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interesting. What about pirates?

I'm pretty sure it will be in the game. And certainly in for alpha. Edit: I thought brad stated they were going to use it for testing at a minimum.

Yes ocean is open pvp, as I understand. Oloh will correct me if I'm wrong. I'm sure So intercontinental ocean trading is subject to piracy. Not sure if intra-continental trading is the same.

There are reviews up - land sieges meh, ocean ship to ship good is the memo I read.

People scream for better AI all the time and go off on how they hate trinity combat. The trinity system was a compromise between player ability and coding an ai players could deal with while still being fun.

Oloh did say the pirates have faction issues with some necessary NPC's. But who really cares if you get to be a pirate.

I don't think most people get your or mkopecs points. -_-

Sometimes you just want to watch the world burn.

Apparently so, but the trade route changes in 1.0 made pirating more difficult or something - something about routes are shorter or wtf. Hard to decipher complaining about a game I haven't actually played ;-)

I was disappointed when I found out the dungeons would be instanced, I'm meh on rng crafting and non-pirate pvp but otherwise seems worth checking out and the ship combat looked pretty sweet imho. Surprised you are so down on it.

I don't think moba to mmo is a good comparison. Buying a champion is not equivalent to buying a mount or XP pot. This where Dumar and I agree, everything that has an actual in game effect should only be obtainable in game. I don't like pure cosmetics, but can live with them. Anything else is...

I'm the first to agree that strong ips can get money from cash shops, but with the exception of tor (which agree would likely have been shutdown) I'm not sure if I agree with the extended lifespan thesis. Lotr had core players that were around before and after the ftp transition. From the sub...

But that shit is not sustainable. The 15/month is. Sure Turbine printed money initially when lotr went ftp but now they're struggling. The idiots who want flames out of their horses ass have ADD and will be off to the next big thing as soon as it hits.

Who cares about Korean monetization. Here the ftp crowd is awful - full of entitled assholes that typify the give me now mentality that is cancer to mmorpgs. Loved reading the idiot on MMORPG who posted about how evil developers are to sell a 60.00 box plus one month subscription instead of...

I'm not convinced that any ftp model MMO can be the next big thing. At the end of the day they always devolve to p2w.

People want both. Sometimes you want to read a book, sometimes you want to be the one to write it.

just wondering about lith's comment. Can't think of any sandbox mmo after that.

Very possible.

When did the swg nge hit ?

Speaking as a non-pvper (I quite Emerald Dream when I was unable to complete my blasted lands quest chain because some goon rogue 4 levels above me sat and camped the area for two days and the horde/alliance imbalance suggested that that problem was only going to get worse) the problem isn't PvP...

Bleh, you can't ever be everything to everyone. Also dailies are always bad, no matter the reason. I guess we will see.

Yeah I can live with cosmetics, though I don't really like them. Also, @Hartsman, as someone else said, you should sell alpha access - all the cool people are doing it, and frankly I usually have more fun in betas than live these days.

This is a really good point - there are millions of people who played WoW who never heard of OT/DT combat, never tried a VG class, and don't know that there really is a better way to do tab targeted combat (besides abandoning it for "actiony" combat).

It seems like the 1.0 class changes addressed the stunlock issue you brought up - the AAS folks were fine with the class changes. But this reminds me of another issue I didn't mention, AAS also flipped out that as part of putting in dailies XL Games created a non-PvP area on the North...

You've (or rather XL Games) has already "WoWd" things up with dailies. The thing is, you can get the same effect of dailies without putting actual dailies into the game - that's why I mentioned ye old Bindings of the Windseeker (UR drop from MC in Vanilla WoW). Now take the 1.0 Changes -...

I don't know man. I think EQN will be successful but I'm not sure I'll ever play it - even though SB looks pretty cool. But one cool system on top of a lot of systems I don't like does not equal a game I want to play. The combat in particular is going to be a lot like DCUO except you'll get...

Barry doesn't respect us, no reason to respect him. Last I checked, he thought he was too good for us.

The employer mandate was adjusted to hit after the 2014 election to ensure that Democrats had a chance in the 2014 election. Had the mandate hit now, like it was supposed to, 80 million people would have lost their insurance. But that's an aside, there's nothing in the law that permitted KS...

If Trion wants to WoW it up, go with vanilla WoW. No dailies. Lots of uber rare drops from mobs including the bindings which took some guilds 9 months to get one complete set and a big raid dungeon with a final boss tuned to be unkillable for months.

I might try to grab an account and login this weekend - not thrilled on walls of Korean text but want to get an idea of gameplay. Interestingly, from the AA source thread it seemed people were equally annoyed at dailies and the changes to the "trading game" whatever that entails.

Yeah horrible for a sandbox/park. What happened to just grinding mobs for ultra rare crafting or running instances for ultra rare drops. Both aren't great but are better than dailies and generally people who mind doing one don't mind the other. Edit: not too mention raid dungeons and that...

Overview of 1.0 (1/14/14 Patch). From the reviewer: some good changes, most bad. Real Talk: 1.0 and the true of ArcheAge - Korean Retail Discussion - ArcheAge Source Overview of Dalies: part of the bad. Real Talk: 1.0 and the true of ArcheAge - Page 5 - Korean Retail Discussion -...

@Hartsman I also see that the latest Korean patch added dailies. I don't know anyone who likes dailies in MMOs. -_-

So according to a review on AA source there is one raid dungeon with 5 bosses but loot inferior to the highest crafting tier. Additionally, there aren't that many leveling dungeons and their loot is soulbound - not clear if this loot is inferior to crafted loot at the same level. @Oloh how...

Well dual spec classes, achievements and anti-camping aren't really what I want but I did pledge a bit. However, I've lost confidence in.Brad's ability to execute because of how the KS was run, and continues to be run. I really don't think Brad has accepted that he is a smart design guy but...

@Hartman if you're still reading is the cbt4 crafting or the current rng crafting planned for the NA version? @Kedwyn it's just so annoying I can't believe the entire industry moved to the ftp model. I'll rage quit if a bronze locked chest drops that requires a store bought key to open.

FTP is just a horrible way to monetize an MMO,a moba? Sure but in an MMO it just leafs to pay to win bs. I'm disappointed as I'd be willing to give this game a shot but not if I have to deal with a giant golden cash shop button.

Hartsman confirmed cash shop in MMORPG interview. I'd suggest he consider at least one server that is sub only. But again. I'm not the target audience.

Factional PvP is lame but PiratevWorld is interesting.

ArcheAge ahoy, I guess. Doesn't seem very eq/vg ish