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Yes, the Ascians are as far as we know. As for the WoL, we have hints on what our deal is with being immune to primal tempers but they haven’t outright confirmed why

Given next xpac concludes the Ascian/Hydalean/Zodiark arc, and primals were basically an Ascian plan, I suspect that will be more or less solved. It will also give a lore reason to disband the Scions - their main mission will be complete (eliminate the Ascian and Primal threat)

My favorite part of the Architect scene were the people with shitty vocabularies that complained they couldn't understand what he was talking about.

This is a double edged sword. Just like "opening weekends" for movies, that will make or break the long term profitability of a game. Look at how many games get absolutely fucking roasted (undeserved or not) for bad launches then years later have trouble getting people back, even if they're...

That is true for many things, not just bugs. The real question is whether cooking or preperation eliminates that.

Exactly. Losing something you already earned feels way worse, which is part of the reason Ashes of Creation is going to bomb hard after the first month or so if they don't adjust that. Players have an extremely limited appetite for losing shit they worked hard to get

Shrimp, lobsters, etc are basically bugs when you get down to it

Ya concept was cool but execution was off. Characters didn’t seem to give a shit if another character died, lack of logic (if you’re going to turn into a zombie, why not make sure you disable your technology that makes you a massive threat?), humor in odd spots made it unclear if it was satire...

All I get from this is a bunch of older people that are looking for a specific community that meets their needs, then concludes there is a problem with the game itself when they can’t find it These games have communities already, most of us just choose not to participate in them

WoW's problem is mostly unique because of the forced 2 faction system. In those instances, it isn't a dead server so to speak, it is just horrible faction imbalance.

The budget you could get for your proposed game idea from investors would probably be less than the Hello Kitty game lol

That sounds like shit that no one would play. “You can’t keep good gear if you die, also btw if yo get good gear it breaks and you have to use shit gear until your good gear fixes itself”.

I can’t wait to miss my Wolverine attacks against The Blob with a 97% chance to hit

Grouping for xp to progress mostly died out because we all grew up and got jobs and don’t want to spend half our free time trying to get a group together that may or may not be worth the time we put in Late 90s/early 2000s were the worst because they didn’t have good xp scaling. My friends...

If EQ1/WoW were around when Matrix was being filmed, this would have been pretty meta lol

Easy shard farming: 1) Retainers bring back a lot of them if you send them on a mission to gather them 2) you can grow them. Even if you don’t own a house to use a garden, you can use planters I believe in an apartment or FC room. They grow pretty fast 3) Do all the crafter quests, even for...

Ya, that dungeon introduces a lot of new mechanics + messing them up badly can result in dying very easily. Wiping on final boss as a sprout is almost expected.

Then sometimes they do shared AH as well if it gets bad. Again, the downsides far outweigh the any positives that might come from obvious server merges.

Marvel Zombies What If posters are out there now, so that seems to be the next episode

I already mentioned why: To allow for "individual servers" where players can be and have a server-specific community and/or economy, but you can avoid the pitfalls of a closed single-server ecosystem when needed in terms of player population by allowing a shared pool of players to be able to...

The game already has you play with other humans. Unless you're just in a zombie guild, you presumably already are playing with guildmates. You're trying to solve for a non-existent problem under the impression that "the good old days" have been lost, while proposing a solution that ignores why...

The pacing was overall fine. The only part it seems like people felt it dragged was the episode where they get stranded on the moon.

Maybe older people don't, but kids definitely do. I used to see my nephew watching Minecraft streamers play on Youtube all the time.

Both of your examples use server-grouping architecture, though. I wasn't arguing against rewards for helping noobs or whatever, I was arguing against the flawed idea of "give bonuses to doing group content with people on your server only".

It just seems like a system with more negatives than positives for a problem that isn't that big a problem. There is absolutely nothing that prevents you from socializing and making friends right now in a MMO. Placing artificial restrictions or "bonuses" on something that server groupings were...

Again that doesn't work with how the game is setup. 1) If people are serious about min/maxing and getting max rewards, then they'll all crowd specific servers if their current server isn't ideal a) This creates even more population imbalance or deficit on certain servers b) This...

That wouldn't work, because server populations are scuffed and they are really just servers in name only. The server groupings are the "real" servers now. Most MMOs are like that now - it creates the illusion of a traditional server, but it allows the developers to manage population swings...

Social interaction is great and all, but it works best when it is something the player WANTS to engage in. If you try to force it too much, then it becomes artificial and breeds toxicity (towards others) or resentment (towards the game). You're putting up with other assholes not because you...

The game has a built in simulation tool for crafting to let you try different tactics before you actually do the craft. It can be fairly helpful. Best way to understand crafting is look at crafting macros and understand why they are written the way they are. A good chunk of them focus on...

But then that isn't EQ. I mean, you're basically describing Vanilla WoW when you get down to it. Leveling in EQ wasn't really fun - I think a lot of people confuse sitting around shooting the shit while the puller is out looking for something to bring back to the group with the actual leveling...

I dunno how it is now since I usually just do custom deliveries if I really need white gathering scrip, but the timed gathering nodes used to be the main source for the Rowena white scrip handins.

Right. This is why I’m concerned with all the new eyes on the game, if you start seeing streamers do mods/etc then SE is going to be forced to act. That modder Asmon interviewed already regrets doing that interview because of all the newly aware people

They added PvE content when they realized people didn’t want a scuffed Rust with swords

Right, but a single server packed with what is essentially the current fanbase still only equates out to a few thousand, maybe. No one is saying there aren't fans of the EQ1 model. What we are saying is there isn't enough of a fanbase to warrant what is essentially multi-million dollar...

Fine, let's lay it out differently 1) New World is trying to compete in the traditional MMO space based on how the game is designed 2) There are concerns about the longevity of the content and how long people will stick with the gameplay loop 3) FF14 is currently on a massive roll and about to...

Ya, Zeta was a wizard. He was one of the few guildies I ever met IRL. I think our motives for waking the sleeper were similar to yours, beyond the "we will be server first", the guild leadership wanted to cutoff the "easy primals" access for everyone and essentially make all the farmed warden...

What is with this shit pretending the Northeast doesn't get massive storms? There is a specific storm type called a Nor'easter for a reason.

Ya, it will be completely unrealistic and stupid, but that is the point of disaster spectacle movies usually. It's the big budget equivalent of when you were a kid and would use a garden hose to flood some dirt with toys in it and threw rocks in there and pretended it was some mini apocalypse lol

Ya, EOD split off from SS very very early Kunark or late vanilla. SS was almost completely dead in early Kunark (prime time there would literally only be like 2-3 people online during expansion launch) and I don't think they really recovered until maybe Velious? Actually, now that I think...