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Abefroman
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As soon as they started entertaining ninjas as a class and the morons over on Reddit ate it up I began wishing for it to fail.
It's not the EQ I want.
It's not the EQ I want.
RobXIII
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That sums up current Rift pretty well. I did have some fun with PvP back in the day, there were rivalries, some open world PvP, but such a high % of their playerbase played rogues, that new rogue souls were often blatantly OP, and they removed the only stealth detection ability in the game. PvP was also gutted more and more each 'expansion', with the last straw making raiding pretty much mandatory to be on top of your PvP game.
Back on topic, I hope EQNext succeeds for what it's trying to accomplish. I like the achievement tie in, it was one of the few things I liked in LOTRO: small stat bonuses for exploring, and completing challenges.
popsicledeath
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Next time you make such a huge jump from EQN to "good game," please let it be off a cliff.
The faster this fails the sooner we can hopefully get to a new generation of game designers.
Abefroman
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It really has nothing to do with Eq AT ALL. They easily could have created a new IP for it, which they pretty much are by redoing every fucking thing. They decided to create a quick buzz on the name and get a bunch of attention and it has backfired in a lot of ways.
Exactly. We wanted an old school MMO just like EQ, not World of Minecraft.
Big_w_powah
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I dont have high hopes, but actively hoping for this to fail is spiteful stupidity.
We NEED something to prove that you can be successful breaking the WoW mold, and we need it soon. If we don't get it we're doomed to watch the MMO-space wither into nothingness.
We NEED something to prove that you can be successful breaking the WoW mold, and we need it soon. If we don't get it we're doomed to watch the MMO-space wither into nothingness.
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Why would I want a game concept I like even less than WoW to succeed? So I can live through years of clones of this shit pile? No thanks.
Big_w_powah
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Because its my personal belief that EQNext being moderately successful (the best it can hope for, imho) won't spawn a million clone. It will allow developers to stretch their creative wings and we'll see some very unique and different designs come out.
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People wanting it to fail are too emotionally invested in the genre. EQN won't prove a point either way. The MMO landscape is at the point that developers and publishers don't know what to do or what the next big thing is so they're just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. Destructible worlds are in, chasing the dream of having constantly evolving worlds is in and UGC is sort of the backbone to all that. Nothing has proven that as a good concept but the industry is sort of like those fish that all dash and dodge in one fluid motion as they each get ripped to shreds slowly.