somebody said DAoC was the first game to bring 'nationalism' to the realm of pvp, which is wrong.
At least one of EQ's original pvp servers consisted of 3 factions: Good, Neutral, and Evil. Depending on your race, you fell into one of these facti…
the MMORPG world is probably the worst place to look for professionally made games. it's full of cookie cutter korean games and games made by small time, poorly run companies -- everyone trying to get a piece of the pie.
the only mmo games i cons…
i don't like player driven story lines / games / etc, for the same reason i don't pay 7.50 to watch a home movie in a theatre on saturday night.
if i'm paying for a product i want the content to be created by professionals, not rank amateurs. i d…
it's real simple: you can't award exp for pvp in a pve game where you can't control the difficulty of the pvp.
how is blizzard gonna make sure your opponents are difficult (or not difficult) enough to warrant any amount of experience?
they can c…
As long as lag exists, it's impossible to simply have 1 mob physically interact in real time with multiple players around the world.
Since mob and player actions are delayed across all the various internet connections, nobody is seeing the mob at …
That's a terrible solution, actually, if you want to maintain a multiplayer / user shared world. Trading items and buying and selling from other players is a huge part of the MMO enironvment. Take that out of the equation completely and you will l…
Iit's real simple: These games are created to make money, not to appeal to a select group of traditional mmorpg enthusiasts. WoW is a good game. People like it and people pay to play it. It has something like 8 million subscribers. Good for Bli…
In short, what made up "Classic EQ" is a combination of everything they've tried to "fix" in games these days.
Some Examples:
- The game is tough. Dungeons are non-forgiving, the death penalty is high (you lose experience, even de-level), and p…
It's so funny that people will pay $30-$60 for console or single player video game with maybe 20-40 hours of gameplay -- but they whine and complain when they pay $30 for game that "only lasts a month", but often much longer, and adds content perio…
I have played just about everything the mmo market, whether it be retail boxed, or korean download only..
I can't say i played any PnP AD&D growing up, but I always played every D&D computer game I could get my hands - from pool of radianc…
banning gold farmers & buyers is just one of those thing's that'll always be ongoing -- although I'm sure it will become less prominent as time goes on..
there is no black and white 'formula' for finding and banning a gold seller. obviously y…
ancient relationship mantra: never stay with somebody based on what they 'could' become.
the same goes for mmorpgs. it is what it is. vg suxxors. some people will still go down with the ship, while swearing it's not sinking.