Drawbacks:

Disassociation, detachment, a feeling of futility, a loss of accumulated progress, a loss of accumulated reputation, forced replay of already-seen content and a general destruction of anything resembling a cooperative and/or persistent community.

It makes luck the dominant factor in character ability rather than skill.  Lag of any kind, bugs of kind, other players (even in PvE; a new, bad or unskilled player on your team will result in your charater being deleted faster than it otherwise would), exploration ... all become the enemy.

It would induce highly risk averse play habits that invariably views playing as a risk.

Doesn't sound fun in the slightest.

Originally posted by Afterlife
Getting around 350-520 ms ping from west coast U.S.

Averaged around 250~ to the Russian server with Frontier DSL from AZ.

Originally posted by blognorg
There's still a lot of hate for the F2P model. The most dire of it stems from P2W. However, it's been shown that F2P games can be fun and fair. Most people seem to be okay with cosmetic stuff, but game like GW2 have convenience items, as well, and I don't hear mass cries of P2W. So, where is that line drawn (if there is a line)? What kinds of stuff is accaptable for F2P, and what isn't? Also, some new ideas to throw around would be coool. What would you do?

I don't draw a line.

I have no objection to playing pay-to-win games to begin with.  I pay the amount I'm comfortable paying, as determined by how much I'm enjoying the game I'm playing and my current gaming budget.

If that amounts to $50 for the box, $30 for two additional months and $0 in the (non-existant) cash shop, then corporation gets $80 out of me.  If that amounts to $300 for the lifetime box, $0 for two additional months and $200 in the cosmetic-only cash shop, then the corporation gets $500 out of me.  If that amounts to $0 for the box, $0 for two additional months and $2000 in the cash shop, then the corporation gets $2000 out of me.  You can guess which one the corporation would prefer ...

In any case?  I consider the money well-spent so long as I enjoyed the process.

That is why we play these games, isn't it?  To enjoy and entertain ourselves?

Originally posted by Mythios11

.... games will continue to be released before they are ready

.... betas will continue to be sales events instead of actually helping to improve games

....  cash shops and character service fees will continue to infiltrate even subscription based games.

....  PR spins and false information will continue to delay improvements to games that need help.

....  MMO's will continue to cater to non-mmo players.

 

This is just a brief list of negative trends in the genre that seem to only be getting worse from year to year.   

The real question is, how do we as players help to stop these trends??

Most would say vote with your wallet but at the same time most MMO players I know (myself included) run out and buy whatever the latest game is in hopes that it will somehow be better than all the other mediocre releases of the past 6 or 7 years.

 

 

You're adorable!

We've been telling them for years what we want to buy.  Why are you acting all surprised when they make exactly (and only) what we've been telling them?  Oh.  Right.  "Words".  Our words are utterly irrelevant.  Our wallets are important.  Our actions are important.  Our words are sound and fury, signifying nothing.  By our deeds, you shall know us.

Dollar, dollar, bill, yo.  Heh.

Originally posted by GreenHell

..are these things really necessary in a modern MMORPG?  I think anything that prevents you from fighting or healing just seems like a cheap way out when developing a game.  In PvE it's annoying in PvP it almost seems impossible to even try and balance something like that.

When I say balance I am not looking for every class to be equal. I dont mind if class x has some advantage over class y. I dont mind the rock, paper, scissor approach that some developers take. I dont even mind roots or stealth classes. What bothers me is not being able to fight. I don't care if I lose as long as I had a chance.

Should there really be classes that are built around these mechanics?

 

Sounds awesome.  More CC please.  Don't like it?  Bring friends.  Can't CC them all (at the same time).  If I can?   Bring more (and smarter) friends.  You do have friends, right?

Voted:  "Other Reasons".

My reasons?

• Sandbox MMO tend to be focused on PvP to the exclusion of PvE.
• The community tends to suck.
• The graphics tend to suck.  The gameplay tends to suck.  The interface tends to suck.
• Bugs like woah.
• Tend to have a (very) small playerbase, if they have a playerbase at all.

http://kitsusaga.aeriagames.com/news/28207/kitsu-saga-important-announcement

The game servers are going down on July 14th and aren't coming back up again.  Its' dead.