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Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep. They also instance "public" areas (a la EQ2), and have instanced dungeons. I stopped following it as soon as I discovered that.

I don't know why these games don't just release as single player games with a shared online chat interface. It's the same thing and would save a lot of time, money, and disappointment.

With bigger games this is necessary. No one wants to wait on spawns anymore. Who wants to be in an area that you have to kill 10 of something, and you have to literally wait an hour to do so, because there are 200 other people in the same zone. Instanced public areas for large scale MMOs is a must anymore, but some of them do well with it, and instance only if the number of people get higher. I mean, I guess they could just tune up spawn rate, the faster things are getting killed, but where's the fun in killing a monster, only for it to spawn instantly, right where you killed it?