Soulbinders?

[Messianic]

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

I guess the issue is this: we're humans. Humans have lives and they're known for making mistakes and mindless errors. So the game punishes them when they make these said mistakes. It's like punching a man in the gut because he breathes.

This is a really poor comparison. You do not receive physical or mental or emotional injury because you died on a different continent without being bound there. You just have to ask someone for help or take the long, hard road to your corpse. No one is getting punched. You're simply losing time - that's all.

Are you disappointed that the game actually following its own rules? Should the game say,"oh, he only accidentally bound himself in a stupid location, let's not allow those mobs to bindcamp him." Doesn't seem rational to me. Errors of omission are errors just the same as errors of commission.

Part of the resonant appeal of EQ is how brutal and unforgiving it is. You treat it with more respect when you play because of that. I didn't give a crap what happened in WoW because I had nice safety rails everywhere I went. I still find EQ more fun despite all the safety rails and Ezmodes WoW installed. I found it difficult not to make progress in WoW, even when I tried not to.

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

Blaming them because they were unable to find a binder in the past 25 minutes, lacked patience and roamed around and got killed? There's a lot of blame going on and not much sympathy. Why?

It's supposed to be a game with set rules, not silly flimsy rules based on people who are unable to deal with them. This server would suck like most of the others if we installed all the EZmodes that Live EQ did, and the population would be way lower.

In your example, they died because they lacked patience (something that is of incredible value in EQ, given how much more of an attention span it requires over WoW or other modern MMOs), and they pay a price in time. That's it.

It's not like someone is being harmed or crying over it - there's no reason to have empathy for someone dying in paineel while being bound in Gfay. I'd offer them a port to save them time, but they did not experience something horrible for which I should feel bad for them...

Would anyone play monopoly then muse over the lack of empathy of others when you land on boardwalk with an opponent's red hotel? You either enjoy the game for all it is, or you only enjoy it when it's easy...meaning you don't really enjoy it.

I can totally understand not enjoying EQ because of how harsh it is. But to try to change its ruleset or ask for empathy about how hard it is, is just silly. Once you eat the cake, you no longer have it.