I'm perfectly content with a developer, and a game that discourages people from acting like asshats, better yet, when they do they can't really do a damn thing to set me back or harm my character. It's fantastic. If people don't like that, I hope they find themselves another game. Griefing and faggotry aren't something I like to deal with, so I truly enjoy the route that Arenanet is taking.
I want to play with my friends, and I certainly don't want some ass-clown trying to ruin my fun.
I'm not sure why anybody would be against a game that includes, at its core, mechanics to prevent what MOST people hate, i.e., Kill Stealing, Griefing, Loot Stealing, Camping and Botting. Unless... you actually DO like doing that stuf, in which case I'm GLAD you won't be happy with GW2 and will go someplace else. And these are built-in core mechanics, not stuf tacked on as anti-griefing penalties, need vs greed "honor" systems, etc.
To make a game that takes lessons from over a decade of MMOs and actually tries to implement something different to avoid the same 'o' same 'o' seems to be the only way to advance the genre away from the formulaic yawnfests we're seeing with nearly every release these days.
OK, I may never see pre-CU-SWG style crafting and gathering again, but at least I won't have some over-powered gentleperson run in and splat that quest boss I've waited a half-hour to spawn and must now wait another half hour. And when a piece of gear drops that I actually DO need AND I win a roll for it (which happens about once a year for me), I won't have to listen to 10 over-geared-already tells about how a bad player as myself doesn't deserve to roll need on the thingie. Because there'll be no roll and we'll all get what we get.
This seems like great stuf to me.
-- Xix "I know what you're thinking: 'Why, oh WHY, didn't I take the BLUE pill?'"
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I'm perfectly content with a developer, and a game that discourages people from acting like asshats, better yet, when they do they can't really do a damn thing to set me back or harm my character. It's fantastic. If people don't like that, I hope they find themselves another game. Griefing and faggotry aren't something I like to deal with, so I truly enjoy the route that Arenanet is taking.
I want to play with my friends, and I certainly don't want some ass-clown trying to ruin my fun.
The PvE maybe casual. But dungeons and world PvP are supposed to be the bridge to hardcore. Hardcore being e-sport GvG part of the game.
GW1 had one of the top e-sports for an MMO, I don't think ArenaNet would throw that away.
I'm not sure why anybody would be against a game that includes, at its core, mechanics to prevent what MOST people hate, i.e., Kill Stealing, Griefing, Loot Stealing, Camping and Botting. Unless... you actually DO like doing that stuf, in which case I'm GLAD you won't be happy with GW2 and will go someplace else. And these are built-in core mechanics, not stuf tacked on as anti-griefing penalties, need vs greed "honor" systems, etc.
To make a game that takes lessons from over a decade of MMOs and actually tries to implement something different to avoid the same 'o' same 'o' seems to be the only way to advance the genre away from the formulaic yawnfests we're seeing with nearly every release these days.
OK, I may never see pre-CU-SWG style crafting and gathering again, but at least I won't have some over-powered gentleperson run in and splat that quest boss I've waited a half-hour to spawn and must now wait another half hour. And when a piece of gear drops that I actually DO need AND I win a roll for it (which happens about once a year for me), I won't have to listen to 10 over-geared-already tells about how a bad player as myself doesn't deserve to roll need on the thingie. Because there'll be no roll and we'll all get what we get.
This seems like great stuf to me.
-- Xix
"I know what you're thinking: 'Why, oh WHY, didn't I take the BLUE pill?'"