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Conservative spotted PS Gecko, does "the three amigos" and "uno" ring a bell to you?

Ngruk, if you are a betting man, we can argue about which of the Kennedy "heirs" gets Teddy"s seat. That seat is pretty much the Kennedy seat, nobody else will go there. I hate political dynasties, but that"s the reality of the thing. I have no clue about your political views beyond the...

Curt is republican (or at least supported McCain). There is zero chance that a senator will go to a republican in mass, maybe governor, not senator.

Offline character development was done by Eve already. It has its pros and cons, the cons are that if you do not start right away, you are fucked. The atlernative of course is to have a "gated" advancement with a heavily logarithmic curve, but that still doesn"t do much. A trillian plug in to...

Cylus, while I agree that in general the 1% on boards (or even less than 1%) is not a minority worth directly catering too, spreading word of mouth rumours about an upcoming game is some of the cheapest marketing you can get. I imagine almost all of us try games because friends we trust...

aren"t you denying yourself a lot of free "hype" that way?

Dude, there are simple reasons why various execs/designers don"t post here and they have nothing to do with what you said. Be more intellectually honest. Furor does not post here because when he did last the official forums erupted complaining that he posted on his own guild"s forums but not...

Dude, by any reasonable metric, "I have been around the industry" seems to imply a higher degree of participation than merely playing the video games. You know, because if you replaced "I have been around the industry" with "I have played MMOs for x many years" suddenly you lose any pretense of...

that still does not make you in the industry dude sorry if this needs to be pointed out to you. before you go all balistic on me and point out that tigole and furor had no design experience either let me quote Bentsen: "Utnayan, you are no Tigole or Furor" In the end we all agree that so...

"I have been in the industry for over 10 years" doesn"t mean "I have played MMOs for over 10 years" because by that metric everyone here is a MMO industry veteran.

Not that i"d ever use a service like azeroth advisor, but even if curt used it to track what people enjoy, how can you complain about that? My only concern is that the type of person that is likely to use such a service is most likely excessively casual, so you will get a skewed perspective...

this is how everyone should take developer discussions

jesus christ i read this post while listening to this: YouTube - Eminem - Stan: MTV Long Version

Ut, you really have some skewed perspective there. Do you really think people need you to tell them that Ngruk is posting here for PR? It is obvious he is here because he wants to communicate with a plausible audience for his game - I doubt he is making an MMO just for the money, since...

I predict that a lot of the people who are casually looking to Aionn are going to be very disappointed once they hit exp curve takes them off guard with how steep it becomes Addendum: Newerth and Quakelive are enough to fill my non-MMO cravings when they hit

Uhhhhh You REALLY want to let players do that? And them "xxxCrackaKillaxxx69" saved the princess, and they lived forever happily ever after, until he found out she was a dude and had a penis. why do you hate freedom?

I think this is a disagreement about semantics, not about content. I don"t think it is unique to MMO"s, but I think single player RPGs give players a lot more opportunity to shape their world, especially if it is in a world without a strong pre-written IP. How many people went around every...

See, the problem is, you cannot have 20000 people all feeling like they are the heroes of the world. They can feel as though they are playing along a path, and playing an important role, but you can never have a PC raze an important city so that no other PC can ever head there the way you can in...

I meant it in the most colloquial sense imaginable I would be a happy panda with just a WoW clone with 1000 more instances and balanced PvP! I don"t think you are allowed to draw an equivalency between a single player MMO where you do get to fingerbang the princess and WoW, where at most you...

Mmm, this is an entirely different topic, but I have a feeling that MMO"s are a terrible vehicle to "tell a story" because an MMO world is by definition vastly unchanging, or changing very slowly. In Baldur"s gate you saw the world change as a result of your actions, in WoW they tried doing...

Drizzt weapons also sucked in that game given how ridiculous some items were. I also want to emphasize how all the talk you hear about corporate culture, design philosophy etc is just that, talk. I have absolutely no reason to suppose they are lying, and more than anything,they owe me...

I think the whole IP thing is extremely over-rated, and what you dubbed the fundamentals are what drives the entire enterprise. Take the D&D IP. The IP is as good as it gets, but within that IP, you have some spectacular games (Baldur"s Gate, Planescape: Torment, possibly the greatest game...

Not trying to be overly critical or anything, but that just seems a lot of marketing talk for... absolutely nothing? I mean I don"t really disagree with anything that you said but this seems to be basic insight that anyone who has played MMORPGs for a significant amount of time already has...

Stonetalon is an amazingly beatiful zone with very little content in it, which is a huge pity, although I cannot really think of any Blizzard zones that are not graphical masterworks. Blizzard artists are amazing.

This is only my word as a MMO poster, but I would never try any MMO where Koster had a role, because his ideas about what make a game fun are completely the opposite of mine. I just wanted to offer a contrary opinion.

during closed friends and family beta/alpha, the leaks will be very small. During closed beta, you will 100% have leaks, and there is nothing at all you can do about it, I am sure you don"t have any delusions about this point.

Actually Zehn, I wonder if there is a way to "filter out" the retards. In the past, they had beta-boards that were available more or less to people who didn"t prove to be retarded and shined during raid-beta testing, but not sure how viable that set up is.

But why is someone a better player than a developer? A small part of it might be reflexes/technical gaming skill, but starcraft back in beta (god that was ages ago) wasn"t a particularly fast paced game, and something like wow is most absolutely not fast paced. If a player can beat a...

I am sorry, but while it might be nice to think this, this is probably incorrect. During the StarCraft beta, several players were much better and knew a lot more about StarCraft than developers. Blacklizard was the first player who famously used to crush blizzard developers at their own game...

Of the whole vanguard melt-down saga I think the most tragic episode is when Nino got flamed to fuck by people in beta for asking them to stop flaming everyone who joined the public boards and suggested that warcraft wasn"t shit. If you posted that wow was good or had some good features you"d...

Vanguard... beta... boards

Zehn, I agree with you completely when it comes to levelling content, my beef is that I doubt you can create enough content at the level cap if you keep making soloable content. If WoW had a nearly infinite progression of levelling zones without a cap, it would be a lot more fun than raiding...

The flipside Ngruk is that developing a shitload of content that is for 1 person only is incredibly expensive and time consuming unless you make an insanely harsh levelling curve. I remember talking to a few ex-everquest developers who were working on vanguard right when wow came out and they...

A few features that help multiboxers are fine, but they have been discussed to death, and most of them are very welcome from non-multiboxers: - A very very smooth ability to alt-tab - A useful and fairly strong macro language ala wow post 2.0 (otherwise I will just use innerspace or a DX...

For EverQuest, 40% of multiboxers sounds high but not unreasonable. Back when I played almost every single person in a high end guild had a cleric bot.

I"d love to have a nonstop succession of levelling content with lore that kept evolving but yeah, that"s not going to happen. It takes Blizzard 2 years to create the levelling/pre-raid game of WOTLK, and you can probably consume that in 2 months playing incredibly casually (I mean see...

People here have absolutely no clue about design. Do you really think you can create enough content so that people always feel they are "levelling up"? The ratio of time spent at the level cap versus levelling up is completely out of wack if you consider the amount of time creating content...

This was like well after Kunark. To give an idea of how amazing Ice Comet was, Sunstrike, which was the top Kunark spell, used to hit for 1600, and that was considered amazing, and that"s a 1/3 upgrade.

They revamped almost all spells - icecomet used to hit for 1200+.

They are a rare breed though - although afaik the guy who designed OS never played, and OS was one of the best dungeons ever made.