MMO Theory

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

Yeah! That actually sounds really cool! Have you ever played LotRO? That's an example too of having "expendable" toons to PvP. But another thing you said that grabbed me was "raid" and the idea there of implementing a larger scale for PvP activity on a server.

Also, for the record Pay2AnythingReally is a pretty garbage business model imho and I wonder if it's that way inherently or if every time we ever see anything like that in practice it's basically shameless greed.

I did hear about how players could control mobs in one of the LOTR games, is that what you were meaning? That sounds cool too

I do know there has been times when GM’s on P99 or even EQ back in the day would control a mob. D:I just implemented a way for players to do it on the regular

And they didn’t explain the setup well, so it was pretty funny the first time around because no one knew what was going on. We thought we were just fighting a raid mob, but noticed it was like avoiding aoe’s, dodging stuff. It would see someone healing then run over and continue to combo them with stun moves until they died. When it aggro’d me there was no way to shake him, he’d combo me until dead

I remember after the fight the first time I commented to my guild “that was the best AI I have ever seen on a video game boss in my life”. And then our guild leader said “yea, that was their guild leader”. And I was like ohhhhh shit!

But yea D:I was one of the most P2W phone games ever invented. I guess there’s this acceptance that any phone game by default is going to be P2W and we should all just accept it. Which is kinda bullshit…