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Originally Posted by Kaljin I like the yankee's but I love your way of thinking as a gamer! I hope your dreams come true onto your company and look forward to one day playing what you've created. 
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I was reading through the Vanguard NDA agreement and saw a comment near the end stating something to the effect that MMO players, more than any other genre, are sticklers for pumping up one game, and bashing everything else.
I've always felt that the timesink MMO's are makes people defend their choice of games as a way of explaining our addiction. IMO it's impossible, unless you don't need sleep, food, bathing, or a social life, to get the most out of more than one MMO as a hardcore player.
However I think Blizzard broke that barrier, not completely, but to some degree. Being able to get some enjoyment out of a 30 minute session has been virtually non-existant to us dyed in the wool EQ players. I've literally spent hours 'hanging out' in EQ (prior to people finding out who I was in RL, then it became the exact opposite) trying to find a group.
What was an attraction to me in EQ, the social aspects of the game, at high levels became a detriment.
To compete in the MMO market I think it's absolutely 100% imperative that you have 1-50/60/70 solo content. The people have spoken and 7+ million of them say that having that solo gameplay to max level ability works.
I also think that EQ and EQ2 have laid the path for the Blizzards of the world to see this and 'fix it'.
