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Would you play a MMORPG if you could not GOOGLE the quests for help
mikecackle
Member Posts: 151
If it was possible to make a game, where GOOGLE would be no help to your questing or any website for that matter, to look up information on what you needed to do or where exactly to go... Would you play that MMORPG? Or would it be too hard or boring for you?
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Mike Cackle
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i play all of them without google
but i yahoo them
Sure would. How much achievement is there in solving a puzzle by looking up the answers?
Better yet you can get a mod that tells you what quests to do, how to do them, and the quickest order to do them to level up the fastest.
a HUGE plus for me in The Secret World was doing the investigation missions without google (well, except the things where you're expected to use google, that is, like searching for morse code)... so I guess for me it would be a "definitively".
Actually, back when I played WoW the only times I searched for a specific quest was if I had been wacking mobs where the quest text told me to for a while and hadn't gotten a drop yet, and was to confirm whether I was killing the wrong mobs or was just a rare drop. It's actually a pet peeve of mine in new MMOs, most rely in the "mark where to go in map" thing for quests, and I'd turn it off if the games didn't rely on them so much that the quest texts no longer give you references of where to go (south of XXX, follow the road past YYY, things like that)
What can men do against such reckless hate?
Mess with the best, Die like the rest
in old school games yes, but sometimes a new system may evolve where that might not be possible...
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Mike Cackle
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I can't decide if this is a serious statement or not.
If not serious, well done you caught me.
If serious, thats kind of sad. How is it impossible to not use google or really any other program than the game itself?
No.
But nto for the resons your thinking.I just don't want to have to turn off all public chat channels due to the enormous increase in stupid questions and begging such a system would bring.
Just ask in chat.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
I beleive youh ave misunderstood his statement.What he is saying is it's impossible for there to be a MMORPG that you could not google quest help for because you can't stop people putting up guides or stop people using them.
He is not saying it's p[ersonally impossible for him not to use google to solve quests.
Ah. That makes sense
You couldn't really do it in chat either, because then it would make it to a site or Google....
Regards,
Mike Cackle
My YouTube Channel
Isn't denying yourself access to information in an information age just a quiet form of masochism?
Still, the last online puzzle I coded hit the web as a walkthrough in less than 30 minutes. :shrug:
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
It's not just a matter of one person choosing not to look up game information online. It's that, regardless of what you do or don't do, everyone else expects you to. New raid bosses are good examples, in that if you didn't know the fight (hadn't watched a youtube video or something), you probably would get passed over for someone who did. Same thing with character spec's and gear choices. It's all BiS or you don't go. This criticism is mainly aimed at WoW, since it's where I got to experience it as a raid leader taking in people with those very complaints, but I imagine it's the same other places.
Of course it's moot with WoW now, since they opted to simplify fight mechanics to facilitate the raid finder. That and, people are going to keep standing in the "fire" anyway now that you can't tell what's good (healing rain) and what's bad (blue circle of death puke that kills you).
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It depends on how inane a questline plays out.
I've done it several times (STO, WoW) just because I wanted the damn quest to end.
Come on now, there's very good reason to expect raiding players to know the raid bosses. One hurp derp standing in the fire can give repair bills and rebuff time to 24 others.
Doesn't matter if you ask them if they know the fight; always one standing in the fire with his finger up his nose anyway. But you have to try.
You can't expect people to come equipped and prepared! Dat's Communist! zomg mah democratic freedoms! Yours end when they impede others, same as the real world.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
You don't have to if you don't want to. But the internet is open source. If someone wants to provide information on quests, they will, and it will be available for other people to search for. You can't censor that sort of information.