Ceanthar Cerbera
Minmatar
Lone Gunmen
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Posted - 2007.08.03 11:47:00 -
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Edited by: Ceanthar Cerbera on 03/08/2007 11:48:40
Very good post by mr Constantine. I must say it sums up pretty much all my views in the matter aswell. When I started playing 0.0 was this amazing dream of awesome, epic battles with real danger going with the gains. The longer I played the less interested I got. At this point I laugh at the foolish idea of building an 0.0 empire and mock myself for ever having such glorified dreams of this "fantastic high stakes part" of the game.
One of the most envigourating gameplay Ive ever tried was Diablo 2 in hardcore mode. Just the thought of having to start all over with your lvl 50 barbarian ehen you saw the life bar go down made the heart ruch and adrenaline pump. An experience, I imagine, much the same as those that do skydiving, bungy jump, or climbing mount everest experience. Fantastic! (the meaningless ganking of your lvl 15 char by a lvl 88 Amazon by guideed arrow across the map apart, you all know what Im talking about..)
At this point two years and roughly 350 euros into the game Im bored. I got nothing too look forward to other than watching my training go, doing some boring missions for the thousand time, buying some bling bling and do some pvp with no real consequense.
The point is, with no real danger theres no real winning. The goals are trivial and the consequense of your actions are non-existant, meaningless.
And the thing that I really really hate is how I sound like the old bitter granddaddy squandering dreams when I tell our new members how things work. Having to crush their inspired ideas and dreams of what they want to do (much the same as the ones I had in the beginning). "Look mate its a good idea but it cant be done because this is how the game is"
If things dont shape up Im afraind Im gone.
Making it hardcore might loose some members. But not making changes people will still leave and those that wont/cant leave will be these old dinosaurs dreaming of what could have been, recenting what is. And eventually enough bitter old hags will be left to poision the game so no one will play.
edit: On a more creative note I can see the relevance of making a "hardcore" server running along the normal one. This way you (CCP) can have the cake and eat it at the same time. I for one know wich one Ill be playing..
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