What I’ve learned from 15 years of MMOs and development: Why EverQuest Next has the..

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What I’ve learned from 15 years of MMOs and development: Why EverQuest Next has the potential to revolutionize the genre it established. (PART I: INTRO AND RE: INSTANCING)

...There are times that we all take shortcuts to solve immediate problems while losing sight of our goals. To the persistent world business, one of these incidents has been the modern instancing system...

...As the technological shortcomings which validated instancing originally no longer exist, it's time we put in the work and tackle the content problem; and from the sounds of it, SOE is doing exactly that in EverQuest Next. With a massive ever-changing world, the content will perpetually evolve and respond to the player's demands. When you put EverQuest Next's announced features on the table, the entire dilemma suddenly has become so simplified....

I just wrote this for my blog at: http://eqnextpvplobby.tumblr.com/

Figured you ladies and gentlemen would be all over the subject! Lots of throwbacks to original EQ. Thanks for reading.