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I wonder how off-putting the humor is in the long run. WoW started out cute with the easter eggs but from leveling recently I think cataclysm beat that horse to death, it was fucking obnoxious. For those that have played, is your impression Vanilla WoW like most here assumed? Imo Vanilla WoW...

Everquest when I quit had pretty much switched to giving group loot two tiers down and solo loot three tiers down (where in EQ tiers in 2003ish were no big jumps). Something similar is what I would like to see. Unfortunately I skipped 6 years of WoW so I dont know any expansion era had a similar...

Didnt the video mention a med-bot?

I think I said that early in the thread, but I expect this to be a fun month or two based on humor and production value, with little long term interest. Basically, a single player game. From the feedback so far it looks like my expectations are still on track.

The reason for different difficulties for dungeons is the same as for raids, retain as many different player types as possible. WoW is over the hill and they're not retooling the game into something entirely different, but dungeons arent a new concept, and they've got a couple per expansion. Its...

That sums up why modern MMOs are such a bore quite well. 'New mmo smell gone by level 10, effiency is king mode activated' and skipping as much of the game as possible from then on. Because the game begins at 50, duh.

I havent used LFR so far, but you guys make it sound like its faceroll easy text-while-mouse-turning derpmode. If that's true, I dont see any problems with appropriately difficult dungeons giving better loot.

Likely something that forces them to use their burn on minions, ideally at a card disadvantage.

I'd love if they managed to make 5-mans and raids rougly on par, both in difficulty and rewards. put normal dungeons between LFR and normal raiding difficulty, heroic dungeons and heroic raids similar, and mythic raids for the prestige hardcore raiding. No dungeon equivalent to the mythic raids.

In constructed it does matter what you do - in the deckbuilding stage. You know about the decks/cards, you can build to deal with them, it might leave you more vulnerable to other tactics. That's the whole ccg genre. In limited drafts/sealed/arena , you literally play the cards you're dealt so...

Its kickstarter, I expect to get beta for roughly the price of a new game. Or alpha for a hundred!

Yea this is in no way saying this game is good or bad, but you get ALOT of entertaining games on steam for half that money.

They've mentioned it before yea, but the round tables polls/videos gave the impression that they have skewed questions to lead the vote their way and then a video full of vapor maybes. Not to be missunderstood, but given that early impression this latest roundtable poll is a positive thing.

Maybe someone accidently used that napkin to sneeze in and they're back to square one regarding the starting experience. A less jaded interpretation would be that they really ARE listening and are willing to take back earlier decisions. I'm not sure I buy that though.

Well I am not so sure he has turned a new leaf, hence the general mistrust. I also acknowledge this as the last chance for like another 5-10 years at a game that's possibly more in line with what I want from an MMO. 'Possibly' ... because right now we know nothing specific, just vague...

For me it's still personal taste. I dont condemn cartoony right away, but personally WoW works better for me as a style because I dont like the stick-figure arms/legs I see in some Wildstar videos. The Wildstar world probably looks better anyway simply because most of WoW's world was made 10...

I like what you all are saying was in the video, but tbh I havent watched them for two months because the first 5 or so were so non-committing and basically sum up to "we'll try to please you all, promise /hug". I'll pay more attention once they move from napkins and fanservice to "this is how...

Thing is nobody but the elusive Mr. McQuaid can tell us what kind of game he is planning to make. Is he going to back to his roots or try to branch out artistically and so something different? Looking at it from another angle I'm already worried this will ever amount to more then a wishful...

Bears can play on PVE servers if they cant stand PVP interfering with their level speed, the consequences of server choice should be clear. If you do mean getting ganked by a bored 90 I'm still with you though, because getting one-shot by someone 20 levels higher occasionally really doesnt...

I really would not want to play EQ'99 if I had the choice. I never went back to it after 2004, ever, and never cared for any progression server or emu. Been there, done that. What i want is a game that diverges from the evolution the genre has taken for the last decade and tries something...

I havent been playing as much the last couple of months due to other games, but just felt like letting everyone know that imo customer service for PS2 is really good. I've had an issue with buying an item that wasnt credited to all characters months ago, I wrote a ticket and it was fixed within...

I did level 1-60 within a month last winter and now 60-80 during the last few weeks, 95% of that through outdoor questing. I do play on a PvP server and in all that time I had one encounter that I would actually class as PvP. Server merges couldnt come faster, and the people that want a single...

Their paper card game did okayish and they would do well to steal from it. I think simple Blizzard style inflation is a bad solution for a CCG though. You cannot avoid a slight inflation but there's no point in pushing it just for the sake of it, people are more hesitant to pay for digital cards...

The way I understand it CRZ *are* their version of merges. That why I ask for the upside, seems to be alot of development work just to avoid being savaged by the internet with baseless "lol server merges WoW is dead" news.

I'll reserve dissapointment for when the finally get that kickstarter, if ever. <insert where_is_my_kickstarter.jpeg>

Are there any advantages to CRZ that make this approach much better then simply merging servers? All I can see is less bad PR and name change hassle, that makes it a marketing decision I guess?

How deep the gameplay was is a different topic from 'did Decipher add magic bullet cards regularly', which they sure as fuck did often. Both is off-topic anyway, so here's my first impression on Hearthstone instead: I found the game more fun then I expected, and the funny thing is that the...

I'd prefer a forced first person for the game, under the assumption that he is going to put immersion high on his list of priorities.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if the kickstarter actually has more then wishful thinking and preying on our nostalgia, but I'm not holding my breath. Not that I can hold my breath for a month+ anyway.

Its the pattern for their worn-out ex-subscription games. I'm thinking Landmark, like PS2, will allow all gameplay to be accessed for free (just slower), and monetize through strictly optional sub (a speed boost only, like more harvest yield) that is not seen as a paywall, and through player...

Imo, putting any kind of obstacle in front of owning even a single plot is not in SOE's interest. I'm expecting every fresh account to be able to plant at least one plot flag. The game is minecraft, being a homeless vagabond without a secure building plot would alienate plenty of folks, as would...

With this being a F2P I would hope so, if only to reign in the mass creation of additional accounts to circumvent any restrictions.

I had fun in GW2 but the utter lack of variety in long-term goals and their (imo) bad decision to not work on an expansion made me quit that. Wildstar looks like it'll have similar combat but alot of their PR emphasizes endgame. That makes it interesting to me. (it's pretty far from the game...

Meh friendly fire is only bad if you look at this game from a DIKU view. I want to give it a try. Look at from FPS/shooter perspective and it doesnt sound too bad. You'll have griefing at some points, but you had that in the more open EQ environment too, and people are sick of the closed...

World of Warcraft and Everquest, duh.

I'm in favor of a death penalty, but that's a different topic. The experience of trying to make your way through a dungeon with roamers on long paths, respawns and so on is just entirely different from the piecemeal cannon fodder in modern games. More things are out of your control. You have to...

I just wrote how much I want roamers/respawns/crowd control back in another thread here, so I know what you're talking about. It was probably in the McQuaid thread. Anyway you can find examples of specific situations that were difficult in both games. In your example I would mez one krup shaman...

It IS F2P, and as such it isnt out of touch. If you NEED every card (twice, in gold!) then you have a long road or can invest some money to shorten it. F2P isnt a charity they are a company that still aims to earn money with their product. Be glad they are allowing people free rides for...

I took your post as written, 'some' skills and 'FD for example'. If you didnt actually mean that as just an example, you should edit the post. I absolutely think dungeons currently are laughable gimp gimmicks where they might as well leave out the trash, and the bosses arent much harder...

Yea if you take critical elements out of *any* equation it usually appears harder then it was in practice.