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@Lightning Lord Rule shouldn't the house hold the pot for all bets?

I would be more amused if it had Alleria too, and they argued or lezzed out all the time.

Health is a long term thing. When, not if, it catches up to you, you'll understand why people tried to warn you. Good luck.

Got the new xpac to try out warlock. New pet class? Shut up and take my money.

I mean, aren't they all McFeces?

They won't be putting out content like EQ or WOW ever did at any point in their existence. Instancing is one of the few ways they would be able to extend the reach and utility of what little content they can squeak out. But that would require thinking about the game as a product for actual...

If there are better ways to get rid of soft pvp and allow everyone to take part in the game, I would love to see them. Adding instances doesn't regulate anything other than making the content accessible. You can make a grindy as fuck game while having instances. FFXIV top tier raiding is like...

Original GOTG was a team based on the planets in the solar system. I was a kid who loved scifi and comics, so target audience.

Makes sense, but also makes you a very obvious target for copyright infringement if you don't get a license. Art assets are the easiest thing to prove infringement on. Pixels don't lie.

The vast majority of players are carebears. Always been that way. That's why you have to keep that in mind when designing any MMO. If you don't, they aren't going to stay and pay. If there were enough PVP players to support a game, then there would be MMOs that succeeded that way. EVE is the...

Yup. And instancing is how you end that degenerate behavior on PVE servers as well. You can never give players the power to hurt another player's game. It will be misused and abused every single time.

Yes.

Lifeboats?!? Where we're going we won't *need* lifeboats!

I don't pug, but outside of trade chat or pok/baz channels were mostly silent even in POP. EQ communication channels require you to be logged in, and are temporary. Discord lasts, and you can talk when not playing. It's just superior. I do talk to guildies in games when they are on, but beyond...

I disagree. The EQ guilds I am in, and the Pantheon guilds, all use Discord to keep in touch rather than using in game channels. The only active guild I am in for WOW is the FOH board guild, so, yeah.

Interaction died because discord and other superior ways to keep in touch with people that weren't limited to a specific game came about. That left only negative interactions like spawn camping, training, and other soft pvp trash that people do not want. If you can find a better fix than...

Instances are not a 'make successful' line item, but not having them is an absolute 'make unsuccessful' line item. One of the only reasons EQ is still around is because they added instances into the game. Instances serve to get rid of spawn camping, which is the underlying issue that kills...

He is an ancient arch lich. His phylactery is hidden in the rectum of his son, and is protected by a shield of invincibility that is powered by the life force of men.

In the real world whether it sells well determines its longevity. I'm not going to put time and effort into something that is going to get shut down in just a couple years or a couple months. And lack of instancing guarantees a game is going to be shit. Having 1-2 guilds monopolizing everything...

If it has hot Gina Carrano in fighting fit shape in it I will resub to d+.

Buy IBM in the 50s. M$FT in the 70s. Apple in the 90s. Bitcoin in the 00s. If you start earlier than that, tell the Austrian artist to keep Japan away from Hawaii.

I have no opinion on whether it's a good game or not. It could be absolute baller, but if they are going to repeat well known game killing core design mistakes, it will fail just like the rest. Some of those were pretty awesome too. Instancing is one of the few must haves for any MMO. That's not...

I would have pegged you for the Samantha poster on the wall to the left.

Pisciphiles of the world, unite!

It will definitely kill off EA pretty quickly. A few dozen poopsockers might hang around that long, but it's going to be just like Pantheon at this point, so 2-3 months in and then there won't be any need to worry about instances anymore.

The OG Hawk Tuah.

Instancing is currently the only known method to prevent this from happening. Unless you 100% randomize spawns and/or loot high level guilds will dominate every last camp just to prevent people from coming up behind them. That happened in EQ, and in every single MMO since then that hasn't...

This actually is gonna rock, so I can see Disney and Sony dragging him in with some large paychecks.

Instancing is currently the most feasible way to prevent soft PVP ie spawn camping. It is a core element of how the end game functions, or won't in this case. Forcing people to compete for camps and rare spawns will absolutely tank your game. So what are they planning to do to prevent this?

Yes, and they are busy getting their shit pushed in because they fucked around with someone else's IP without getting a license. A lot of these projects could become actual games of their own if they stopped trying to make EQ + XYZ. Some could actually compete with EQ or DDO or LOTRO etc in...

It's only weird because you know how it will play out, but wish it wouldn't. Their absolute refusal to instance anything means they are DOA. Fix that one thing and the rest would be manageable. People aren't going to waste time in a game that revolves around competing for camps. End game is the...

I'd rather be celibate.

No. You can't. People will build tools to manually make the db if your system doesn't let them see it. That's how it always has been, and how it always will be. Plan accordingly.

Yeah, that would definitely not be OK. People really need to stop trying to fix EQ without getting a license from DBG first. And if they can't get a license, put that tech knowhow into something new instead.

Roberta Williams.

SMS and Sega Genesis were absolute bangers.