Dullahan
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I think they have a pretty balanced approach. EQ Next basically wanted to do away with the mmorpg as we knew it. The biggest mistake being trying to revolutionize (or dispose of) the already amazing EQ faction system to make everything dynamic. VR is just taking what we know already worked and making it better.I hope they know wtf they are doing with this faction and detective/lore reveal system. It sounds like they know what they are doing with it but I hope they also know at this point they have exactly enough rope to hang themselves lol.
This whole futuristic world/AI stuff is exactly what sunk EQ Next. News flash: you don't have enough funding to revolutionize the genre.
Like with combat and mob AI, instead of just having a mob that flees at low health, you have mobs that alert others off the bat. Instead of having a mob that only focuses on the target with greatest threat, you have a mob that may favor occasionally attacking others based on their class/role/faction/race or that prefers defending or enabling allies instead.
What they've suggested is a far cry from the complete mess that SOE was proposing.