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GW2's shop does not sell any gear that has stats. XP pots are just another way to eliminate grind, so is buying gold. It's all the same in the end, time = money. Since you have taken the extreme position already then you need to be against XP pots too.

Yeah. Well good luck with that. Like I said the vast majority of players are fine with xp pots and buying gold from the company that makes the game. That isn't going to change, no matter what you do or say.

UT if you call GW2's cash shop P2W then you are calling ALL cash shops P2W. It's that simple. And then you have to expand your argument to include all F2P games and some sub games. Since most sub games have cash shops now that offer xp pots. Even WoW will soon. In some sense most cash shops...

People don't change. Calling the kid's "different" does make you all sound old though. The basic desires we all have are part of human nature. If EQ Classic was redone with modern graphics and some basic updates (ui, etc), it's success or failure would be determined by how well it was done...

I found the AoC vids to be boring and cheesy. Which is true of most gameplay videos. WoW is another great example of crappy video gameplay needing hands on to judge. You can't get the feel of how reactive and smooth WoW is without playing it. I don't like WoW much but I have to admit the...

Not at all, judge whatever you want. But judging a game based on a crappy video of the starting area is not a very good idea. AoC comes to mind. Videos of the starting area in AoC sucked but actually playing it was fun. It was the rest of the game that was so lacking at launch. That is why I...

It's a poor video mainly because the guy who did it mostly showed the least interesting things about an mmo, character creation and the first 3 minutes of the starting area. Yawn. Plus its recorded with a ton of compression at very low quality. Show me something outside of the starting area...

I agree with much of the rest of your post but this is false. Star Trek Online is doing very well. EaB was interesting but had very short term appeal for me. And I loved EQ. Forgot all the reasons I gave up on the game, it's been a long time. But I do remember getting bored with it fairly...

I was playing Earth and Beyond just before EvE released. Everyone in EaB talked constantly about moving to EvE. And once it was released everyone pretty much did. EaB shut down not long after that. EaB was a PvE focused mmo that really wasn't done that well. A lot of people don't remember but...

It's a shame that the combat is so over the top with hotbar bloat. I prefer EQ but there are some fun aspects to EQ2. A lot of it was with things like housing. Not sure why but I actually enjoyed EQ2's version of housing, which in other games I couldn't care less about. Exploring the zones...

He's feeling bad and asking for help. I don't have a problem with it. It's not like it happens every day, and he isn't a new poster. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and hold the cynicism for once.

I can see that. GW1's cosmetic gear was the point of the endgame and almost all of it was acquired in game. I liked that model better than GW2's gear progression model, even if the stat increases are minimal. GW2's cosmetic gear isn't as appealing as GW1's imo, so I tend to not care as much...

Well, none of the items in the store have stats. All the GW2 store does is eliminate some of the grind by having xp boosts and allowing you to convert gems to gold. Which is a pretty basic offering in almost all cash shops. Using gold can eliminate some of the grind for the some of the best...

It's not. I can imagine some changes were forced on them but the basic game is what it is. GW2 does have a very minor gear progression path as opposed to GW1. But the stat differences are almost meaningless. And you don't pay money for them, you grind. edit: The definition point is very...

I like those kind of achievements. Lotro's achievements are fun and they can give benefits, like ports to the human city and the like.

Pretty much agree. Except I continue to play on a rare occasion. I'm also willing to go back if they revamp WvW. For my guild the main issue is that the maps don't facilitate small group action. It's mostly zergs hopping from keep to keep. Which was a big problem with WAR also, but at least...

Well it is called EverQuest after all, so having no quests would be silly. But I do think they should have fewer quests and make them longer, more epic. Spanning many zones and levels. Have the "Ever" stand for length / quality and not quantity. Having quests give some xp is ok, but it...

A return of that old style of danger is sorely needed. But the PvP aspect is a lot of fun also. I'm hoping EQNext has a good mix of both.

Sorry, that's all I'm allowed to say. We learned a long time ago not to get into pissing matches over who's guild is better, etc. We prefer to keep it on the field. Yeah, I need to play Darkfall. As I said before, been meaning to. A couple of guild mates play, their assessment is it still...

It's an old DAoC guild. Other than that we keep a low profile and try not to recruit outsiders. Friends and family, and we've been together for a long time.

A few. Leveling to max only took a couple of weeks, and my guild has a presence there. We have players in many mmos. I don't like that style of raiding. It's easy enough as long as you don't have an idiot on your team. Watch a video, memorize the moves, then loot. Etc, etc. For me the most...

Yeah, I'm not understanding the NCSoft hate. I've enjoyed all of their published mmos that I have played and they tend to be much better quality than the average mmo. GW1 is still one of my favorite games of all time. GW2 is very high quality. Aion was a lot of fun for longer than the average 2...

EQ2 had very little to do with EQ Classic. It was seen as more of a group game for the masses at the time it was released. Everyone who was "hardcore" thought it sucked. Great game for playing with the family though. There are some things to like in EQ2 but it is nothing like EQ1. I would...

Have played EvE off and on since it was released, have a couple accounts. Usually only last a month or two though, just can't stand the actual combat. Everything else is good, and it looks like Smedley is heavily influenced by EvE. Which is a good thing. Still haven't gotten around to playing...

QFT This is why I only lasted in WoW for less than 2 months, and the same for all of it's clones. WoW is boring, no danger, no challenge, no sense of accomplishment.

I didn't play CoH but my understanding is that NCSoft canceled it because it wasn't making enough profit, even though it was profitable and somewhat more popular than many mmos still in existence. Perhap's I am wrong in that assessment but that what most people say is the case. I guess NCSoft...

True, but I was responding to Soygen's comment about GW2 being F2P and didn't want to go off course by getting into the weeds.

Did you ever play GW1 or GW2? What do you think of them? Imo opinion they are some of the best mmos every produced. GW1 was one of the first B2P mmos and was hugely successful. I loved GW1, even though it was very instanced and not much like EQ. It was still an excellent game in spite of...

I bought a extra character slot right after launch with real cash. Since then all of my purchases have been with in game gold I converted to gems. Mostly extra bank slots. Have a ton of them now. I do agree they have the best F2P model. I wish the game wasn't such an instanced dungeon grind...

GW2 might have over a million players playing regularly but I can't think of any other mmo that does (except WoW of course). There probably is but I just can't think of them off hand. RuneScape maybe. EvE is considered a huge success at 500k. Most mmos would be happy to have 200k plus subs.

Too many assumptions in your reasoning. One thing you fail to realize is at it's heyday the mmo population was much, much smaller. Most people didn't even know what a mmo was. I had never heard of EQ or mmos until one of my friends who worked at Sony told me about it. And most players were still...

Tough to do. One thing that could help is to make some gear account bound at least instead of soulbound. I think only top end raid gear and epic quest items should be soulbound. But ideally I would like to see more dropable items like fungi tunic etc again also. You can't stop farmers...

There wasn't an issue until you started whining and goosestepping. I think shard is a great term for the form of instancing I can live with. If you don't then I can live with laughing at your discomfort.

Lol, grammar Nazis always lose you know.

Well it's english. And in english many words have more than one meaning. And what would you call Vanguard's version of instancing? It wasn't overflow because there a set number of instances. No more no less. In the end it doesn't matter what the fuck they call it. As long as the players in...

Fuck off moron. Vanguard called their version of instances shards. I understand it's other meaning and the rest of the technical specifics. But when dealing with the public many technical terms become something else depending on what the devs think the players will understand or to...

EvE basically doesn't have any instances or shards. It might at a tutorial level but I forget. If too many people are in a zone the lag just gets really bad. Only one copy of the zone and only one mega server for everyone. Their server tech continues to improve though. Vanguard had multiple...

Isn't there instancing of a sort during the lower level missions? Tutorial and other PvE stuff I believe. Could be wrong, it's been a while since I did them. Which is fine. If EQN did the same thing for some solo class quests, etc but in a minor way, I'd be fine with that. The type of...

Who are those people? I don't know of any. What I see is a range of people. Some think that EQNext should be EQ with only minor changes but they still think there is room for improvement. Most are somewhere in the middle, keep a lot of EQ's danger and slow leveling etc, but bring in some modern...

Yeah, I recognize that. Part of the reason I didn't have as many issues with Vanguard as many others did is because I owned a beast machine when it was released. So most of the issues that the majority had didn't effect me. The Vanguard devs were at fault for not releasing a game that worked...