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an idea for a new beginning
ASmith84
Member Posts: 979
You all know that it takes a lot of work to get to the lvl cap right? Most people say the game doesnt even start till you get to max lvl. All the fun stuff is after you grind your way up. So if you play for 5 minutes and arnt having fun why should you waste your time grinding just to see if you are going to have fun at max lvl? I have thought of an idea that might remedy this.
You all probably have seen a movie or something where it shows you near the end of the movie and then flashes back before it and you see all the events that leads up to it right? Why not apply this to mmo's? Have your character start at max lvl and have everything and you do a quest or something. Then when you finish you go back to lvl 1 and have to do all the events before you go there. This way you at least have an idea of what the endgame is like to see if its worth it or not. So how about it good idea?
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no thoughts on this? come on even if you think this is stupid tell me.
No offense but that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. That would mean that all the noobies would have end-game items that they cant have and then they'd sell it and have tons of money...that makes almost no work at all. An MMO isnt suppose to be Bugs Life for the PS1 where everythings telling you what to do. It's suppose to be challenging and make you retry over and over. And yes most mmos arent fun until max lv but thats what makes it fun, the harder you work the more it gets paid off...
Some people just do not want to waste their time just to get to max level to find out it was a waste of time. This is what i found out with the matrix online. Well i didnt get to max level but once i hit lvl 30somthin i realized something. IT WAS NOT WORTH IT. Once you hit 50 in that game you do the exact same thing you do at lvl 1. Good thing i quite before i wasted my time and money to get to lvl 50. Some people though are not smart enough to do that.
This is what i suggested. You start the game with max out everything and have all the endgame items or whatever. You play for about 20 minutes then you flash back to lvl 1 and loose everything. Now the game starts. You get a preview for being at the end to see if it is worth it. oh and you cant buy sell or trade anything when you start. Once you go back to lvl 1 you can do all that.
Honestly the issue with that is new people (especially people new to MMO's) will not know the mechanics of the game and will get absolutly slaughtered at high levels. People that do know how to play MMO's will own everything and think to themselves "that was too easy." One group quits because the game is too hard and the other because it's too easy; new thoughts are always nice to see but I don't believe that will work too well.