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I'm not buying because, 1) I'm in a "no MMO" phase 2) It's primarily a MMOFPS, and I'm not into FPS, MMO or not. For now, I'll stay witha small game that sold only 10 millions on PC.

Dig your own mines in the way you want them, minecraft-style, and let them get infested by mobs. The more non-linear, the higher the chance of a named boss. Win.

Except WoW, who has gone back to "very little PvP equipment, and we're capping your ilvl anyway".

Substitute WoW for EQ1/2, and that would be ok. But EQ? EQ2? So many people kept coming back, they had to go F2P... sure...

Yea. "This content is currently unavailable". You don't want to show it? Doesn't matter, there's always Pirate Bay (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones)

You forgot the 8 quintessences for molten core, I think

If you need access to some ilvl for entering 5.2 LFR; you might need to get some valor items from them. If you're good, then no. (unless you don't do LFR, but get valor from dailies/dungeons. In which case, it's your valor dump and you need some rep to spend it)

Since 5.3 doesn't have a raid, it can come "quickly".

A number of people had restarted on the Ubisoft-owned euro servers during late PoP. What emptied the servers was when SOE started to offer free transfer since the servers were perennially empty (which was ok - on Sebilis we had ONE raiding guild, period. No racing). A lot of europeans who...

Not too much problems with Stars. We had cordial relations with them (old Tide member here), at least up to when I left (late Luclin).

... a console controller can do it.

Given the speed at which one is levelling (even without heirloom), you should probably consider getting a normal account.

Isn't that what Battle.net already is?

Which, given the universe it's set in, looks a perfect fit.

The problem is the NGE syndrome. You might want to change completely how your game works. But doing so is almost guaranteed to drive away most of the people who were still playing. And will you get back enough players? That's a though question to ask of a company.

Yup.

Doesn't work. If every human you kill respawn as a monster, and you need to kill three humans to get back one human, you quickly end up with no humans left.

We did keep it at the top of list preivously without his help

I do remember that era. And yes, that was the intent originally. The only remnant of the "take over, build" is the rifts mob teams going to some various stones if no one is around, building some kind of rift summoning blob, and waiting to be eradicated.

Jboots had a double usage, notably as a throwable buff in at least one raid (can't remember which) where you'd get a periodic AOE dispell.

Note that you should always interpret those kind of quotes like a military evaluation. In a performance evaluation, if you're not noted as the most forceful officer since Patton and hailed as the best strategist since Napoleon, that means your superior officer think you shouldn't be promoted...

The funny bits is the parts that got dropped. Yea, no wonder they dropped finally the idea. Ok, where's my talent for this?

Oh but it would. The problem isn't that it wouldn't, it's that all the neckbearded around that clamor for that game want it also to be an AAA game, with lots of content and graphics at least better than Neverwinter. And that's where the problem lies. You can have your hard, deep game. Or your...

They're a subsidiary, not a studio. They are 100% owned by Activision Blizzard, but they are, financially, autonomous. In theory, at least. That means that Mike Morhaime theoretically sets the budget, and what remains in profit (i.e. lots) gets passed to the holding managed by Bobby K.

Overestimate, my ass I'd say. But the thing is, up until Cataclysm, they did 4 raiding tiers per expansion cycle. Vanilla: MC, BWL, AQ, Naxx BC: Karazhan/Gruul, SSC/TK, Hyjal/Temple, Sunwell LK: Naxx 2, Ulduar, Coliseum, Citadel LK is where they suddendly started to have problems...

Cataclysm. The expansion "tone" was supposed to be elemental, with the bosses of Air (Throne of 4 winds), Water (Abyssal Maw?), Fire (Firelands) and Earth (Neltharion aka Deathwing), thus 4 raid tiers like usual. Except they decided that 3 raid tiers were good anyway, and you didn't waste...

Ok, so no permadeath is planned. Or at least the designers didn't knew they did: https://twitter.com/Qixter/status/309445123001946112

Permadeath works "well" when none of the elements bound to your character is permanent. An example is Minecraft: there's a number of situations where death is complete. Fall into lava (or any situation where doing corpse recovery is impossible), you lose every single level of xp, and all of your...

Yes. And 3 months down, no one does it. So, by the same token, the devs should spend their time making... what exactly? Arguing that devs shouldn't do housing because "no one will care" (after a flurry of activity when the feature is introduced) is not a valid point because the raids and...

Nobody. But as long as you invest time (and thus, subs) to fill it, it does serve it's purpose as much as the LFR gear that no one cares about anyway either since it's going to be obsolete in 3 months.

There is another aspect we've not touched here, and it's the shape of the market. Subscription-based games are really, really hard to do today. Because they're not just competing with the handful of remaining sub-based games, but with the free-to-play. If you want a modernized EQ, that's the...

Isn't what we are discussing here opinions? Unless you have academic papers to point... Actually, no. I make distinction between features that matter for marketing and features that matter for a game. Features that matter for marketing lead to people trying your game. Features that matter for...

Zombie, man. Zombies.

Also, in GW2, when you're walking along city, you do overhear passerby commenting on various stuff (the weather, the market, etc). The problem is that, either it's some quest dialog, and you hear it exactly once, even though they spend hundred thousands of $ to record those, plus hours of...

Yea. And Skyrim is a huge MMO, right? "Full voice acting" is a feature of single-player RPGs. In a MMO, it's about the feature equivalent of "realistic graphics": something that's useful for the marketing, but should disappear from your mind once you play. Because, realistically, if you play...

That's the 'classic RPG, only with 100 people" mentality. You're the hero because in a single-player RPG, you are the hero. Just don't pay attention to the thousand heroes around you.

EQ's plat was pretty much the only market in 2001 when IGE started.

Don't tell me: the zone connects to a different zone every day?

The corrolary being that the amount of gear entering the game is unlimited. Which generates its own problems in cascade of solving one.

It does, if you have good enough loudspeakers pumping out near-subsonic bass.