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The game doesnt have quest chains/hubs to level, that's a pretty big step away for people expecting to be led by the nose (no offense, that's just how it is). For gear you have straight drops, then vendors selling crap gear for copper/silver but usually you get better stuff cheaper on the...

They put a tarp over the chasm and construction supplies there for a few weeks and then the next living story chapter revealed the queens gauntlet arena stuff. Closed right now but recurring content. I really like when they it like that, same with the Kessex changes.

Transfers should be limited to once every 6 or 12 months. You can play everything but WvW with your friends regardless of server anyway, so that takes away most transfer reasons. If you want to WvW with friends roll on their server when you start or transfer there once, no reason to allow...

Skeleton with a sword or staff ... run. Anyway some things in WoW would screw you up just the same (in 2004, no idea about now). Defias mages come to mind for example. And there's no way you could go afk while killing a mob in current MMO, unless you jump off your chair it would be dead before...

Rose colored glasses much, Flex? Fire beetles will fuck you up unless you play the OP expansion race.

Last week they sold a limited availability ship before the LTI offers end forever at the end of next month. There'll be a few more special sales so expect them to jump several millions before december.

Make mobs soloable but set the difficulty in a way that makes duo/trio play much more efficient (stuff like class synergies or group-only auras). Then make xp an important factor at all stages of the game (AA points), the majority of it comes from kills, and dont have bite-sized quests that...

That McQuaid dismissed WoW entirely during Vanguard development (according to rumor, anyway) is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to embrace this project. Even if you take all of it as lesson on what not to do, you'd have to experience it first. Shrugging it off and basing all your knowledge on...

I dont like mentoring/down/upscaling just for the sake of it - ideally I would prefer a much flatter advancement that naturally prevents something like god mode in low level zones. GW2's smooth up/downscaling is just a very well done band-aid that presents a decent compromise. Who did you mean...

Riot did exactly what Blizzard would've done if they had seen the opportunities in the game mode early enough. Blizzard's usual move has already been used by someone else and worked like a charm, Blizzard trying to use it a second time is probably going to work just as well as the games that...

Can you convert credits into cartel coins at all, or does the general player base have to cough up the $ or wait for some whales to sell their leftovers for credits?

Yea I agree its a personal preference. One of the reasons I still play GW2 is that I can go anywhere and just play along with friends or guildies if I want without ruining the experience. I can do zones I havent visited while leveling and experience them roughly as intended instead of being a...

I dont want to ever again be able to stand still in a sea of low level mobs while being impervious to their attacks. That's the biggest immersion killer ever. The effect level had on your ability to deal and take damage should be diminished greatly or outright removed in future games, imo. I'll...

Funny thing is half a year after launch when the majority of Skyrim fans and jaded MMO players quit, the people that actually enjoy the game will have a persistant Cyrodiil because there are only enough players for a handful of campaigns, if that.

You evaded his question under the guise of a clever counter-question instead of giving an answer, and now you're calling him out on it? That's bold even for you, Ut. Here is a simple question for you that can be answered with one word: How many weeks ago was the last time you played any...

That parenting analogy is cute and all, but the goal of a developer isnt forming you into a better social being through challenges and pressure or whatever else. The goal is getting the biggest chunk of your money. Putting the player into a situation where he moves out into his own 1-room flat...

Pre-beta demands for PvP vs Raid equality conjure up images of two trains colliding head on. Remember what a jolly ride the attempt to balance the those two was (or is?) in WoW.

That's a very good point - especially since the desire to challenge themselves isnt as present as it was in the playerbase. If you challenge someone to overcome an obstacle now, you are "wasting their time" and "it's not worth it". These days, people want the improved rewards without additional...

That reminds me why I'll definitely play it - still wish it wouldnt slash the EQ franchise to bits, I would like it more then.

One thing I hope in this regard is that they allow first names and surnames and make them unique across all servers. I was always pissed at having to change my name due to circumstances out of my control or because of a merge I didnt want in the first place. I even quit one game over that...

Like i said in the first post about "raid-less endgame", you'd need a group size of 6 or more for some mechanics. Maybe it needs 10, who knows, but I think a game designed for such an endgame can get away with 6-8. Are 10 players a must-have for 10mans in WoW now? Back in Kara when it was fresh...

Both this and Ut's zealous rebuttal sound similar to GW2 WvW zones. Even if keep control doesnt reset at the end of the campaign like it does in GW2, how hard is it to take them? Switching at will even with some limits, playing in several campaigns, easily joining your friends, all that takes...

Everything in this thread is wishful thinking, mixed with a good portion of armchair developing and nostalgia. Would be nice to get that kickstarter (if that rumor is even true) because it will give us a picture of the direction they are going for. Right now this not-even-announced project is...

This probably doesnt apply to EQN but I would go with a system that has some kind of AA points, and if you die, you lose one. The actual amount of xp you need for one AA doesnt even matter - you lose something you had, it'll sting. That is basically the same as xp debt or xp loss but losing that...

I cant speak for DaoC but WoW PvP was never "up to snuff". It was only open world PvP early in the game (which was it's best but still encumbered by MMO mechanics that enable impossible win scenarios), and then it turned worse and worse the more they tried to fit the square peg into the round...

Everquest did pull it off for a while. Mostly becazse it didnt instance i admit. Limited supply increased the value of "second-best in slot" substantially. Anyway the idea is to have linear advancement instead of exponential, and in addition to that slower advancement having enough unique and...

So does Guild Wars 1, wouldnt call it an MMO. Look I understand the lines between genres are blurry as hell these days so this can be a nice 10 page semantics discussion, but given that neither of those games is even alpha I'll concede that you might be right, we'll have to wait for the product.

Preferred status is for life if you ever spent $5 or more I think? But yea my last attempt was during summer but lasted about two hoverbike rounds around the station before I had enough. Although I gotta say just the music and sound effects from that space patch video almost sucked me back in...

More importantly someone make him swear to not invalidate all existing content every other content patch or expansion like all recent games do. Would be a total dealbreaker.

Star citizen and Shroud of the Avatar arent even part of the genre I think. Looking forward to SC nonetheless, but it's more of a persistant Battlefield / multiplayer freelancer mix then a real MMO.

MMO-wise I'm playing GW2. If you havent picked it up yet check the thread, but most everyone agrees its worth the box (and has no sub so you can play it for that price forever). It went away from the quest grind enough to be interesting, has a nice touch of exploration beyond what is marked on...

Or they go with (3): Instead of more xp I would prefer the soft restriction to be based having convince a necromancer to actually teach you his tricks. That would require you to start out as another class (i.e. hard restrictions at creation, as the EQN is planned to have through the initial 8...

I get what you mean - I'm just saying that isnt something development actually wants (though they mightsaythey want it to get your dollars). Lobby MMO design minimizes the effect individual players can have on other players wherever possible. If they go with server-specific auction houses...

I think for a game that doesnt try to give servers an identity by having a ton of cross-server shit, a global AH is fine. Your "cool I found something special" is not as important as a dozen other people wanting to have that item available at any time, which is obviously easier with a global AH...

Depending on how you design your travel, I would prefer a bigger world even if some stretches of it are empty-ish (i.e. not Silithus-at-launch empty, but more like North Karana empty). That also gives you locations to organically grow the world with more content without either tacking it on or...

I would expect a Kickstarter with realistic goals to widely go over the initial goal, and their team to engage full-on feature bloat mode for a few years, which leads to a half-baked product once the money finally dries up. That is, unless the project is led by a person with focus on...

The loot in GW2 would be as bland and generic if they switched off the AH today.

More like 2 weeks iirc? Launch outside of the AH was pretty decent but that feature was flat-out disabled at first because it couldnt handle the traffic. No player-to-player trading in an MMO is retarded at any rate, but since their replacement feature for that is working peer-to-peer mail...

I wouldnt say excited, but it is the MMO project I am looking forward to the most, and with a positive outlook. That's however for the innovations their contractors bring to the genre which would probably languish in a void without EQN, and not for anything SOE themselves have shown so far.

Market splitting I could live with, it's more work to gain an edge over GW2s global market then it was in WoW, where I could comfortably exploit the lazyness of my peers. You can still do that in GW2 but it actually takes effort. But I dont want artificial barriers to playing with others, at...