All Posts by RedwoodSap

This was my first MMOG back in 1998 when Sierra owned it. It's a good game but I can't handle 2D for MMOs anymore.

Infinite levelling would be better than raiding any day or night.

Not unethical. Any guy that allows you to take advantage of him because he believes you are a female, is a fool and deserves it. Hopefully it will teach him a lesson for the real world.

SOE is the devil and anyone who disagrees with me is worse than Hitler.

watch Redeye!

http://www.foxnews.com/redeye/

Edwards is the lowest scum. Cheating on your wife who is dying of cancer. I bet his children are proud of their father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogu1wO-zbAU

Great ad.

I have a Gametap subscription and enjoy it very much.

Actually a WWI MMO would be more practical because of the static nature of the battlefront. I also like the time period better with biplane combat being a major attraction.

The game will be heavily instanced.

Dungeons will be instanced, parts of city PvP will be instanced, Mini encounters in the zones will be instanced.

Any MMOG that gives in-game rewards for out-of-game actions fails miserably at the MMO concept and experience of earning your way. How is this different from RMT?

Originally posted by Jabas

Im very very happy AION is one more game P2P without game shops, etc.

A game where everyone pays the same per mounth and everyone have access to same features,itens, quest, world zones, whatever in game.

 

Something like: i cant have a sword like u because im not rich in real life, its something i dont want to see in any game i play.

Real life is enouph for that kind of things.. 

 

 

QFT
 

Originally posted by Venger

Originally posted by TdogSkal

Yea because we all know that MMORPG.com poll show the whole story.

WoW = End game raiding = still going stong

EQ1 = End game raiding = still going

EQ2 = End game raiding = still going

L2 = PvP and raiding = still going.

I can list a ton more, Raiding is a part of MMOs and its here to stay.

Also as a Necromancer in EQ1 who did alot of solo, Soloing was hard to learn and do correctly but after you had it down it was nothing, Grouping in some places was a lot harder then any soloing I did.   Yes I was a raider in EQ1 and I soloed some of the hardest solo and non solo friendly places during my EQ1 career.

 

The question I would ask is are they still going strong because raiding is what people want to do or because that is all there is to do.  I raided in WoW for a time till it got to be to much BS drama and the only reason we were all there is because there was nothing else to do.

Good point.
 

If developers were not so lazy and more creative they would give us more options.

Originally posted by protoroc

Originally posted by Vendayn

how many people actually raid? It can't be that many compared to those who don't...so why do developers keep putting out these raids for such a small percentage that use them?

 

I would much rather craft, explore the world or do any number of things than raid.

 

Luckily for me, I could care less about having the "best" items...I just want to have fun. But it always confuses me why developers support a small percantage of raiders and pretty much forget about everyone else.

 

Seriously cut that bullshit out. Raiders are not some insignificantly small minority. Plenty of mmo gamers participate in raiding, I would say at least 50% of any player who has reached "endgame" have raided. Of course they sucked and couldnt make progression and blame it on others (as no one takes responsibility for their lack of skill anymore). Most soloers are bad and solo only to avoid being called on it.

We all know your biased against group play Vendayn, take your propaganda somewhere else. Raiding is not some tiny percentage or else so much time wouldnt be devoted towards it.

All the polling I have ever seen showed only about 10% of those responding indicating they actually enjoyed raiding while the majority, over 50%, vehemently didn't like it, and the rest not having a preference of  gamestyle or caring if raiding was part of the game design.

Originally posted by TdogSkal

Originally posted by Samuraisword

Only if those raid reward items are fully tradeable so non raiders have a legitimate way of earning them thru valid in-game trade without being forced into a boring linear gamestyle they don't enjoy.

 

Non Raiders should never have the ability to get the same rewards as a raider.  A raider puts in the time and effort to earn those rewards, a non raider chooses not to go on raids and by that choice chooses not to earn the same rewards.

Everyone playing any given game should have the same chance at every item in that game, well guess what everyone that plays that game has the chance at every item in that game if they choose to put in the time and effort. 

If they choose not to raid because they find it not fun then so be it but why should they have access to the same rewards as the players that choose to put forth the effort and time to gain the raid rewards.

Basicly it comes down to who is willing to work for the rewards.  Raiders are willing to put forth time and effort and in return gain access to the great raid rewards.   A non raider is not willing to put forth the time and effort and there for should not have access to the great raid rewards.

As far as why Developers include raid content in their games, I though that was fairly simple.  The whole point of any MMO is to create a world were players stay and play for extanded periods of time, the longer a player pays to have an account, the longer the company makes money....

Raids are a function to keep players paying for longer periods of time... It is that simple.

From a pure " work for it aspect ", soloers in classic EQ for example had to work a lot harder than raiders or group oriented players to level and kill high level mobs, yet they didn't get nearly as good rewards than many of the slackers who rode the coattails of others in a raid, as part of a large group.

Monotonous, boring, linear raiding with no trade tagged reward items are indeed a function created by stupid developers to force players to play longer. That only works for a certain amount of time though and alienates more players once they reach that raiding progression wall, because the majority don't enjoy raiding.

Originally posted by darwa

Just make up your own numbers mate - that'll be as reliable.

Afraid about the truth of your pet game showing low subscription numbers?

Greedy developers willing to sacrifice the quality and essence of a real MMOG, that's how.

Developers make more money on microtransactions via item shops etc. in supposedly free to play games. They are not free to play at all. In fact they will cost you much more than a flat subscription rate in order to compete and play on par with other players.