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Yea I agree with Tad as well. IMO EQ1 did the best job of handling loot itemization and its resulting impact on raid progression. Because the boss mob was permacamped, it took me forever to acquire a SSoY in the original EQ1. Its been so long since I've played I don't remember all the...

Best raid dungeon ever created IMO.

I am going to fully agree with you for once. It takes forever for Blizzard to produce new content. The question is why? Vanilla WoW was probably the most fun I've ever had playing a MMO. Why couldn't Blizzard just keep following that formula? There are likely numerous answers to that...

I was willing to give Wildstar a chance because I like to be challenged. I can deal with wiping in a group dungeon or raid if you can learn from your mistakes, play smarter and eventually beat the boss. I've never been a hardcore end game raider due to real life time constraints but I do...

I fully agree with you about speed running not being any fun but hasn't that become the de facto mode of gameplay for pretty much every MMO now? I remember fondly back during vanilla WoW how much fun and immersive it was spending an hour or more running heroic dungeons like BRD, Scholomance...

Here is the NY Times article I cited. Log In - The New York Times The few ex-38 Studios employees I have heard comment on the bankruptcy have all had positive comments about Curt and that he was a great boss to work for. The only people I have heard refer to him as a moron are atheists...

What do you interpret "open world sandbox" to mean? I interpret it to mean it plays like the TES single player games where you can go anywhere you want to in those games whenever you want to.

Huh? That link about Nehrim said the exact same thing I said about vanilla Oblivion autoscaling to your level. The Nehrim overhaul looks like it did the same exact thing the Oscuros overhaul did and replace autoscaling with preset specific levels for mobs, quests and dungeons. That means you...

Your edit is incorrect as well. All of the PVE content inside of Cyrodil is set to VR5 rank. It does not autoscale to your level. You are correct about the level of loot drops in Cyrodil.

You are simply incorrect. GW2 does not autoscale you to a higher level in PVE except for the fractal dungeons. GW2 only autoscales up in WvW and SPvP.

Pay attention. I was clearly talking about autoscaling in PVE content. You can autoscale UP in PVP content like Cyrodil to try and make it a level playing field but not in PVE content. GW2 autoscaled you DOWN if you enter a zone whose PVE content is designed character levels lower than your...

Slow day at work here as well so let's have a go at it. You are making the same argument several others have made. I will make the same exact counterpoint I have always made but so far everyone has evaded responding too. The ONLY reason the single player TES games worked as sandbox games is...

How exactly did Curt's company commit fraud? A few years back before 38 Studios moved to Rhode Island I saw a study that ranked each state using several factors to determine which ones were the most economically attractive for companies to operate there. Rhode Island was ranked dead last...

In addition to the Blizzard fanboys and hardcore PVP crazies, it's also tough to discuss MMOs with people who just make shit up because they hate a game they haven't even played. If pointing out they are making shit up makes me a shill then I'm fine with that. You can't have a rational adult...

I'm in Best Buy today at the checkout register and the guy in front of me plops down a stack of $15 GW2 cards. I commented to him "that's a lot of gems". He asked me if I played and I told him I gave it a whirl at launch. Anyways, he said he was tired of relying on RNG for getting his...

When you says "tons of RPGs exist" are you referring to pen and paper game systems or MMOs? Of all the MMOs I have played since EQ1, all of them have used level based systems except for Asherons Call. Level-based vs Skill-based is really all a moot point. All that matters is that whatever...

Here is a recent Gamasutra article on MMO pay models. It uses TESO as an example but the IPD concept can apply to all of them. Gamasutra: Isaac Knowles's Blog - ESO goes F2P: Was Zenimax stupid like a fox?

Here's the deal. If someone throws a punch at me, I am going to punch back. It's as simple as that. Jackdaddio thought he was being cute and knew he would get away with an attack because even the mods are bashing this game. I punched back by pointing out what Firor actually said and ever...

I can see why you didn't understand Firor's comments.

It would be nice if we could actually have a discussion about this game, to include the pros and the cons, but that hasn't really been possible because any attempts to discuss the improvements to the game are drowned out by the haters. Since you brought Archeage up, do you see me shitting up...

Blame arthritis and the IPhone keyboard for that one. I added some more to the post.

I don't give a rats ass what your opinion is about this game or any other one for that matter. If you don't like it then fine by me. Play whatever game you enjoy playing. Don't come here just making shit up you know isn't true though because you don't want people playing this game. That...

Well it is a fact the game is going B2P in March and also a fact that players will not have to pay a monthly sub while they wait for the DLC to arrive. You and Jackdaddio appear to be having problems acknowledging that.

LOL don't go Full Utnayan on me bro. Since everyone who already bought the game will be able to play it for free next month, are you going to have a conniption fit if someone comes here and gives a positive review of the improvements made since launch? This of course assumes someone is even...

I'm fine if you want to quibble over semantics.

You would have a valid point except you seem to be forgetting that the game goes B2P in March so they won't be charging people a sub anymore. I could care less about any of the stuff they are selling in the cash shop so I will be cancelling my monthly sub and just buying the DLC whenever it...

It all boils down to what he means by the term "updates", which I why I said he may be quibbling over semantics. His next sentence indicates he is clearly talking about system changes ex bug fixes, class balance, megaserver stability, etc. Those have all been significantly been improved...

It's posts like this one that leads me to conclude this forum has a lot of dumbasses with poor reading comprehension skills. Here are his exact words. ZOS_MattF comments on Welcome to the ESO: Tamriel Unlimited AUA When you read the quote below, tell me you now understand the point I was...

Hate to burst your bubble but I said a few hundred pages back, perhaps even before the game was released, that the console version would likely be B2P. It only makes sense that all the kinks would get worked out first on the PC version before the console version would be deemed ready for release.

If you are willing to put aside the snark and stop considering your opinion as fact, you might be capable of considering another alternative (one that will still allow you to engage in snark and pat yourself on the back for thinking yourself clever). If you believe the people who are saying...

I haven't seen anyone predict TESO console sales even coming close to the 20+ million Skyrim had. What percentage of that 20+ million fanbase do they need to sell in order to start raking in the cash? If they only sell to 10% of that fanbase that would be 2 million units and enough to cause...

I don't play consoles nor interact with the console community so you tell me. I do know my 14 year old is wanting to play it on his Xbox and he says a lot of his friends at school are all going to play it as well. Perhaps the console community demographics are not very similar to the...

I know what Firor said about a delay in content release but I am wondering if he misspoke or was quibbling over semantics. If the PC players were indeed paying to beta test for the console release (no argument from me on that topic) then it stands to reason that the PC players will continue to...

If the 20+ million Skyrim players believe everything they read on the Rerolled forums you are probably correct.

I will do the same thing I have been doing for the past 16 years. As long as I am having fun with my guildmates I will continue to play. Having fun with your friends is kinda the point of playing MMOs. BTW who is this "lot of us" who you think share the same opinion as you about the console...

What would you like to talk about? We could talk about the upcoming 1.6 patch but to have an informed opinion on the paych you would have actually have to have experience playing the game. If you want to ruin Draegan's day, you could fabricate some more stuff out of thin air and I could...

Safe to assume healing mechanics aren't changing in the expansion and you are still responsible for your own healing? The lack of tanks and healers was something I could never come to grips with in this game. Running the PVE dungeons was nothing but a source of frustration. Pugging...

The Seahawks wanted Wilson to be named the game's MVP instead of Lynch, who will be a free agent this off season. I am making that claim based on what I was told by a Seahawks employee (who happens to be a member of my guild) who was on the sideline and overheard the conversation between...

The company line straight from the horses mouth is that nameplates were removed because they didn't look good and that they would eventually get added back in. If you don't believe that was the real reason, if you reject the possibility it was because of performance issues, and you reject the...

Is it safe for me to assume that you also reject Utnayan's assertion that Sage removed nameplates because WoW had them? I provided two logical explanations that might explain why they were removed. Do you have any other logical explanations for why they were removed? I fully agree it would...