This never ceases to make me chuckle. Typically, you'll have some EQ diehard spout off with, "Man, I can't stand these quest based games! When are we going to go back to grinding, mob camps, and slower leveling curves?!". Then, in the very next sentence, they'll say, "Well, I think I'm done with this game. Sure, you can grind on mobs instead of questing, but it takes so much longer! Fuck that!".
If you're referring to me, I was a lurker on the old FoH board back when it was the noows site. When that site went down, I didn't know you guys had moved to here until a couple months ago. ESO is the only MMO I am playing at the moment so that is why I only post in this thread.
I think that is a concession to the PVP community. Apparently having nameplates over your character can help give away your position.
DAOC had soft caps. I think most RPGs do. You wanna be able to pump crit til you hit 100% crits or something? I'm sure the caps open up as you level, too. Why are you acting like the only way to specialize your character is through min/maxing stats? You can still do that, but there's so much more. How about skill loadouts? Gear choices? Race/base class. If you really can't see how robust the customization opportunities are, I don't know how to help you. There are some very fair complaints about this game: A little too quest hub feeling, ridiculous load times, etc., but character customization is not really a fair complaint.
That is retarded beyond words. What is this, Call of Duty? If this is really their line of thinking then there is no hope for this game.
I have to disagree with all of these points.
So disable it for friendly PCs... it's been done before. The complete lack of collision detection in a action based combat MMO makes the combat feel weak. There are ways to solve your horrible example from 15 years ago and they could be applied here as well.
Your assumption is right, I'm level 9 trying to fight off this incredible amount of boredom to get to this mystical paradise of engaging gameplay. I'm going to guess that I'm completely right and this oasis in the desert you're promising doesn't exist. The reason I call out more difficult mobs is that, currently, there is no perceivable reason why I'm playing this game with other people. They all seem to be playing their own version of this crappy, non-engaging single player game. They only social engagement is when one our quest mobs is bugged and someone strikes up a conversation. This is MMO community in 2014.
There is a balance. Right now, I feel like I'm being led around like a kindergartner whose never played a RPG before. It's dumb and it's boring. The Secret World was the last MMO I played that didn't treat me like a fucking retard. If you like that sort of thing, kudos to you but I'm willing to bet most people are looking for somerthing a bit more challenging than this snoozefest.
The quest helper makes the whole game about orienteering. It is completely boring. I am doing quests to level up without actually enjoying playing the game.
The problem with having soft caps is it forces you to spend your points in only one way, customization becoming then artificial : your choices don't really matter since everyone is held in a specific range of stats. Take your gear, for example : if you're already capping a stat, you're not gonna take more gear with this stat, you're gonna pick the second best. It trivializes choices. Would be funny how diminishing returns affect the game at max level but I bet while you can unlock almost everything skill wise, only a handful are class viable regarding specializations. To me TESO gameplay screams too much casual console gamer : minimal UI, no combat log / text, rigid animations and positioning, highway sign leveling, cooldown abilities based on your sta / magicka bars and GW2-like instanced RvR-only PvP where nothing matters but individual score. Again I don't like GW2-like instanced RvR based games because nowadays it's basically a "PvP for casuals" marketing ad where you jump in, kill a few lads, fire a few catapults, conquer a keep and log off to watch The Big Bang Theory.
Genuine question as you seem to be someone who likes it without going full shill either.
That is just what some people said in guildchat. May also have something to do with mass PVP when there are a lot of players in one general vicinity. I know in a lot of MMOs I played we turned nameplates off in raids to improve framerate.
What Oasis in the desert? It sounds like you hate the game, which is cool. I like the game because it has an Elder Scrolls feel, the crafting, the quests, guilds, gear, and skill systems. So far I'm enjoying exploring the world and the fact there really aren't quest hubs, but one just keeps going and finds new things to do, and those things don't require me to run around in a fucking boring fashion like other games looking for mundane shit.
Based on the number of posters in this thread who had major problems like login queues, disconnects, zone loading times, etc with the weekend beta test, it sounds to me like there are still some kinks to work out with their single megaserver architecture.
Yeah, that kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? I went out to dinner and came back to a 57 minute queue...
To be completely honest, no, I don't think it'll be stable the first week. I think the game will sell well, but with all their new tech there will be a bunch of hiccups.
For any MMO with a built-in quest helper, I'd much prefer just marking the map with a circle to show general vicinity for the player to go search in versus putting an exact "x" marks the spot pinpoint on the map. I was playing WoW when the first player-made quest helper addon was made. Players were talking about how it was the best thing since sliced bread. I haven't played WoW in a few years but I think the quest helper is now an official part of the game and it appears most MMOs released since then have copied them on that.
Its got nothing to do with eq you idiot. It has everything to do with boring ass solo quest grind. Its the most idiotic thing to be ever added toMULTIPLAYERRPG.
Wanting a company to open up communications is hardly apples and oranges regardless of intention. Being in both the Landmark alpha and TESO internal testing I can assure you there is next to zero dev communication from one of them and I am not talking about dev to public communication. I'm talking about interacting with your testers.
