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I would guess that Blizzard decided that the several hundred thousand instances of players accidentally attacking their own guards, dying, and becoming frustrated/quitting/etc outweighed the benefit of the freedom of attacking your own faction. Lore-wise, there was/is much less ambiguity to the...

Rift the idea was amazing. Allowing you to define a role you wanted, tank/dps/healer/support/hybrid/mangina/whatever and then build a skillset within the four classes to do that. Rift the live game with over-nerfed, whipsaw-balanced, and FOTM due to dev whim didn't live up to the promise and...

It was awesomely fun and unique. It was always a great way to pass the time until my friends/guildies got online. Running around in CS with the wyverns? I didn't mind it at all but anything can get old. One of my worst corpse runs ever was when I lagged out on a kite and ended up dead out in...

Just air, bros.

And dangerous, higher level mobs in lowbie zones. "Who is Froon? <smush>", Varsoon the Undying and Holly Windstalker, D'vinn and the griffin in the Commonlands, etc. all added to the sense of danger and excitement, as well as place. Even the low level world was dangerous. The whole dynamic of...

LOTRO had/has something like this where you gain a small bonus to dmg, etc. after killing so many of certain mob. Really more like an achievement than anything else.

As long as people keep overusing the word to justify whatever they want Brad's new game to be until the waveform collapses, so be it.

braaaiinnns.

Three years out and already I am sick of "niche". Which is to say "make it difficult/hard/unpleasant enough so that playing it makes me a hipster".

Wait, I thought the mantra was everyone was making "WoW-clones"? I didn't get this week's memo and am now so confused.

I want to highlight as was pointed out earlier, instancing only came about because in a game with 3K people online, you cold have 3% occupying all the high end spots. It was a way to make content available and cut down on both unhappy customers for all the reasons Quaid mentioned and CS costs...

I would agree with this and Quaid's ideas about fog of war uncovering basic terrain mini-maps as you explore. Something else I have to mention, and with zones it should be in issue but I want to be on the record as saying this: NO POP-IN MOBS. You should be able to see everything at a...

This is really at the heart of what a lot of folks above have indicated: Don't split the playerbase into hard-coded factions and have multiple interlocking factions with complex relationships. I don't think any game has equaled Everquest's nuanced faction relationships. Obviously dungeons are...

I am great with the latter point but not the former across the board. Lots of quests in EQ gave XP (tumpy tonics ho!). I think what I would agree with would be an end to quest hubs, a QuestMart location where all quests in a region can be gathered and turned in with a single drive-by. If...

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Welcome back and congrats on a new venture! I would say only talk about the past as it informs your way forward. Best of luck with the KS and the new game.

Whoa.

Dude. I didn't know it was trolling to say that economics and the market didn't really favor smaller niche MMOs, which is really what Mughal was saying, in his opinion. I would agree, insomuch as lots of folks are going out of their way to avoid the MMO label entirely due to the baggage...

Iron Man is awesome and has more costumes than you can shake a stick at. He is one of the characters I didn't have a strong opinion about before the game that I really enjoy playing.

Look, this game is not being made for me or my playstyle but I am in on the KS probably for 3 digits because if this beats the odds and succeeds, we all benefit.

EDIT: Hey, look, its a new page and somehow I managed to reply to a comment that the conversation had long past by. How do these internets things works agains?

I am not really "one of the guys with photoshop" but here are the still images you posted above combined, first being mine, the second using the auto-generator: Post the full .gif and let's see what can be done.

Can we talk about the 1-15 game yet or is the NDA still in place? I have a ton to say about my limited time with it but don't want to hurt myself or the generous soul who gave me a stress test key.

anyway, they continue to add things to the alpha; in the latest build that I have (0.0.6) they have added levels and more levels of difficulty to the existing biomemes, as well as more terrain and flora features. Again, coming from someone who never played/watched more than 10 min of Minecraft...

Except, in haste, I guess, you negged me.

Sinatra knocked down more ass than Godzilla knocked down buildings in Tokyo. Agreed on the homage; he set the standard in so many ways for half a century, from teen heartthrob to the Rat Pack and on into his elder years. So much crazy talent in that clip.

Indeed, as we approach the yawning void in our lives that will commence with the end of Netsmas!, thanks to everyone for participating in what has been a fantastically great time. We came, we saw, we bonded, we shared, we +nets. Here is something I stol^H^H^H wrote with absolutely no outside...

Turn that frown upside down! This is just a fun thing, of giving, positivity, and community. When no matter what a socialist retard or closeted brownie-gorging fat-shamer you are outside of this thread, here we are celebrating FOH, that thing in middle, and RR bros still being together despite...

Nope. Chances are if word of mouth stays where it is, I will buy a collector's edition, play and level at least a couple of characters to max, and explore the various parts of Nexus. The classes look fun, the combat looks interesting, and the world looks to be worth exploring. There is a ton...

Not that seat.

Leveling and exploring the world has been my favorite part of every MMO I have played since EQ. Every game after that figured out that leveling consisting of sitting in one spot and repeatedly killing stuff was less than what it could be and opted for a more curated experience in that regard...

If you say so.

Stress test is really all that I am looking for as well. Seeing the Medic and Engineer in action on the Livestreams makes me want to give this a whirl now. Edit: I may or may not have one of many things that I may or may not have inquired about, or made allusions to, or indicated that I...

When Chuk started it, I thought it was a great way to be positive and provide a sense of giving and comradery . Hell, its not like anyone is sending cookies or secret santa gifts to other forum members. Now a few folks are acting like we were running ShowEQ. Note: You know how you can tell...

Santa!

I am back on the key whore train as well, should everyone else who wants one gets one. Benefit: Bonus Friend!

I picked up with a Naga Epic for D3, TSW, and GW2. I love it to death. Its an amazing device for those games with limited action bars. Its my everyday-usage mouse now. In games with tons of actions, such as EQ2, etc. it might be of more limited utility but even aside from the buttons, it is an...

Can we just stop with the "shill" label? It's repulsively lazy and stupid. It's everywhere now in RR; it has a completely different meaning from "fanboy/fanboi" as well. That out of the way, really liking the way the game and classes are looking from watching the livestreams. Fully...

what? No way.