Thanks for sharing. It’s a lengthly but worthwhile read.
I don’t wholly agree with his final conclusions, at all, although he does make a lot of points in the article that I do wholly agree with.
I’m not sure that I have the energy to dissect it though - It’s late, I’m dyslexic (and so writing is pretty hard for me) and like his article says, the whole thing is very complex - on this point I’d certainly agree.
I dont care about what some random article says.
It was more nostalgia. Classic is not hard. Its tedious. For a decent chunk of leveling it relies on autoattack even. Stand there and autoattack till a resource is up to cast (mana, focus) .
Raid can be 2 button action bars and ye old don’t stand in the poop.
Crews have done naked rag runs even. LIterally naked chars as they went into a raid boss no gear. Vanilla had a long life in the private server scene. so you got some crews who hit this hard on release knowing it like the back of their hand.
Naxxramus was cleared hours into its release that I recall. Even a retail mythic worlds first takes a week usually once dropped. And that is with the top contenders knowing the place from PTR.
I use naxxramus since the very first raid of classic was also speed run completed. BUt some on the team were using server phasing for increased gear hits. The server phasing blizzard left in the game when people in beta said this would be an issue. Naxx…is a latter raid so the more fair worlds first to reference.
to me wrath of the lich king is the best
cataclysm started the real fuckery
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btw blizzard suggest me the wrong server and i ended in a 99% Spanish one
back them there was not queue to raids
so i had to kinda learn Spanish to get to make icc etc
wow was elitist as ■■■■ , and i had to convince them in Spanish that my warrior did A LOT of dps
i ended finding a Brazilian clan but they were to casual and cannot make the cut so my raids were pugs
Of course you don’t, you’re too busy living in your fantasy world and have no room for opinions from people who are real game designers/developers.
That’s not entirely true and whoever said it shouldn’t needs a catscan. EVE is primarily a sandbox so being a niche game ( no accent on e btw ) is what it will be for a long time if not ever.
Prove me wrong.
cata is still the black sheep of the family. I tried its dungeons on time warps. Ugh…Didn’t help tank came in going hi…I don’ know this dungeon and I am only signed up as tank for a faster pick up as I a don’t tank alot.
WoD took its place a bit but BFA and SL…has it not look so bad really. 2 less than stellar expacs made WoD look good to some lol.
Rest of this stuff to fix eve…I dunno. It needs its edge imo. One of its draw to keep playing is yes I can lose a ship . And buy mods for the new ride. So the modules are there to buy.
Eve tried to be real safe this would change. Cheap faction/deadspace modules? gone. Or even worse BOE. well since you can’t die anymore…lets have it so you can’t shift that pith a to your alt for the night. Your alt wants the pith? FInd or buy it. This is how safer games keep you playing as I see it.
You will worship the rng gods. if it takes weeks…well see you once a week for weeks for raid night lol… Why SL lost its thrill. There was my DH getting an leather armour piece useless to them since lower ilevel. My rogue would love it…but its BOP. Rogue to get that piece needs to dance with the RNG gods.
Why I ditched wow for a bit to come here for a bit. Weeks of not getting gear. Wasn’t even wanting best in slot. Jsut give me something to sell. And buy. Not a 400k gold BOE green on AH lol. Maybe I go back in 9.3 when they allow us to solo farm legion raid. Maybe not…time will tell.
Like for a frigate fit I wanted a bling AB last night. 18 million isk. I have the money but wth…I go run a mission or 2 to settle into my eve return. Then take that 18 million to buy it. Some site runner got the drop, I paid them for their luck. Nice system that.
A system that works because one bad gate camp…boom goes my frigate. Seller sells that for 180 milllion…yeah its gonna rot on the market. And I’d jsut keep running the y’s i get in loot drops.
I can now play the game. Not the game playing me doing RNG. Safer carebear systems this goes I fear.
Side note I do more carebear than pvp and find eve’s system okay. Not a ganker. When I want to make ships blow up I leave empire.
WoW was over after Lich King. Maybe Cataclysm was the justified tying of a loose end but after LK died, it was over and everything after was a cashmoney cowmilking.
Cataclysm was so easy, I didnt even have to set foot in the open world.
I’m talking about the original. The sequel sucks.
Emerald server best server
TR/VS 4 lyfe
With SP rewards & skill boosters CCP is not catering to new players, it is catering to new accounts for old player & monetising them.
CCP is also attempting to reduce its considerable development & in game asset debt.
You are correct CCP should not diversify, CCP’s monetisation policy of encouraging botting & high level multi accounting will kill the game (probably allready has) but it is too late to now renegade on this policy. Farm TQ till subscriptions do not cover server maintenance then pull the plug.
New content could provide life support but owing to substantial asset & development debt CCP should paywall this behind a season pass.
CCP seems to have zero direction when it comes to its game ecconemy. It has brought in game austerity but is now allowing rmt for new expert systems instead of allowing them to be bought via plex (plex is ccp’s in game development debt). This makes zero sense, why try to reduce in game wealth but allow direct injections of game wealth?
Because one type of wealth is not like the other.
CCP allows direct injections of plex into the game, but wishes to put bounds on the amount of minerals and ISK entering the economy.
CCP has the tools to influence the plex prices (plex sales, NES sales), but that has no big impact on the game economy of player-made items. Nobody can make plex after all.
ISK influx and mineral influx do have a large impact on the game economy of player made items, which is why CCP is keeping a close eye on those and adjusts where necessary (such as the current mineral shortage phase to reduce the amount of minerals ingame).
Carebears got too safe for their own good. Hell we don’t even have a player driven market because of this. CCP has price fixed seeds of almost everything on the market now so people with stupid amounts of isk do not buy everything up and double the price of everything.
Large amounts of isk used to only be in the hands of skilled folks in the game but when CCP overhauled the bounty system it made it WAYY easier for any dumbass to just run some riskless PvE and hoard until they were rich.
TLDR Nerf NPC bounties and this won’t happen.
No they haven’t, I’d be gone if they had. You are free to raise 99% of eve market to the moon.
Seeded markets have 365 expiry dates over the max players of 90 day.
Are you sure? From what I’ve heard there is some kind of CCP process in play that keeps you from being able to corner a market.
Unless they’re making fake market orders (e.g. developer-managed characters with seeded ISK and items), there’s no visible manipulation going on. The only manipulation CCP readily admitted to is for the PLEX market, like seeding “confiscated” PLEX in order to control prices.
I mean they could be interfering with the market, but we’ll never know.
The market is directly seeded by automation. This has been directedly stated and repeated by ccp staff members many, many times.
Well, economics aside. This part of my post is the main problem.
I’d like a source for that info, this is the first time I hear about this.
Source.