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Old 03-25-2006, 12:24 PM   #106 (permalink)
Smed
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Originally Posted by Northerner
Right. But, we get that and new people often don't.

If your background is watching Star Wars and pehaps playing FF whatever, I can't blame you for expecting that you *can* be the hero. I've seen it a ton in WoW already. The MMO model just isn't like that though and not everyone gets off of the team thing or the 'best guild' thing, especially in an instanced environment.
I believe what we're actually talking about here is being Heroic. Or THE hero of your own "story". A great example of this IMO can be seen in just about every MMO out there. How heroic does it feel early on to kill small rats? Make the rats bigger and all of a sudden you feel more powerful... if you die at least whatever killed you looks like it could have. I think perhaps the word Hero may be the wrong one to get across what we are trying to communicate. Not sure exactly what the right one would be though.


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