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You dont pay through the nose for bandwidth anymore, there is a ton of games worth playing that do not require you to keep forking over money, and MMOs are not special unique snowflakes that get an exception. I have more faith in a sub game then a B/F2P because a game with a sub is encouraged to...

Didnt that link on the last page specifically say they do not have a "gem store" except for "plex"? I'm not bothered by a plex system personally but judging from other threads here that's P2W to a good portion of people, too. I'm surprisingly torn on the news about their revenue model. I'm...

Come on Tad, that's like saying you can group-grind to cap on elites in WoW (which you can!) so it's just like EQ. This guidebook (depending on and the focus on RCs sound like the opposite of sandbox. At first it sounded like RCs take place and you decide to take part or not (obviously still...

It's not gonna be 2014. The early 2014 assumptions were all based on Landmark I guess. They talk about showing more at SOE live '14 that alone puts its Q3, and thats for "showing more" not "release". I think 2015 is most likely but might take longer? Vapor ware depends on your definition -...

To be honest what has me pumped is the potential of what they want to do. It's something big and new, and the genre needs a rebuilding of the foundation instead of the fresh coats of paint that the last 6 years of releases delivered. Wildstar for example looks promising for a month or two of fun...

I think (constructive) criticism is much better then praise. It's the developer job to take that criticism and see if it's valid enough to change the game they are making into a better direction. One VERY important aspect that gets lost entirely here is that all the newbie experiences that...

I still think it's a decision created to reduce their own workload, but IF we have to go with one city fits all, it better be a sprawling one with several parts of the city where you get thrown out if you are the wrong race. If I hear an elf npc child ask their parents if its true that there are...

I'm on board with different newbie zone experiences being important. With horizontal progression your concerns against them are less of an issue I hope. The "newbie areas" are still going to have npcs you can interact with to advance into new classes, and at least I hope that without levels the...

Pfft D1 had story, it just wasnt pushed into your face until you had to puke from it. Like the dying town person in front of the cathedral that you can click or not that is foreshadowing the butcher much better then the butterfly doing a wrestling introduction ending in "meeeet .. the BUTCHER!!!111"

Ogres were ok in the novel, although painted with the savage but honorable "TNG klingon" brush to put them on the good guys side. No mention of cooking dwarves. I still wish they didnt look like the orcs of various other franchises. Some more semblance to non-cursed EQ ogres would be...

PS2 has a sub model. The benefits are increased xp gain (always nice) and increased resource gain (never felt this is that useful, a bit more due to recent changes but generally unless you blow up your tanks within a minute of acquiring them it matters little) and a second deal of the day (they...

I can't personally judge the game graphics or performance - but when there's smoke there is usually a fire and I hear negatives about it on every gaming forum I frequent. Maybe I should make a reddit account, I hear they love everything unconditionally. Turning Elder Scrolls into a 3-faction...

That's bold but I dont have a frame of reference, are you talking about a 1-4 months success or a 1+ years success (most MMOs get the first one just for novelty, even defiance was praised for a few weeks), and by kick ass do you mean a financial success (again even most quick failures do ok in...

The new stuff they made up is generic too. Either generic or it is the TBC story of the alliance/horde returning to outland after years and finding remnants of their previous expeditions and tribes and what not and conquering outland/antonica/amaril step by step as the player level progresses (I...

You're still trying to place EQN at some point in the original EQ timeline. That's really pointless because this is a different universe, a different time line, it just happens to have some similar names. Kinda like Warcraft is based on Warhammer lore very loosely, but nothing else. Spot on...

You kinda need guns (and ninjas, pirates and mad scientist) if you are copying champions from the various DOTA gamesto be your character classes. These questions are scary.

There's going to be a reflecting surface close to the town sign for the really slow people, too. See what they can do with the tech advances since 1999.

Look at that wiki quote posted above, considering the project was reset shortly after those statements have to be blatant lies. Then again, it's a wiki so I guess the odds are someone just made it up on the spot.

All this focus on funneling the players into one "faction" (qeynosians) and many parts of the world being "overrun by dragons" gives me a bad feeling. Watch this end up a plain good vs evil situation with all players and good npcs united against the evil dragons. Would be a shame if they turned...

That sounds cooler then the version I had in mind, where a rally call is similar to a content patch of WoW just more often (every other month or so) and that the content enters the world more organically (Halas isnt just there after the patch, but only once your server finally drives off the Ice...

we really arent in any time frame relating to the other games, EQN consists of entirely different lore that only uses the names of the franchise for nostalgia purposes. Which is fine, sorta (I dislike it but lore concerns are a clear minority). But it also means you cannot use the other...

I accept that you cannot have every rallying call be dynamic, with them being used to introduce new content. Imagine some servers not opening the Dark Portal, lol no tbc for you. Halas is very likely such a content gateway so it makes for a bad example. It would be nice if they could have a...

It would definitely work right now, just look at the number of people proclaiming they wait for that card game. However, I'm not so sure if that method is still viable for releases in 2016 or later which is what we're talking about here. How long does the "WoW-boom" or "oldschool blizzard can...

I'm not sure if it was just attendee speculation but didnt they specifically say that servers can develop differently over the years? Or did they backpedal on it? A few of you mentioned fishing_village03 and random orc villages throughout the last pages - Just how big do you expect the...

From the big features they announced the SB AI and the destructable world seem sandbox to me, and the multiclassing while not UO/EVE style freeform sounds fairly open-ended too (iirc UO had some limits like 7 GM max too?). Of course none of that is in game yet so you could argue they will fail...

Eh. if you dont hide everything in an instance it's less of an issue even to lore nerds (like me). Avatar of War is a good example, or Velious in general. Most of the targets sans ST and Ntov (and that giant wizard) were accessible to everyone, just not for a fight. I havent played WotLK but...

I suppose I wonder why it is supposed to be. And dont take this as I want every fight to be life and death, but the way you say it sounds like "screw the leveling chore the game begins at level cap" which I hope is a slogan nobody cares for anymore. Just do what you have to in order to stay SOE...

Cookie cutter flavor of the month builds are a social problem though, you have it in every game. The GW2 example is recent but people refusing to group trolls, or refusing to group knights, or requiring knights because of snap agro, or not grouping druids are all an expression of the same...

Well they dont want to go with an entirely free-form system like UO had, I can respect that if their restrictions seem to have a reason. Also adding more classes seems to be one of their retention systems. Look at MTG: of course you could drop the color restrictions and make everything...

I've been agreeing with Dumar alot for the last 10 or so pages. It's scary but liberating. That said at the core idea for the VT key was fine: a list of things you could obtain in a group or with some difficulty solo, and a few bits you needed several groups for. Luclin wasnt the most...

For me an action rpg character usually starts out with "hey I think these skills are cool and would work well together so I'll roll a char and try that out". So yea you might be playing less optimally in that case but making the best of it. I think restriction breeds creativity in this case and...

Only the underworld is randomly generated, the surface world persists. Details are hazy but I expect collateral damages like trees and small holes to regen fast, while uncovered handcrafted content stays accessible until the whole underworld is recreated (earthquake server reset). I assume the...

They should make three different borderlands maps to begin with. The focus of WvW is not on carefully ensuring a 100% balanced environment and you switch starting border regularly, so I'll take some change of scenery over three identical maps. (not that I play WvW, too zergy for my comp)

They have been harping on that "life of consequences" every day during SOE Live. Granted it could be smoke and mirrors but IF they want to follow through with that they need to tell the gaming populace that your ogre has to work his ass off to be a paladin and that's just how its gonna be. They...

I wouldnt worry about wipe and release for now. It's a very small company and it might take a long time to go open beta/live (registered for beta like 2 years ago and had already given up on the project when the beta came because there was like no updates for a year). Just play as long as you...

I'm neutral to positive on keying. I prefer it to be a solo/group activity though, reflag raid days is something I dont really want to see again. I'm sure if someone puts some effort into it they can come up with a key quest method that's better then spending your yearly vacation time in maidens...

That's the kind of "enrage timer" I can get behind. I'm playing a fantasy game because I like a bit of immersion in my in spare time. If I wanted to play with optimized statistical spreadsheets I would just run missions in EVE. So as long as the dev takes the time to design enrage timers that...

One little thing i liked about WAR was that extra resource that build up during combat and had a few addition abilitites you could use with it. Basically if a fight went longer you gained new options, often strong ones. Something like that I could settle for. a boss that simply novas for a...

Droigan you are talking about EQ enrage. Enrage timers in current gen MMOs are when the mobs activate god mode after 4.5 minutes because the raid didnt beat them quick enough. It's the replacement for the OOM healers that those games no longer have. Edit: nm thread still moves fast! I am...

You grind up WvW levels for +% dmg with certain siege, resist to siege, dmg to npcs and the like. Nothing exciting.