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Originally Posted by Azoraa
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Ah ok - good idea.. Sounds like it may be an acceptable solution for everyone then. Since you want to be blind and get killed while trying to meditate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.], can you stretch the book out to cover whole screen? |
That's a reasonable question which I don't know the answer to.
But look, I think there's something hinted at in that argument, and a lot of people are more than just hinting at it in their posts, so I want to address it. The basic idea is "If you want things classic, just simulate it on your own damn computer loser; stop bothering us" (I know you didn't say it like that, I'm just exaggerating for effect).
That misses the entire difference between Final Fantasy and EverQuest (ie. between single-player RPGs and MMOGs). I can make Final Fantasy, or Diablo, or any such game harder on myself if I want. I can disable certain keyboard keys, turn down my monitor's brightness, or even tie one of my hands behind my back ... and maybe that's fun in a way, the same way speed running old games is fun for some people.
The appeal of massively
multi-player online games is that you're "competing" with everyone else in an open world. If everyone else plays by different rules than you (ie. they're playing a different game), you get none of the satisfaction from imposing arbitrary limits on yourself, or at least the only satisfaction you get is on the same level as speed running.
But if
everyone has to stare at their spell book, and
everyone has to deal with visions issues, and
everyone has to kill a million mobs to level (instead of only having to kill 100, or however many it is on WoW) ...
then when you accomplish something, it matters.