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Originally Posted by Sidhe  I'm glad that the MMO community voted you its representative for the wishes of 100% of the playerbase.
You know what? I fully respect that you enjoy the fact that the vast majority of MMOs these days are consensual PvP, instanced, and give every player some perceived notion of access to all of the content of the game due to their paying of a monthly fee. I'm glad that these games exist because you, and a large portion of the population, want to play them. However, please refrain from stating that no MMO ever created "should" deviate from this model. Lyenae's not trying to take WoW away from you. |
Very very well put. Lyenae is completely correct. As a shorty on TZ we owned Steamfont, Elves that came into the zone to hunt were attacked. This actually lead to a huge amount of fun and a sense of roleplaying immersion to the game. The wars at the Lesser Fay/Greater Fay zone were amazingly fun, and yeah, us shorties were able to keep control of our Steamfont but we could not hunt in GF without serious combat and watching our back.
If you do not think that is fun sounding then great, no game is invented to cater to every single person. A game developed with open PVP in mind, not on PVP servers but built as a open PVP game from scratch, would cater to quite alot of the people out there. Would there be idiots? Yes, but then I have found that the idiots in a MMORPG tend to be much more prevalent in a non-PVP setting where they can exploit things like training people and leave the players with little recourse against them. Idiots on TZ who proved to be unable to get along with people normally got owned and blacklisted, life became impossible for them.
EQ's PVP servers tended to work very well. People looked out for others, for each idiot who wanted to corpse camp people or train people there were 3 higher level people who got off on being the hero and owning the corpse camping moron into going away. And all of this lead to a greater sense of community and role playing immersion then a game like WOW could ever dream of creating.