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Dear Santa, I want a game with...
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- No loading screens at all.
- PvP that I can engage in if I want to.
- An economy that doesn't become a joke after 6 months.
- Regular expansions, but not so regular that old content dies a death.
- Crafting that is complex, demanding and rewarding and even scavenging raw material is fun.
- Realistic weather.
- Random events such as an earthquake or a "world" shortage of a mineral/raw material.
- Combat that is fun and requires a certain degree of skill.
- "Grind" hidden so well that you actually have fun again.
- A UI that just works and remembers just how you like it each and every time and is 100% error or keylogger free.
- A game with no gold farming or gold selling ever.
- A reasonable subscription plan, but 0 micro transactions, unless it is for frivoulous stuff that offers no player an advantage(even that shit is ebayed).
- A large mature community that doesn't forget that there is actually a real living breathing human being than you are talking to.
- A pro-active customer services team that instantly bans gold farmers and sellers and one that gives a great service on both sides of the Atlantic (and indeed across the world).
- Must have an engaging story, not too indepth that it gives you a headache but not too narrow that it is ignored.
- A game which challenges your PC just enough without requiring a LHC to cool it.
I know that there is no such that fulfills ALL the above and some of it is probably contradictory, but I can dream 
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lol great post!
I'd even pay a higher sub fee for a higher quality and premium product like you described.
Whats really sad is that games just 4 years ago used to cover almost all of these points. MMOs have fallen so so far. Keep your eyes on Darkfall, its essentially one of the last quality MMOs of the old style to be coming out.
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hehe, I like the earthquacke part ^^
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Sounds like Guild Wars 2 .
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Honestly, only game out there right now that really fits that is Vanguard.
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Nice post.
Let me add.
Darkfall and GW2 aren't released yet...
You know it, the best way to realize your dreams is waking up and start moving, never lose hope and always keep up.
You cant have a thriving economy without gold farmers unfortunately. If theres something someone wants bad enough to pay for it theres someone there to do it for the money.
Darkfall and GW2 aren't released yet...
A fact I know all too well. Though GWs isn't even an MMO, I don't have high hopes at all for GW2. Darkfall is really the only quality product on the horizon. If it can deliver.
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Good points, and all feasible except perhaps for the mature community. This is the one thing that developers can't control without alienating the populace through strict moderation.
I like deewe's points too especially
I don't understand why more random stuff doesn't happen, random = fun and must be fairly easy to do even if the randomness has a negative effect on your character. (correct me if I'm wrong but even Asheron's Call had this).
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Only game I know of with great underwater content are Dark Age of Camelot and EverQuest, not sure about EQ. GRRR why have MMOs REGRESSED?!
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Darkfall and GW2 aren't released yet...
A fact I know all too well. Though GWs isn't even an MMO, I don't have high hopes at all for GW2. Darkfall is really the only quality product on the horizon. If it can deliver.
Let me guess, you've never even played Guild Wars, and probably haven't done any googling for GW2... GW2 should fit almost everything on that list, even the gold sellers/buyers as thousands of them get banned every week.
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[*]weapons/armor that evolves or scales with lvling changes graphically better like a broken sword at lvl 1 fixes itself into a champions harbinger at lvl 100.
[*]unique evolution of characters like a character swims in a ocean for a while starts to slowly grow scales and attacks become water based.
or
[*]powerful character creation,armor,weapons equal to spores creature creater.
EVE is the closest game out there today that matches the items on your list.
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This idea is a major problem with gamers in mmo's. Cost per month doesnt matter, its all the number of subscribers. Servers are cheap and games dont take huge amounts of bandwith, the real cost of upkeep is in customer support. Your extra money would have no effect on quality even at 40 a month all it would do is keep 90% of the market out of your game and probably kill it.
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A Sandbox well made, I know it s a lot to ask, but ehi....if Santa cannot do it, then nobody can
1) You mean like in Lotro? Google lotro and legendary items.
2) Wouldn't be too hard, a lot of games have swimming skills, the higher they are, the faster you swim.
3) That will never exist, 3d modeling something like that takes ages, keep in pind that MMO's have a lot of armour pieces, weapons, etc. You'll easily end up with 200 models, + character creation like in spore (another 100-200), your own weapons, etc. So let's say it takes about a day to make 2 of those models (really hard to make). 250 days of work, with a couple of character modelers (usually about 2-3). So that's about 100 days of work, on 1 feature. And that excludes the complicated animations, as MMO's have tons of animations, way more than spore. You'll easily be working on it for over a year.
And the most annoying part, your creations will need to get constantly uploaded to other players. That is also a very big problem with playing RTS games online (when it's peer to peer). One person hosts the stuff for the others, you'll run out of bandwidth after about 10 days of serious playing, if you have a good ISP. And that is just for RTS's, MMO's quickly have 100's of players at the same place. A constant upload of your creations to 100 players, gives you about 2 days to enjoy the game... And, that is calculated with pretty small models (500 kb, including textures). While Spore has pretty huge creations, you need an additional 1 GB of space on macs, for your creations.
Would be fun yes, but can't work...
You know it, the best way to realize your dreams is waking up and start moving, never lose hope and always keep up.
In my opinion people seem to want many of the listed options in these wishlists but much of the time when they actually get some of them they still complain.
On another note, I've played several MMOs dating back to UO and some early MUDs before that and I have never contacted customer support other than an occasional question on a tech board.
Who are these people constantly calling support? I tend to think it is the same people calling computer tech support "Which one is the ANY key?"
Santa can not help you with your wish, because.. He actually does not exist, sorry to break it to you.. I know it's hard, but someone had to do this.
However, all hope is not dead. There is a company in Greece committed to dreamers like us - well, they're basically players that dreamt of a game as such. Guess what, they've been working on it, and it's almost done. Darkfall is really one game that many people who are sick of the mainstream MMORPGs have been waiting for, I strongly recommend you to check it out..
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Hogemann is right. AoC had it started out in the right direction with boobs. but me personally i need so much more. i want not only boobs but HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! boobs that move like real boobs and not just stick to your chest like bad implants. and oh so many times am i propositioned in AoC for some sexy time with the whores of hyboria but i can never accept!!! WHY!!!!!!?
i want a game where if a dirty npc whore goes hey thanks for saving me is there some way i can repay you *wink wink*, i can say YES! lift that skirt and bend over you stupid stygian bitch!
lol. fems in games ryt now are already too skimpy. showing off their boobs don't show any significant difference.
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The long list you have there is pretty much a description of a "perfect" game. I guess Santa won't be able to give your wants for the meantime.
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