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Same reason they didn't really put anything like Fel Reaver into the game again. Timmy cries when he gets killed by an extremely loud robot that shakes the ground as it walks and has a supremely tiny aggro range. Just no way you can see that death coming and it ruins my gameplay!

How do these people have jobs at Google?

There were quite a few dungeons in EQ1 that I never spent much time in. Although I did make it a point to have cleared them all. Nonetheless they all had something that would at minimum serve the very vibrant alt twink market. WOW doesn't even have that. Because like has been said they can't...

You mean like the troll fortress in the hinterlands also?

Blame that on 10 years of McDungeons requiring no more thought than AE everything. Gotta knock out your daily dungeon finder ASAP bro! I remember when people raged about Lokan in WOTLK and that boss had 1 mechanic. The game promotes people who are dumb and no nothing about how to play the game...

I wish I didn't hate LOTR lore as much as I do. I hear MMO and LOTR I immediately want to hate it.

BRD is amazing. A masterpiece of dungeon design and a true love letter to places like Old Sebilis, SolB and Lower Guk. However, it also shows just how much a place like BRD fails when put into an instanced format. Nobody wants to run an instance for the 3 hours or whatever it took to get...

Oh no doubt dude. To me, EQ did exactly two things very very right that WOW shitcanned as a concept. Because of their success these design choices have been baked into the genre for the past 15 years. To the detriment of us all. Those two things EQ got absolutely right and probably by mistake...

Considering their level editors spawned multiple billion dollar genres that they failed to capitalize on.... Yeah probably a sore subject for them.

Yes. So sensitive indeed. Then don't do the prayer shawl grind. It isn't like it was required. Everyone needs to do everything is pretty antithetical to going on your MMORPG adventure.

This is in addition to some raids and big bads idiot. The point is that raiding is all there is and all that WOW tries to push you into. To the extent that much of the rest of the game is fairly pointless to character progression or at the very least uninteresting.

You don't need a whole slew of crazy unique quests in a zone to have meaningful factions. MMORPG players can handle a general grind. You need interesting and unique goals for your players to pursue. This can be unique faction rewards off the beaten path, difficult to obtain penultimate crafting...

Thank you hodj for getting this train back on track. By that I mean rampant shitposting. Full steam ahead!

One of the many things that makes WOW a theme park in 2019 is that you have no reason to just go out and explore shit. EQ had tons of weird ass zones to try and figure out (Plane of Mischief) or useful drops that were useful long into the game's life that dropped in the middle of nowhere. Why...

Can you get Practigal Guide to Evil in like Kindle format or do you have to read it on the site?

Gunning down gangsters in a banana costume and calling in Burt Reynolds to assist me is top tier gaming.

I looked at Project Gorgon, it apparently has enough content for people to pour a thousand hours in so... maybe it is something cool.

No Guns Life is spectacular. But I absolutely love crime noire. Even an anime where the English dub is actually superior to the Japanese. Dat Opening Credit is also badass.

The Emperor is called Sheev now?

I read the Trapped Mind LitRPG. Had to stop after the second book. I kind of liked it but the author writes it like he never had a girlfriend or woman in his life. I can only take so much of cooing and fucking insufferingable lovey dovey idiocy that NEVER ENDS and isn't funny or endearing. It's...

I ain't buying no VR headset for this.

Realistically EverQuest had a great roadmap on how to base their design. MUDs. From a design standpoint EQ was a 3d MUD. Within those constraints they were able to throw in whatever and that's where you got innovative design because nobody had made a 3d MUD before. Making the NEXT leap in 3d...

All I would want is to have an active dev blog showing actual incremental development and advancement. Seems we have literally years of slow or no development that makes us more cynical and suspicious about it.

Been really improving my broth and presentation game lately. Noodle time mang!

Hiring market is real tight for tech even in places like Austin right now. Can't imagine how it is out in the boonies.

It's been a coon's age since I heard or read anything that included AIM, ICQ or MSN Messenger... lol.

Oh wow. Didn't expect that. Then again the film did make a billion dollars off of a $50M investment. What a return. Now we get to explore the Clown Prince of Crime. Should be interesting.

Sega Channel was something literally 30 years ahead of its time. And it actually worked well.

Is this how it happens only in government and other massive corporations? I've no idea how GM did it really. But at our company the recruiters go directly to the hiring manager with whoever meets the criteria, applies, and passes that retarded test I linked. HR isn't involved until the person...

Jabba was a Hutt and mob boss of a vast criminal syndicate. He was also like 600 years old. I've no reason to doubt he would be on the up and up about that kind of shit. His underlings certainly weren't though. To your thought though there wouldn't be a reason too. Mental training your thugs...

I always took it that Jedi were like Space Marines in 40k. In a sense. I mean this in that while people have heard of them. The average person has no real idea what they can do or anything and the average citizen of the Imperium/Republic can easily go through their entire life never seeing one...

Probably this one: https://www.criteriacorp.com/solution/ccat.php It's used a ton in Austin but I imagine there are dozens of similar ones.

Sure. But if you're just a huge fan of the MMORPG genre? Then you suck it up.

Arguably it would be smarter to throw down $20 for the Indonesian and not deal with any of that other shit. An LT in the unit I was working with knocked up their medic. Medic went stateside almost immediately... then despite admitting to it (LT and E3 medic were a thing) they blame it on some...

These are pretty interesting. I like seeing such salt of the earth people.

Finishing up some big work deliveries this week. I hope to finis this game this weekend.

The KBR Indonesian laundry girls on Camp Taji also ran a brothel if you knew the right people. I suspect the other big bases had similar.