Renork wrote:
Don't delude yourself, MMO's are nothing new. If people wanted to 6v6 they would, people choose not to because *gasp* they don't enjoy it. Eliminate your bias and tunnel vision and you'll have a better gaming experience. If it doesn't work for you, then...arena games?
Oh nice, you want to get personal? I love it. First of all, you have no idea what I or others want. None. You throw baseless assumptions on a strawman you created.
DAOC because the endgame purpose was castle SIEGE, RELIC defense, etc. You could certainly play in a 8 man (which I did for 5 years) , but we didn't have tunnel vision and expected the whole dynamic to change based on our needs.
I don't really care about the purpose of a game. A game is always what you make out of it. Relics change all the time, persistent world only means so much if everything repeats every two weeks. The only permanent reward you got in DAoC was RP, and you got a lot of it in 8v8.
There were MANY 8 man's from the start, so you obviously are clueless about that game.
Played and still playing the game since I was 11. Make that 13 years of experience. I never said that there weren't many 8v8, I said it didn't take off because devs neglected it from the beginning and the whole thing surrounding 8v8 like walking there, RA timers and adders took way longer than the actual fights.
Once again, if you LOVE uninterrupted arena fights, why are you playing games that deviate from that objective? It seems to me that YOU are the problem here.
Where did I say that I love uninterrupted arena fights?
Let me just repeat myself, because obviously you do not comprehend: WAR/ROR is NOT an arena game.
As claimed by the one and only Renork, who has no say in anything concerning development and no clue about anything but playing Magus in T1 and 2. City sieges, your whole "end goal of everything" is instanced PvP. I absolutely think that the best way to make WAR work is to have both, Arena and Open.
You love arena games? play arena games.
I do play Arena games. I do play open world games. You might wanna base your arguments on things I say and not things you magically know about me.
By the way, I enjoyed 8 manning on my eld/cab/runnie/zerker/theurg as much as I enjoyed soloing on my vw/reaver or zerging on my casters. See how fun games are when you enjoy all aspects and not try to enforce your playstyle on others?
And I played smallman and 8v8 in DAoC. I play Scenarios and played oRvR until it turned to **** as well. I am open to everything and I play what I like. The sooner you realize that this isn't about enforcing playstyles but promoting playstyles the easier it is to actually focus on how to get to that goal with everybody being happy