It's calledemergent gameplay. As another poster said, those things today would not be possible as player freedom is not allowed (tm) and yes all those things would be patched and fixed by today's breed of MMO devs. What a pathetic lot they are.
And yet that game had a fraction of players that EQ had. Wonder why that is.
It's irrelevant if things were intended or not. We're talking about whether the game was any good. That's like saying tube amplifiers suck because they sound awesome as a result of the inherent flaws in vacuum tube technology. Leave this thread while you still have a shred of credibility.
EQs world, classes, and AD&D feel were a 1000 times better. DAOC was generic as fuck. It's the same Rift vs WOW argument of today.
Old EQ mechanics were that some classes could solo multiple red cons while others died to greens. If I remember right there were a few necromancers that soloed the ghoul lord even at level 50.
Never played Rift, but the reason I liked DAoC was the pvp. I didn't think the idea was generic necessarily, but the mobs/npcs/lore/etc was completely forgettable in a way that EQ's wasn't.
who cares if it was intended or not? it made the game fun to play! you have to be the dumbest motherfucker that ever lived. i kinda wish ktam was still allowed to post here over reading your dumb shit.
430,000 peak subscribers isn't exactly a huge triumph over DAoC's 250,000 peak subscribers. You make it sound like EverQuest eclipsed DAoC...
I honesty believe it was because people were vested in EQ. Not just time but guilds/relationships were hard to break. DAoC just was not worth breaking away from what everyone had already given. Not to mention, EQ was still pretty tolerable and the expansions were probably the best they had made in comparison from one update to the next. I still believe WoW was successful partially because of timing. The expansions/updates for EQ were getting worse, people were also frustrated beyond belief, and they had been playing for years and years. WoW was fresh, well done, and made by a reputable company that was responsible for a lot of great gaming memories prior to EQ. DAoC was competing against fresh EQ and still managed to be decently successful. As someone mentioned, 250,000 at its peak was pretty good for then. MMO's had no where near the exposure to the general public as it does now. The lines have been blurred and now we have MMO's on nearly everything from consoles, smart phones, browsers, to whatever. Not to mention the market is so over saturated we have tons of mediocrity out there.
