I think he has a bigger problem with you being able to summon your gear back for an 'xp hit'. Knowing how history has gone unless the xp hit is insane most players are going to opt for the hit instead if running back thus effectively really reducing corpse runs
You misunderstand. You can still make a corpse run and get back all your gear and all your XP. You just take on extra risk and lose a lot of time (especially if the world is as large as they say it is). OR, you can zone out and pray to a god to summon your gear. In which case, you lose XP. OR you get zone back to your bind point, wait to get a rez sometime down the road, get teleported right to your corpse. retrieve your gear, and just lose a little XP. OR you can linger in the zone for a while until a friendly cleric rezes you and still lose a little XP. There are 4 options available when you die. It's much more nuanced than you make it, and corpse runs are definitely back in.
Not at all. In vanilla WoW, if you were in an instance, you'd still zone out to the nearest "binding area" or whatever they called it and have to float back to your corpse and loot it. In this one, you don't leave the zone at all. In fact, you don't really move and you can't loot your body while a ghost. It's quite different from WoW.
It saddens me to watch people like Merlin thrash around begging for the horse-and-buggy version of MMO's when we are in the internal-combustion-engine era. You keep gripping that buggy whip, Merlin. Someday it will be worth a ton as an antique relic.
That's really speculative. It depends on a lot of things, including distance, group mates, zone difficulty, natural abilities, spells, etc. If I could make it back to my corpse, I'd make the run to save the XP.
Games are entertainment: they'renotabout what's most efficient for players. Some people absolutely love riding horses. Some people would argue that a horse ride is much more exciting than any experience a modern car could produce.
Basically.
You seem to be confused and lost. Let me help:
I love oldschool games. In fact, I pledged on a Kickstarter that's making a true spiritual successor to the classic Master of Magic 4x game from 1994 or whenever it came out. But, even as an old school player, I'm not totally averse to new mechanics. I think Pantheon's death mechanic is really awesome. I wish EQ1 had it (especially back when I played on dial-up). I wish all future MMO's would adopt it. It is a very solid design IMO.
When most players engage in this entertainment, they want their playtime to be as efficient as possible. Riding a horse may be fun, but when the point isn't riding the horse, it's getting to the park to see your friends, people will still take the car. That's the point. You still think riding the horse is "fun", but the vast majority of the public has decided the horse is just a way to get to the "fun" and want a more efficient means of getting there.
I don't think so, how long have you've been playing these types of games? Players will always take the path of least resistance. Give you an example, if this mechanic exist in EQ, do you think breaking into plane if fear would be the bitch that it was?
It saddens me to hear this sort of rhetoric from people who have bought every sales pitch and every line of propaganda from "paradigm shifting, next generation" developers. Its like calling someone a faggot for preferring a console with a controller that has A & B buttons instead of a motion detecting Wii Remote.
Honest question: Do you think a console with a 2-button controller could get Kickstarter funding in 2014?
I don't think anyone believes that these guys started this intending to steal peoples money. I think some are starting to believe that is how they plan to finish it though. Maybe stealing it too harsh a word, but just barely. They are about to start pushing forward completely on your dime. They know that they can't make a MMO off the estimated $500,000 kickstarter funds, and they don't have any real investors. So they will be going forward with no real game plan with their fans paying the bills. The chances of that ending in anything but disaster are pretty damn slim. They will "try really really hard!" on your money before they are willing to admit defeat which is shady to me.
Yes, but not for the equivalent of 800 grand. Brad should have set his sights and budget way lower.