Bioware's Plans - Page 4

Bruised · 09-11-2007, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by RadarX

Too many people who ARE old school don't really want things just as challenging as they used to be.

There's nothing wrong with a challenge. But when that challenge is arrived at via an endless grind (raiding) the carrot at the end of the stick isn't worth chasing anymore.

A lot of us started raiding in the early days of EQ and have kept up with raiding through various games through the years. The only thing has changed is the graphics, the names of the mobs and the name of the company getting the monthly fee.

Pattern recognition slowly sets in, and some come to the conclusion that 20 hours a week to get virtual shiny bits has a shitty ROI.

Ily · 09-12-2007, 01:18 PM

a shitty Robe of the Invoker?
LOL, sorry, couldnt resist.

kythik · 09-16-2007, 05:14 AM

I think wow really has part of it right. Sorry but being LFG for hours sucks ass while trying to grind. Unfortunately in pure group based games that LFG time will always exist. Getting a healthy balance is really difficult. Its something you have to design your game upon from the beginning, so far no1 has done that.

SageGaspar · 09-17-2007, 01:23 PM

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His personal experience is that he'll drop in and out of WoW at a whim with no ill feeling. However, he didn't think it was relevant that WoW doesn't delete inactive characters -- the "namespace" freed by deleting characters makes them worth deleting. He warned gamers get dissatisfied "if it takes more than three tries before they can have a name that they want."

FAIL.

He is right about PvP though, and all kinds -- speed trials, base wars, battlegrounds, arenas... The other thing that I think is missing is fun gameplay before taking into account that you're playing with other people. Make the basic mechanics interesting.