Random Ideas for the NEXT GENERATION
idea by idea blog whenever i think that i have a feature that would enrich mmo experience. i post them here and will brag about them later after someone implemented them, even if they werent original in the 1st place :)

What you say makes perfect sense, but you miss one important thing. People don't want challenges, people want to win. That's why you VERY rarely see balanced fights.

It's all about the wins, the gear, the status, not so much about actually having good, balanced opponents.

Many players are not very mature and they also have no position of power in the real world, so the game provides them with that power. MMOs are very perverse, since the less of a real life you have, the better you are. So people sink loads of time into the game, to get the uber levels and gear... and then think they are really good because they can beat people in unbalanced fights.

Any good PvP game should always have both parties starting from the same basic premisses. using a point cost system or some other way of balancing play. Sadly this goes against the MMO premisse or grinding for the levels/gear...

well even if ppl wanna win, mmoo companies want to make money

whenever someone wins, someone else looses.
ppl that loose to often to griefers will eventually quit the game.

so to keep the mayority of the people happy the game has to be balanced and the pvp has to be fun for the good and the bad pvpers as well.

imho having a league system eventually is better then introducing pve servers where bad pvpers have to hide.

I never understood why companies make the games such a grind. Even WoW, which is considered to be "easy" and "quick" to progress becomes another job for any serious player. You NEED 3+ hours a day or more to be competitive, loads of people put a lot more in really.

I'm a bit at odds with MMOs now I guess...

I find it interesting that you think PvP requires more skill than PvE :)

I found your idea’s interesting, but I’m not in total agreement with them all.

1. The aging character, it should be very do-able even with existing games and they could create a server that does such a thing. I’m not sure 3 years is long enough, but to have my toon gain a permanent scar from a lost battle or from a fierce fight where something monumental happened (I.E. crit. hit by an epic mob, or acquired an epic item and here’s the scare to prove it) I know that doesn’t address the issue of new players entering the game at a later stage, but I doubt you could convince people to watch all their hard earned work go to waste.. a thought I had was wipe away the level requirements and caps to games, let a level 50 party with a level 20 toon and let the level 50 character continue to gain levels without a cap, just my thoughts, but its still an interesting idea
2. The fan sites, not so do-able. You know as well as I do that as soon as someone writes out the directions on a ‘how to acquire X’, its going to get swapped around and posted. Does this mean the company has to divulge their entire database to these people…no, but it will be hard to control. I actually want more unique qualities to my toons, wardrobe, skills, spells, items, etc. All the toons, look the same at end game, we all want to acquire the same loot, the best items so we all end up looking the exact same. Why not have more one-of-a-kind items in the game with a lore and history of their own…
3. PvP Leagues, very do-able and surprisingly not done in any game I’ved played. I totally agree with you, all the griefing done in games is not only annoying, its very discouraging to the new player, and the people doing the griefing are normally the biggest trouble-makers in the game anyway, so a way to curb this as well as creating some kinda PvP tier system so the better players don’t batter beginners in what would obviously be a slaughter.

So while we might not agree on all the points in your post, were much closer in opinion than we differ, nicely done.

Cheers,

Kamyn