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If you had to play one game for the next 5 years, would it be THEME PARK or SANDBOX?
Dauzqul
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If you were only allowed to play 1 single MMO for the next 5 years, would you play the best Theme Park in the world or the best SandBox in the world?
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I voted Sandbox, too.
I can't imagine blasting through the Theme Park to max level in a matter of weeks and having to spend the next 4 years and 11 months playing the same 4-5 Battlegrounds, Arenas, Warzones, or whatever they want to call 'em.
Sandbox has fantastic sustain. It's a shame that AAA funding has never really hit the Sandbox genre as of yet. Here's hoping for ArcheAge and EverQuest Next (Smed did state that they are going virtual world with this one).
Themebox or sandpark
I think that the combination of the 2 would be the best (if done right)...
Didnt vote because you forgot to include:
Doesnt matter as long as it is fun.
I wish
Source please?
Didn't vote. If I had to play one game for 5 years, it would be too much like a second job. :P
I did see something stating it would be no zoning... but was a long time ago... and I do not think it was Smedley who said it, it was just something posted about the game. But I cannot remember 100%.
Too bad that sandbox hasn't been built yet (and likely never will at this rate.)
Could be a really crappy sandbox game or a really good themepark. Or vice versa.
Sandboxes are not inherently superior, despite what it's cool to say on these forums. Same goes with themeparks. Really, not enough information to make any sort of rational decision.
So I choose pikachu.
"As you read these words, a release is seven days or less away or has just happened within the last seven days those are now the only two states youll find the world of Tyria."...Guild Wars 2
If I were to go with a specific game I could see myself playing for 5 years that is not yet made... but has been mentioned it would be EQ Next.
I played many years on EQ1 and no other game has held me for over a couple of months since then.
Darkfall was the best game I have played since... which is bad when you consider it was never really perfected or near a good state... hopefully DF:UW is much better... regardless I will enjoy the game in early stages.
How much sand in the sandbox?
I would play an MMO for a long time if it had these features:
1) Darkfall feature set as a base model
-player vendors
-big world
-skill based (with skill caps)
-FFA full loot
-player made boats
-housing
-player cities, villages, hamlets
-No AH
*Things I would add: local banking, localized resources specific to region, no world chat (only /say /w /shout with chat bubbles), player made maps and compases, roaming guards in high security zones, craftable furniture, tabards, dyes, more harvestable resources, pack mules, farming.
2) Guild Wars 2 gathering + crafting speed + discovery with a little of Vanguard's crafting depth.
All I can think of for now.
This sounds good seems like it has a good balance of what I would like... never played Guild Wars2 so I cannot say I agree with that but sounds good to me lol.
That remains to be seen. Enough of these huge-budget themeparks are not performing anywhere near what investors want, so some companies are growing wary of them. Sounds like Funcom is out for the forseeable future. Wouldn't surprise me to see a few other big companies drop out when their next lame themeparks fail to deliver past 30-60 days.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
I love how people always mention this feature list without adding the ONE feature that would actual make it "work" for the majority of gamers:
-actual functioning / logical "Morality" / Bounty / Justice system.
No sandbox MMO has ever gotten it right, always easy to abuse or far too lenient / easy on the PKs - hell even EvE is trying to "fix" theirs with new expansion but I know they'll still be far, far too lenient on PK's to EVER be able to attract and retain players who don't get off on ganking randoms/noobs for no reason.
There is no honor/valor 99% of the time in FFA PvP - which makes it completely unrealistic (as 99% of people on this planet are not murderous psychpaths with no morals or concepts of justice and what is right/wrong.)
So FFA PvP = "dog eat dog" wild wild west "might as well be set in a maximum security prison" gaming and the VAST, VAST majority will NEVER go for that. Ever.
I completely agree with you but I wasn't aiming for the majority. I was aiming for a game system that would please me and something that could keep me interested in the long haul.
I think Darkfall is a good base model but it is missing some crucial things, which in its current state, equates to nothing more than a large PVP arena.
If you are going to have a poll at least make it valid. Theme Park or Sandbox... who cares if the game itself is good?
/boggle
No one mentions it because despite your statement it's probably not what would make it "work" for the majority of players. If it WAS they would mention it.
I played WoW up until WotLK, played RoM for 2 years and now Rift.
I am F2P player. I support games when I feel they deserve my money and I want the items enough.
I don't troll, and I don't take kindly to trolls.