The only person I know who still plays EQ.

damim72 wrote:

If it's not "easy mode" I'll look into it. Everything I've heard is that it's going to be different from anything else out there. I'm all for that, but the past few years MMO's have really sucked balls.

The whole "easy mode" argument is complete bullshit, because there is no large market for an unfriendly and punishing game, with horrible AI and extreme grinding that is also completely unsoloable.

That said, I don't have any real interest in another WoW style MMO. They need to change it up big time, I need some novelty back.

I don't have a problem with being able to solo through an entire game, but I want there to be some risk. The games that I've played recently, there is zero risk. You are given a pointer on a map as to where to go, what to click, etc. That's just mind numbingly boring to me.

I've never been a fan of WoW's death system. It's too easy. You lose some money, but that's all. Death doesn't matter in the game, so there's no real risk associated with doing anything.

Xarpolis wrote:

I've never been a fan of WoW's death system. It's too easy. You lose some money, but that's all. Death doesn't matter in the game, so there's no real risk associated with doing anything.

Ultimately, all death systems in MMOs are a timesink, nothing more. Losing gold, losing experience, its all the same things, time. The questions is how much time? To me I just don't have the time to grind out losing levels and levels of experience like I did in EQ.

I wasn't so much worried about the experience. That was pretty meaningless. Especially once the 96% exp rez was put in.

The bigger issue was losing your gear until you were able to fight back to your corpse. That's what made death (for the small group at least) a little more risky.
It gave dungeon exploring, for example, more of a rush. You had a reason to play your best, because death wasn't pleasant.

The casual fans rule the roost though, we will never have a non pussy death system again.

They are just babies, and want everything handed to them for as little work as possible.

She updated her Magelo. Must have spies here.