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It was easier to get into doing new dungeons without lengthy explanation back then because most things played out very similar and you just did your job. Current generation dungeons have you turn widgets and DDR a specific sequence in order to debuff a boss and what not, all that merits more...

I have another stress test key. The times are Friday, December 6th, 5PM PST - 9PM PST and Saturday, December 7th, 11AM PST - 3PM PST. PM me if you can manage the download in time to actually get some use out of the key.

Their NDA seems to hold up pretty well, I've been looking for some info and didnt find much really. That's usually a good sign. Still I'm not sure if they can beat WoW at their own game. Even a struggling WoW on the decline is a giant in the genre and has a huge content edge on any newcomers.

Well they did include two options favoring automated matchmaking in the poll. If the world works like you describe (and they described at SOE live) then I see little point in such a matchmaking. So I guess things change on pre-alpha game design napkins.

Does anyone here feel like downloading 16gb overnight? Got a stress test key for the weekend I have no use for.

GW2 added a grouping feature like 2 months ago? A year after release.

A longer beta isnt going to hurt as long as they use it to fine-tune the engine, iterate gameplay systems and add more content at all levels of play especially at the level cap. If it is a long beta because they are trashing and rebuilding once per month, that'd be a problem and result in last...

I would like to know if they have any mentoring, downscaling, upscaling etc in the game currently or planned for release. GW2 really spoiled me in this regard but being able to take any character and play with a friend regardless of our levels is something I would hate to miss. Now obviously...

Agreed, the question so much "will EQN have dungeon finder" but will EQN have "dungeon adventure" experiences or hallway speedruns. To swerve the topic a bit, I would love a departure from tokens as the main means of acquiring items. Hated that in GW2, even more because the dropped loot was...

Group finders and cross-realm features were added because they (WoW) have a million or so underpopulated and are putting tons of dev effort into avoiding server merges. Same with the connected realms feature. Wish they would just merge servers and put the dev effort into more content.

Getting the hopes for a timely delivery of, well, anything crushed before starting the project might not be the worst move. How about a blank Kickstarter page with the image of a cloth cap until January or so, for old time's sake.

Group finder goes hand in hand with gimped-down easy content. Instead of watching TV while you wait for a group you now watch TV while you follow 4 other distracted silent people through some corridors and tab/1/2/3 your way to another token you need 50 of. Sure it gets you the loot eventually...

Were you guaranteed the weapon drops off the final expansion boss in previous expansions? I honestly dont know but find the hint of entitlement amusing.

The unwashed masses complaining about difficulty should be a "job well done" signal to the devs instead of resulting in nerfs.

Funny how Georgeson is the beacon of hope in most of their interviews/comments on game mechanics and basic design philosophy consider the first impression we had.

It's not exactly news that they are just pinning random names from the EQ franchise on entirely new continents/gods/races/whatthefuckever. So we get largeish lizard people that happen to be called iksar. If people complain enough maybe they get a companion race of small lizards and get to ride...

Bad news for you, bro, but there's no accidentally becoming gay.

I thought they ran combat at full speed until a really huge engagement and when time dillation kicks in everything is at like a tenth the speed. But that's just from reading, I never did any big fleet stuff in EVE. Module timing and lag can be a bitch in small-scale EVE though, I agree that it...

They keep that as a teaser for SOE live '14, tagline will be "get a first exclusive look at the long-lost combat doc when you visit us in Las Vegas!"

Open beta without wipe has become the standard for F2P titles, been that way for a few years. It's especially laughable when fanbois talk down flaws in a game with the beta excuse while said game has been open beta for half a year and is happily taking subscription money for the fast track.

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That's why I say it doesnt fit into a product like EQN (or WoW, GW2 and what have you). It's a great concept to make a world seem alive, it just has no place in a theme park ride where every tree needs its purpose in the leveling treadmill.

Doesnt EVE manage okayish until you get into the hundreds of ships on each side of the fight range? At that point GW2 and probably all other MMOs have long broken down, what is CCP doing different? I have no clue about the programming magic side of the talk, but they used to buy pretty expensive...

That sounds pretty good to me really. I do want really dark nights (old PS2 was pretty dark, they gimped it a while back but supposedly made it darker again in the recent patch). But a mob population that changes based on time of the day and probably has different behaviour patterns (if...

The concept is no different then WoW was back then, each class can dps or fill one of the other trinity roles, they have to spec accordingly. I think the good steps forward (or backward since modern WoW has more restrictions then classic) are limited action set and every class having roles...

Gonna be interesting to see how Wildstar does since they are pretty much doing the same thing (hopefully they wont neuter what sets them apart from WoW during late beta like Rift did). I never really played Rift so I am not disputing the overall feel... hell it's probably why I didnt get into...

I recently went back to WoW because GW2 wore me out with the bi-weekly updates. I love GW2 as as it launched and the improvements to it, but their post-release content concept isnt to my liking. Specifically I enjoy how getting back into WoW I had TONS of content I available that I had not done...

Funny you think Redridge is the same. I found both Westfall and Redridge worse then in classic. Redridge has been turned into one big easter egg about Rambo, which was funny for 5 minutes but not for over an hour, and took most of the zone. Then again I really disliked the old world revamp...

I think you're expecting too much from the land grab, Quaid. Additional servers, new biomes added etc and the fact that you dont have an underlying MMO where prime estate is close to Britannia or whatever all speak against it imo. I mean of course nice spots are worth more then boring spots, but...

Last I checked TOR is still a hotbar/tab-targeting MMO. Gameplay in the style of Space Marine would be an entirely different (and better) game even if you used the Star Wars universe instead of WH40K.

In other words, trollish dick towers everywhere.

Tbh I dislike the idea of linking the two games beyond importing SOE-approved items/buildings through the player store or SOE using playermade stuff for their own designs.

I think the "where/how does the loot drop" discussion is not doing WoW justice. If you take all greens out of Vanilla WoW and add respawns/PH/remove instancing in dungeons, you have a loot setup thats not too different from EQ. Some rare world drops, lots of nameds in contested dungeons with...

Your character is gone for the five minutes it takes to put the creation sliders in the same spot as last time, and you keep the factions (with a penalty) and possesions of the dead character. Great. If they wanted death with some bite they would have you start fresh, or at least at starting...

Dyvim is talking generally or about Landmark there I think. Death penalty: your in-game description is nice and all, but what matters is implementation. The effective difference is in EVE I have to go through the motions of moving my pod into a new ship if the pod got away (akin to your...

Classic, Kunark and the first bits of velious appeared to have random power levels/quality. From Luclin onward it was stratified and tiered, and WoW loot was copied from EQ mostly unless you were one of those people that wore "of the owl" gear in WoW. Nearly everything that mattered in both WoW...

Is there a quote on this? I'm not sure that's how it works.

There's little lore behind most old EQ loot so if we could just call this nostalgia topic something else that'd be great! Handcrafted maybe?

EQ itemization was done was as random as it gets. Coupled with knowing fuck-all about how stats work it was a pretty funny really. The entirely item-level based streamlined itemization of modern MMOs isnt all that great either though. Basically I'd want some mix-up between power levels...

Insurance is one of things very similar to EVE actually, imo anyway. Ship with basic fittings is more or less covered by insurance, if you fit expensive stuff you risk a loss. Dyvim, if I had decided to go with Landmark alpha it would have been a) to *play* earlier and b) for the gimmicks...