</translation> Spank me! I've been sooooo bad!! Tie me to the wheel and spank meeeeee!!!!! </>
Yeah....
I have a job already thanx. If I'm going to do a job, then I should get paid for it and not the other way around.
I'm all for challenge but, as your post pointed out, MMOs don't deliver challenge. MMOs deliver grind. Grind is the very thing that most of us are trying to get away from when we play games.
We've debated this subject many times.......It still seems that thsoe that came from the old school games (EQ, UO, SWG, etc etc) want a tougher death penalty while those from the newer school games (WoW, LoTRO, WAR, etc etc) want no death penalty.....As for me I agree with the OP that the fear of dying and having a strong penalty for it creates emotions that are not there when there is no death penalty..... I hear people talk about WoW and how they think it is tougher than EQ raids used to be but I guarantee none of them were there when we wiped in Plane of Fear or when our group would wipe deep down in a dungeon with what looked like little to no hope to get your corpse back anytime soon....... The problem is that the no death penalty people have won....Even EQ itself went away from the tough death penalty and gave into the demands of gamers that want everything easy......You have to understand that the new philosophy is just about having fun, there is no challenge or cponsequences anymore.........
Some people like oranges some other like peaches. Its an orange better than a peach? are people that like oranges more intelligent, higher, sage,... than the others?
Lets for the sake of argument say that you like peaches and I like oranges. Now lets assume that for whatever reason people start eating more peaches, and some of the orange loving people decided to switch to peaches as well and pretty soon the farmers with all the orchards say well you know peaches seem to sell better, we're going to switch to peaches. Now I've never liked peaches, I loves me some oranges but now nobody wants to grow oranges. I go to the supermarket and spend a good long time looking for oranges but can't find any. All I can see is mounds of peaches everywhere! What am I to do. I don't like peaches. Perhaps I'm allergic to them and would like to get my daily fruit intake but I can't. Now what?
I'm with you on it. Unfortunately as in many other things money has the last word on it. Sovrath commented on this subject some posts before. Nothing to add to what he said.
Anyway my post was not on this meaning, sorry if it wasn't clear. It was addressed to these comments that always appear, not just in MMORPG field, from people that believe they have the truth and the rest of the world are stupid, just because they don't share the same tastes about games or any other thing. And of course it is not addressed to you in any way, its clear from your posts here that you aren't in this group.
You shoulda played AsheronsCall back in the days and went red.. (PVP). that gave the most rush. You could be standing in town trying to buy stuff or sell your stuff and you'd never know when someone would jump you..
the reason was because when you died.. all your shit dropped!! so staying alive was mucho important.
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Yeah....
I have a job already thanx. If I'm going to do a job, then I should get paid for it and not the other way around.
I'm all for challenge but, as your post pointed out, MMOs don't deliver challenge. MMOs deliver grind. Grind is the very thing that most of us are trying to get away from when we play games.
That's exactly it.
Lets for the sake of argument say that you like peaches and I like oranges. Now lets assume that for whatever reason people start eating more peaches, and some of the orange loving people decided to switch to peaches as well and pretty soon the farmers with all the orchards say well you know peaches seem to sell better, we're going to switch to peaches. Now I've never liked peaches, I loves me some oranges but now nobody wants to grow oranges. I go to the supermarket and spend a good long time looking for oranges but can't find any. All I can see is mounds of peaches everywhere! What am I to do. I don't like peaches. Perhaps I'm allergic to them and would like to get my daily fruit intake but I can't. Now what?
I'm with you on it. Unfortunately as in many other things money has the last word on it. Sovrath commented on this subject some posts before. Nothing to add to what he said.
Anyway my post was not on this meaning, sorry if it wasn't clear. It was addressed to these comments that always appear, not just in MMORPG field, from people that believe they have the truth and the rest of the world are stupid, just because they don't share the same tastes about games or any other thing. And of course it is not addressed to you in any way, its clear from your posts here that you aren't in this group.
Have a nice day
You shoulda played AsheronsCall back in the days and went red.. (PVP). that gave the most rush. You could be standing in town trying to buy stuff or sell your stuff and you'd never know when someone would jump you..
the reason was because when you died.. all your shit dropped!! so staying alive was mucho important.