its pretty good. How annoying is it to type in 10 different names and they're all taken on something like yahoo.

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Originally posted by maplestone
With all the work in phasing and load-balancing going on, I suspect we will soon see experiments in another tier of content that falls between open-world and instances: maps that are open to a subset of players who are not formally grouped and who may or may not share a common objective.
Imagine a game with randomly-generated islands containing resources, monsters and puzzles.  Each island is essentially it's own little open world minigame that is shared by a random shipload of player characters.  You'd have a week to explore, harvest, build, challenge the monsters, etc before your ship leaves for home.  Some of the objectives would be solo, some would be cooperative, some might be competitive.  Each new island would be like starting a fresh little server with a bunch of strangers (or guildmates) for a week.

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And people caught up on me saying rat:D I admit I was being flippant but you know what I mean. All versus.

You know how it is in grouping, and this repeated experience the whole party sort of pummelling one mob. It doesn't quite seem right. (not that it needs to in gaming)

Surely a different mmorpgs may provide the challenge whereby your group is split up in a dungeon, each sort of facing their own challenges to sort of refind the rest. Or maybe there's Crystal Maze- like tasks to accomplish?

Of course there's shortfalls of the idea but it's a little bit of difference of challenge to the same old all-on-one-mob.

yeah to OP.

Perhaps in a magic the gathering type way. Or final fantasy X.

is it bad when anytime you view a mmorpg video its just not that exciting :D
Playing it is I expect. Just you watch a mmorpg video and it seems boring as hell.
That's not to criticise the OP, thanks for the video on it, just I expect some people know what I mean. It was the same when I watched videos for Vanguard when it was upcoming.

How many people do you know say:

'They tried X and could see how addictive it would be if they continued past the trial'

'They've tried X but heard of it's addictive reputation so are not going to subscribe'

the graphics aren't timeless like something like FFT, they are dated. What's most dated is the mechanics however. It will be interesting to see an Everquest:Next.

ah thats great, thank you.

Driving in America. On some roads is it possible for attention to be devoted elsewhere like on your mobile phone?

I'll explain, I know an American who joins a chatroom. And is using this irc while driving. Explaining that it's perfectly safe. To us Brits, it sounds crazy but I'm aware you have very long roads with not many cars on them at all. Is it safe? Or is this person taking risks?

The idea being finding mmorpg players in your state/country etc.
So the ethos of mmorpgs being social can sort of stretch to offline perhaps.

freemium is everywhere now. It's a popular model not just for mmos.

yeah agree there can be too many abilities aka WoW.
And also even in a fps- you have a limited array of abilities without diminishing the gameplay.

As part of it's main gameplay?

there seems to exist a belief where since it has 10 million players, and has a lot of polish- that it is unconceivable people can dislike or hate it? Eg, there will be people that dislike it- same for any movie, any game- some people may dislike Tekken or Soul calibur- even if they're quality or played a lot by people- there's also a lot of people that don't go on them.

However, I digress. I think the main problem is the lack of quality mmorpgs at the moment. That is probably part of irritation. Hopefully with these new ones around the block- maybe this will be change. So people can talk about other mmos, than be resentful of WoW being the only A+ one.

Which mmorpg should it be- make your argument.

It could be more challenging in the older mmorpgs. That doesn't say easier/harder. Just more challenging. Whether that's a good, or a bad thing. In terms of a tedious hell level, it would be a bad thing. In terms of say having every class to be in their toes to handle a tricky camp, while having to mana manage, and every class play their roles correctly, then that was probably a good thing.

Oh secondly. The other aspect being talked about is seemingly 'legwork', and whether that made a better game or not. In some ways it was, in some other ways it wasn't.

And there we go a balanced view.

from the screenshot- I like the looks of that.

not thrilled by it's graphics but it might be better than eq2, which is half a reason for playing it since the original EQ is too dated, and EQ2 was completely off the mark.

LoL has a good quality that mmorpgs suffer from- gameplay.

But to have no guild system in LoL, (or even inbuilt voice system) mmorpgs just trump that. It's inexcusable, and one of the reasons I stopped playing the game.

haha that's pretty good.