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The thing is that many people actually dont want to burn through it a second (third/fourth...) time, they just do it because what else is there? Just look at any MMO ever and how much bypassing of repetition is put in. Because people might level that alt but they're not happy about and it and...

If I were Blizzard I'd save all shots for Wildstar then, trying to torpedo TESO is like sticking a knife into an already dead lion and thinking of yourself as a big game hunter.

Dont worry about Ut until May, he's a very, hmm, focused guy (pitbull?) and has his teeth sunk into TESO for now. Once that tanks things might get ugly here though.

Where did all the people longing for 40 mans go? But it hardly matters since the 40 mans are for the 1% and the casual scrubs we have become get thrown some 20 mans with lower item level.

This is one of the key questions this kickstarter has to answer to extinguish or flare my interest. There are enough MMO "games" around, is this going to be a fantasy world or just an overworld that's there to justify dungeon grouping for +gooder while watching tv?

Please consider this: Going over the next hill and taking the belt off a dead orc - not a quest Handing a bone chip to a npc - not a quest Killing 10 wolves - not a quest Picking up 10 discarded supply crates - not a quest Delivering a letter to the guy in the very next building - not a...

The Garriot and whatever-that-DaoC-guy was called kickstarters both got like 2 mill, I'm guessing McQuaid is good for that much. Not for 7 mill though. And I also dont think the cost for making EQ adjusted by inflation is enough. DaoC guy actually got 5 mill total from his own stash plus...

I'm on the side that will probably be throwing money at this and still think they're unlikely to get enough funding for an MMO. I do think Mughals choice of words was unwise even if the message is valid, but going all "you take that back or I'll cut ya" is pointless.

Group interdependence I'd agree with. But you can coordinate for a MUCH better efficiency if your whole group knows what everyone is doing. Most content in GW2 is either too easy or too dodge-dependent for that too matter much though. The Aetherblade retreat dungeon from summer is a good example...

If you remove mobility from potential defenders (which I agree is a good idea) in a keep setting, you end up with needing people to defend something that's not actually under attack, or at least watch over it Patrol the vicinity and what have you. How do you add entertainment to those tasks so...

All MMOs are lacking the same thing, their user experience is streamlined and optimized like they are single player games, and consequently they lack any kind of long term content and motivation. The base game comes out, your beat it (level to cap and get purples) like a single player game, and...

Well any entertainment is worth 10 bucks so if its just a few bays dont sweat it. My warning was more about starting to buy several mechs or bling, thats somehing the company doesnt deserve until they come out with working community warfare.

My advice as someone that spent a good amount of money on this game is to not do that. I spent the money pretty much based on what you say in your last paragraph, and by now I doubt that vision will ever be realized by this company. They have gotten nowhere with their concepts in the last 1.5...

For more content that doesnt take too much work just need an intern to throw together smaller dungeons inspired by some old games nobody will recognize, like Eye of the Beholder. Also put a good amount of caves/Crypts into the world. EQ was mostly big dungeon or outdoors, I'm thinking a few...

A question about solo content: Most here seem to be fine with a certain amount of solo content, but what does that mean to you? Challenging single fights like soloing an elite or veteran mob in the current gen games, or mobs you can plow through in larger numbers? Keep in mind this question...

Isnt the game is half a year or so away? I think an NDA at that point is normal. Once it's gone alot of people will put some time in to build their bias on wether the game is good or not without ever playing it, so if you drop it too early those purchase decisions are made for reasons that have...

Half of those problems stem from the fact that EVE greatly encourage a numbers race through pvp, that might be less of an issue in our fictional fantasy-EVE It would certainly help to encourage people to spread out instead of clustering up like EVE does (PVP obviously, but the spread of lvl4Q20...

Reboots are fine, the EQ franchise probably needs one. I hope you can agree that there are great reboots and shitty reboots out there? We dont know much, but what we know points towards shitty reboot. This looks like the new Karate Kid, not like Batman. Opinions may vary. Franchise/Lore aside...

So much this! First Person only is the biggest draw this could have on me, it's a big factor for immersion in the world. Definitely an important question.

You are likely mistaken, packs like that are usually discontinued when their pre-purchase perks no longer apply.

A big issue for me is that I play a new game over one weekend when I find the time, lets say 5-15 hours total. I'm usually half through, and when I think about picking it back up a few months later I dont remember the control scheme details, get annoyed by having to look up /relearn the controls...

Jealous warriors detected! Jokes aside you guys should be better then that. I mean, necros not good in groups? did we play the same game? They might have wanted groups less often, and the bad ones might have sucked in groups out of lack of experience, but necros that knew their class were...

Velious was cool because of the setting imo. Wouldnt have been half as interesting if it was meadows and hills where sonic wolves fought grimlings and owlbears for supremacy.

AA dont work well if you want to catch up the playerbase to the current endgame asap, you end up doing shit like giving out free 90 or free 240whateverlevels characters like WoW and EQ2. I always liked that in EQ1 back then you actually progressed through the content (maybe a faster) but you...

Luclin didnt increases the level cap, just added AA. The raid loot didnt make a big jump from AoW/Ntov either, maybe some more resists and 25ish hp/mana more per pieceat the high end. You had that kinda jumpper tierin PoP and later, much faster mudflation. Personally I really liked Ssra and VT...

Pretty much what I'm thinking.

My favorite was Luclin era mainly because of AA I think. Before that when you got to the cap you only did stuff for items and I dont like the concept of all character growth being item-based. Raid-wise it wasnt as inflated as later expansions yet so that's another plus. I find Velious+Luclin...

I dont use twitter so I dont know what statements he made exactly. But "like EQ" encompasses a game that has no raids at all besides two single mobs sitting in a group dungeon (early '99) to basic 'raid or skip the expansion' (PoP) to whatever EQ became later on (no idea since I left it in...

I meant all classes I played in EQ could solo, not that all classes could solo. Thought that was clear. But we do agree, everyone should be able to do some stuff solo in this one. I'm sure other EQ-fans find the idea too WoWish though. Slow curve, speed of progression, outleveling dungeons...

We're in the same camp then I guess. But the issue for McQuaid is that even in the small slice of people that would consider his game, there's a ton of different opinions. Stray too far from EQ and you simply lose Laura and Tad10, leave PvP and you lose Flex, etc. Even if you ignore the people...

WoW isnt gonna get killed my any MMO, it was "killed" by MOBAs a while back. More retired instead of killed like most good MMOs though, they still carry home the money at Blizzard but the focus has shifted from how can we milk this to what do we milk next. Anyway that's certainly offtopic to our...

I think the reception dark souls had doesnt really translate into the assumption it'll work for an EQ-style MMO. Alot of the "difficulty" of EQ was social in nature, and (correct me if I am wrong) but I think you can play until ragequit in Dark souls whenever you want without wasting your time...

I'm wondering, do you have any expertise regarding the zones/seamless topic, or is that just conjecture? I'm largely clueless about it but would assume wether zoneless is little extra effort or an expensive undertaking depends on the engine he licenses. I dont think zones are a big issue or...

The bolded parts are what's missing in current gen, imo. There has to be a middle ground between going uphill through the snow both ways and being given instant 90s for resubbing. These days I feel more like playing a sports team simulation where I juggle my athletes (alts) between different...

Is this really the thread for make a fantasy version of EVE? But since you brought it up, I'd love a fantasy version of EVE. No pvp/pve segmentation but just a world you play in, and if some guy is stealing from your mine you switch from crafting to PVP, if you run across a band of orcs while...

People are putting way too much into the SOE thing and in the next sentence you put money on storybricks being in McQuaid's project? You're the high bet in this race with this you realize that? For me, I think a deal with the devil is the ONLY way to get this project off the ground, and SOE is...

I dunno, Blizzard seems to be able to say 'yep we put this in but as is, it sucks, we'll change it entirely/take it out'. Even if 'sucks' is just code for 'market research and focus groups have shown this feature has a negative influence customer retention and PR'. Do they see a problem with LFR...

The way you describe them it sounds like BG-like instances. My understanding was that warplots are "guild housing" in a fortress style that you can let others fight through. Like I said earlier I considered it a feature that was mainly guild housing but with a fun twist. To hear that it is...

Are warplots supposed to be competitive? I was hoping they are for fun and the competitive tryhards PvP is tucked away elsewhere.

EQ had its share of split fights before WoW was even out, so yeah, that's gonna be a part of it. However I'm betting you will have your share of DDR content in the raids, the whole combat design leans that way (not a bad thing imo).