tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post5368387549921608864..comments2023-10-15T04:12:51.309-04:00Comments on The Oakstout: Blizzard, the Fifteen dollar WhoreOakstouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18338018420187011141noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-22322341447550150012009-04-29T12:46:00.000-04:002009-04-29T12:46:00.000-04:00Wow, I need to learn both how to spell and how to ...Wow, I need to learn both how to spell and how to proof read. <br /><br />I think that having the ability to use phasing technology might be of a lot of use in saving the old world.<br /><br />Particularly older instances.<br /><br />Hell, even heroic modes for some of them would be a hoot. I know I would love to see level 80 heroic deadmines =)<br /><br />Either way something has to be done, and soon, or they will start bleeding players faster than they are getting new ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-26727168159455584052009-04-29T12:41:00.000-04:002009-04-29T12:41:00.000-04:00There is a lot of good to be said for having hopel...There is a lot of good to be said for having hopeless nubs in a pug with you.<br /><br />Ok, not much good reall unless you count reapir bills and blog fodder.<br /><br />Personally I think that unless some way is devised to make the older content more interesting then it will all be over soon.<br /><br />As soon as the speed of leveling for new folks is sped up to the point that they learn absoultely nothing about your class (arguably it has happened already)<br /><br />Wow, like many great empires before it, will collapse under it's own weight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-74640586185883474872009-04-24T12:51:00.000-04:002009-04-24T12:51:00.000-04:00No, you're not the only one Copra. I'd rather the...No, you're not the only one Copra. I'd rather they focused on changing the world over time, so people were encouraged to roll alts and play through NEW story lines (in the old world zones). Instead of the incessant treadmill of raising the level cap and gear inflation over and over again. It's because of that that increasing the levelling speed becomes necessary (and it IS necessary, although I hate it, because you aren't attracting new players if it means months before they can play where everyone else is - which is at ever increasing level cap; and veterans don't want to play through the SAME OLD grind a second time when it's exactly the same.) <br /><br />But if the old world CHANGED, raising an alt would be fun because you'd be playing a new story line. And new players would have someone to play with. So there would be no need to increase the leveling speed. <br /><br />The problem is most players DON'T want that. Everytime Sony revamps an old world zone there are a very vocal contingent of players threatening to quit the game if the developers remove any quests whatsoever and QQing that they are changing it at all. God forbid random npc #55 finds the lost monocle you'd been searching all those giant rats for.Larshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592787080006321384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-84207925380754546422009-04-24T04:06:00.000-04:002009-04-24T04:06:00.000-04:00I've written several posts about this "over levell...I've written several posts about this "over levelling of the content" and gotten next to no comments about it, so I was in the misbelief that I was the only one it bothered. I'm pretty sure that it will start to bother the raiding end game population only when the PUG's are filled with people who don't know jack about their class, enchants, gemming or roles in raid.<br /><br />How about changing the Old World for a change? Like wiping a dungload of quests because monsters X invaded Kalimdor?<br /><br />Or something.<br /><br />CopraAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501269687241477498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-80607712992197650542009-04-23T22:31:00.000-04:002009-04-23T22:31:00.000-04:00@Boatorious - The lack of motivation is exactly wh...@Boatorious - The lack of motivation is exactly what I mean. Its a cause and effect. They level so fast, that no one sticks around to do dungeons, so those people that want to do dungeons are stuck pushing through content because no one hangs around.<br /><br />I should have also mentioned the fact that Blizzard has also increased quest xp in those areas in an effort to push players through that content faster. I didn't mean to lay it all at the feet of the R.A.F playersOakstouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18338018420187011141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569881459810633102.post-12934946576248561112009-04-23T18:31:00.000-04:002009-04-23T18:31:00.000-04:00I don't think there's much motivation to visit pre...I don't think there's much motivation to visit pre-max dungeons, regardless of what the leveling rate is. It takes forever to get a group together and many of the instances are just poorly designed even if your group is reliable (which it probably will not be).<br /><br />I think the CoW people had a WoW guild and were taking it "slow", doing things like "hey, let's get together this weekend and do Stockades". Doing that with a guild seems like fun.boatorioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08926881247708693340noreply@blogger.com