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Eh. SWTOR isn't really a WoW clone, unless the combat has changed from what I remember and it's not really successful given that it's a major IP and IIRC EA/Bioware had lots of layoffs because it didn't meet expectations. But perhaps I'm misremembering - it isn't a game I followed past Beta.

Successful Wow Clones: 0 Tell me again how the MMO market would do better by imitating WoW?

1. Games need to be a little bit "fuck you" instead of "pull the free slot machine" to be, you know, interesting, challenging and have long-lasting appeal. 2. Quest grinding is worse than mob grinding unless you really, really like 400 collect 10 bear asses quests. 3. @Zzeris take a...

Count Counterpoint: the second iteration was scrapped because Smed, Butler & Co., wanted to ride the Minecraft train, not because people said it wasn't working.

#TimeIsAFlatCircle EQNextGenerationRedux First get the basic elements of an MMORPG right: (1) Zoned (EQ), Semi-Zoned (WoW-Vanilla) or Seemless World (Vanguard). Where in all cases you have travel times between areas, not a lobby as Malakriss states. I'm fine with Zoned/Semi-Zoned. I...

No conservatives point to Climategate emails showing climatologists attempting to use the innovative research methodology of "ganging up to shut up people who disagree with us" and at the NOAA's innovate research methodology of "altering historical weather data to better match our shitty models"...

I would have replaced Grim's comment with: "There is something to be said for getting a product out your playerbase has been asking for instead of shitcanning two different visions over five years and restarting in late 2012, even if it means that product doesn't have all the latest whiz-bang...

Just a riff on "How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man" and etc. But I think we can all agree: there should be a folk song about giant dongs. Anyway, I think you can summarize your post above with the following: Gentlemen, I present to you EQNext, the MMO...

But the thing is - and the giant elephant in the room seems to be - it's not a very good toolset for building an MMO. I have a friend who has become quite proficient with Landmark and AFAIKT pretty much everything he has done could have been built faster and better using traditional 3D modeling...

What else did you think was going to get built everywhere in a Minecrafty MMO?

EQNext is a fundamental misunderstanding of their MMORPG playerbase. In terms of tech improvements, MMO players just wanted more dynamic mobs, perhaps a bit better interactivity with the environment then current MMOs allow (say the ability for a rogue to climb a wall to break into a castle) and...

As I said, there's a theoretical fix for ensuring new players are always directed to worlds that are alive at the low level. But, yes, since it is theoretical it's pointless for me to argue for it since unless or until it is put into practice I can't assert it will work. -_- So in addition...

Nah, it's just time for someone to make an EQ I/Vanilla WoW like MMO that tries to avoid all the stupid mistakes those MMOs made while adding something new (like semi-dynamic mobs). If your main concern over levels are empty low level zones then for the record there is a an interesting fix...

Yes, levels are a good idea for an MMORPG. 1. Feeling advancement. Better and clearer with levels. 2. Designing appropriate content for your players. Significantly easier with levels. 2b. Designing new expansions. Significantly easier with levels. 3. Knowing your place in the world...

It was so awesome for the genre that even today people spend hours talking about how much they love those two seminal FTP games EQ and WoW. -_-

Has Smedley said his bit about how terrible it is that he had to let all the awesome people go. Smedley CEO: Buy drinks for people who got fired because he ran the Company aground. Good CEO: Run the Company well, so people don't have to get fired and can buy their own drinks.

With minor modifications the analogy still works. I'm sorry buddy, but Le Petit Prince spoiled roses, girls and MMOs for me.

And Mr. John Smedley shows again exactly how he ran SOE into the ground: by being really, really unprofessional.

I don't listen to Hip-Hop.

LOTRO was good for couple of months until quest burnout, Vanguard was decent albeit if, and only if, you could put up with bugs, which I could. And I thoroughly enjoyed my first month of DCUO. And while I didn't care for Rift, many people did. <- all before FTP became the rage, and all...

Chicken meet Egg.

F2P killed the genre.

I'm sure it'll be golden. And before I get the "You wouldn't have done any better than Smed comment" from some jackass; with respect to EQNext (if nothing else), let me preemptively reply that, yes, I would have done better than Smed, as would a couple of others on this forum or on fohguild...

Ut blames everything on not-Smed, however the reality is SOE and EQ's demise rests solely with Smed for some of the reasons above. I really don't get why Ut likes to make excuses for him. As to the industry as a whole, an indie studio with kickstarter funding is not going to make the next great...

I've been busy. Those six-packs of Lone Star couldn't drink themselves. #caring

If that is the case, then that is because Smed didn't want to hear bad news.

By all accounts Smed has had a small coterie of folks he liked and that's who got promoted so you get idiots like Thom Terrazas as EQ Producer. #NotWinning

You're defending the guy who ran his company from #1 in market into an also ran? That's not how running a company well works.

So yes, you still have a soft spot for him since he would email you directly. The dude is incompetent.

Racist, ageist bullshit belongs in General. Protip: The Stupid, she knows no age or race.

It's basically what Smed did with EQ2: which he called his biggest regret (IIRC). 1. Develop new 3d engine 2. Slap on EQ name but change most things. 3. ???? 4. Profit (not so much).

We can only hope.

Last I checked, Smed was still running the organization. You still have a soft spot for him Ut?

I used to agree with the drug analogy (and probably used exactly your formulation). However, having spent more time on my peak in the Himalayas gazing at my navel, I now recognize it is flawed. The proper analogy is that of moving from one girlfriend to the next and then to the next. You...

Far, far, far too ambitious. All they needed to do was WoW+ or EQ++. EQ (or WoW) with better graphics and with the dynamic Mob AI to get rid of purely static spawns. Idiots.

I notice that nowhere in that list is "Fun".

AFAIK, the majority of the people playing EQL don't care about EQN. No hardcore (current of former) EQ player I know lasted very long playing EQL. Completely different playerbase: people who want Minecraft+ vs. people who want a new MMO. Anyway, don't forget the 2 Billion bucks Microsoft...

2 1/2.

EQL has far more cross-platform potential than EQN ever could.