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Sandbox MMOs historically have been open PVP games. PVE Sandbox, is minecraft terraria I guess (never played)? Anyway I've been mentioning i every dozen pages here people expecting EQ1 pretty'ed up for 2013 are in for a real surprise IF Smed and co. are serious about it being something new and...

I didnt mean phasing in a "theres a monster you dont see" sense. But you cannot "make the game skyrim: multiplayer and add raids (wth that for?)" ... Dandai touched on that, but TES to means I kill that guy, he's dead. That just doesnt work in a persistant setting because the world is going to...

So far the engine is only used for PS2 which is first person (only in vehicles can you switch to a fixed 3rd person view), so there is at least precedent for them designing first person environments in it. Also PS2 makes money with cosmetic changes to your character (different helmet etc) and...

I'm also thinking loot allocation could have like 6 choices and not be overwhelming. FFA, 5, 10, 15-20, 30 seconds or forever. Not much different then 3 choices but gives the group flexibility. Do you guys feel the hardcore crowd complaining about the 4 months league is valid or whining? I'm...

That's not a bad idea for bringing Elder Scrolls gameplay and multiplayer a bit closer. I mean you cannot have the myriad of unique world states that most decisions in TES game bring about, but if you want to mesh that with multiplayer its a start. Set up districts (GW1 name for town instances)...

I havent played Dark Souls but it sounds like I would like Dark Souls the MMO. It does sound a bit niche though - how successful was Dark Souls financially and critically?

if I had a console I'd play it for sure, looks very fun. Maybe there'll be a crappy pc port eventually.

While D1 never had an expansion, D2 delivered one in roughly a year's time. Cant be arsed to look up the details so I might be off a bit, but certainly not the mid-2014 that is a pipedream and early 2015 that is plausible here.

I hate the exact opposite situation with my warrior. Couldnt solo for shit in EQ but suddenly in WoW I could take several mobs at once! Maybe its not the level difference but class design, hmm...

SoonT New content is scheduled to release every 2 Blizzard months (1 Blizzard month is roughly equal to 4 human months). An Expansion will be released within 10 blizzard months.

I just wanted to highlight the idiocy of not offering it anymore. Dunno if its an attempt to get people to buy the $60 packs instead (there's a Thor one with just that character and all costumes). If that's their plan it just cost them $20, but they might simply be bad at selling stuff in general.

Yea same here. I might drop 20 bucks on Thor, but they ran out of stock. Not gonna pay more with the impression I had a while ago and the reviews here.

GW1 and EQ (essentially) had a limited skill setup. You still had tons of spells available and had to make choices on what to run with, only being able to change outside the mission (GW1), in relative safety or under stress (EQ). I liked that. Of course something like GW1 quickly becomes...

I can see the comparison between MTG and Pokemon, but D&D? Entirely different game. That said from what I am told WoW has a full pokemon copy as a sidegame? Friend of mine did nothing but that for what felt like months. Did a ton of content he didnt touch before just to get mini pets etc. He...

Its alot easier to make a soft rock-paper-scissors balance system in RTS games though. Applying SC2 balancing to the MMO sphere gives you auto-wins and auto-loss. Regardless, he didnt say he wants auto-wins or to be the OP class, he said the game is less fun if everything is watered down into a...

Yea all D3 is good for anymore is an hour of eye candy every couple of weeks or so. Gameplay wise PoE easily owns it ten times over. I wish they'd throw some polish at their net code and start producing more cash shop items. I want to throw some money at them but so far nothing stands out enough...

It's Blizzard, when they wrote the design docs for that mobile phones were still used for phone calls and instead of being mini-computers. Under the same logic there's no point in them trying to get their product onto android or apple, by the time they get done with it the then-current operating...

I wonder if its at all feasible to make a world the size of EVE and have all players on one server (or one per region) without instancing or duplicating full zones. The original world would have to be seeded randomly I guess. It works fine for EVE but the distances there are astronomical (hoho)...

Restriction breeds creativity. I agree 5 is a bit low and he doesnt allow for switching them, but 8-10 active abilities is fine (worked for GW1 and EQ, among others). He makes it a very LoL like approach in his OP which might work. At least it's different. At least I want games to stop with...

Paths that sound interesting to me are scientist and explorer. Soldier sounds the most like you can get that kinda gameplay out of the regular game anyway so right now it seems least interesting. I'm just hoping my friends pick up on the game too and that there is content that's fun and...

Managing your expectations matters alot here. My "dream MMO" wouldnt even be close to current-day WoW but I know what this is going to be from the start so that's fine with me going in. I'm just a bit worried about them giving all their features the needed polish to be WoW++, since their stated...

Why is there a big discussion about this anyway? One of you saying let them zerg it but hide the good rewards behind a skill-barrier, the other is saying put the skill-barrier at the entrance (by virtue of the player limit). That isnt different enough for all the hate that's being spewed. Your...

It's not so much hate for Blizzard but dissapointment. They are held to a higher standard because they HAD a higher standard. Do you think Blizzard 2003 would've released D3 in the same state they did in 2012? EA doesnt really make games, they just take development studios and cannibalize their...

Havent they already said they are going the WoW with raid difficulty and gimping it down some time after release to make it accessible? If that stance towards raid difficulty is already shaky before a larger beta I have my doubts that it'll hold up after release. To me it seems they are...

In other words, sounds like current-day Blizzard? That aside, the writing is on the wall for WoW clones, and I'm betting this was a WoW+ with some fps and a whole lot of microtransaction bullshit. Test cases for their features are things like the RMAH in D3, how far they can push...

I doubt I'll raid at all in this game. never got into it in WoW because life had caught on and not having a raid schedule after years of EQ raiding was so refreshing I never cared to get back into it. That said, I prefered the time in EQ when you could bring as many or few as you wanted (for...

So a content patch with a new 20 player raid, a 5-corridor group instance and a rep you can grind through dailies for a mount in a different color once or twice a year. The other features abandoned and never heard from again. Gotcha, lowering expectations now is better then after release.

They can add all the hardcore raids they want, entirely different encounters/zones for 20/40 and open world raiding too. Throw that in with 4 versions of PVP, apparently deep and specialized crafting, 4 different paths they want to provide content for, easy and hard dungeon grouping, Events and...

As much as I love D1/D2 its been 14 years, and they havent done much of interest since - the 15 or so minutes I gave this game to capture me during beta failed to draw me in. So I'm not sure that faith is warranted after such a long time. Look at Red5, Hellgate, Torchlight: no game, total...

In an utopian world where companies make games for entertainment and not to make money that would be the easy solution.

I read a post like this from you and think you're only posting it to rile Ut. But carry on!

What about skills and spells? GW1 sold those for cash and did ok (you could also earn the same skills through play).

You think hardcoded factions are a good idea then? Because I would question that decision long before their raid setup. Especially since the idea of warplots suits a guild vs guild pvp style so well.

We can toss ideas about fixing itemization back and forth for another year, because thats what it'll take for blizzard to get enough good ideas from the b.net forums to even attempt a patch that might shake things up. I never wanted any serious pvp arena stuff in diablo but look at how that...

Cant wait for Wildstar to announce that they decided to do a F2P model for their game.

Yea, responsivness and visuals are great, the game just feels fun until you have played a week to a month and notice that there are no deep mechanics under the hood. Hell even that would be ok for most games I guess, just not for Diablo 3 and/or Blizzard. Also funny how the graphics were what...

Even if the AH could trivialize the whole game for $50, that wouldnt stop me from playing if they a) had genuine random maps and enough variety in them with special tiles and such, and b) real build diversity through the interactions between character skills, passives and their itemization...

No reason really, the current discussion on cash shop is just more general talk about what people would like or dislike in general, like most topics in these 100+ page thread. Known facts about EQN are still close to none. Hopefully the thread can turn towards actual discussion of the game after...

I do play GW2 (for PVE), and I'm mostly happy with it but really only because I casual it. They had monthly content additions each month since last october, that alone is a feat, but some like january could be covered in 15 minutes. I do feel like they are short on money and/or manpower and are...

Depending on the game and specific detail of the cash shop item you cannot make that a simple yes/no case though. Take the endless pick in GW2. You could not obtain an endless pick in the game outside of the cash shop. The advantage it has over other picks is obviously that you dont need to...