Should the server provide "Best of the Best" style PvP + rewards?

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are you pointing to a money chart as if that equals skill in gaming, Kergan?

Also, there are different skills in gaming. Things like Magic: the Gathering are purely cognitive, whereas shooters and other games aren't as much about that and instead also measure physical aim/reflexes/how quickly and constantly you can click buttons or a movement pad.

Then you have things like Guild Wars 1, the best PvP game ever, which combines the cognitive "deck building" and decision-making of Magic the Gathering with real-time play and extensive teamwork.

Everquest PvP has some things in common with Guild Wars 1. All spell casters have a "skill bar" of 8 skills, so you need to make decisions before the fight about exactly what you want on your skill bar. There are many classes to choose from, so you also have to think about your team composition, and once you get into the fight there is the melee/caster/debuff/healer dynamic happening.

Everquest PvP is extremely primitive compared to Guild Wars 1 PvP, of course, but the greater focus of this style of gameplay for Red99 is actually to improve the entire game as a whole. If you limit the amount of people per guild who are able to compete for these "Best of the Best" prizes (which should be hard-to-acquire PvE items), then we would see a greater number of guilds in the game. There wouldn't be as much incentive to form the giant zerg guilds, because the players wouldn't be getting the benefits.

With zerg guilds extinct, the entire game would become more involving for everyone. The PvE side would become more of an actual game again, because you'd have less people to use and would need to actually put more thought and strategy into fights, and World-based PvP would become much more constant and exciting.

I'm not going to comment on most of your post other than to say I completely disagree with it and it is so ridiculously non-classic and against the core of EQ I don't even know why you bother posting it because it has a 1000% chance of never happening...

That being said:

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are you pointing to a money chart as if that equals skill in gaming, Kergan?

Because the skill cap is so high you can actually have competitive gaming, and therefor prizes awarded. You really need to be a professional level e-sport gamer to take home cash. Only games with an exceptionally high skill cap can function in a cash for wins environment and attract professional level gamers. In a low skill cap game you lack the ability to consistently win and so the best gamers won't play your game. It's the same reason why there are professional poker players but no professional slots players.