Jumo_007 posted:
angryranger posted:
Easy. roll the game back to patch 1.62 entirely. Delete NF, TOA, all expansions beyond SI, revert to old archery.
I'd take this, IF, if and only IF on a brand new server. If Mythic posted this right here, and actually engaged in conversation with the community, word would spread, and I have zero doubt that hundreds, if not thousands would go for it. Over the last 4 or 5 years, I have dabbled with WAR, WOW, AION and now Rift, and I hear the same mantra over and over in game, and on their respected message boards. Comments go like such:
"This game needs DAoC type RvR."
"
eah, DAoC was the shizz"
"
eah, but DAoC is just 1 server now with nothing but rank 11 and 12's all blowing MoC and timers on INC."
"Daoc is dead, get over it"
"They have no devs, cause it all about lolhammer"
"Gawd, I miss me some DAoC"
Thousands of comments similar to the above. Articles and blogs here and there about why they should make a DAoC 2, about why Game X fails in pvp compared to DAoC, etc.
Designers are still stuck in the lets be like WoW to make money mode, and think PvP/RvR is niche. I argue that thousands are sick and tired of the crap that is out now and simply want 2 core things when you boil it down: 1) DAoC type RvR/PvP driven MMO. 2) Put this in a modern, new, shiny package.
Mythic, or somebody who gives a damn,
"ou build it, they will come."
As a programmer, you have no idea how * badly* I want to build this. But the reality is, my day job takes up the bulk of my programming time and I would have to learn a few new languages, so Life gets in the way. I wonder why the DOL (don't know if I can mention their full names??) group doesn't try and do something different, seems like they have the knowhow, on the backend server side at least.
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