Comments on: Why Developers Should Treat Players Like Zoo Animals

By: Rez

Rez — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:36:04 +0000

Yeah, I remember when SWG did something like that back in the old days. Me and my brother were sitting in the capital city of Naboo, when all of a sudden an Imperial shuttle filled with NPC stormtoopers landed in the town square and began to blast all the rebels standing around. It was very cool, immersive, and definitely a change of pace.

By: Powers

Powers — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:35:35 +0000

Actually, your Star Wars Galaxies idea sounds exactly like the Restuss event from a couple of years ago.

By: Wazoo

Wazoo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:48:44 +0000

WoW does handle it great, but there’s definite room for growth..

1. How about “special events” that allow you to group *with* Horde towards a common goal?

2. Obliterate a capital city! That shakes up things fairly quick…and opens up “things to do” for the rebuild effort….AND if you’re exhalted rep with some faction then you can even carve your name permanently into the rebuilt infrastructure..

3. They already have “special BG” weekends, but how about “bonus XP” days/periods for the levelers?

By: Juistn

Juistn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:43:58 +0000

You should really check out Continuum. Its a free MMO and has been around since 95 :\

By: Tinman_au

Tinman_au — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:26:03 +0000

One of the reasons I played Asherons Call for so long was because the Turbine devs weren’t afraid to shake things up like you’ve suggested. It really did add a lot more “life” to the world and helped break that formula feel “modern” MMO’s have and it’s a real shame devs these days look to WoW for inspiration and not games like AC…

By: Zenke on Zoo’s » Grimwell’s Blog

Zenke on Zoo’s » Grimwell’s Blog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:19 +0000

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