Arlen Bouldersmi

because once your at the cap in a grp or raid thats it - adding anymore is just wasted - and thats the problem - if i can cap out with what i get from instances whats the freaking point of raiding for better gear???

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Arlen Bouldersmi

Doh!!! chuckles - I didnt post it here cuz I really dont need to call him retarded, he does that just fine all by himself. But I will give myself a "stupid" for not realizing this.

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LFG

It's all good man, I just felt like this was a better section.

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Fisstafury

I was gonna say "fuck Caswydian in the ass", but i realized how long that would take. With how slow SOE is on everything else, I'm sure they're taking their sweet time burying themselves in his colon.

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Thelounge

rated 5, cause casuals fucking suck <3 the hardcores.

Fuck people like Radar and Coyote <3 ladies...

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Leithe

Scientific geniuses, inventors, past activists, etc are definately less than 1% of 1% of the world population. Does that mean we should have ignored them because they they wanted/brought about change?

The historically notable ones were obviously not ignored. Not that I'm saying raiders are historically notable people, but think of it this way.... This is just an example, not an exact number by any means. 1/10 raiders is a good player, 1/100 groupers is a good player, 1/1000 soloers is a good player.

Raiders USUALLY (but not always) tend to be where the better, more knowledgable players are. Not saying there are none in other 'communities', but their feedback, when submitted intelligently, should be given serious thought.

Read: Cas sounds like a retard. 5/5 for sure, and I agree with the OP.

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Arch0n

Douches, Cas is a troll. Any and all effort spent on rationalizing with him equals wasted effort and feeds said troll. He is not HERE for rational arguments.

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Morgander

I've said it for years, one of THE NUMBER ONE KEY REASONS PEOPLE PLAY MMORPG's IS FOR SELF-BETTERMENT.

This mostly means loot, period. If it doesn't mean loot, it means prestige a player can acquire through whatever alternative means that particular game allows such as visual appearance in City of Heroes, total kill count in Planetside, or pvp statistics in World of Warcraft.

People play for other reasons, but at the end of the day, everyone wants more; something they don't have right now, that's what keeps them logged in every day, that's what keeps them logging in another day.

I believe that it doesn't matter if only 1% of the player base can achieve the top end accomplishments a game has to offer because for the remaining 99%, the mere idea that those accomplishments exist for their eventually acquisition is what's keeping them coming back for more.

I know why Everquest enthralled us so much in 99. I know why us old schoolers beg developers to reinstate those feelings back into a future mmo, it's because Everquest appealed to our sense of desires, our desire to accomplish and achieve and be rewarded for our efforts.

You may not have had the best equipment your mmo of choice had to offer, you may not have accomplished the highest rank, had the final armor graphic you always sought after, but that's the trick of it all anyway; you kept logging in because you didn't have it, and even for those who did, games like Everquest where so dynamic that no matter how hardcore you were or how affluent with the game you were, you always had SOMETHING else you wanted that was just out of your reach, even if it was only because it was ultra rare, you were unlucky, or the creature that dropped it was contested, or a combination of all three.

So sure, only 1% of the player base might actually achieve the top end, but the other 99% feed off what the other 1% are already experiencing. Why do you think guilds such as Fires of Heaven became so dominantly famous? Their website still gets more hits per day than ANY single Everquest or Everquest II sight in the world. That's first and foremost because what they were doing, everybody else was dreaming of doing. They experienced those things through those people, just as we do in real life.

You wouldn't mind being rich would you? Or powerful? Owning a mansion? Eating with the elite? Fine dining? Exquisite clothing perhaps? It's funny how prominent shows like Cribs are, and proves my theory in many regards.

Only the top of the world's elite hold the majority of the world's money and power, but we all wish we were those people. In fact, the American dream is to in fact work towards our own little fortunes, to inspire ourselves on to fame and wealth, and seeing that others out there have achieved it push us further and spur us on.

As they do in the mmo's we play.

Morgander

In fact, I just thought of something. The idea that development should primarily focus on solo (or low end content) is ridiculous.

What if the real world worked that way? The vast majority of societies today have systems in place that reward hard work in a vast variety of ways.

If you get an education, you'll open doors to further progress on career paths.

If you work hard at your career, enhanced promotions and job security are bound to become more accessible.

Communism, while often looked at with too negative a light, did have its setbacks, but then again so does capitalism and governments run by a republic.

Communism's major setback was that the individual had no means to develop themselves by. Communism was all about the majority, about giving everyone the same opportunities which mostly meant everybody had the means to sustain themselves on an at least basic level. This is just like low-end content in an mmo. Soloing is the basic means to sustain yourself. You can level, you can get equipment, but you'll never be considered elite, you'll never have glorious rewards, you'll never be anything more than a community of people who are all the same and never stand out.

This of course meant for the peoples of many communism countries that working hard was pointless. Why should we want to train to become doctors and lawers if garbage men, street cleaners, or waiters made the same kind of money? Some might for the sake of the career itself, or because of a personal's whim to help people, but that's not really the point (and in fact, doing it to help other people would in fact mean you're getting more gratification out of it than normal, which helps express my point).

So again, you can accomplish the unaccomplishable. You can be the most elite your server has to offer, and if you work hard (assuming your government (development in this case) has allocated enough resources (such as raid content and deviation from solo content) for you to better your position in life, you can in fact rise to the top and have everything you always desired.

The key is you have to work for it, and in no way is low-end content more work than that of high-end.

Cuz

Cas's opinion on hardcore raider's is moot because he's just projecting SOE's.

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