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RelGn
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Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Wow, this review from fricking Gamespot is surprisingly good!
He is spot on with the identity issue and emphasis on longevity.
the rock paper shotgun preview had similar conclusion (but it was more negative)
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02 ... ls-online/
EQ2 fan sites
There is one thing that the reviwers keep on forgetting.
How people interact with eachother. And why.
I was about to write a long story of how chat bubbles gives an mmo a real good boost. But i dont have the time or energy right now.
To many mmos out there lack chat bubbles resluting in a non-communicative world between players.
So ask your self, why does for example Swtor and the secret world feel like a single player game with people runing around in the background?
an omission that may not true - it seems ESO has no public quests (from watching previews)
Warhammer flopped but it did bring public quests to the mmo world
Public quests are a fun way to interact w other strangers
watching the ESO preview, i was reminded of some mix of DDO + GW2 for artstyle
dated graphics but very nice lighting and everything seems like a solo quest
disclaimer: any mmo newbie area is going to be infested w solo questing
its unclear if quests get better later
EQ2 fan sites
He makes a mistake quoting Bethesda as game developer.
The game was developed by ZeniMax , company that own Betsheda (but has no experience with making games)
I used to feel that way but times are changing. With today's games and each subsequent generation voice chat is becoming more and more the favored means of communication between players and in cases where the game shares platforms with consoles it is the best option. DCUO actually had a neat voice chat system for shared platform gaming that made chat bubbles irrelevant even for casual interaction (ie just have characters stand nearby one another.)
Zenimax Online developed the game, Zenimax Media is the parent company and Bethesda Softworks will publish the game.
I've noticed the same thing as well.
First time I played rift, at the very beginning of the game (even in the tutorial) there was "public quests". Hell, the first zone I played in outside the tutorial saw the entire zone invaded by planar beings and had me running around closing rifts with a few dozen other people, and then fighting a giant world boss.
I have yet to see anything remotely close to this from a single reviewer. I don't think anyone has even talked about any kind of a public dungeon. The closest I've seen is that everyone is rewarded for hitting a mob.
They talked a lot about how they were put focus on the social aspect of it being an MMO and going to bring people together to play, but it seems like they put more things in there to segregate players than they did to bring them together. I've seen it stated a few times by reviewers that it's actually rather difficult to even play with someone you know due to all the phasing barriers in place.
Trying to not break the NDA but there is a difference between soloability and no reason at all to group. He is talking about the latter.
Okay, what reason is there to group up in the first few levels of WoW, TOR, FF14: ARR, Age of Conan, Aion, LotRO, etc.? It just seems like complaining for the sake of complaining, for this has been true for pretty much every theme park that has come out in that last few years. They all cater to the solo players in the initial levels, and I honestly don't see a problem with this approach, for it allows the player to more easily get in tune with his character's capabilities and to familiarize himself with the gameplay.
Those games have plenty of group content in the leveling phase.
Because if I'm playing with my friends or grinding in the same area with other people someone isn't getting XP, so we would group.
In a game that rewards everyone just for tagging the mob, there's no reason to group.
Just because you can solo doesn't mean that there's no reason to group. However there can be very good reason for not grouping, like there literally being no reason to.
That's without even getting into the things that the RPS preview pointed out about the phasing and how it's actually difficult to play with friends.
Sorry, but I disagree. I soloed all of WoW's starting zones, all of LotRO's starting zones, all of Tortage, all of Aion's starting zones, all of TOR's starting planets, and Gridania in FF14: ARR, and I never felt the need to group up with anyone, nor were there any remarkable incentives to do so.
So removing kill-stealing is bad? The phasing, I will agree, has its drawbacks, but the added positives to the overall immersion and the story itself, in my opinion, far outweigh the negatives.
Not really saying it's bad.
It doesn't provide reason to group though. Neither have I ever seen it increase social interaction, it's been quite the opposite; it removes another reason to work with others and group up.
Yes, but you said: "In a game that rewards everyone just for tagging the mob, there's no reason to group." ESO rewards everyone that contributes meaningfully to killing a mob so that there is no kill stealing and so people can help each other without having to send a /party request to them.
I just want to defend a good game. I only hate them for this crappy NDA stuff, cause I cant call on false anouncements in threads or even reviews...