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The notion of this kickstarter raising anything north of $2mill is unlikely anyway, imo. Maybe I'm wrong there. Hopefully I'm wrong. How are the odds of building a PVE-DIKU with $2mill? I honestly dont know but I think low-to-none? Which means the kickstarter needs a company backing it. What...

The game might swing more towards UO/EVE and not DIKU, losing stuff is part of the experience.

I think it was only one person being annoyed and the rest going "eh, whatver". Made me remember my first in-game MMO event with a troll GM dressed as Santa giving out presents to people. Kid stuff in my EQ1? It's more likely then you think.

I'm not happy about seeing that snow man either. Being the first to put a good, classic snow man into the player store at under a buck would've been like printing money. On that note, are there measures taken to prevent the next guy from just looking at what I build to sell and copying it then...

For the game sure, I am not disputing that at all. I was merely pointing out that the paragraph of open-ended marketing speak that Kedwyn praised could be interpreted as nearly any game.

?'m in a similar situation and dont think this needs fixing. Some games i play more some I play less. The only thing annoying me is that going back to a game after a few months I usually dont remember all the details or even where I left of and whats going on, and I usually just start over then...

< Mental image of Innoruuk as Palpatine telling the high elves to let the hate flow through them >

Aside from "sandbox" (the industry buzzword of the year) that paragraph could be interpreted to describe WoW. So by all means go with the game based on its merits, but the marketing speak you quoted is empty dribble.

I havent played that in either version, but I guess it should count. Maybe they didnt see it as underrated. But who knows, and I guess in an ideal world nobody would care about gaming news sites awards anyway.

There wasnt much competition in 2013 for new MMOs, so Neverwinter getting a nod is not that unlikely I guess. 2012 had GW2 and Pandaria, 2013 Defiance(?) and Neverwinter...

For me it felt as if the Smuggler story kinda fell apart in the third chapter, or maybe the game was starting to wear on me. It was turning into a grand scheme of things kinda action, which doesnt fit a smuggler as much as the Jedi imo.

I was going to link them again for the T-t-triple kill!! but I'm too lazy =/

I'll donate IF it looks like I'll like the game and the kickstarter makes the project sound like a plausible plan and not just a wish.

Yea Smuggler is fun, probably better when you Han Solo it up as much as you can, though some of the choices that count as evil for Bioware have fun results too. Too many buttons, but I think that's the case with all classes.

So I havent followed the 2.0/RoS news for a while. Outside of time limited things like seasons/ladders, do I have the option of a fresh start from zero economy-wise?

Eh, fresh blood might be exactly the kind of devs you need to break established systems. Although from reading it doesnt look like that is what they are going for. I guess slow or unfinished and limited endgame content is the unspoken tradition they claim to break with, but wether that is going...

Oh you got me wrong there, I want level-based hit/miss chances and hp inflation gone. Imo your character is stronger vs older content without that barrier turning you into superman. AA-style progression and even getting better can stay, just not to a point where only a tiny fraction of the world...

Is it a Cataclysm leveling experience or more like vanilla/BC? I hate how Cata changed the world, every zone has one right way to progress through it, and you mostly couldnt skip ahead because you could rarely take quests in the next hub without completing the previous ones. Vanilla, while...

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Would love that 'no levels' part. Grind is overrated, quest grind, dungeon grind, AA grind, bg grind, whatever. No levels at least lets me pick where I want to play that day instead of being funneled into 1-2 zones. Of course you would have to design for it and not just plop into an EQ clone.

GW2 has buy orders and a global AH as well as being able to use it anywhere in the game, just have to visit a broker to pick up your spoils.

I'm not a fan of the mage hero ability, too versatile and no downside. But I generally think they painted themselves into a corner with hero abilities and will have to rework them eventually.

It's a CCG, you want a high skill ceiling. CoC has a much higher skill ceiling for both sides of the board compared to lolfreezeeverything spells. The restrictions come into play, and will come into play even more in higher levels of competition. That's a good thing and not something you want to...

Changing all of them at once would be overkill even if increasing the mana cost is the way to go. They need to change 1 or 2 cards at most, see how that influences the situation and adjust from there, not sweep across all of them at once. Like you said the worst result of a balancing nerf is...

A quick skim confirms my expectation, it's 2 raids with several bosses each.

Next post after this is likely "McDonald's analogy herp derp"

The only way I can consider that plausible without blowing out any other launch is it means 17 raid mobs, like two zones with 7 each and three outdoor solos. Entry level raid mobs arent gonna be that complicated so it's easy to bulk up the boss count in something like Molten Core with some...

Pretty much the same for me, and I held out close to a year hoping for improvements. I think from the dev speak and previews they do take endgame serious, so the odds are good in that regard. Does Wildstar have reputation grinds or other optional activities for fluff like mini-pets, titles...

Now you're just giving them ideas, stahp!!

Reworking core systems like that while on the home stretch sure worked out well for Diablo.

Movement aside, it's not gonna be more spammy then WoW given the same global cooldown, right? I assume both games have some but not too many buttons that ignore GCD. Gotta say as someone that recently went back to WoW I miss being as mobile as I was in GW2, so Wildstar will probably score some...

Nope pretty much always been the case. Dont mix up engine responsiveness with their (weird) intended movement start/stop animation though. That just takes some getting used to I guess, it didnt bother me but some folks I know took a few weeks to adjust to it.

More like if the damage doesnt matter why have damage, right? Telegraphed or not, they need to make sure fighting mobs actually puts players into a situation where they at least need to try a bit not to die. If you are feeling you to focus too much on moving while fighting, taking a hit here...

Are you putting unnecessary effort into avoiding every little bit of damage? Not sure on Wildstar but in GW2 you can put in alot of extra APM for the satisfaction of not getting hit that make no difference to the outcome of the fight, and given the quick regen also no difference to your...

GW2 matches it.After a year of GW2 WoW actually feels a bit clumsy. GW2's failure for me lies in how their post-launch support works (bi-weekly circus instead of continually adding permanent content/zones).

I dont know what's more retarded, writing that defense or that apparently there were tons of people complaining about them changing a *tiny* rarely used button into a different function. I'm not actually using their official forums but gems like these make me wish they'd shut them down and let...

I think some of you are looking at this from MMO or video game in general angle. For a CCG if they prove to have staying power they'll switch to set rotations and themed blocks of expansions in a year or two, and balance in the vintage card pool is going to be an entirely different animal then...

Not so much playing as voting with my dollars, even if you dont log in subscribing means showing support for Blizzard for the tremendous advances they have allowed the MMO genre. I'm sure you of all people can appreciate that.

I really like this post. I'd want that - here's a similar question: What about performing a mixture of solo and/or group content that allows you to trigger the appearance of a raid boss (not limited by a weekly spawn timer on that boss, no restricted to a kill per week/day/whatever). It would...

Somebody hire this man. Let's add quicktime events to MMOs, sheer brilliance. That like the best idea ever. Not. Do they have mez effects and content where they are actually used/useful. Coupling that with blind and people that keep shooting is probably fun - god knows it sounds like raiding...