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And get yelled at when you stop for taking pictures, have "awesome raiders" try to tell you that they don't need to tank swap, etc, etc. (at least they didn't yell at you for rolling need on everything to feed off your guildies anymore)

It is NOT intended for raiding guilds. It's intended for the social guilds who face the weekly problem of whom to bench among their friends (as opposed to warm bodies in the guild that no one actually cares about).

Yep. We'd have killed to have this feature last year. These days, getting just 10 members is not a problem; we get peopleaskingto be sidelined "if not needed". Yup. I don't see them getting an expansion out before Q2 2014, and they're probably going to end delayed anyway. I remember the...

Simple system here: Each zone has a Stonehenge magic/druidic/whatever ring. You can attune to any ring you can travel to... but you can memorize only up to Level/10+1 ring signatures. You're level 50? You know 6 rings only. You can drop one to take a new, but you need to pick 6. However...

Well, it's simple. If you're going to throw away all your efforts in how the game is played, you can still keep all the arts assets you've made since you're keeping the same world/IP as the home of your game.

The concept of "DPS rotation" has done more to destroy community than anything else. Even with voice, you still have to concentrate (it doesn't help that you're supposed to move away from fire, toward stuff, avoid being in the red circle on your range add-on... at the same time you maintain...

It is extremely difficult. Take the most common example of being special, i.e. equipment. I recently did a quick look. From 1 to 60, outside of raids, how many different robes are available to, say, an alliance priest. Today. The answer is 138. At that point, you can be unique. The problem...

Not just classes. Class skills. One of my many armchair designs since I left Nevrax involve what I call the "Book of tricks". Basically, turn all classes, skills and whatnot into a gigantic collectible (but not trading) card game. I start by stealing from TSW: You have a bar of 10 action...

I wonder how this is going to affect the next expansion, Odyssey, which is supposed to go live tomorrow...

Had disconnect problems this morning. *** EDIT *** And again... http://community.eveonline.com/news/...june-2nd-2013/

That's the only possibility. The odds that, in a pickup group, nobody knows the dungeon are extremely low, unless you are at the bleeding edge of the game (or during beta testing, and even then). In EQ, I think the only dungeon where I found myself with a couple friends, and none of us knew...

You also had "optional" sections, i.e. sections of the map that were closed or available at random.

Now that would be interesting.

They don't need that. Enough people are lusting after Blizzcon even knowing nothing about what they announce that the tickets would sell out in 25s instead of 15s.

One year every year; one year at a time...

That damage absorption shield looks sick.

No, you are. There's no end-game, you play a single-player RPG except it's online and you can group with other players who are the Prophetised One as well (lotsa Prophetised Ones around? Is there a convention or something?), and you get thrown in with a batch of different players of your side...

It's really hard on that kind of game not to be P2W, since there's nothing else to sell on the cash shop. Heroes have very low customability outside of gear (which would be P2W), you don't have outdoor aesthetics to sell (the castles all look the same from outside in that gameplay video... they...

There is no imbalance that can't be corrected... ... with your VISA card.

You know this existed since before the "F2P" wave, right? It's called "free trial". The only difference being that most free trials did put a limit on time rather than level. Or sometimes both. (and free trial is essentially what the "F2P EQ" model is)

Simple. Outside of raid night (or just before raid night), you ran your daily heroic for 30mn for the VP, then had nothing else to do. Maybe get some herbs for the weekly flask. So, either you did PvP, or you leveled an alt (and assorted professions).

The ones who enjoy constrained creativity with virtual LEGO.

This simple fact suddenly makes me realize for how long I've stopped playing CCGs...

It's not selling that well right now, but itdidsell that well, and no game in the PC category came close to its launch performance. Which is what the "#1" label meant. Probably faster patch content. They're now trying to alternate non-raid and raid patches, in the hopes of getting a patch out...

That's the only game in the universe where the GM and devs will reimburse people whose scam failed...

Stranger things have been known to happen...

If I remember right, you need racial frigates to 4 to unlock the racial cruiser skills right now (it will be only 3 when the expansion launches).

Perception. If it's cheaper, it must be worse. It is very hard to compete on a product based essentially on quality (people want great games) while communicating on price (we've got cheap knockoff of WoW!). Tons of consumer and marketing studies will disagree. Well, actually, it's not the price...

Note that this is nothing new, the recent EVE novels clearly name and reference some of the big fights and player factions (NC comes to mind).

It's a pure Western show, wrapped in CGI and makeup. For the first ep., substitute "Fallen Ark" with "Broken Diligence", "Terrasphere" with "Crate of Dynamite", "Volge" with "Apaches", and so on, and you have a perfect match. The second ep. is almost pure western, but the Mafia match breaks down...

Not until Aug 1st. But the partnership with a company that has developed a technology that allows players to create NPC stories should be enough to tell you it's more like Neverwinter than EQ Classic.

Well, all those changes in WoW amount tosomething at least.

Because few customers appear to share your objective. No one wants equality. What they want is entertainment enough to pay for... and they don't find it. So they don't pay the sub, and the game fails.

What? A couple new reputations every X months with dailies isn't content forever?

They still need to announce it at Blizzcon. Although they could announce it, and tell everyone during the opening ceremony "by the way, check your mailbox, you might have already gotten your beta invite which we started sending 30mn ago".

WoW! Theyusually wait for the next expansion before touching that.

I still have nightmares about that pickup raid in Fear where I was the only cleric present. Getting people to move only ONE DAMNED CORPSE AT A TIME in front of me, because if I rez you twice, I don't rez someone else before the 2h limit ends... (epic? what's that? you mean that fiery paladin...

You're not supposed to. That's why you're based on an entirely different city. Which is how you meet "sometimes" the main chars, rather than get into their offices for them to give you bear ass quests.

The main problem with "leveling quests" isn't that they're shitty or not. It's that they're a characteristics that indicate you're facing entertainment rather than game. Why is WoW an entertainment rather than a game? It's evident at all points: there is ONE WAY to do stuff. All others...

Sure. But, I spotted this: That means another game where level trumps absolutely everything, due to a very sharp power curve that has been artificially improved (your power doesn't just increase in potential as you level, it also increases immediately with relative level). Which means another...