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Yeah, I miss the EQ days when rep mattered. It took care of so many things. Made getting groups easy and kept most of the idiots from going full retard. In EQ, community was mostly a function of the small size of the player base on the servers, the incredible amount of time it took to level and...

I wouldn't say better, it would be different and just as valid.

Voice chat is generally annoying and a waste of most gaming time. Can't stand to listen to pimply faced adolescent rejects prattle on about nothing. But for coordination during raiding or PvP it is excellent and I would hate to do without it. The rest of the time I keep it off unless there...

Sounds like a potential cash shop item. Lost? Buy a map!

Well the effect is that I, and many others, skip your posts. Some people respond to you, but eventually most just give up and ignore you. Is that the result you are looking for?

Qwerty, I know you wont hear this, but I'm going to say it anyways. You are not an idiot, and actually have a number of valid points. But your message is lost in an endless sea of posts that overwhelm the threads you are posting in. You drown out your own message. Spend a little time thinking...

Tanking mage has me intrigued... But they are really killing off the alt factor.

Would love to see a new mmo that had all the old harsh systems that EQ had in it's heyday. But to be honest, I'm not sure I would actually play that game. Auctioning is a great example of the pluses and minuses of old EQ. I just couldn't be bothered to stand in the EC tunnel to auction off my...

My first toon was a SK based out of Qeynos. Spent a lot of time leveling up in the area, the Karanas included. Back then there were plenty of players in those zones. Eventually did the epic journey to Freeport like everyone else, but I never felt that they were neglected zones back then. It...

Many people say that Star Wars Galaxies was a sandbox, I didn't play it enough to judge for myself. EvE is a sandbox mmo in many ways, although it's world building tools are minimal. It really depends on your definition of "sandbox mmo". World building / altering tools seem to be an important...

I'm not against long travel times at all. But the reality of today's mmo market is that most players really dislike long travel times. Even in the past they weren't popular, Vanguard got a lot of grief over it (among other things). Any game that does have long travel times is going to have to do...

While I agree that instancing of any sort breaks immersion, if you don't have them in some way then you'll have to add a couple more things to your list.. queues and/or very long travel times. Players will always gravitate to the zone that they perceive gives them the most benefit. It's a...

Lol, nothing to argue about. I won. Facts are facts. You can continue to chase your tail if you want but I'll leave that dance for Draegan. He likes that sort of thing.

What's wrong? No news on the WoWStar front? From what I've read it is everything you love in a game, the ultimate WoW clone.

Get a grip retard. Every F2P game offers ways to lessen the grind, that isn't P2W. P2W is when you HAVE to pay to get the best gear, that doesn't happen in Rift. The only way to get the best gear is to play. If you can't understand that basic fact then do us all a favor and jump off the nearest...

Rift's F2P is not P2W, anyone that thinks so is a moron. Rift doesn't sell any of the best gear. Like all F2P games they do offer options to eliminate the grind, but that isn't P2W either. If you think so then you shouldn't even bother playing any F2P game because you will be whining incessantly...

Linear design isn't just a problem with dungeons. One of the main problems with SWTOR's overhyped story was the linear design. They offered many choices but in real fact the end was always the same. It didn't really matter in the long term what you did. Choice, alternate paths, consequence...

Hopefully, EQNext will continue the forced grouping thing. A few classes could solo in early EQ and that was fine, but they also tended to be not as needed in raids. I liked that dichotomy. It was hell on the devs though with all the tons of complaint threads about it. Hard do see SoE having...

Aion did a lot of things right, but they also fell into the 2 faction trap. It just boggles the mind how many moronic devs jumped into that hole.

A few years ago I would have loved a EQ reskin. But now days I'm so sick of the standard mmo formula that the only thing that would excite me is something totally new and revolutionary. I will play EQNext and from the sounds of it they have brought some new features to the table, but I doubt...

Parsers are fine for pure dps classes that have no other job. But for everyone else they are a detriment to the raid. How do you parse the person who kites the boss while the healer rezzes the idiots who over dps and pull agro? Thereby saving the raid. How do you parse the person who is...

Your first post was pretty good Qwerty, you should have left it at that. Haven't really followed the conversation since then but it seems to be a little lost in the weeds.

Yeah, good post qwerty. It amazes me that I actually read most of it. I generally skip the long rants, but you kept hitting the right points.

Lol, can't help you there. IA's are supposed to be the fastest way to level though.

Well apparently their max cluster size is 8 servers. Why that is an issue I have no idea, but everyone who has dealt with computers should understand by now that these types of limits happen all the time, and usually a factor of 8 is involved in some way (8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, etc etc.). I...

They were forced to add two new servers and split up the NA cluster though. All the servers had queues and a couple of them were over 3 hours. They couldn't add anymore servers to the original cluster, it was already maxed. Not a perfect solution but the best one available. And free transfers...

Success is having a very healthy bottom line in business. Popular is getting fawning reviews from the fans. Rift is very successful compared to most mmos. Successful enough to now be working on 3 more mmos (in various capacities) and a fps. Most players didn't go back to WoW after SWTOR though...

I had always planned to buy the expansion, but it came out right when F2P was really starting to take off in the mmo world. Tons of players were just too occupied with the F2P gaming options to bother getting our credit cards out for SL. The whole sub model died even before Storm Legion came...

EQ2's character artists sucked. The world and the mobs looked ok though. EQ1 has the same issue. I never understood why Sony uses the worst artists on the player character art. They also used that strange plastic looking rendering that turned everyone into glazed playdo in EQ2. I prefer a...

Yeah, that was my main issue with the game. Liked the rest, just found raiding tedious because of the incessant wipes due to some player having to answer a door, change a diaper, lag, or some such nonsense. That happened all the time in older games too, but we could usually cover for them.

Since it isn't cross platform it's basically separate games. PC players will play with Mac players but that's it. My only concern is if I have to buy the game twice to play it on PC and console. I'm fine with having to play alts.

Ok, so you don't have anything. Trion was able to obtain financing for Defiant and End of Nations because of Rift's success. They also have WarFace and will be publishing Arche Age in the west. None of this would have been possible if Rift was the failure you all claim. I'm not saying Rift is...

Cute. Seriously, which mmos are more successful (I'm talking real dollars here) than Rift? Obviously WoW, and you can throw GW2 and EvE in that mix. From what I understand Lineage 1 still makes a ton of cash for NCSoft so they might be but that's not for sure. I know of a couple others that...

It will be interesting to find out the facts of this. If the game doesn't actually look like that video when played on a PS4 then it's appeal drops off considerably.

Every game is going F2P. Even WoW will eventually if their numbers continue to decline (and they will according to Blizzard). F2P is a fact of life for all mmos. Trion was just being proactive and did it before it became absolutely necessary. And I suspect they did it to make more money. The...

Depends on what you consider popular. Compared to WoW it isn't, but that is true of every mmo. Take WoW out of the equation and Rift is one of the most successful and popular mmos. Been playing a lot the last couple of weeks, started new toons on a few servers (was lost on my level 50s) to...

Works for me. Just have to get another TV in the living room so I can raid and watch Game of Thrones at the same time.

Somebody at the NSA needs to leek this stuff.

Different games, different audiences. The Division looks amazing, Destiny looks ok, but both are shooters. There is some overlap in those who will play all those games, but isn't the same as having say TESO launch the same month as WildStar.

Amazing graphics. Felt like being there. Have to check this one out just to explore the city.