Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by MMOExposed

When you build your MMO, to be more rewarding, more fun, more features at a MAX LEVEL than at a lower level, PEOPLE WILL OBVIOUSLY RUSH TO CAP.

How do you explain people still rushing in GW1 and GW2 then?  I mean, you see the brick wall directly across the roadway up ahead of you, you see the road aiming right at it, who's really to blame for you standing on the accelerator the entire trip?

Your preconditions don't apply, yet they play the game the same way.

well in GW1 you have skills your character unlocks by leveling. Faster you level, the faster you gain acess to more skills to used on your build. pretty simple really to define a reason to rush in that game as well.

But that is not the only way to make a game these days. Private companies (though few and far in between) do just as well on the MMO market as publicly traded companies. While true that they have slightly smaller user base, it is typically (from what I have seen) more dedicated. And while they make significantly less money over all, they have no one to pay back or really pay out to. Many structures like this go hand-in-hand with being their own isp, even and having full in-house tech support on-call.

The private comopany may never explode onto the scene like some big new MMO but their employees are better paid with the biggest pressure on their shoulders being self-placed. Once upon a time the majority of MMO's were private endevours. clever guys in a basement building a dream. imo, The real shift came when big companies and investment firms and the like started showing interest in them as a possible avanue of making money. And, I really think it stays that way primarily not because players demand streamlined or their backers do (as many of these MMO developers are sub-divisions of their parent companies who don't directly regulate them or interfere as long as the profits keep rolling in). But, cowardice towards the ends of trying something different.

Laying it all on backers, or players for wanting it the way it is...it's just making excuses for people. And, showing un-founded cause why things can't change. Obviously there are enough people on these forums alone who would like some significant change, and you see these same types in-game and on the forums for the respective games in which change may be warranted. There are plenty of people I think who would even pay more to get over all higher quality. The desire is their, the drive isn't. And, IMO that part of the blame can be laid on developers, without tired attempts at laying it on the shoulders of the supposed pressures they get from both sides, thus making everyone to blame, so nothing gets done about it.

Originally posted by SuprGamerX
A quick question , "Rush mentality to be blamed on Devs" I got that , but who the hell keeps playing those types of games in the first place? Devs go with that sales and is popular.   Like sex , we all know sex sales , put a sexy bikini babe in a mcdonalds advert and you'll see their market shares skyrocket within 10 minutes.

rofl.  nothing get me hornier than a skinny chick stuffing her face with a big mac.  makes me hungry too.