Bullshit. All this is is an excuse. You will see different when EQ next comes out. Will it suck or be good? Who the fuck knows, but at least its will be different, trying something new.
A Toyota Corolla is a great car. It's still boring as fuck to drive. I want an MMO not aimed for simple economics but more for those of looking for a hovercraft.
Quoting both of these. And for a distinct reason.
In this industry that doesn't apply. There are maybe one or two instances where an MMORPG was a monetary failure.
I see what you're getting at, and your self proclaimed dart tossing.
Wat? Seriously though, skills vs levels is fucking stupid. It doesn't matter. Either way you will be running up to a mob and the game will say if your number is bigger than it's number you will kill it easier and vice versa. Doesn't matter how you represent that number be it skills, levels, dick size it's all greater than less than shit. And for you to think it is some how more profound than that doesn't mean the developers think you are a fucking idiot, it means they know you are.
The biggest draw the Battlefield series currently has (for me anyway) is the destructibility of the environment and how that affects gameplay. I highly anticipate what a similar technology can bring to MMOs.
As much as I enjoy the game, I think "this isn't enough fun for me to spend money on" is enough reason to not buy something. Though "this game wasn't fun for meyou totally shouldn't buy it" is some bullshit.
Isn't a huge part of EQ Next essentially SOE's version of Minecraft? If so, not really innovation but copying what someone else made popular, which is pretty much the same things the WoW clones have done over the years.
you don't understand the massive difference between the two systems? Levels gate you far far far more than any skill system, ya they kinda do the same thing but skill systems almost always offer slight progression not the huge exponential progression of a leveling system. In a skill system two low skill players can team up to kill a high skill mob, a mob that a high skill player can solo easily. Thats almost never true in a leveling system, a group of level 60s can't group up and kill a lvl 90 mob in WoW.
There is so much wrong with this statement that I don't even know where to begin.
You must be fucking new here.
If you were telling us the truth, you stopped playing EQ1 during Planes of Power so that means you should be familiar with the Plane of Time.
This isn't lifting weights to get to a goal of getting in shape. It's a video game. There is no need to gate content to get to the subject matter most find fun under something that obviously is no longer fun for a lot of people. Just open up PvP, dungeons, and everything else the game has to offer without progressing to it and allow people access to how they wish to level from the start. It gives more options and people can choose what they want to do and what they each find fun.
EQ Next Landmark is not EQ Next.
It has turned into something like that but TESO does a good job of drawing attention to tired gameplay mechanics and the flaws of bad design decisions. They didn't even go full bore on the questing. Tuco was talking about how he ended up in the one burnt out village and didn't find anything until he talked to a quest guy just outside the town. Then magically the town came to life. That's bad gameplay design right there. The gameplay of exploration and leading into the discovery of situations is something even SWTOR did. You'd end up in an area, maybe slightly off the beaten path, and a new staged quest would appear in your log (that rewarded you at the completion of each stage too). TESO would more likely benefit heavily from public quests but they have eschewed something in this nature in favor of the ages old mechanic of talking to someone before anything interesting can happen. That was my experience at least.
You are comparing a Diku-Mud heavily static itemization base long leveling curve MMORPG to a theme-park MMORPG. They are in two completely different worlds.
