Fed up with the easy mode changes? - Page 2

koers · 08-30-2009, 04:42 AM

This shit happens in any MMO. Old content becomes outdated and ultimately pointless beyond giving some schmucks a sense of useless nostalgia. To the rest of the population, including the all important new players, it becomes a stumbling block on the way to the current content, which is where the vast majority of the population of the game resides.

These changes you so lament are designed to get people through the old content sooner without completely removing it. It's simply a natural and necessary change to allow the game to continue developing. If you can't get over that your only option is to only play games at launch (and maybe +1 expansion) or else you're going to continually face this kind of disappointment.

Diogenes · 08-30-2009, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by The-Order

Typical response from someone who doesn't experience a game, you causal-lazy players are the death of the gaming industry.

Uhm, no. Vanguard is the very best example how hardcores killed a game. It's simple: Hardcores can't maintain an epic MMOG because they are simply not enough. Therefore hardcores have zero rights to have an epic MMOG for themselfes. If they do like they did in Vanguard they ruin the financial base of the game and it ends up as Livegamer crap.
The place where the hardcores have to be in an epic MMOG and be happy for getting that bone is the small niche of contested raid mobs. Not more.

Edwin Ahe · 08-30-2009, 05:58 AM

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Uhm, no. Vanguard is the very best example how hardcores killed a game.

I LOL'd

Bloodlich · 08-30-2009, 06:02 AM

All I know is running instead of taking a horse is really hardcore.

Darq · 08-30-2009, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Bloodlich

All I know is running instead of taking a horse is really hardcore.

That's also why the song goes RUN to the hills and not RIDE to the hills
duh

keldo · 08-30-2009, 07:28 AM

There is a thread in testing feedback complaining about swimming skill ups being made too fast. Just shows that some people will literally complain about anything.

Seriously tho, swimming skill ups? Pick your battles, people!

Morara · 08-30-2009, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Bloodlich

All I know is running instead of taking a horse is really hardcore.

It's especially hardcore running in a zone that's been gray for 3 tiers.

Deson · 08-30-2009, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes

Uhm, no. Vanguard is the very best example how hardcores killed a game. It's simple: Hardcores can't maintain an epic MMOG because they are simply not enough. Therefore hardcores have zero rights to have an epic MMOG for themselfes. If they do like they did in Vanguard they ruin the financial base of the game and it ends up as Livegamer crap.
The place where the hardcores have to be in an epic MMOG and be happy for getting that bone is the small niche of contested raid mobs. Not more.

Actually, hardcores didn't kill Vanguard, developmental incompetence did. There is no way to argue for or against hardcore players based on Vanguard and attempting to say hardcore players can't support a game is attacked daily by EVE.

Pinski · 08-30-2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Pink Poodle

EQ2 is more casual EQ1. If you want hardcore play EQ1 or FFXI. Or EVE.

Or Lineage.

alvarez · 08-30-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The-Order

Is anyone else out there sick and tired of the small changes that have been added over the past few years in this game? Some recent changes include skill ups go faster, also they changed a shit load of epic mobs down to just Triple up heroics in all the old world zones. Little changes here such as adding horses in Lavastorm or Looping Plains. Lavastorm used to be this huge scary zone that was dangerous, now its a fuckin baby zone where you can just fly clear up to the top. What happened to the adventure? Are gamers or developers just becoming lazier and impatient then they used to be? Any other veteran players sick of this game being made easier all the time?

everybody here stopped raging about shit being made easy last month man, you're too late. if you bring this up now you'll get urinated on because we've gotten used to stuff being made easier in general and decided we like it.

oops too late.