Archive for the ‘Forum Posts’ Category
The merges, in my experience, have been a rousing success even if my server’s Elyos / Asmo PvP balance is fubar (Israphel).
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MMOs Must. Be. Fun. OR ELSE!
A response to Anti-Aliased which argues, in short, that MMOs should not wait until one reaches a certain point in order to bestow their greatness, they should be good right from the get go. Something that actually, despite the response, I agree with completely. I think that new games do a poor job of showing […]
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Aion Part Deux
Response to Aion & the level grind. I think not reaching the Abyss and completing a recap of the game was a missed opportunity to see all the game offers. WoW is so popular because they put the grind at the end of the game, as someone already mentioned. However as a direct result of […]
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The Art of the Guild Merge
I just typed this up as a response to a forum post off the top of my head but now I’m wondering: for goal-oriented (non-social) organizations in a game, is this really true? Or are there other issues at work. — I also have gone through many guild merges (they’re called guilds in World of […]
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The New Standard
This is a forum post from Blue Gartr which is one of the premier end-game forums on FFXI in the world. Recently there was a decision to merge Advanced and Standard together, resulting in a lot of questions about the reasons behind the move. Specifically the most major difference between the two forums is that […]
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Entitlement and MMOs
BRP Like I said before, if you have a OMGREAT party, then you should be allowed to kick other people out of camps. If you party is just above average at best… what’s the point? You aren’t going to kill or pull monsters at a rate that you will be above the other party. You’ll […]
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Role-Playing, FFXI, lol (cont.)
Rules v. Storyline argument (cont.)
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A player on Alla got into an argument about how he plays Final Fantasy XI. Specifically he role-plays 100% of the time as a San d’Orian Knight dedicated to the teachings of the Church of Altana. This means he only has certain jobs open (ones that relate to San d’Oria) and famously as a higher […]
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First!
This is the beginning of an archive of posts I’ve written in the past. They’re mostly about MMOs (sort of like this blog).
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