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There is not an infinite supply of MMO players.

Because people stop buying the old and busted.

Yet all their games suck - I'm curious where they'll be in a few years. I expect a huge shakeout in the industry, and soon.

People will pay for entertainment. Make the game free to check out and level to 20 or 30 and leave it at that. If it's good, and you spend a little bit on marketing people will pay. WoW didn't make its billions being a FTP game. FTP is what's killing MMOs.

Not until you untrojan your computer

Since we're on the subject. I'm not convinced FTP is a long-term solution to anything. I think its working okay now, but ultimately you have to mudflate items in the cash shops and make the game PTW which leads to players leaving. I know Smed & co. saw population and cash spikes when...

Just proves there are a lot of sheep in the US.

Speaking of cashs shops, that's something I'd pay for - the ability to toggle off other player's terrible taste in clothes and/or pets/mounts.

You are missing pay-to-open race/class restrictions. Already mentioned shared bank slots (distinct from bank slots in the EQ universe). I'm still against P2W. I'm fine with P2P. Release a FTP game where if you're not a gold $15/mth memeber you have to pay to unlock raid content in addtion...

And people like you are why we can't have nice things. Your tax money, and my tax money goes to the government where our elected representatives appropriate that money to building a highway. The internet was 99% funded by private enterprise, sure DARPA did some initial funding but that's...

Not old. Reposted from earlier in thread. I thought everyone had already compared these to the old videos and noted the similiarities.

Cosmetic items: mounts (replacement for same-speed mount in game), cosmetic gear, pets (non-combat), housing items. Shared bank slots. Additional bag slots. Additonal character slots per account. XP Pots - after first 3 years or so and the pop curve is at the high-end. If EQN is...

Prepare to cry. There will be achievements galore in EQN.

So you agree XP Pots are PTW. Yes, I surely am serious. Also ignoring the eyesores, the other issue is development resources. Which is more vital? Devoloping an appearance system or developing a crafting system? Given that Georgeson & Smed will promise 200+ things for EQN of which only...

This was the smart move. It's a game. Part of the game is leveling. So yes, on the "it's not rocket surgery, no one is going to die or explode" level it's all fucking pointless anyway compared to dying children in Africa and planes exploding in SFO and we all know in ten years we'll all...

Beyond the aesthetics, there's something to be said about knowing what the other guy is wearing/using.

You and a_skeleton_03 really need to work on reading comprehnsion. Chaos OTOH got the sarcasm. @Chaos it's well established that the the director is a lying SOB so come up with another cite.

pot, kettle, etc.

Only one missing now. Really remarkable.

Which is why I wouldn't oppose them two to three years after EQN is released. Just not at release.

I never said I thought he was undected. I was merely pointing out the inconsistencies in a_skeleton_03's and Chaos' commentary on the guy and Iannis thinking he could come up with a better plan. I think he's a moderately smart guy who's in over his head and saw the shit that was going on and...

I don't know. Abe's sorta right, there are people out there who will use any advantage to blaze through a game and then bitch when they're at endgame and there isn't enough to do.

So he's a mouth breathing moron, yet he was able to undetectably hack into the NSA despite (as chaos tells us) Sysadmins having only restricted access? Makes perfect sense.

Apples and Jackhammer comparisons. In an MMO the fundamental equation is: time invested x risk = reward. XP Potions fuck up the equation. I may put in 8 hours on a Saturday but I never put in 8 hours on a M-Fri. If somone is putting in 8 hours M-Sunday then they deserve everything they get...

Okay I'll bite. What would have been your plan?

Really low number of casualties. Pretty amazin actually considering the damage.

I don't even know where to begin. -1

In an MMORPG someone using XP pots to level can easily gain multipe additional advantages - I'll give you one example. Assume a robust crafting environment, the speed-leveler will be first to get uncontested rare resources. Replace crafting with adventuring, and rare resources with rare loot...

Given the fact that in both WoW and EQ there was a lot of hype about first to 50/60 I'd have to say you're factually wrong.

Only for raiders. I always preferred grouping and slow-leveling through interesting dungeons to raiding at endgame.

Bad move. Last time I checked government employees who weren't authorized to read the freely-available documents weren't supposed to read the documents. Better hope the NSA doesn't datamine and find this and you out.

Once EQN is released I expect Itzena to be the Head FanBoy for it on these boards.

Problem is Grim is comparing a long-running game (EQ) with a new game (EQN). There is a case to be made for purchaseable XP pots in a long-running game where the majority of the playerbase is at cap and which is designed for multiplayer. There is no case to be made for XP pots in a new game...

Whatever dude. Go join chaos with the "Snowden" must be a super-spy bullshit. Sysadmins have a great deal of access. Snowden was a sysadmin. That is beginning and end of the story. Anything else from you guys is FUD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...urity_breaches

Everything you've said or suggested about Snowden has ben bullshit. Including this. You're part of the cover-up team. I'm sure there's a memo out there in Chaos-NSA land "sow FUD". Good job buddy.

All FTP models are terrible. Anything you can use should be available and accessible only via in-game actions (drops, quest rewards, crafted loot or in-game events) - including cosmetics. I'm hoping for servers that are P2P only without even a cosmetic shop. Yes, I know - unlikely.

Chaos' comment sounds like an NSA shill trying to obfuscate the issues, demonize Snowden and cover-up the blatant illegality of the shit the NSA (and others) have been doing.

Last thoughts before I gotta go do some actual work. 1. You can't design for the entire addressable gaming population. People want different stuff and sometimes, many times the various wanted stuffs are incompatibile. 2. Content is hard to create, so anything that makes content easy to...

We'll see next 10-Q.