Same reason someone might slump-bust with a few fat chicks and will talk about fat chicks and even think a few chubby chicks are hot, but that doesn't mean they hate skinny chicks and only ever lust after fat chicks.
Halfing druid was the way.
Oh fucking please. This derail is worse than ktam. Rail on Brad all you want, but start dissing EverQuest mechanics because you feel the impulsive need to pile-on to run along with the herd and I'll start taking it to task.
And yet every mechanic that you feel was amazing in Everquest was also unintended and the development team stated they didn't know how to fix them.
All this stuff being possible, along with the social interactions, made EQ a sandbox MMO rather then a "find 8 rat tails MMO".
You just don't fucking get it.
I "get it" just fucking fine.
That's calledemergent gameplay, and it's completely fucking lost to modern designers - completely. Every single modern game has its players and what they can do wholly defined, measured, and contained. Was a lot of the genius of EQ on accident? Yes. Was a lot of the emergence unintended? Yes. But that's the point: that's the way it'ssupposedto be. Great designers design gameplay systems that facilitate the creation of these unintended gameplay elements, and seeing this in the industry now is like finding a needle in a giant fucking haystack. They don't exist.
Of course! Me I miss GroupQuest. Sure that game was never made, but it sounded so damn good espescially the Dorkari class, it should have been a thing.
I think an important point to make is that if any of these unintended actions were found today in a modern MMO (EQ now included), they would be patched out within days. What was so unique back then, was that they did nothing about them for years. Whole expansions came & went with these issues becoming part of the game play. Only real game breakers were actually fixed and a handful of items changed or removed, my personal favourite being the Holgresh Elder beads which let you cast infinite Eye of Zomm. There was also a bug with them where if you cast it facing a wall, the eye would randomly pop up anywhere in the zone, very handy. Finally, let's not forget that a good portion of the items they changed or removed, they took the unique stance of not changing or removing the ones already in circulation.
Yet no modern game has them and they are crap! Unintended or not it makes for a greater range of play styles. But guess it doesnt matter anymore anyways with "play on rails" as the current method of non-thinking DEV planning and design.
