So what happened in luclin-pop?

[Dacien]

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

This guy so eloquently illustrates the real reason why people don't like POK books. It has nothing to do with the thrill of adventure that you get from staring at a dock for 20 minutes, then at the deck of a boat for another 30 minutes.

The reason there's so much vitriol about POK books is because the porting classes want to keep charging a tax on travel, and people are willing to pay it since the other option is mind-numbing boredom and a waste of RL time.

I dunno man, the boats added gravity to the world when I played back in the day. Call me crazy, but boat times made the world seem real. I liked it. Had to take the boats often too, for corpse recoveries. Made death more scary, that's for sure. Which again, made Norrath seem alive.

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

I haven't actively played on the server in several months. I just find this to be an intriguing topic because of many similar threads on mmo-champion that have started because of the shutdown of the Nostalrius vanilla WoW private server. It's interesting how people only want to look through their rose colored glasses at original versions of games, and refuse to even acknowledge that features added later on in the game actually made the game objectively better. I say objectively because Everquest subscription was at its height when these supposedly horrible, game-ruining features were introduced.

Yeah, casual MMO gameplay is pretty popular, I'll grant you that.

I know "casual" has become a dirty word, but I'm simply using it as a descriptor.