You fucking idiot. I have posted more relevant stuff to EQ Next then you have. You'll rape me in any game or fps? LOL, what are you fucking twelve?
I think you can do more with dynamic and personalized loot tables, randomized loot tables, random boss spawns, random event spawns inside a zone so you don't have to worry about killing just one boss or having to spend development time on making a really good currency tab to keep track of all your zone tokens.
You mean the part of WOTLK where you could farm points for BIS gear and there were multiple difficulty levels on content?
Not to defend WOW, but you're not fully geared until you are BiS which is Heroic Raids. You will definitely need help doing that.
I didn't say it was perfect. I just said it was at it's peak. I don't play WOW anymore so I have no idea what the current iteration is. But it's not good when there are four different tiers of difficulty for one raid. It's just too saturated.
It's not dumb, it's the future. Only a very small subset of the people who play this genre still want to do the organized raiding bit. The rest of us want to do / see all the shit we pay for every month but don't care that our plus gooder isn't the plus goodest.
Tell me what scripted event was interesting the tenth time you ran that dungeon?
Hopefully, EQNext will continue the forced grouping thing. A few classes could solo in early EQ and that was fine, but they also tended to be not as needed in raids. I liked that dichotomy. It was hell on the devs though with all the tons of complaint threads about it.
Yes that is true, and I haven't been BiS heroic since like WOTLK > Early Cata..
If it's the future why is WoW losing millions of subs a quarter and considering moving to FTP?
Because it's old as shit and always downturns after like a month post expansion? I don't know, I'm speaking from a players perspective not an investors. Why does Everquest have like 15 actual players boxing 45 accounts when it's the shining beacon of all that is possible with a video game?
Yep perfect, and it can make use of crafters too. And by token I didn't specifically mean a token, I just meant a 'thing'. It could be a sword hilt or something, and you combine it with a blade etc. The crafter can maybe even throw an augment or rune or something in when they combine it for you too, so not only do you get your FBSS, but it has +10 dex or whatever you chose. Vanguard was supposed to be like that but crafters got screwed as the years went by to the point where not many people even bother doing it any more.
Meh that's not EQ. The real EQ died in 2002 or something. The abomination that SOE keep alive with formaldehyde and electric shock therapy is not EQ and not suitable for human consumption. You wasted your time even downloading that piece of crap.
No it's not remotely the same. Dailies are 30 minutes of pew pew pew. What I'm talking about is having a group, getting to the depths of a dungeon, breaking in to a room with feign death splitting or whatever else. And then holding that for a number of hours. Maybe over more than one session. So it's still EQ, the difference is you aren't completely in the hands of fate, so no lucky bastards will get it first drop, and no unlucky bastards will still not have it after 5 weeks.
Exciting for you maybe grandpa. But ask the average player who did stuff like the Rasta or got unlucky on the Ancient Cyclops ring and ended up sat in one spot killing the same mob every 20 minutes for an entire month or something. That is something that should change.
The problem with that though, is that karma doesn't exist. If I wasted a whole month trying to get one item but knew I could luck out on an instant FBSS drop, that would be ok. But EQ wasn't like that. You could be unlucky 10 times in a row, and that's just a lazy / negligent design imo. That was fine in 1999, but not any more.
But the token principle is still grind. It's just that a designer can control it. So it doesn't necessarily have to give you the item after 30 minutes like in WoW. It could still require 10 hours or even 100 hours if you wanted, and top end items really should take a long time. But at least you know it's doable eventually. Theoretically in EQ, you could wait for an FBSS for 4 years and never get it.
No. It's because people don't give a shit anymore because it's a loot pinata. I haven't played in years but I suspect a lot of people who still play, play for the Pokemon aspect which, if I understand correctly, requires acquiring rare and hard-to-find pets. Which was the point a lot of us were making - slot machines/rare spawns/etc work to engage players. I'd be interested in confirmation from current players.
I only end up playing in huge guilds full of random players and I can't even remember anyone ever getting achievements/mentioning Pokewow as activities they were participating in it. it's still pretty much all the old same shit leveling/dungeons/lfr/pvp.
Sure, why I also don't fault EQ for losing everyone when WoW came out (and I also do not credit WoW as much as some either). Eventually people just get their taste. EQ had developed enough wear and tear not to mention a lot of frustration for many. Not say that WoW wasn't good but in all honest, I think EQ had ran its course for many and their sequel didn't pan out. WoW is 10 years old and you can feel the repetition and the rehashing of ideas. It's still a decent game but after a decade of something, its time for a change of scenery. The same will happen 8-10 years from now with whatever catches everyone's attention next. Our hope is that they improve on what we had before and I think that's going to be the challenge for the next gen of MMO'.s
It's the future of WOW, but not the future of the genre as we see it. Just looking at the games on the horizon, you have Wildstar who is going back to single difficulty raids of the vanilla/tbc era. You have FFXIV who god knows what the fuck they are going to do, but I very much doubt it'll be closer to what WOW is doing.
I always loved doing Grogonim in Rift because it was fun. I always loved doing that temple event in that troll dungeon in WOW vanilla (Zul Furrack?) Shit that whole dungeon was pretty awesome. I duno, there are a lot of shitty encounters and a lot of good ones I never minded.