/sign Dana, period!

Originally posted by Parsalin

I play a decent sandbox game, just to list what i did today.

Today, i began by getting out of bed streching having a meal and some water because im out of grape juice, grapes are out of season you see.

After breakfest i went out and milked the cows, checked to make sure the pregnant cows were still pregnant and that none had given birth in the night. two calfs were born, so i placed them in a seperate pen with lots of food so they could grow up fat.

One old bull had passed away "waste not want not" i made some leather which later ill make some repairs on my studded leather armor. the meat i harvested from the bull weill go intot omarrows breakfest or perhaps dinner.

I took the milk i had gather and made cheese, then took the chease and fed it to the pigs, they are pigs so they eat alot....

I knoticed some trees near my village were getting up to size to be use able in my boat crafting, so i felled them later ill make planks which ill add to boats.

I knotied some cracks in my stone walls around my farm, so i went down intot he mine and gatherd some perfectly sized shards to repair the wall then of course tended to my farms which will feed me further whent heyre are ready to be harvested.

I then decided to go hunting , and so i trecked off east into the forest with my trusting compass and long sword, wearing my recently repaired studded leather armor, as i crept thru the forest in search of a good sized buck to take down, i came apun some webs no sooner then i knoticed the webs i found a huge spider apon me. and so i ran, for i was ill prepared for spiders. I made some distance drew my bow and took aim. MARK the spider falls, and i move in to harvest my prize, and fail creating a terrible mess which i could only bury in shame.

Some time after finding my prize buck and gather all the hide i would need to make another set of leather armor for a friend i returned home to begin working on this new set iw ould craft with care., as night approuched, i retired to my bed, who knows what tomarrow will hold, perhaps ill log in now and find out.

BTW i play wurm online. Feel free to come join me, perhaps well move mountains.

More power to you man, but I find that game to be clunky and the client is horrible.  I like the idea of it, and I hope it continues to evolve just like A Tale in the Desert.

I tend to agree with the author for the most parts, but there are too many misguided notions about what a Sandbox MMORPG should be these days.

Best article i have read on this site.. I have been wishing for another sandbox mmo for years. UO was my first mmorpg and i loved it. I wish they would update it or some developer grows a brain and improve upon this wonderful game. I have always wondered why no one has made a new one. Good read

I rarely ever post, but this made me want to comment, as a player of the old uo, i agree with you 100%. Right on, miss!

in a perfect world all those things could work. if only technology was better than it is now we could immerse ourselves completely and have all the great wants. unfortunately this isnt a perfect world. i am about to play eve and i just would like to know if there are any other mmorpgs that are good besides wow and gw or w/e. i am mainly a console player and i love the story driven games alot, but hate the lack of freedom with what i can do in the universe. is eve a good game for that? or is there any other games out there for me?

Originally posted by Azrael2009

in a perfect world all those things could work. if only technology was better than it is now we could immerse ourselves completely and have all the great wants. unfortunately this isnt a perfect world. i am about to play eve and i just would like to know if there are any other mmorpgs that are good besides wow and gw or w/e. i am mainly a console player and i love the story driven games alot, but hate the lack of freedom with what i can do in the universe. is eve a good game for that? or is there any other games out there for me?

I've played Eve off and on for almost four years now. Its a fun game made by a great company(CCP). BUT, Eve is pretty much what you make of it.  From what I'm told, the PvP side is fun. But I've never left high security space, and just run missions and mine once in a while.  There are many more missions now than a couple of years back, and they are adding more story line missions.

Bravissimo Dana a great article on a great subject...

I had a log time to read something about mmos that i agree 100% with ... You re the man . Keep it up

You guys often write a bunch tripe, but this is a pretty good article.  Even though I wish Darkfall all the best, and it has its place because many people do enjoy it for its FPS-PvP-24/7 style, it is most definitely not a sandbox.  A sandbox does not exclude non-PvP playstyles.  It is immersive and should allow a player to just 'live' in the world without being forced to grind/compete.  It can still be in the form of a conquest MMO but the game design needs to inherently benefit community builders more than destroyers purely because there are so many fewer people that are able to create/build.

After reading I really felt the urge to play "Ultima Online" and "SWG" again. Sandbox game or but those games really gave me the sandbox feeling. The freedom you had there was the best in my opinion. Most mmorpg have a player driven economie, but on SWG for example you could really influence this with for example rare/unique mine spawns and top of the line items.

Very Nice article, it really feels like someone took all my posts over the past 10 years from everyone on the net, cleaned that up and better prhrased it and then posted it.

Everything said in it are points which I myself share, this thread should serve as a guide to new and future Devellopers who have never experienced all these things back in the days of UO.

Excelent Read! :)