Grave said:
You can"t please all the people all the time. Either they neglect early content, they neglect endgame content, they neglect raids, they neglect PvP, or they spend years polishing them all and then someone complains because the release cycle isn"t fast enough.Kuro said:
It seems like that from this armchair I"m sitting in, too, but look at the facts: there have been many MMORPGs over the years. The people writing them haven"t all been incompetent, and they all know that more interesting content (especially early-game content, where you do indeed see the majority of effort spent in most games) will make them more money. If it weren"t quite a hard task to make a sufficient number of fantastic, unique quests on a reasonable schedule, more games would have them.Grave said:
Making every single quest in a game fantastic and unique is part of the problem. Especially, when everything that drives a game forward nowadays is a "quest". You end up with 100"s of quests per zone and most are neither unique nor fantastic.Fog said:
I"m not saying the people working on these games have been incompetent. I don"t necessarily agree, however, that many of them spent more time and effort on the early game than other parts. In most MMOs I"ve played, the most boring and uninspiring quests are generally always those they start you out with. It"s obviously a conscious choice. Maybe because they assume you will blaze through the early levels so fast it doesn"t matter, or because they feel like they have to save the good stuff for later, I don"t know. The point I"m making is that while these designers were not incompetent, they still chose to do things this way and I don"t necessarily see a reason for it. Age of Conan, to its credit, did at least try to make the player feel like an important character in the world during the early quests, and that"s all I"m really asking for. I"d just like to see it taken up a notch and different areas created for each race at least, so starting an alt is not necessarily something you dread.Fog said:
It is like that, but 99% of the time, it used as WoW.Grave said:
You"re no worse than that creepy Sony put in charge of EQ2s art direction. That guy made my skin crawl whenever he did a presentation of how amazing EQ2 was, because he would constantly refer to the quality (read: big tits covered in tight leather straps) of females models.Blackulaa said:
I would argue that it WAS involving and interesting for every single character. When we all first picked up WOW, those starting areas got you hooked. Now, it"s been done and copied a thousand times, it"s all old news. The first time in though, it was epic. Wow, I actually do quests, get rewards, experience, etc? They don"t just drop me in a city and say "good luck sir! Maybe you"ll find your way out of this city by next week!"Grave said:
lmao, Don"t lie to him.James said:
