what's the downside making it optional like eq2 or Rift?
Agreed, one of my personal gripes is games where I can't group with friends if we are a few levels apart and when new friends join a game i have been playing for years i have to roll a new character just to group with them. It got so bad in DAoC that as I had an account of level 50s I had to delete a maxed character or buy another account...
Multiplayer games need to give this as an option these days, if not down level, then level matching. Either way works.
agree
EQ2 had down leveling (mentoring) for the last 8 years since 2005
Originally posted by Leiloni Most games don't downlevel you, I don't know why you'd expect this one to. The only game I've ever heard of that did that was GW2 but downleveling was touted as one of their big cool "features" of the game that made it different from every other MMO.
yea think gw2 spoiled some people in this regard.. although i really think its a MUST HAVE feature(or at least an optional version like Rift and couple other themeparks) in a themepark game now though..
If all games started doing this like gw2, that would be the thing that ends my mmorpg hobby.
I agree with you. I hated it in Obliivion and it is one of the things that I didn't care for in GW2. I think it removes that sense of progression as your toon never feels like it is getting stronger.
what's the downside making it optional like eq2 or Rift?
I loved coh'ssidekicking and mentoring. I hated GW2's downleveling. There is a difference between the two.
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I agree with you. I hated it in Obliivion and it is one of the things that I didn't care for in GW2. I think it removes that sense of progression as your toon never feels like it is getting stronger.
what's the downside making it optional like eq2 or Rift?
agree - or City of Heroes sidekicking
What is the difference between forced and optional??????
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it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
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LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
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playing an MMORPG?"
They should have it I agree, they have in STO and im pretty sure they have it in CO too. Maybe if enough people get together on their official forum for the cause you can get them to make a change, id sign it.
Ok I just had the most unfortunate realization. I had queued for "Mad Dragon" Dungeon which I had not yet seen. While I waited (long!) in the queue, due to question I levelled up, and suddenly the note: "You have been removed from the queue."
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I mean, seriously? No downlevelling? No chance to just join a group even though you are a level or two too high? You aren't leaving that to ME, the player?
This isn't right and tbh it SERIOUSLY pisses me off, when I am locked out from content because of THAT!
THAT IS NOT FUNNY!
I actually CAME to a D&D MMO for the dungeons, for GROUP dungeons. What am I supposed to do while waiting HOURS in the queue? Knitting? Reading books? Of course I level!
Grrrr..
Name a AAA mmo with downleveling, please?
Hellllo GW2?
Most MMOs it does take at least a little effort to lvl. Neverwinter is is retardidly easy one sneezes and they gain a level and without batting an eyelash one outlevels a dungeon.
But to the OP, this is WAI. For better or worse that is how it is. And I don't buy the Chinese farmers excuse. If that's the case then they should have made gear BoP instead of this idiotic BoE which just causes a greed fest n postings on the AH.
Even years old Everquest II had mentoring. Same as City of Heroes, and DAMN that was 8 (EIGHT!) years ago or more! Actually I prefer the voluntary mentoring over the forced downlevelling of GW2.
But come on guys, the idea is REALLY old. Everquest II did it ages ago. Do we REALLY have to ignore EVERY SINGLE accomplishment of MMOs ever and ever again!?
And yes you CAN go into the dungeon if you find a group via "zone" chat (and good luck with that!). But you'll not get any XP. Sorry I thought in 2013 MMOs should be a bit more complete and convenient, and NOT that we reset all we learned in previous MMOs every fucking single time. (Hello SWTOR....)
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Originally posted by Leiloni Most games don't downlevel you, I don't know why you'd expect this one to. The only game I've ever heard of that did that was GW2 but downleveling was touted as one of their big cool "features" of the game that made it different from every other MMO.
You never played Champions Online i guess, it also up level/down level you in group finder but the the most fun about Champions Online is that you can chose a champion in your group and down level or up level to that person's level and enjoy game as much as you like, with any level. ohh and Champions Online developed by Cyptic too.
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Ok I just had the most unfortunate realization. I had queued for "Mad Dragon" Dungeon which I had not yet seen. While I waited (long!) in the queue, due to question I levelled up, and suddenly the note: "You have been removed from the queue."
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I mean, seriously? No downlevelling? No chance to just join a group even though you are a level or two too high? You aren't leaving that to ME, the player?
This isn't right and tbh it SERIOUSLY pisses me off, when I am locked out from content because of THAT!
THAT IS NOT FUNNY!
I actually CAME to a D&D MMO for the dungeons, for GROUP dungeons. What am I supposed to do while waiting HOURS in the queue? Knitting? Reading books? Of course I level!
Grrrr..
Name a AAA mmo with downleveling, please?
Hellllo GW2?
Most MMOs it does take at least a little effort to lvl. Neverwinter is is retardidly easy one sneezes and they gain a level and without batting an eyelash one outlevels a dungeon.
But to the OP, this is WAI. For better or worse that is how it is. And I don't buy the Chinese farmers excuse. If that's the case then they should have made gear BoP instead of this idiotic BoE which just causes a greed fest n postings on the AH.
Even years old Everquest II had mentoring. Same as City of Heroes, and DAMN that was 8 (EIGHT!) years ago or more! Actually I prefer the voluntary mentoring over the forced downlevelling of GW2.
But come on guys, the idea is REALLY old. Everquest II did it ages ago. Do we REALLY have to ignore EVERY SINGLE accomplishment of MMOs ever and ever again!?
And yes you CAN go into the dungeon if you find a group via "zone" chat (and good luck with that!). But you'll not get any XP. Sorry I thought in 2013 MMOs should be a bit more complete and convenient, and NOT that we reset all we learned in previous MMOs every fucking single time. (Hello SWTOR....)
MMOS can not get any more convenient than this. Only thing left now is to give you a button which plays the game for you while you sleep, eat and go to work.
Have you even tried getting groups outside the dungeon queues? because i have seen many people doing that given how unbalanced dungeons are currently. Players actually prefer to take appropriate levels and a bit decent geared people into dungeons and not rely on queues.
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Ok I just had the most unfortunate realization. I had queued for "Mad Dragon" Dungeon which I had not yet seen. While I waited (long!) in the queue, due to question I levelled up, and suddenly the note: "You have been removed from the queue."
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I mean, seriously? No downlevelling? No chance to just join a group even though you are a level or two too high? You aren't leaving that to ME, the player?
This isn't right and tbh it SERIOUSLY pisses me off, when I am locked out from content because of THAT!
THAT IS NOT FUNNY!
I actually CAME to a D&D MMO for the dungeons, for GROUP dungeons. What am I supposed to do while waiting HOURS in the queue? Knitting? Reading books? Of course I level!
Grrrr..
Well, you can still do the dungeon, but you have to find a group manually and zone in the normal way.
I do like mentoring systems, hopefullly they add one eventually (their other games have them, i dont see why this wont).
Also you can see the hard modes of all those dungeons when you reach the level cap, so you havent missed the experience entirely.
Not sure whats going on with dungeon queues, theres obviously tonnes of people looking. Maybe they can only handle so many groups at once?
Ok I just had the most unfortunate realization. I had queued for "Mad Dragon" Dungeon which I had not yet seen. While I waited (long!) in the queue, due to question I levelled up, and suddenly the note: "You have been removed from the queue."
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I mean, seriously? No downlevelling? No chance to just join a group even though you are a level or two too high? You aren't leaving that to ME, the player?
This isn't right and tbh it SERIOUSLY pisses me off, when I am locked out from content because of THAT!
THAT IS NOT FUNNY!
I actually CAME to a D&D MMO for the dungeons, for GROUP dungeons. What am I supposed to do while waiting HOURS in the queue? Knitting? Reading books? Of course I level!
Grrrr..
You shouldn't have expected a good MMO from a game that, a year ago, was going to be a singleplayer game.
MMOs with some form of ability to play with each other through some system (be it upleveling, downleveling, level syncing to content, mentoring, apprenticeship, sidekicking, etc.):
Star Trek Online
Champions Online
City of Heroes
Everquest 2
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy XI
Age of Conan
Rift
Aion
Vanguard
Dragon's Call
Destiny Online
I'm sure there are plenty more here. Most of these are AAA MMOs. It's hardly an "uncommon" feature. Not to mention every Cryptic MMO in the past has had this feature.
Originally posted by Leiloni Most games don't downlevel you, I don't know why you'd expect this one to. The only game I've ever heard of that did that was GW2 but downleveling was touted as one of their big cool "features" of the game that made it different from every other MMO.
yea think gw2 spoiled some people in this regard.. although i really think its a MUST HAVE feature(or at least an optional version like Rift and couple other themeparks) in a themepark game now though..
If all games started doing this like gw2, that would be the thing that ends my mmorpg hobby.
I agree with you. I hated it in Obliivion and it is one of the things that I didn't care for in GW2. I think it removes that sense of progression as your toon never feels like it is getting stronger.
what's the downside making it optional like eq2 or Rift?
I am all for it. There would be no room to complain if it was optional. Great idea. You should be a game dev...
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MMOs with some form of ability to play with each other through some system (be it upleveling, downleveling, level syncing to content, mentoring, apprenticeship, sidekicking, etc.):
Star Trek Online
Champions Online
City of Heroes
Everquest 2
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy XI
Age of Conan
Rift
Aion
Vanguard
Dragon's Call
Destiny Online
I'm sure there are plenty more here. Most of these are AAA MMOs. It's hardly an "uncommon" feature. Not to mention every Cryptic MMO in the past has had this feature.
There is one really big one that does not have it. Call it the 100 pound Gorilla in the room and is probably the main reason developers see it as a option not a requirement. Also how many of those games had it at launch? I have not played all of those games at launch but of the ones I have it would be 1, GW2 which is more a auto leveling to zone system than a auto leveling to other players.
I'm not excusing Cryptic of anything honestly. I believe mentoring/level matching is really a core feature of a social MMO. I don't use it often in EQ2 but I really appreciate it when I do.
I think down leveling is a good concept and could potentially be added to end game content, where you would get end game rewards based on how helpful you were to lower level players. It helps newbies coming in and it helps max level players as well.
There is one really big one that does not have it. Call it the 100 pound Gorilla in the room and is probably the main reason developers see it as a option not a requirement. Also how many of those games had it at launch? I have not played all of those games at launch but of the ones I have it would be 1, GW2 which is more a auto leveling to zone system than a auto leveling to other players.
I'm not excusing Cryptic of anything honestly. I believe mentoring/level matching is really a core feature of a social MMO. I don't use it often in EQ2 but I really appreciate it when I do.
I think all the Cryptic games, AoC, and EQ2 (or at least was one of the first to implement it along with CoH) had it at launch, but it's been a while since I've played those so I'm not 100% sure. Yes, GW2 has an auto-level / level scaling system based on zone that isn't optional, but the end result is you can still play with friends without someone's experience and entertainment suffering as a result. I understand a lot of people don't like the system though because it's forced on you and you can't go to low level areas and feel as "powerful" as you could with other games.
I personally expected it to be in Neverwinter since it was in every other Cryptic game, so much so that I was advertising the game to my gaming community with it in mind and before I knew it I was 30 levels ahead of my guildies and unable to play with them without carrying them through a low level dungeon or having them sit and do nothing while I run through a higher level foundry mission.
I think EQ2 is one of the best examples of it done right. Not only can you downlevel to a player (I forget what they call it) and still earn rewards, but you can also temporarily set your level down to whatever you feel like to redo content in the game. In EQ2 we were able to play with a group of people and never feel like we had to stop leveling or stop doing things on our own.
What is the difference between forced and optional??????
GW2 is forced -- your level always autoscales, you have no choice
optional mean that down leveling never happens -- unless you choose to make it so
you would have to play EQ2 or RIFT to see how its optional
I have and I know what they are. semi-rhetorical question it was.
What I love about RPGs is progression. I loved sidekicking as an option in CoX but rarely used it on a timewise percentage. GW2 takes the feeling of progression away FOR ME. THEREFORE, the game is a lose FOR ME. You can call it the greatest mechanic in the world for whatever reason. Don't assume your reason is the same as mine.
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really I mean what I don't understand is reading these numerous neverwinter threads... almost none of which have anything nice to say... why the hell bother playing if you don't like it and just out to ruin it for people who are enjoying it??? I mean seriously.. go back to WoW.. or GW2.. and for those who keep bragging about damn GW2 having a unique de-level feature... please stfu you scrub newbs... it was damn EQ2 and their mentor system...BUT people wouldn't know because they assume there was no fuq'n MMO before WoW... man all you wow fanbois do is bitch and whine then boast about how great wow is.. when its the same shit just reskinned for every damn x-pack...Then when you actually have to workt o get shit.. yes maybe even 1 thing a month or you whin you don't have time.. no you do its an MMO its not going anywhere.. you just don't want to wait and earn it "you want it now" just like the little bratty bitch in willy wonka "shrug" this site I swear i USED to visit it all the time to check up on things.. now I avoid it like the plague unless I looking for a release date on something of if something is in beta because its turned into a cesspool of bitching and whining ...
What is the difference between forced and optional??????
GW2 is forced -- your level always autoscales, you have no choice
optional mean that down leveling never happens -- unless you choose to make it so
you would have to play EQ2 or RIFT to see how its optional
I have and I know what they are. semi-rhetorical question it was.
What I love about RPGs is progression. I loved sidekicking as an option in CoX but rarely used it on a timewise percentage. GW2 takes the feeling of progression away FOR ME. THEREFORE, the game is a lose FOR ME. You can call it the greatest mechanic in the world for whatever reason. Don't assume your reason is the same as mine.
i always see this yet as a level 80 in GW2 i can go into the starter zones and mass slaughter things no problem so it don't see much of a difference... although they did tweak things a little bit not too long ago to make them a bit harder when you downscale but its still cake compared to hanging out in Orr.. So the progression is still there.. lack of progression at 80 i can agree with because even in the horizontal sense the game is lacking right now
any themepark of this style imho needs some sort of downleveling system
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What is the difference between forced and optional??????
GW2 is forced -- your level always autoscales, you have no choice
optional mean that down leveling never happens -- unless you choose to make it so
you would have to play EQ2 or RIFT to see how its optional
I have and I know what they are. semi-rhetorical question it was.
What I love about RPGs is progression. I loved sidekicking as an option in CoX but rarely used it on a timewise percentage. GW2 takes the feeling of progression away FOR ME. THEREFORE, the game is a lose FOR ME. You can call it the greatest mechanic in the world for whatever reason. Don't assume your reason is the same as mine.
i always see this yet as a level 80 in GW2 i can go into the starter zones and mass slaughter things no problem so it don't see much of a difference... although they did tweak things a little bit not too long ago to make them a bit harder when you downscale but its still cake compared to hanging out in Orr.. So the progression is still there.. lack of progression at 80 i can agree with because even in the horizontal sense the game is lacking right now
any themepark of this style imho needs some sort of downleveling system
Yea in short it doesn't take progression away, it just takes ease and 1 hit kill away, but I assume that's progression these days.
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Originally posted by David_Lopan It is open beta, you should write them and I agree, this should be addressed. Dungeons should have a level range and if you level during queue, they should throw you a bone (like keeping you from leveling until after).
Gets worse with skirmishes from 38 to 40 to 42...
On 38 you gotta do the Pit Fight twice. While in queue I played and hit 39. Went into the Pit Fight and I hit 40....
On 40 you gotta do the Pit fight twice (new quest BTW). Same story, but this time with PvP and I hit 42 and did Pit Fight once in between...
On 42 you gotta fo the Pit Fight thrice (again a new quest) - WTF???
I missed my AD reward twice already because of quests following each other too quickly and not full fulling the lower level ones >:(
Originally posted by Kyleran So, the moral of the story is don't continue to level if you know you are at the top end of a dungeon and want to join a party via the DF tool. Or, if you are too high level, go form your own party of friends as the game won't stop you from doing this.
I really don't see the problem.
Meh, sounds much to logical and puts the responsibility on the player to control themselves, much more fun QQ'ing and demanding a F2P game have it in at launch or we'll all rage quit.
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I tend to agree, and there's no real excuse for it's absence in Neverwinter. In PvP, you are "up-leveled". Why not the opposite approach for dungeons?
I loved coh'ssidekicking and mentoring. I hated GW2's downleveling. There is a difference between the two.
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What is the difference between forced and optional??????
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Agree 100%
Even years old Everquest II had mentoring. Same as City of Heroes, and DAMN that was 8 (EIGHT!) years ago or more! Actually I prefer the voluntary mentoring over the forced downlevelling of GW2.
But come on guys, the idea is REALLY old. Everquest II did it ages ago. Do we REALLY have to ignore EVERY SINGLE accomplishment of MMOs ever and ever again!?
And yes you CAN go into the dungeon if you find a group via "zone" chat (and good luck with that!). But you'll not get any XP. Sorry I thought in 2013 MMOs should be a bit more complete and convenient, and NOT that we reset all we learned in previous MMOs every fucking single time. (Hello SWTOR....)
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You never played Champions Online i guess, it also up level/down level you in group finder but the the most fun about Champions Online is that you can chose a champion in your group and down level or up level to that person's level and enjoy game as much as you like, with any level. ohh and Champions Online developed by Cyptic too.
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MMOS can not get any more convenient than this. Only thing left now is to give you a button which plays the game for you while you sleep, eat and go to work.
Have you even tried getting groups outside the dungeon queues? because i have seen many people doing that given how unbalanced dungeons are currently. Players actually prefer to take appropriate levels and a bit decent geared people into dungeons and not rely on queues.
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+1
Well, you can still do the dungeon, but you have to find a group manually and zone in the normal way.
I do like mentoring systems, hopefullly they add one eventually (their other games have them, i dont see why this wont).
Also you can see the hard modes of all those dungeons when you reach the level cap, so you havent missed the experience entirely.
Not sure whats going on with dungeon queues, theres obviously tonnes of people looking. Maybe they can only handle so many groups at once?
You shouldn't have expected a good MMO from a game that, a year ago, was going to be a singleplayer game.
GW2 is forced -- your level always autoscales, you have no choice
optional mean that down leveling never happens -- unless you choose to make it so
you would have to play EQ2 or RIFT to see how its optional
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MMOs with some form of ability to play with each other through some system (be it upleveling, downleveling, level syncing to content, mentoring, apprenticeship, sidekicking, etc.):
Star Trek Online
Champions Online
City of Heroes
Everquest 2
Guild Wars 2
Final Fantasy XI
Age of Conan
Rift
Aion
Vanguard
Dragon's Call
Destiny Online
I'm sure there are plenty more here. Most of these are AAA MMOs. It's hardly an "uncommon" feature. Not to mention every Cryptic MMO in the past has had this feature.
I am all for it. There would be no room to complain if it was optional. Great idea. You should be a game dev...
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There is one really big one that does not have it. Call it the 100 pound Gorilla in the room and is probably the main reason developers see it as a option not a requirement. Also how many of those games had it at launch? I have not played all of those games at launch but of the ones I have it would be 1, GW2 which is more a auto leveling to zone system than a auto leveling to other players.
I'm not excusing Cryptic of anything honestly. I believe mentoring/level matching is really a core feature of a social MMO. I don't use it often in EQ2 but I really appreciate it when I do.
I think all the Cryptic games, AoC, and EQ2 (or at least was one of the first to implement it along with CoH) had it at launch, but it's been a while since I've played those so I'm not 100% sure. Yes, GW2 has an auto-level / level scaling system based on zone that isn't optional, but the end result is you can still play with friends without someone's experience and entertainment suffering as a result. I understand a lot of people don't like the system though because it's forced on you and you can't go to low level areas and feel as "powerful" as you could with other games.
I personally expected it to be in Neverwinter since it was in every other Cryptic game, so much so that I was advertising the game to my gaming community with it in mind and before I knew it I was 30 levels ahead of my guildies and unable to play with them without carrying them through a low level dungeon or having them sit and do nothing while I run through a higher level foundry mission.
I think EQ2 is one of the best examples of it done right. Not only can you downlevel to a player (I forget what they call it) and still earn rewards, but you can also temporarily set your level down to whatever you feel like to redo content in the game. In EQ2 we were able to play with a group of people and never feel like we had to stop leveling or stop doing things on our own.
I have and I know what they are. semi-rhetorical question it was.
What I love about RPGs is progression. I loved sidekicking as an option in CoX but rarely used it on a timewise percentage. GW2 takes the feeling of progression away FOR ME. THEREFORE, the game is a lose FOR ME. You can call it the greatest mechanic in the world for whatever reason. Don't assume your reason is the same as mine.
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LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
i always see this yet as a level 80 in GW2 i can go into the starter zones and mass slaughter things no problem so it don't see much of a difference... although they did tweak things a little bit not too long ago to make them a bit harder when you downscale but its still cake compared to hanging out in Orr.. So the progression is still there.. lack of progression at 80 i can agree with because even in the horizontal sense the game is lacking right now
any themepark of this style imho needs some sort of downleveling system
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Yea in short it doesn't take progression away, it just takes ease and 1 hit kill away, but I assume that's progression these days.
*shivers*
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Gets worse with skirmishes from 38 to 40 to 42...
On 38 you gotta do the Pit Fight twice. While in queue I played and hit 39. Went into the Pit Fight and I hit 40....
On 40 you gotta do the Pit fight twice (new quest BTW). Same story, but this time with PvP and I hit 42 and did Pit Fight once in between...
On 42 you gotta fo the Pit Fight thrice (again a new quest) - WTF???
I missed my AD reward twice already because of quests following each other too quickly and not full fulling the lower level ones >:(
Meh, sounds much to logical and puts the responsibility on the player to control themselves, much more fun QQ'ing and demanding a F2P game have it in at launch or we'll all rage quit.
J/k of course