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  1. Ukerric

    Which MMO *DO* you actually play now?

    Nothing. I'm in Minecraft, where I indulge in massive projects (the current one began last Feb, and is about... 1/3rd complete) in SMP on my guild's server. I do pop in GW2 from time to time because it's F2P (so I don't have a sub nagging me to play as much as I can) and was designed as F2P...
  2. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    The genius of Minecraft is that it gives you just enough structure to make things, while not blocking you outright from creation ("there are 15 building models for your town. What, it's not exactly what you wanted to make? Hey, us modeling those additional buildings for you costs!"). And the...
  3. Ukerric

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    Yep. At that point, anything back is better than nothing.
  4. Ukerric

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    Anyway, we had that discussion back in the old forums when 38S went down in flames. When people go "but devs only make 85k a year", they seem to assume that devs require 0 square meters of rented office space, their equipment is free, and they don't need utilities like electricity, heating...
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    EQ Never

    Yes. In those days, you endured, because it was - litterally - the only game in town. These days? They adjust. They click "uninstall", post some scathing comments on their friends' social network, and go to the next game which doesn't try to punish them for choosing the wrong race 5mn after...
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    EQ Never

    You actually never started in complete "Is this thing broken?" pitch darkness. You always started in somewhere lighted. The thing is, until you had a light source, there were starts where you literally couldn't do anything else, except waiting there and maybe having a look around until the sun...
  7. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Yep. A PVE game needs sharply defined roles in a group, or it degenerates into a every-toon-for-itself-dps-fest. What a game does not need, however, is a "DPS" role. You have between 3 to 6 core roles that are required: tank, heal, CC, pull/scout, buffing, debuffing. But nobody is "a DPS"...
  8. Ukerric

    The Long Dark

    Ooooh, a rip-off from the Change series byS. M. Stirling. Here's a hint for the devs: please avoid direct references, like having your main character called Mackenzie (well, better than Havel - that would be even more obvious).
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Well, it's very simple. If every class does not have about equal opportunity to partake in all aspects of the gameplay there is, then what happens when the player discovers after 20 h... 50 hours... 100 hours... 200 hours... whatever that his choice when he began to play months ago locks him out...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    To be correct: You need some activities that are useful available solo. The most obvious would be XP and getting craft materials, but you can include others. The idea is that, if you have time (over an hour), you can seek out a group; if you don't, you can do stuff solo. Oh, and if you want a...
  11. Ukerric

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    PvP appears to be a straight copy of GW2, only with a single map instead of splitting it in 4. The rest... all those moderns western RPG look the same to me these days...
  12. Ukerric

    Your best raid or mass pvp experience across the genre?

    That was on Sebilis, the french Ubisoft-run server.
  13. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Well, you can't really figure out crafting until you've figured out itemization first, and we've got very little about it. The core ideas on classes, we know; the items... not so much. All we know is that you have the usual armor+jewelry+weaponry set, those have no stats on them but effects...
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    Your best raid or mass pvp experience across the genre?

    I think PVE-wise, the most memorable raid was one of our Agnarr the Stormlord kills in BoT. I don't even remember exactly what went wrong, but basically, we entered his room, got all slaughtered, and one ranger started kiting him round and round and round. Meanwhile, we rezed everyone where we...
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    EQ Never

    That is almost certainly going to be the case for the 8 or so "core classes" in Qeynos. Check on wiki the trainer, see how much it wants, bring it, done. Then you're going to get the faction-based trainers which are going to require you to be on the lookout for opportunities to get faction...
  16. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    There's probably going to be an intrinsic bonus in that the (common) equipment is going to favor sticking to your class skills. Remember the panel where they said "if your warrior tries to use a wizard TP in the back of the enemy then use a rogue's backstab, he won't have enough energy to chain...
  17. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    No. FOTM requires a relatively small (for the hardcore-18-hours-a-day-play catasses) time to get from whatever to the so-called FOTM. When your games does not support selectable skill-based system, but lets you grind from character creation to "operational" in a week or two, then you get FOTM...
  18. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Try to gain a new skill in WoW without levelling. The distinction of horizontal vs vertical levelling is done because you have two directions of progression: vertical, giving you higher power, horizontal giving you different powers. But the main point why we're giving those direction names is...
  19. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    The ability to be in multiple guilds simultaneously in A Tale in the Desert was extremely interesting, game-wise. At one point, I was in: - A serverwide french-speaking guild - A local guild with people I worked various tradeskills with - The Bedouin guild for mutual help on passing tests...
  20. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Nope. That's not horizontal levelling. That's vertical levelling. Vertical levelling: 5 tiers. Tier 1, my sword does 100 dmg. Tier 2, my sword does 150 dmg. Tier 3, my sword does 200 dmg. Tier 4, 250 dmg, tier 5 300 dmg. That's vertical levelling: your power value increase. Horizontal...
  21. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Probably. Note that you're supposed to be able to pick additional tiers for other classes while playing as, say, a Warrior, so the additional classes end up being a source of "new skills" you use for your main class, even if you never ever use that class itself.
  22. Ukerric

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    Have you looked at the allakhazam link I did put to refresh your memory? I did play DAOC, and did questing, and I constantly had 10+ quests in progress all the time until around level 25. Fedex, collect, etc. The quests may not have given you enough XP to level just doing them after level 12...
  23. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Because tiers aren't horizontal levelling, they're vertical. The horizontal part is getting tier 5 in forty different vertical silos, each independent from the other, each that can be progressed completely independently from the others, and the fact that you're tier 1 or 5 in the wizard class...
  24. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    There's however a major difference. XP is fungible. One point of XP gained killing a bear, completing a fed-ex quest, uncovering a new mini-map area, is equal to the other point of XP. As a result, you can go to the place where XP is most efficient, and do it to the exclusion of nothing else...
  25. Ukerric

    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Because you can't trade $15 month subscription for in-game value. Remember: the guy who is buying CREDD for $20 isn't going to buy it for a 1 month subscription: he buys it to sell in-game for gold. So the question is: are you going to get more gold for $20 from players or from farmers? The...
  26. Ukerric

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    That's from the fact that you didn't had glowing yellow exclamation marks around. There were a ton of NPCs giving you exactly the same quest systems as WoW (fetch me this; go there to give this guy this token; kill bears and take their asses)... it was just easy to forget about them since they...
  27. Ukerric

    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    I beg to differ. Dark Age of Camelot had almost exactly the same questing system. The only significant difference I can think of was the quest marker above the NPC's head. (they had a severe lack of quest content at the later stages of levelling, but the system from 1 to 30+ felt like WoW)
  28. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    That's not shortsighted. That's what people WANT. Obligatory car analogy: When cars appeared, they were clunky monsters. People would endlessly tinker with them, dismantle and rebuild them from scratch; swap in and out parts to get better mileage and faster speed. Fast forward to today...
  29. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Well, considering the max sub number occurred after POP... nope, most people didn't stop playing EQ after Planes. Most people stopped playing EQ when WoW released, period. Maybe YOUR guild dissolved at that time, but in general, no, people kept on playing. Another anecdotal experience: I...
  30. Ukerric

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Fair or not, people ARE going to judge that game based on this. Not everyone, probably not even the majority (since you tend to get hardcore gamers and pure fans at that stage) but quite a lot. Me? I've judged the game BEFORE playing, and passing over it. No big deal.
  31. Ukerric

    Official EQ Landmark discussion

    It was very different however, since Mojang didn't support servers for people; everyone could pick and stay at whatever version (stable or not). They redid the world gen (oh "Gargamel", how we miss you...) multiple times. Heck, our group's play world still bears the scars (chunk borders) of beta...
  32. Ukerric

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Worse. The player might think twice about buying the item if he has to go thru additional loops (like finding bookmark, logging in, using the authenticator if any, navigating menus...). Impulse buy for the win!
  33. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    You haven't thought that out. Really, really out. We're in an alternate timeline. The basics are that the Combine Empire is at war with the Ring of Scale, for centuries, has been kicked out of Amaril/Tunaria/Antonica/whatever, and are only coming back. You learn about those two dragons...
  34. Ukerric

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    P2W means any item that gives you a gameplay advantage that no player not using the cash shop can achieve in a reasonable time frame. Anything else is convenience (sometimes real big convenience, such as a 2nd character slot, or more than the paltry bank slots you being with) or cosmetic (same...
  35. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Remember when the original funding goal was $2M? And the industry apparently thinking that there's no more market for a space sim? https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
  36. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Well, to be honest, you do have a virtual magic hint book. It has a Google rainbow logo on it. The only question is, do you open the hint book you have in-game, or do you open the hint book in the browser windows next to your game? You all seem to have difficulties about the difference...
  37. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    What are those quests thing you speak of? You mean the epic weapon quests, right? First thing: If you do assume a WoW-theme-park-exclamation-point-quested-gearing-model, then, yes, it fails. If you don't, then it should not. You always complain about the on-rail-thing, and the very first...
  38. Ukerric

    BLESS

    Korean MMOs are all style, no substance. The quintessential McMMO. And don't forget: it's F2P (of course), meaning it's P2W (being Korean market).
  39. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    It is going to be only semi-dynamic. It's mainly static because Rallying Cry have only one end. Halas IS founded. Qeynos FALLS to the dragons. You can speed it up or slow it down, but you won't be able to alter the final result. What is going to be different here is that, unlike Asheron's call...
  40. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Yes. And the game really begins at max level, we know that.