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Originally Posted by Ngruk  Here's where I find fault with this sort of thread (In addition to the lame ass drug jokes).
EQ did NOT have a lot of awful ideas that should have never made it, none. There were some design flaws, some tech issues, bugs for sure, exploits? Yep.
But for what it was, when it was, it was 'perfect' to us. We had no barometer, nothing to go off of, and that in and of itself takes HUGE balls and HUGE vision. |
How do you come to this conclusion? Just because it was "the first" (and it really wasn't) doesn't mean that they can't have bad ideas. I'll again use the spellbook meditation example. Who in their right mind would think it would be OK for certain players to spend a very significant part of their playtime staring at nothing but icons?
No, being first doesn't make you immune to bad ideas/implementations.
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But what he did, and they did, with EQ was genre/industry changing in ways no one here, including me, had even a smidgen of talent to know or create.
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Come on now. While I do have fond memories of EQ, lets not over dramatize. A lot of what they did was borrowed from other games (UO, various text based MUDs, etc.) While I have absolutely no problem with that, lets not pretend they created something from nothing. They took previous ideas and concepts and evolved them... which, again, I have absolutely no problem with.
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I tip my hat to him and his team for creating one of my all time favorite gaming experiences, because like many of you no matter what I play or when I'll always have the 'man I remember Blackburrow....." to hang on to.
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I'm not trying to sound overly down on EQ. I spent untold hours over 4 years or so playing it and I wouldn't change that. However, I can also look back and see a lot of the flaws. From looking at those issues as well as things that were proposed for Vanguard and on these forums I honestly don't feel I would want to play a MMO that he had significant control over.
