Ok , SOE is marketing the game, not desiging or enhancing it.  Read about it.  I was an EQer and than a SWGer.  So the anger toward SOE about what happened with SWG I know first hand is warranted.  But here the game design is not in SOE's hands. 

As for Vangaurd being geared more toward hardcore players, I applaud them for being up-front about it.  Sure there are areas that casual players can enjoy without alot of risk, but the meat is in the  HIGH-RISK stuff.  Really that concept isn't much different than any other game.  I just dont see how people can think " Well I dont want to put the time in to the task but I want the reward".  As for corpse runs, fine there are corpse runs, you know it going in. An anyone that has Beta tested or read about Vanguard knows this.

If you ask vetern players of SWG , what is the worst part of the NGE ( New Game Enhancements ), most I have talked to ,say it was the dumbing down of the game, as a 2+ year vet of SWG I am in that category.  Vanguard sounds like it will be a challenging game, no place for the carebear, silverspoon types. I am fine with that.  Some arent and that is ok, there are many-many games that give you stuff for doing nothing or very little.  IMHO I certainly hope Vanguard doesnt turn in to one of them.

Good overview and I agree, but you're wasting your time. People that dislike Vanguard do so for their own reasons which defy any logic. You'll never get through to them because they don't want to like it. Someone in EQ wouldn't include them in their reindeer games and they won't ever forget it, or something like that.

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Originally posted by anarchyart
Someone in EQ wouldn't include them in their reindeer games and they won't ever forget it, or something like that.

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haha i bet that is true in alot of cases, funny stuff!