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• • Player Death v Immortality

  • Originally posted by ianonmmorpg
    

    As regards the hoarding problem, this is an issue of the economy of the world. If you want to horde timber from your local forest... sure go wild, not sure what your going to do with it all. And how exactly are you going to maintain your control over this pile of wood, it wont fit in any sensible backpack and you're going to need help moving it to the local 'bank' and why would you put wood in a bank? its worthless until you give it to folk who can use it. Just how much furniture do you want? The fact is, sure you can amass a great deal of wealth, but you'd need to employ other PCs in order to collect resources and process them or to control the economics of a city full of PCs. And lets not miss the point here... this will provide some of the dynamic for our stories.

    And also this is where PD kicks in as a great "keeping the economy fresh" element.

    If the local despot is hoarding all the food for the eventuality of war... Causing most players to get negative effects from hunger... They might just rebel and kill him. All will be well again. Or will it? If he survives he might start paying the local militia to instil fear on the population via daily executions. Perma Death at its best right there.

    While Sandbox is not the only way for devs to give us an evolving storyline... It'd be by far the easiest/cheapest. Because otherwise they'd need people to do that for them... To play the NPCs from time to time(Matrix Online does this and... it's awesome!), they also need people to write it and if they want Players to have some input on it... They'll need numerous ramifications on the story line... All done in advance since new content would also need to be placed and/or designed.

    Glad you liked the magic idea. For me the ideal game shouldn't limit itself to one kind of gameplay.. A stealthy character would probably play more like a game of splinter cell or Thief(Water arrows were so much fun). Oh... And fuck invisible stealth

  • Posted: 5/09/08 6:07 AM
    General Discussion
• • AoC-Finally, a Low Fantasy MMORPG!

  • Originally posted by Zorndorf
    

    Well I buy it because I follow every new MMORPG in these last years.

    (and I lost a lot of money on it).

    But seriously as a mainland European I don't think Conan has the lore to be much interested in.

    Most Europeans (even gamers) can only think of very bad B- films with the governor of California doing stupid actions in his underwear.

    Or other films like Red Sonja etc... didn't do good either.

    You can't even find the Conan comics (UK not counted) in Europe in the mainstream comics shops.

    Like I said I will buy the game because I follow the industry, but by sheer lore I am convinced there are far more better choices for Europeans (and don't forget Germany, France, etc are HUGE markets).

    Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Terminator (not a B film), even Tintin would have better suited lores to lure in the Europeans.

    The point is that it wasn't an unknown IP, not even in europe. It's like the saying goes... There's no such thing as bad publicity. And if you tell me that when you saw the name associated with the game, you weren't a bit curious to see what it was all about... I know you're lying

    Tintin MMO would be... special.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 2:08 AM
    Age of Conan
• • What fantacy MMO Will you be playing at the end of 08???

  • Originally posted by Zorndorf
    

    Here is the REAL stat of 08  to your question:

    http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html

    62.2 % plays Wow. 7.5 % plays Runescape.

    It just shows HOW far off MMORPG.COM has driven off from the MMO market.

    Interesting is that NOT ONE of the MMORPG's that were launched in the last 2 years attained more than 0.9%  ! ! ! (LOTRO).

    Fan boy of Wow? No I play all newly published MMO's. Just facts to replace everyone with his feet on the ground.

    
    Ok, the question was... "What will you be playing?"... Not "What are you playing?"

    mmorpg.com hasn't driven off from the MMO market, it just represents the veteran players of MMOs. I've been registered here since 2003, even though my post count suggests I'm not that active. This is not to make us sound elitist... But rather we've been seeing WoW for quite sometime, I remember when it came out most people hailed it like the second coming of christ... Today with all the WoW clones, it doesn't seem that special.

    Also consider that mmorpg.com has A LOT of wannabe devs(Me included). So we've usually become somewhat obsessed with pin pointing the gameplay weakness' of the various games out there... Reason why they all suck (We obviously could do better with limitless resources.)

    In short mmorpg.com hasn't driven off the MMO market... mmorpg.com has just been on the MMO market highway for too long and wants to take a leak.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 1:58 AM
    General Discussion
• • AoC-Finally, a Low Fantasy MMORPG!

  • You're right Funcom really went out on a limb here... I never heard the name Conan before...

    Oh... Wait...

    I kinda have to disagree with your claim about risk. They built their game on an existing and rather famous IP. Even if you weren't familiar with the novels... You at least had an image of Arnie wielding a broadsword while campaigning on California.

    Haven't tried AoC... I'm going to wait for the console version. I can't really run it on my laptop and... I want to support consoles as MMO platforms. That way I don't have to worry about upgrading a PC every year to run games with pretty graphics.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 1:46 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Bioware's new mmo concern

  • Originally posted by Lobotomist
    

    Just another MMOSPRPG = massive multiplayer singleplayer rpg

    Probably very similar to LOTRO .....

    
    QFT

    I'm pretty sure they'll have an awesome story, but... As MMOs go, we all know how the vast majority of players feels about story lines.... Quest lines amirite?

    I do hope they surprise me... But not likely, they're working for EA now.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 1:26 AM
    General Discussion