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Well the original Planetside hasnt been iterated on a hundred times since its release, there were few if any MMOFPS games in the last decade. MMORPG evolution has been explosive by comparison (for good or bad is another matter).

Console porting was a thing or at least a rumor back in 2011 when they gimped down the UI i think? Not really new except it is official now. It does not bode well imo because the lowest common ground is the shitty console pad, if future development and a possible xpack are down for console I'm...

Dungeon design could use massive improvements towards the way they were set up during EQ and Classic WoW. Regardless of instancing or not, tube dungeons suck and the only reason for doing them is +gooder points. Seriously, if any designers read this: whenever you want to make a tube dungeon...

Has any game after UO picked up on the house building? I do not mean having specific instances where everyone has their house, but finding that nice spot overlooking a waterfall and building your castle there? Although that's a repeat, compared to the last decade of MMOs I played it would be a...

Convo that blurb you quoted sounds like GW2. stationary quests just happen in the area without a dialogue trigger, and sometimes npcs are scripted to run somewhere else and ask for help or do other things when "quests" start (they're called dynamic events there, most are simple scripts but the...

The issue with consoles is not so much the hardware power, its the control scheme. Console players wont all slip into keyboard mouse willingly, and game companies often dont bother with a unique UI for PC and console. Instead, you get the console UI on the PC as well and it blows. I quit some...

Thing is they made this WoW clone, crashed hard, fired all their staff, had to go F2P to prevent the servers being shut down. And then they focus their effort on making it more WoWy with new levels/gear/skills in this "expansion" that with just a I admit cursory glance will make most of the...

No shit, this is a WoW clone? I didnt realize. You are right that this approach falls down, and you'd think this being 2013 and the MMO landscape littered with failed WoW clones, they would realize this and try to take another route. Especially considering that their corpse is among of the...

That's a dumb complaint. Placing a quest with enough xp to give you the new max level is probably the fastest way to do it, no point in writing an elaborate UI function. That said those preliminary notes do not excite me at all. It basically refers to lvl55 changes a few times without any...

I take that as meaning they dont make a new EQ1. EQ1 and all if its copies (including WoW) were build on providing locations you go to with monsters to kill (for loot and xp). The developers always had to deliver new areas fast enough to retain players. They could buy time with key quests, gated...

EVEs travel time is pretty much the longest I can imagine, even worse it is slightly sped up and made less dangerous by being at the keyboard and clicking a few times per minute, but there are few worthwhile sights or experiences during it (I prefered WoW taxi rides - fits the game world, has...

I figured to give this a run with the new patch, first time I played longer then 10 minutes since May I think. I'm still dissapointed and think the game has several flaws it shouldnt have if they had used more then their C team etc etc. But I'm actually posting to ask if the legendaries I found...

Any company will pick ease of access to reach more potential customers over internal consistency. Looking back over the MMO market every company I can think of has done so, actually. Including EVE with jump clones and the "be anywhere within the hour" jump networks. The galaxy becoming too small...

I agree that WoW has taken dailies way too far, but making them purely bonus is compensating too much. I specifically hate the "BiS" attitude. There's no reason you cant have several sources of said item, among them a reputation. As boring as GW2 itemization is, initially you could achieve the...

The little info thats out there says EQN is a different game anyway, just set in the same background lore. Everyone talking about how they want old EQ are just using this thread because it has E and Q in the title. Most of the thread is still interesting (imo) but not in the "i want this game...

I think you are overestimating the availability or cost internet at the time, and more importantly: how much more crazy the idea of the MMO game was in 1999 as opposed to 2004. Cue pointless personal experience: When EQ came out I read about it, was intrigued but realized that I pay for...

I think he means if he crafts +vit, any good roll dex/str/int (+other good stuff) makes for a decent item, while with say a +dex recipe getting +int or +str on top but no vit/more_dex is kinda meh.

Titan is probably going to be a mix of facebook with a $AH for different hair styles you can design yourself anyway. Blizzard hasnt been putting the game quality before the quarterly revenue report for a long time. Not that anyone else really does, its a business after all. Still old Blizzard...

I'm not sure if it will be released for consoles at all, havent heard anything towards that end. But it is going to use the new in-house developed engine SOE made for Planetside 2, that engine is obviously developed for PC first. You probably heard so rumor-made-fact from some gaming news site.

Not a big thing I guess, but its an odd choice to limit it. I mean here I am considering playing a weekend and might just throw down $15 for a month if I get all those bonus cash store currency they advertised a few months ago. Now I dont get that and feel like I will just play the weekend...

That really depends on the lore the game utilizes. In backwater Star Wars regions like tatooine, a setting like Borderlands 1/2 or Firefly I can see the shopkeeper and bazaar method fitting in. In a squeaky clean Star Trek world where you materialize your breakfast out of the thin air, not so...

So I have an itch to play something star warsy and started to redownload the client for this. I believe they said something about old subscribers/CE owners/ getting cash store currency up front? From the website it seems my balance is zero, do I get it when I log in or what do I have to do?

Well many MMOs are worth the box price, people just usually look for something that lasts them longer then the free month.

I wouldnt put any stock in WoD. CCP was very detached from reality for a while daydreaming about it until it blew up in their face with the EVE Online cash shop introduction. Since then they seem to have focused their efforts back into EVE and the fps spin-off for consoles. I pretty much...

I think that engineer turret sounds a bit over the top, but I didnt get to try it yet. Shouldnt be guided imo. Can you dumbfire it too? As far as launchers are concerned, I have the AA lock-on that you can dumb-fire and plan to get the anti-tank too. I find being able to quickly fire a shot with...

I totally agree, its retarded to have a worse LFG feature then EQ1 in 2002 (which was pretty good and all thats needed, really). I see alot of hate for cross-server and group finder systems on the WoW-clone forums and sorta see their point. But not having any tool at all is stupid too. At the...

If the game has raiding (it probably will) I hope they figure out a way to avoid hard raid limits. Aside from the potential problems with changing those raid caps over the years (Eq went from limited by internet/pc power only to I think 72, 36, 48 very quickly, WoW from 40/10 to 25/10 or like...

That's an unfortunate truth, hopefully the pendulum will swing away from WoW-type MMOs eventually. God knows the copies havent exactly not met expectations.

Denaut unless you absolutely insist to keep this F2P I would hold off on buying guns and instead spend the certs on some other upgrades for now, and hope for a triple station cash event before Easter (just a few weeks until then). that way you can turn like $10 into 3k station cash which buys...

While I am on board for your suggestion, I do want a certain degree of awareness to matter. I dont want it to become an advantage to stand in the corner against the wall looking down while you do your deep chess (Ch rotation), thats removing the awareness of your environment too much and should...

I'll just forget about it for a year or two, no point in pining for it when I can pine for EQN that has a much lower chance of turning out great. I did throw some in the kickstarter though because more good space games is always great, the last decade really neglected them. Anyway from the...

I dont quite know what deep chess style is meant to be, maybe you can give some examples? If you mean a solid ressource management aspect where you have to think about your actions instead of spamming cooldowns, that would be interesting in its own right (it doesnt exclude more action-based...

Afaik EQN is going to use a F2P model anyway so there's no downside to trying it out at release and dropping it if it stinks.

Some MMOs and other games did have collision for players, for example EQ1 and WAR on the MMO side, and GW1. For using physics and projectiles, any old shooter does that so it cant be that hard. Spells like Fireball? A grenade or missile with different graphics. Shape the AoE accordingly and set...

I like the idea of no respecs because I like my character/build to have some permanence. I think not having respecs is impossible in WoW or any of its clones. So wether the feature makes sense in this game is still to be determined. No respecs for me is ok for something like EQ AAs or EVE skills...

After writing this up I realized its kinda off-topic since its mostly replying to a more general part of the discussion. So here's a TLDR in advance: A PvP game shouldnt have levels that come with stat advantages. Equal footing for all characters is the entry point, then you can pile on the...

Well 1000 cert is the most expensive price tag they have. There are weapons starting at 100 I think? But yea if you want a 1000 cert weapon it'll take a few weeks. Same for the highest tiers of some other unlocks like armor or vehicle weapons. You do unlock the weapon on every class that has it...

Draegan I dont quite get if you are hating on leveling or on not having every skill your class can have available to you at all times. Maybe answer me this for clarity: if the game had 1000 levels and you receive all skills within levels 1-10 (5 hours of play) but it takes 500 hours to reach...

Your character at any level is the sum of your level, your items and your abilites. I think designers need to look at how those three aspects interact with each other instead of blindly copying what came before. The whole leveling process can be cut. All its doing can be done with items...

I skimmed through the last few pages and thought I was in the EQN thread, complete with the Grim1 "I want to be back in 2001" vs Draegan "change is impossible" argument. Isnt this about a RvR game that's going to be pretty much PvP only? As in leveling through PvP like in Warhammer and (in...