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(Oh, and make every game allow first person view =)
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YES! Many devs underestimate the power of the first person view 8)
Also, let me point out that not all games even have a /help or /?
From what I have seen, L2 has neither, and also no way to bring up a command list. Perhaps that'll change with the box version.
Standardization is no new thing in games, as the above poster pointed out via WASD... The hitch is that until a standard is publicly recognized, it might as well not exist.
Also, when setting a standard that should be accepted industry wide, you've got to be very careful not to outline anything that may interfere with the creative process.
We're in the habbit of just accepting whatever is tossed at us in MMOG's, and complaining about specific things that bug us instead of pointing out previously existing standards to the devs. I wonder if L2 would be a better game had this thread existed at the very begining of closed beta, on their forums.
Then again, that team is rather vision struck, and doesn't seem to take suggestions from players very well.
I'd agree that WoW has the right idea. Short of an "official" standard, devs can include every common variation of a command, but a set and "official" standard could still shave at least a few hours off development time there.
Bah, maybe I just overanalyze shit too much for the point I'm at in my education, but still, I would love to see the MMOG community set a standard, and say as one, "This is how it should be." What's the worst that could come of it? They wouldn't listen? Hell, half of 'em already do that /grin