I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of
fanbois suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear
something terrible has happened.

I've noticed that the majority of people in Second Life are non-gamers, so you see a lot of communties dedicated to things such as religion, politics, roleplay fantasies, ethnic culture, fanaticism. Instead of common goals such as reaching the highest level, going to raids with friends that you'd expect from other MMORPGs, you find people's focus primarily on trying to sell some junk they made ingame for real currency, obsessing themselves with the online communities, spending time in the casinos(I think Linden Labs got into some legal trouble and had them removed though) or "sex clubs"(please..seriously?...).

Second Life is an example of a game world that has completely sold out to real world commercialism and moral values. There are sims completely dedicated to corporations, televisions shows, sexual fantasy, roleplay, whatever. I am in no way religious, but I think they might as well change the game's name to Sodom & Gomorrah Online.

I think Age of Conan could appeal to many players who have steered away from MMOs in the past, especially because of it's action-oriented combat.

I get the urge to play Pong all the time. It's about as repetitious as most of these MMORPGs.

I do not think the price will go up any time soon. One reason is that I think the limitless "supply" of the game will keep the price of any MMORPG from going up. Now if there were a limit to the number of total subscribed players a game could have, then we might see a raised fee.

I don't know about epeening but when I played SWG I remember housing & player cities being something that brought the community together. It was a positive thing.

Originally posted by daarco

Good post there Keridwan.

But for me beeing from Sweden, its sounds weird to hear female/male gamers. We have only gamers. There is no difference.

I don't like the "female gamer" stereotype. It seems like it implies that the way women play games is going to be inherently feminine. If I were a doctor I would not wished to be labeled "female doctor" or treated as if that designation meant something different and as a gamer I consider myself no different than any other gamer.

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Regarding the weather system:

• What kind of weather can we expect to see(snow, hale, rain, thunder)?
• Will it be fully dynamic or a static/triggered event?
• Will it affect gameplay(hindered movement, bad visibility, death by lightning )?

New Order simply because it could be a new IP and also bring in fans of the movies. While KOTOR was great, the more I think about it the harder I think it would be to play a Star Wars MMO without being able to visit Coruscant, Tatooine, and Yavin IV.

If anything will screw up the Bioware MMO it will be EA.

Well don't forget SWG didn't have player cities until months after launch. Things can be easilly implimented as long as the core foundation of the game is there.

Dealing with SOE was always a struggle while trying to enjoy Star Wars Galaxies for three years. It wouldn't have been possible to enjoy those years if the community wasn't so friendly and the gameplay didn't have so much depth.

Regardless of how fun SWG really was, SOE really did an amazing job at screwing the players in the community. I can't recall a single example of SOE doing something the community called for or that the game really needed. The holocrons, lack of support and updates for Jump To Lightspeed, the linear joke that was Kashyyyk, the old man/village. It was only a matter of time until SOE really did something to kill the game.

I won't be paying for another SOE product, published or produced, ever again. Maybe that's a little drastic but after seeing what little they have done with other MMOs they have acquired and the lack of interest they show their communities, I couldn't care less about SOE's future products.

The horse will be my mount of choice simply because speed will be necessary as a ranger.

It would be nice if Funcom added a little depth to the mount system. Masters are supposedly able to build stables - it would be great if you could breed different horses, sell them, name them, give them custom armor & bridle.