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Originally Posted by R Flair
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i remember when we used to hold our breath thinking they might actually make faction wars mean something on WoW. instead they just disconnected the world more adding more instances, simulated pvp scenarios (battlegrounds) and queues for everything so no one actually has to interact or travel... ever
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Yeah thats pretty sad, warhammer was worse as you could queue from anywhere IIRC and you could gain xp from BGs from level1. It was really painful to see all these nicely designed layouts zones for PVP in the open world and have them be ghost towns because the rate you gain xp in BGs was like 10 times faster. It was fun for a while to be able to level up in BGs but after your 200th round it becomes unbearingly boring.
I think they did that because their servers couldnt handle the fort raids and all the players runnin around in open zones so they just said fuck and cranked up the xp rate in BGs to 11.
Theres a genre waiting to be born there though i think (if it doesnt exist already), instead of wasting all these dev resources on trying to make a MMO, just concentrate on making an arena game. With loot drops, raid bosses inside arenas. Sorta like Dota a bit but with permanent characters. With alot of variety in maps, id totally play a game like that.