Personally, I'd prefer for the wow fans to stay right where they are... all we need is EQN going live one day and nothing but general chat about how it's not WoW... i'll pass on that. Let them play, realize that it's fuckin hard and quit, thus leaving a solid fan base in EQN.
It's nice to dream. Pre-game WoW banter is going to happen no matter how big or small the community is and SOE damn sure isn't going to try to secretly slip this game out to avoid hitting a mainstream audience (in turn passing up money, which businesses aren't fond of).
I reinstalled EQ, I mean the real one, after ten years, just as a trip down memory lane. I managed to remember the account/password/email combo and the server where I had my characters (apparently only 4 of them are accessible). Apparently I have a silver status, because probably I gave them so much money many years ago.
I am pretty sure those pop ups are for those who are playing eq via f2p and not a subscription.
That's not an MMO, from the sound of it it's single/multiplayer with the option of a GW1-like setup through company servers. just what I (mis-)remember from conversation mind you, I'm not following that game.
82 dungeons actually sounds like alot, but VG was standard follow the easiest path to cap gaming so I guess most went un-used. Keep the progression more horizontal, give people reasons to visit the different places, and players will spread out on their own. Some examples we already had 20 pages ago towards this goal: mobs give more xp the longer they have been alive; PH mobs still roll the chanced to spawn their named every spawn cycle so eventually an underutilized dungeon is full of nameds; Longer respawn valuable crafting materials can be found in the dungeons; All of that gives players reason to seek out the path less travelled by their own choice without lame "hotspot of the week" commercials artificially directing them there.
That sucks big time. I'm very sure they'll treat EQN like PS2 which has nothing like that at all, I'd say you get more push towards the gem store in GW2 (trading post always opens that page first) then in PS2.
Well ok, quoting.
Problem is: during the pull, especially those that took long, only the puller was actually playing, everyone else (up to several dozen of players in raids) were sitting with a thumb up their asses trying to not fall asleep waiting for the single mob to come in camp.
Math is hard, eh?
No, the raw fact is that the dev in charge of that particular mechanic didn't think about it. The hell levels had also consequences on XP death, which didn't make sense as well (XP death was equal to 10% of the previous level XP, which meant it did almost double on the level after a hell level).
That's what I've been hoping for a long time. I want to see a game where there's no such thing as respawns even, at least not like we know them. Something radically different, part of a large, huge world. McHuge Large even.
If you didnt have a shit group, they were not sitting with their thumbs up their asses. The first few pulls was about getting organized. With every group i played the monk was on pull duty like 70% of the time. And i dont mean being the dude who does the pulling, but being the dude who hardly attack any mobs. When i did play mine, it was all about, splits, pull back, drop agro to tank, hit a few times, go back get another before first one dies, and so on and so on. The groups were most of the time asking for a break. Thats how i played my monk anyway. But to say groups were drooling between each pull isnt true. Eq was intense if *you made it* itense. It was a snooze fest if *you made it a snooze fest*. That was the beauty of the game. To each his own.
IIRC in Asherons Call at one point monsters could gain levels - although if no-one was about they would despawn. It would be something to see a boss level up after a wipe...
