty great if he ends up at Dreamhaven. Tigole and Furor both. Make fohguild great again.

That's exactly what you'd expect from the EJ guys. Great theorycraft but no soul.

How much is the NFT for this, and can I collect royalties every time it's posted?

Why does Project Gorgon have so much more progress than this, when they have like 2 people in an attic making it?

AJ isn't so bad when the entire guild is in 2 picks mass clearing the FV zone. Problem is, a guild that size needs a whole lot of AJs.

At this point it's starting to feel like money got involved and they're making a Vanguard pivot. The game they (might) release is not going to be anything like what it was supposed to be.

So what you're saying is that Brad left all his money to VR in his will to make sure his vision would be made manifest and as soon as he's gone they're changing the direction away from that? loll

The GMs are really only enforcing training. I know a few people who got vacations for intentionally (and even unintentionally) training groups. If you are a 50 and have a swarm of shit on you that kills someone, you might get pinched. As far as camps/KSing. Everyone's told me that the position...

I'm excited to see all the fucked up pathing exploits people come up with with the whole climbing thing.

Being a enchanter is like being a pretty girl on Tinder. I show up in the zone and get tells before I even put up my lfg flag.