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I think they tried too hard to please too many especially WoW players. Rifts never did anything they really promised from beta or onward. It was just a generic public quest system. Leveling was the same WoW type leveling except more generic. Same with PvP. The classes were watered down...

I thought the FTP set up would send these people to another thread alone. Isn't that the bane of society already?

That's the main point. Content we can make for ourselves. It doesn't have to fit what everyone likes especially here. I can play some old school but I also like the thought of getting my creative juices flowing and this game looks to be one way to do that. It's going to be interesting and that's...

John Romero still wishes he owned his.

This is the most important point. A similar version should try to find improvements somewhere. Lords of Everquest was a functional game but was it truly better than Warcraft 3? Or was it an ok copy? This looks more like a Cubeworld, Minecraft knockoff than a truly innovative title. At least SOE...

Will buy the Explorers pack myself after Christmas gift buying is over. Just don't see enough benefit from the extra $40 for me.

Popsicle is the only reason to visit this thread right now. We could talk about the same old tired shit or just watch Popsicle ridicule the ignorant. At this point in 'development', Popsicle is giving me reason to check this thread.

Game looks incredibly cool and I have no problem paying for early access for this kind of game. Unlike EQN and other MMOs, you really already have a pretty solid idea of what to expect and if you will get your money's worth out of this. I could see a lot more resistance for an early alpha of...

Not only that but people were paying every month for very little improvement. It was fun to see SOE care so much to have just two devs so why would I keep paying if they don't give a shit? When they went FTP but neutered the options so badly that no new players would even try it. This was a...

I think it's way too early to know exactly how good the reboot will be. EQ has almost 15 years of lore and some of it is BAD. Reboots use some of the same lore or it would be called new franchise. Just like Star Trek didn't change everyone's names, names of planets, etc., EQ doesn't have to...

Blackwulf, I hope that 'Happy Ending' you promised them was as unsatisfying as the interview they gave you.

Well, after I get my rep up to exalted with the Collectico Collective, I'll get 60% black hoverboards! Yeah!!!

Popsicle, I agree about Rift. So much potential if they didn't go the easy route and screw it all up. The classes were very fun early, the rifts were fantastic during the beta, and it was a nice looking game that ran very, very well. I hated the quest hubs and was always hoping they would...

Not only this but a lot of EQ neckbeards thought WoW 1.0 was a really good game(which it was). They will try this out like every other game and if it's close to WoW 1.0, it will get at least 6 months from them(more likely it will get the monthly investment and a lot of the whining like WoW does...

Original movies still have sources and a fan base that expects certain standards. How smart was it to make a movie about a really old SF series, spruce up the visuals while making the story suck? Is that a good montage for that author? Will it bring in new fans? Hell no. Why bring back a very...

Exactly but having a larger pool of resources will hopefully fix it or make solid workarounds easy. The tech is still early and SOE might be willing to pour in some significant resources if they feel this market is worth the effort.

I'm all about that kind of progression. Talk about a tired and overused system. Make real achievements the measure of how far you've gotten. Not a couple numbers above your head after your met the completely rote number of exp needed.

It is ridiculous but it's not like they are working with the same old technology is it? They should get this worked out but a lot of water based gameplay sucks anyways. I have no problem with it being limited early in a game. Give me water but I don't mind if all I get to do is mostly cross the...

If we are putting top 5 wants; 1) World building- I'm not playing these games to get my quick gaming fix. I want a world I can get involved with, escape to, etc 2) Difficulty- I don't want to be consistently beating stuff. I don't want my groups to always succeed. I don't want mindless wins...

And that is probably what doesn't burn him out. Martin and Jordan aren't(weren't) as prolific and yet we have(had) to wait ages between books anyway. Why not get your fix more often but with different scenery? I think a couple of his series will peter out in the next 5 years. I'm all for...

If that's the case, M. Night will have to be involved. The twist will be incredibly hard to guess, but it involves kickstarter money and a lot of blow...

Popsicle, While I liked your posts on the old forums, this one is pretty meh in the most positive light possible. First, if I would compare MMOs to anything car related, I would not go with manual vs stick. One quite viable reason for this is that sticks never went away. No one said, damn...

Damn, you lucky old fucks! Too young for New Hope and dad didn't let me see either Empire or Return because it wasn't his kind of movies. Did get to watch Wrath of Khan but it just doesn't compare.

I think it's pretty funny to hear all the bitching about crappy round table discussions. None of them have been any good but people keep jumping on just to find anything to bitch about. Pretty broken record at this point. At least they are bringing in different shit. EQ had difficulty but...

This is why we can't have nice things. Flex, give poor Jeffy back his combat doc. He'll need that in the next year or so.

Lol! Now that is some of the shit I miss in my MMOs.

Good point. I guess his wife loves revenge fucks.

I don't agree with many modern implementations of MMOs but I do understand why they are done. 15 starting cities spreads out the population especially if travel starts slow. People want that cool class and to be able to play with their friends within a few minutes. Is this the right way? No, but...

Just starting back on GW2. Haven't played anything since I quit it after 6 weeks the first time. Just nothing has jumped out and the single player games have been much more interesting.

Yeah, just go to the TESO thread if you want to see truly painful videos of absolutely nothing.

I'm definitely not a fan of those videos. Reminds me of 'this is what your brain would look like on drugs' commercials in a way. Maybe this is, "Look what you have to do when you waste your retirement early folks", or something like that. Has nothing to do with the quality of the game but that...

A couple weeks is a long time for the kiddies.

The roundtable polls are stupid to begin with. There is no way that the people who vote are a varied sample of the possible population of EQN. So they either follow the votes of a sample that is skewed or they look like they aren't listening to the very people they are claiming help make...

I like holiday events disguised as lore relevant holidays. I knew WoW did too much when they started Boxer Day events though. WTF with the banking holidays guys?

Focus groups are just small sample groups anyways. Any small statistical sample is going to have poor accuracy. Why not make a game you think is fun, waste the money on testing instead of armchair dev feedback, and allocate resources more effectively? The answer is publisher pressure, poor...

DayZ is hopefully encouraging some devs to go out and be creative again with the difficulty. It is lacking and people do enjoy difficult games. I like your ideas and I've seen many developers try it on a very, very mild scale. Many of them love the intro that includes 'hordes'(15-20) of...

Agree 100%. Let's not forget the coaches shall we?

Column, Exactly right on the nerfs to necros. It was a massive PITA to raid and compete for the one slot needed. Horrible attempt at fixing something even though we all know SOE didn't change anything the first few years... I don't agree about the equality being an issue. Who cares, except...

Nope, not at all. He mentioned solo vs dungeon play. Since a massive amount of endgame is variants of dungeon play, people do better with previous dungeon gear in the endgame, and he never mentioned non endgame in his little rant, it was to be expected that he wanted Necros nerfed so that his...

Honestly, that's just stupid. So, just because a class can solo well, they then get shit on in the more important aspect of endgame? Work something else out as in added utility, possible off tanking, etc but don't shit on the class because of your small penis. If we nerfed every game because a...