hey genius the only mmorpg i mentioned was Vanguard which released enough content where my guild, Brotherhood of the Spider, conquered it in less than 3 months. Literally completely, everyone had every item they wanted with full player houses on our own island with no competition. So fuck off on that point.
So basically you do not refute your general statement of "I stop playing games when I have everything I want."?
To answer your last question...
you've made no point, whatsoever. and honestly the idea that you THINK you've made a point is laughable.
All you really need to say is that you have loyalties to people who help you get that gear that you want. I even gave you the benefit of the doubt in hoping that I just misinterpreted your post. Saying "I quit when I get what I want" can easily be taken for you being a douche, especially by former EQ players who have had people get geared up then "K bye, I retire." That gear cannot be put to good use to help others in the guild get gear.
Correct. I can only go by your words, which reflected that you quit when you get what you want. Dude wtf?
This hits on the fact that people want to complete all content solo in a MMO. Raid finders, group finders, everything about wow now requires you to have no guild, no friends, just solo play. What's the fucking point? Go play a single player game.
right because my quote "everyone in my guild had every item they wanted including extras like player housing" implies i bailed. additionally, it's clear you've considered all angles such as "was azeth the only one to quit or did his whole guild?"
Of course everyone's online persona is much more dickish than in person, and there are MANY more people who would engage in this destructive stuff online. But there are so many simple ways to make it lean in favor of the "good guys", some of which were already mentioned.
Well okay. I am glad you cleared it up. I apologize for misinterpreting a statement separate from the one referenced. w/e.
If all the forests are burned day 1, so be it. I'm sure if the tools are available, players that want forests will grow/protect them and in the process corner the market on whatever special wood they can harvest. How is this not promoting the emergent gameplay they/we want?
Rift (Hatsmann) blew chunks and SoV (Butler/Trost) is considered one of the great EQ expansions. The reality is (and you sorta try to make this point) MMOs are so complex no developer gets them right on purpose. Early Vanilla WoW was very good because they just copied EQ and removed downtown, then of course Blizzard started stomping on emergent behavior. EQ was good in part because it was a new type of game and the devs didn't know exactly what they were doing, so player behaviors could become part of the game. As I've pointed out before, EQN maybe repeating this same scenario it's a new type of game and the devs don't know exactly what they're doing, so again player behaviors could become part of the game.
Ahahahahahahaha.
Unfortunately we all have 14 years of experience watching these people trail blaze from company to company fucking up whatever they touch. It's because of these folks, now all in one place again, that causes those SOE employee rants. From Rich Vogel and Gordon Walton from SOE to Bioware to now other companies, , to Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler from SOE to Sigil, back to SOE, to the bullshit artists Bill Trost and Steve Danuser. All these people have a few things in common. 1) Their management style sucks. 2) They do not have the talent to do anything on their own. 3) When put together, it's enough falsely given ego centric SOE homegrown infalliable audacity to sink any project they work on. We have seen the failrues inside SOE, we have seen the same people fail outside SOE, and they have not learned or changed one damn bit in the process.
Yeah. They are on, collectively, 56. Why? Because no one held them accountable the first 55 times. It's fairly hard to learn from your mistakes when you have smoke blown up your ass that your mistakes were glorious financial successes just misunderstood by the gaming public by 56 politically correct morons all bucking for a promotion or afraid to get fired.
