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I don"t like the growing amount of ratings. They"re not intuitive and they clutter the loot table. I think they ought to be using stats and sockets more often and reinforce the potential of stats with more benefits tied to them. I mean, why can"t strength be worth so much feral AP per point for...

This is important. Hardcore players experience everything to its most extreme degree. Every problem and every solution is more visible at the raid level. It"s a great teaching tool. For example the consumable reliance in WoW was something raiders felt intensely. Obviously its solution helped...

Kotick doesn"t matter and Smedley is a known entity. We wouldn"t discuss them because there is nothing to discuss. Curt is a vague entity. We don"t know. That gives every little fact that much more relevance since they stand so isolated. That, in addition to the fact that we don"t know jack...

I find the foundation of your refutation to be flawed. What exactly do Bobby Kotick and John Smedley have to do with good MMO design anyway? Bobby Kotick, formerly CEO of Activision and current President of Activision Blizzard, has zero MMO experience that I can find, and John Smedley"s design...

Hate and Fear are irrelevant to designing mass consumable raid experiences. They may be intense, worthy of irreplaceable memories, but they are not the correct difficulty for the unwashed masses. I"d say that Fear and Hate are only relevant in knowing what not to do. The point ought to be...

Tanking = Warriors in WoW. The pretenders are less intense.

I"ve been tanking now for 10 years, and I"m fucking tired of it. Designers refuse to make it fun and/or allow tanks to stack efficiently. It"s a cornerstone of grouping and raiding, and it consistently gets no love. For the amount of work you have to put into being a tank you just don"t get...

I was 3 boxing up alts in some Velious zone I can"t recall the name of, hunting the walrus, and this douchebag druid came along to tie up half of the spawn with his quad kiting. I moved since he was being a dick, I didn"t have the time to win my spot, and there was plenty of shit to kill, but I...

Yes. This. If you"re having someone test it why ignore them? We went through this during bloodlines etc. as well to find most issues weren"t fixed upon launch. That was such an awful period of the game.

I understand the existence of fandom for 38, but I can"t understand how rabid it is. Haven"t y"all learned this mistake by now? The jury is still out. I doubt we"ll even get any info this year.

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You"ve got a comma in your link.

Ugly chicks need to exist so you continue to realize just how hot yours are man. Furthermore you get to feel superior to the losers they"re with. It"s a win/win so long as you can avoid glancing upon their horrid flesh.

I can"t stand stupid bitches who whine about things like eating an M&M off the floor then go and french their dog. It"s refreshing to see you take such a hard line on that. I tend not to care, but I can"t take the hypocrisy. It"s one way or the other. Pets are nasty. You might as well lick...

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Yea, I play EVE for "free" too. I hadn"t considered the monogamous(sp?) subscription to be an issue. I would think so.

The ultimate in player housing would be allowing players to create a destination on par with any NPC town. Shadowbane achieves this, but then their NPC towns aren"t hard to compete with. I don"t care much for individual player housing. Let it be tiny. It"s probably just a vanity anyway. I...

MMORPG != holy trinity, but class-based interdependence does = holy trinity. EQ is not the genesis of the tank/heal/cc design. It"s been around in JRPGs and D&D for years. This design defines the sub-genre. If you"re going to use classes and you"re going to go for PvE, you"re going for...

This idea that the market for MMOs, even a genre within MMOs, is at capacity is ancient. Everyone making an MMO in the age of EverQuest heard the same shit. Turbine, Mythic, Wolfpack, CCP, etc. were likely reminded on a weekly basis just how few potential customers they had access to. This has...

Not AVERAGE things, but being an average joe doing slightly above average things is just fine. I"ve always held that perspective about my characters, that they are participants rather than features in the great drama. I"d love to have a high fantasy Sims with a little bit more 1on1 control...

Star Wars is a blockbuster movie and book franchise that has been all over the spectrum of success and failure in gaming. Star Trek has a similar story. IP Holders just don"t take the time to manage the quality of videogames in their verse. Less than 10% of movie -> videogame crossovers are even...

And... ..while we were discussing graphics engines. Nothing is set in stone.

Solid forums.

I tried to get interested in F13, but the frequentness of posts just isn"t high enough. Hell, their Green Monster Games thread saw no action for 9 months in 2007. I suppose they might be more sane than us, neglecting a subject in which you"ve received no new data, but fuck that.

Actually most players (casuals) don"t raid, so I doubt they consider what activities they DO pursue to be non-real content.

In WoW, it"s more likely for a non-twink/non-PL to bother me. I"d rather superdude come through and assrape the mobs and leave than sit there sharing with someone else at the same time. I like using the space myself and dislike being trained on, which can still happen occasionally in WoW. I"ve...

WoW has a lot in it for everyone. I think one of the more inclusive aspects of it is that beginner stuff is all very easy hand-holding type of content, while raids are difficult and challenging. There is everything inbetween as well, so people can find what suits them. In EverQuest there was...

They keep trying and keep failing. Rogueish behavior can be gimmicky, and rarely does anyone gets absolutely exclusive roles. This makes rogueish behavior something non-rogues do as well, like monks or bards.

Well either way you select the core aspect of your "class" in dev selected locations and then go out and kill baddies outside. If you want to change, you can, but not with the a single button in the bottom of a dungeon. Issue being with gear/ability/stance selection = class would be how to do...

EVE"s classes are vehicle based, but all skills are available to all players. I think its a great way to set it up. Alternatively you would have fantasy classes be gear and stance based so you can"t shoot 10k fireballs and quad swing for 400 a second at the same time. I"d rather have one...

Well I"ve been thinking Curt wanted the perfect world for his monk, so I"ve been counting on fantasy. Monks will be the only class that is required for all raids, and you"ll need 2 or more!

This is something I loved about EverQuest. Often enough you could get quest items and learn what they were for later on. If someone in my group was ignorant of a quest he could benefit from we educated him and he took the giant toes he"d looted and turned them in rather than vendoring them. It...

Haha! It"s great how you turned that around.

At least you"re helping to elevate the discussion.

My brother and I have both bitched about the issue of the quest-giver that sends you back to the same location over and over. It really helps to point out how shallow some tasks are and leads to all sorts of related criticism. If you have a quest to kill mob 1 at location A, then return to your...

I recall my high elf in EQ doing some strange stumble when I fell past the elevation I jumped from, but didn"t fall far enough to die. I thought it was a nice touch. This was going downhill so it might have only turned on then. I really don"t care about how natural animation is. I view...

I think my explanation dispelled any concern over ignorance. I"m perfectly willing to give you a more thorough review of his work, but this thread isn"t at all about his novels. I cut 2 paragraphs out of my damning post just to remain conversational. And I"m anonymous? My opinions and location...

I don"t consider a best seller list the definitive mark of quality, but marketability. McDonald"s sells millions of burgers a day, but the bar at the airfield in DeLand has the best burgers in the world, and I imagine they sell less than 10,000 a year. WoW is a great game, and anyone can easily...

Don"t you know they keep the fun on the internal test server, but eternally 2 weeks out of reach? The golden patch that will fix everything and rain starburst from the sky! See Hellgate for an example of this strategy of ultimate win.

I have relatively little respect for R.A. since I don"t care for his Drizzt novels. The original three are decent and then they just go nowhere. But solo work on a novel with invincible implausible characters and setting up a scenario or background for an MMO are very different. I doubt he can...