Kaplan's New MMO ---> Release Date --> Player Base

[superdooper]

Can we get a BLUE possibly posting on this topic, as it would ease a lot of people's minds regarding the future of MMORPGs??

Current State: WoW is obviously the dominant game. WoW caters to players with no skill, no willingness to put in effort, and no idea of what true accomplishment is. WoW is getting easier and easier, and the only difficult aspects of the game are MORONIC hard-modes. Who frickin cares about killing a boss that hits harder and has more hp? Once you kill the boss on regular mode, the feeling of achievement is almost completely gone. We don't think: woots, we just killed Anub on Heroic25, let's take a million pictures and have a beer. We think, awesome, we killed Anub, too bad it took us 5 weeks to do so. I HONESTLY had more pleasure killing Leo the Blind for the first time then I did Anub25 Heroic, because I had the pleasure of seeing the boss die for the 1st TIME after several weeks of attempts. Killing bosses on EASY MODE destroys all feelings of accomplishment in the game.

Future of MMORPG: It's obvious that WoW is a sellout game intended for pure profit. What I am hoping is that Kaplan is going to be heading a new game that will be intended for real players that are actually looking for a challenge.


So BLUES, please be kind enough to answer:

Is Kaplan's new MMORPG going to be a sellout like WoW, or are you going to bring back the old style of MMORPG --- the one that requires functional brain cells?

If the new MMORPG is a sellout too, then I pray for another company to come along and steal Blizzard's customer base. I'd hate to state the obvious, but:

Hard Core Gamers are the ones running the Guilds, running Raids, and keeping the Casuals interested in the game. Take away the leaders, and you are left with a bunch of lemmings.

Peace!

[Offhand]

1/5 Too obvious

[Freedom]

... this isn't an official WOW forum, and even if it were, I doubt this would be answered. Fail.

[Maleus]

Ehhh Blues don't post on fan sites and quit ya yappin about WoW being a sellout... And even if it were a official blizz site they wouldn't respond to this since it is yet to be unvieled and this will be done on Blizzcon etc


in short unsuccesfull troll is unsuccesfull

[Spleenzorio]

BLUE


There you have it.

[Octaviax]

Hard Core Gamers are the ones running the Guilds, running Raids, and keeping the Casuals interested in the game. Take away the leaders, and you are left with a bunch of lemmings.

LOL Yea right. Blizzard has always made their games casual friendly. Why change their design philosophy to appease their Hardcore players, knowing they can increase profit tenfold by allowing casuals to experience, and complete, everything??

1/10. Way to obvious. Nice attempt though

[NoAbloIngles]

0/5 Too obvious

Fix'd

[Offhand]

Fix'd

Nope, it's outrageous enough that SOMEONE will think they've just become a bastion of reason and attempt to save the thread.

Freedom and Maleus already did.

I stand by my 1/5.

[Fancyfeast]

Stupidest thread I've ever seen.

[Shenshu]

If the new MMORPG is a sellout too, then I pray for another company to come along and steal Blizzard's customer base.

Maybe Final Fantasy 14. It's too soon to tell. SE is catering more to the casuals this go around. FF11 was pretty hard core IMO. Only a small fraction of the players in that game could actually fight the hardest bosses for the current expansion's content. Everyone else just leveled all the jobs and did other fights that needed less skill/time commitment.

[Offhand]

Maybe Final Fantasy 14. It's too soon to tell. SE is catering more to the casuals this go around. FF11 was pretty hard core IMO. Only a small fraction of the players in that game could actually fight the hardest bosses for the current expansion's content. Everyone else just leveled all the jobs and did other fights that needed less skill/time commitment.

I love the FF series but FFXI was just pure grind. Hopefully the new MMO will be way better, all I've seen so far was a 5 minute trailer of graphics wank (granted, this is standard for Square-Enix games).

[Kaneiac]

We think you're pretty stupid.

Good enough?

[HellBurn]

-1/5 Too obvious

Fix'd

[Lightfist]

Fail troll is fail.

[Tremelizzer]

Is Kaplan's new MMORPG going to be a sellout like WoW, or are you going to bring back the old style of MMORPG --- the one that requires functional brain cells?

Hello superdooper! Unfortunately we are unable to answer your question because that would reveal too much of our new game. I still can ensure you that it will not be anything like our earlier products. Depending on players' brain capacity game is either easy or hard.

Edit: I forgot this one.

[Alasdair]

look, a blue post.

[Chronicle]

Why is everyone getting so butt hurt over what this person says?
He is right, and you know it.

[superdooper]

What really drives me crazy with WoW is the fact that everyone is a clone. Same spec, gear, gems, professions ---> absolutely no room for custimization.

I wish they allowed people to customize their toon while leveling....like...here's 5 points...put them in whatever stat/skills/talents/spells you want. But OMG, some players might end up better than others O_o ---> THAT'S THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE!

[Deleted]

Sorry I can't take any post seriously when the OP says THEN when he means THAN.

[Octaviax]

Why is everyone getting so butt hurt over what this person says?
He is right, and you know it.

He isn't right.

Majority of us disagree with him.

Therefore, your post has been proven invalid