Why are you looking forward to this game?

mike470 · March 2008

I don't know about you, but I am very anxious to the release of this game....There are many new attributes, which we have not seen in many MMO's, and good riddens. I ma tired of the average grind.

I am looking forward to this game because the world lives and breathes, and everything you do has an effect on something else. If a town burns down, it will definately not be back the next day, as if nothing happened.

I am loooking forward to ther not-grinding. The fact that I will never be told to kill 10 of these, or the fact that I will never have to train endlessly to have success. That instead of training endlessly, I will be able to do a quest by myself, or mabye group up with someone else.

Mabye it's the fact that I will have NPC's that are extremely intelligent, and that I will have both eemies and allies. That one day I can help someone and save a town, or I could mabye start a group of bandits and take over a town. Mabye I could help someone in town with there errands, but I wind up being ambushed by an enemy and I am forced into an epic battle.

It is all of these and more that make me want to know more and more about this game, and keep myself just waiting for the beta. There is one thing for sure, I cannot wait to play the game in the future.

Why are you looking forward to this game?

Edit- I would also like to thank the dev Jatar for answering around 130 questions overall lol. thanks

gravitz · March 2008

My answer is pretty simple for this. Basically the sheer gameplay it's going to offer. From what we've read so far, the depth is going to be amazing. Quests that are involved and change based on the actions you choose to complete them. As you said, an intelligent living world that IS affected by my decisions. Freedom. Having the ability to mold my characters abilities how I want them to be. And last but not least...Seeing a dev take as much time as Jatar has to come on here and answer as many questions as he can. That shows how much this company cares about what we as future players/fans have to say. I have a feeling once beta testing begins they are going to take our feedback on everything very seriously.

There are so many things being developed for this game that are going to make it break the current mold and offer a different style of gameplay. Whats not to look forward to?

mike470 · March 2008

Originally posted by gravitz

My answer is pretty simple for this. Basically the sheer gameplay it's going to offer. From what we've read so far, the depth is going to be amazing. Quests that are involved and change based on the actions you choose to complete them. As you said, an intelligent living world that IS affected by my decisions. Freedom. Having the ability to mold my characters abilities how I want them to be. And last but not least...Seeing a dev take as much time as Jatar has to come on here and answer as many questions as he can. That shows how much this company cares about what we as future players/fans have to say. I have a feeling once beta testing begins they are going to take our feedback on everything very seriously.

There are so many things being developed for this game that are going to make it break the current mold and offer a different style of gameplay. Whats not to look forward to?

Oops, forgot to add the dev to why I look forward to this game....As for evrything else, I guess that should be the question of this thread...What's not to look forward to?

roanmtnman · March 2008

I want to play this game because you shouldnt be able to go on sites and figure out everything u need to know just by reading where someone else did it. I get tired of some games putting in new stuff only to have it posted all over forums the next day. It sounds like u will have to play this game and find out for yourself. Thats allways been the fun part of these games to me is discovering things not going where the guide told u to go. If they can pull this off its going to be great!

JK-Kanosi · March 2008

It's hard to get excited about a game with so little information on how exactly we are going to change the game world. I read the FAQ's and the majority of these threads and it still hasn't been explain.

Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place. If it is done instancely, how do the devs plan to solve the problem when one player saves that village in his instance, but another player fails to save it in theirs. Yet, those to decide to group together in the next instance. Which story does the devs decide to continue, the one whose village got destroyed or the other? If there isn't PvP, and two players arive at the village at the same time, one decides he wants to destroy it, while another decides he wants it to survive, who wins if there isn't PvP?

There are so many questions I have on how a game that plans to support tens of thousands of players, plan to handle that many people changing the game world at the same time. If it is all instanced, how is the world truly going to change to other players? Will it only change for that one person and not another? If so, then what's the point of changing the gameworld when you're the only one who will see it?

Maragold · March 2008

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

It's hard to get excited about a game with so little information on how exactly we are going to change the game world. I read the FAQ's and the majority of these threads and it still hasn't been explain.
Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place. If it is done instancely, how do the devs plan to solve the problem when one player saves that village in his instance, but another player fails to save it in theirs. Yet, those to decide to group together in the next instance. Which story does the devs decide to continue, the one whose village got destroyed or the other? If there isn't PvP, and two players arive at the village at the same time, one decides he wants to destroy it, while another decides he wants it to survive, who wins if there isn't PvP?
There are so many questions I have on how a game that plans to support tens of thousands of players, plan to handle that many people changing the game world at the same time. If it is all instanced, how is the world truly going to change to other players? Will it only change for that one person and not another? If so, then what's the point of changing the gameworld when you're the only one who will see it?

First of all, where did you read that you could destroy a village? The devs never said that. What they did say is that you could choose to help defend a town that was under attack (not by players, by NPC forces).

So this means, in your example, that two players arrive at a village under attack. One decides to help the village, the other decides not to help. The village may fall, it may not, but there will be an outcome. I don't see your issue. You're too hung up on PVP when this game is not about PVP.

There are certainly plenty of questions left to answer, but the devs have stated that they are early in development. Do you expect them to reveal all their plans now? They would be crazy to do so in my opinion. They have told us plenty, enough that I know I will try the game when it comes out.

Why keep attacking a developer who is trying to give us something new? If you don't want something new, go play WoW or one of the other clones.

JK-Kanosi · March 2008

Originally posted by Maragold

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

It's hard to get excited about a game with so little information on how exactly we are going to change the game world. I read the FAQ's and the majority of these threads and it still hasn't been explain.
Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place. If it is done instancely, how do the devs plan to solve the problem when one player saves that village in his instance, but another player fails to save it in theirs. Yet, those to decide to group together in the next instance. Which story does the devs decide to continue, the one whose village got destroyed or the other? If there isn't PvP, and two players arive at the village at the same time, one decides he wants to destroy it, while another decides he wants it to survive, who wins if there isn't PvP?
There are so many questions I have on how a game that plans to support tens of thousands of players, plan to handle that many people changing the game world at the same time. If it is all instanced, how is the world truly going to change to other players? Will it only change for that one person and not another? If so, then what's the point of changing the gameworld when you're the only one who will see it?

First of all, where did you read that you could destroy a village? The devs never said that. What they did say is that you could choose to help defend a town that was under attack (not by players, by NPC forces).

So this means, in your example, that two players arrive at a village under attack. One decides to help the village, the other decides not to help. The village may fall, it may not, but there will be an outcome. I don't see your issue. You're too hung up on PVP when this game is not about PVP.

There are certainly plenty of questions left to answer, but the devs have stated that they are early in development. Do you expect them to reveal all their plans now? They would be crazy to do so in my opinion. They have told us plenty, enough that I know I will try the game when it comes out.

Why keep attacking a developer who is trying to give us something new? If you don't want something new, go play WoW or one of the other clones.

If you consider my post an attack, then you clearly are a fanboi. I may play DAoC, but I am not hung up on PvP. My issues are just as relevant as everyone elses issues. When I know more information, I can more accurately put hype into this game. Until then, I will wait and see like the majority of the people. I am not the type to jump on the hype bandwagon as soon as I hear the first little bit of information about it.

Since you wanted to get nasty with me, I challenge you to highlight everything I said that was mean or nasty in my post. I just reread it, so I know there is nothing you can quote. Again, you are just being a fanboi when you attack someone like me, who only asked questions.

Maragold · March 2008

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Maragold

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

It's hard to get excited about a game with so little information on how exactly we are going to change the game world. I read the FAQ's and the majority of these threads and it still hasn't been explain.
Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place. If it is done instancely, how do the devs plan to solve the problem when one player saves that village in his instance, but another player fails to save it in theirs. Yet, those to decide to group together in the next instance. Which story does the devs decide to continue, the one whose village got destroyed or the other? If there isn't PvP, and two players arive at the village at the same time, one decides he wants to destroy it, while another decides he wants it to survive, who wins if there isn't PvP?
There are so many questions I have on how a game that plans to support tens of thousands of players, plan to handle that many people changing the game world at the same time. If it is all instanced, how is the world truly going to change to other players? Will it only change for that one person and not another? If so, then what's the point of changing the gameworld when you're the only one who will see it?

First of all, where did you read that you could destroy a village? The devs never said that. What they did say is that you could choose to help defend a town that was under attack (not by players, by NPC forces).

So this means, in your example, that two players arrive at a village under attack. One decides to help the village, the other decides not to help. The village may fall, it may not, but there will be an outcome. I don't see your issue. You're too hung up on PVP when this game is not about PVP.

There are certainly plenty of questions left to answer, but the devs have stated that they are early in development. Do you expect them to reveal all their plans now? They would be crazy to do so in my opinion. They have told us plenty, enough that I know I will try the game when it comes out.

Why keep attacking a developer who is trying to give us something new? If you don't want something new, go play WoW or one of the other clones.

If you consider my post an attack, then you clearly are a fanboi. I may play DAoC, but I am not hung up on PvP. My issues are just as relevant as everyone elses issues. When I know more information, I can more accurately put hype into this game. Until then, I will wait and see like the majority of the people. I am not the type to jump on the hype bandwagon as soon as I hear the first little bit of information about it.

Since you wanted to get nasty with me, I challenge you to highlight everything I said that was mean or nasty in my post. I just reread it, so I know there is nothing you can quote. Again, you are just being a fanboi when you attack someone like me, who only asked questions.

Fine, let's not get nasty. Instead let's just explore your statements in a discussion.

You state, and I quote, "Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place."

Where did you get this piece of information? I can't find it anywhere in the devs web site, their features or comments from Jatar. No where does it say that players can destroy towns, villages, etc. I'm asking you, so we can discuss your premise. If, however, there is no backing for your premise, then your whole point about this is moot.

Excuse me if I bristled in my previous post, but the statement you made was so strange it was like saying, "In WoW, if I use the planet buster bomb to remove a portion of the land, won't this ruin the game play for others?" What planet buster bomb? There isn't one. Why are we then discussing this? Has one of the devs at Blizzard said they have a new planet buster bomb?

Anofalye · March 2008

I am simple.

Its allow me to group/solo without having to do anything else in order to advance and promote my character at ANY point in my progression path.

If I want to become better at grouping? Then I should just group. That is an answer I like and that most MMOs don't offer. No matter how strong, powerfull, l33t, high level my character is, if I want to become better at grouping, then the best path is always, always, always grouping.

At least, this is what I understand from reading them.

JK-Kanosi · March 2008

Originally posted by Maragold

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Maragold

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

It's hard to get excited about a game with so little information on how exactly we are going to change the game world. I read the FAQ's and the majority of these threads and it still hasn't been explain.
Say for instance you can destroy a village in the seamless part of the world (non-instanced), how do you know people won't exploit this ability and just destroy everything in the gameworld, leaving a barren place. If it is done instancely, how do the devs plan to solve the problem when one player saves that village in his instance, but another player fails to save it in theirs. Yet, those to decide to group together in the next instance. Which story does the devs decide to continue, the one whose village got destroyed or the other? If there isn't PvP, and two players arive at the village at the same time, one decides he wants to destroy it, while another decides he wants it to survive, who wins if there isn't PvP?
There are so many questions I have on how a game that plans to support tens of thousands of players, plan to handle that many people changing the game world at the same time. If it is all instanced, how is the world truly going to change to other players? Will it only change for that one person and not another? If so, then what's the point of changing the gameworld when you're the only one who will see it?