^^ Well you could argue that sandbox MMOs like Darkfall Online etc does way more than that

 

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While that is all mostly true, most of it has little to do with why a player picks a game or why a player stays with a game.


Once the number of crafting professions passes more than 3 or 4 most MMO players do not count and say, “I was thinking of trying out that new game but decided not to because I heard it only has 5 crafting professions . . . .” or “I know that I will love that new game because I heard it has 12 crafting professions”. Sorry but no. Most people are more generic than that.


For most people it is not the number of crafting professions that is important but things like “I heard that the new games crafting was well integrated, well thought out, that the crafted items were valuable in the game and that a player could build a reputation as a great crafter in the game.”


Almost no one looks at a games crafting and even cares much about how many professions.


It is the same with the number of races. After players hear there are a 'bunch' and that many of the 'bunch' are fun to play, no one really cares if there are 12 races, 5 races or 18 races.


What is important to the prospective player is the “fun” report they get from others, not the report about numbers of races or the number of classes or the number of. . . . . .


Also, though the statements “True battlegrounds (not WoW & WaR Instances)” and “True endgame RvR with frontiers. (not WaR Tiers)” are true and help the game of DAoC stand apart from other games, if we look at what attracts and what keeps players playing other popular games, those two things are not what makes for a great subscriber base.


Little of what you posted as important/significant for DAoC is truly important/significant to the typical MMO player. All the typical player is concerned with is, “it is a fun game to play” or “the game (or game company) just pisses me off” but not “that game has 5/12/18/44 <insert item>”.

 

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Considering there are 45 classes DAoC is one of the most balanced games there is, some games with half a dozen classes can't even get that right. Besides, the game isn't balanced by class, it's an RvR game. That Necro might beat 6 stealthers but might not do so well against one caster.

I agree with alot of things there were needed changes made. I can see that. But I also see changes that are STILL needed and are not being made. Vamp claw spam( with new charge in their RA) its beyond OP thus so many High RR vamps. With charge they can kill the primary way to kill them from before I left and that is range. Thurg pets acting as neither bolts nor pets nor dd's but some insane combo of all.

Not being able to nock an arrow will ALWAYS top my list of things that need to be returned.

BD pets did get some love.

and as for the reasons DAoC is an epic game I totally agree thats why I came back there is NOTHING on the market like it. The Rift hole will be filled I tested the game its another WoW/WaR combo that will not satisfy the DAoC crowd.

 

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And none of this balance came until the style and spell lines were more or less normalized between the realms...which leaves the oddball expansion classes as really the only OP classes around.

 

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Vamps, Savages and Valks should never have gotten charge.

 

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i sence anonymous Mythic employee trying to keep the, already declining, playerbase from dropping to 0. thats my IMHO.

 

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