SE Hear Our Prayers

[Sonofbaldo]

Game immersion is just as meaningful to some people as, let's say, raiding is to others.

If you need being able to lean against a wall to feel more immersed in a game than I dont know what to tell you. I guess actual role playing has gotten just as lazy as everything else in an MMO. There's only so much resources the game can handle at any given time. Leaning on a wall...More shades of pink dye...etc...is a waste of those resources. Meaningful content is not limited to raids and fighting. But being able to /emote slapping someone and see your little pixelated hand swipe at air brings nothing to the game. I guess the days are long passed when role playing required creativity.

[Ilitsa]

I dont mean this to sound mean but....Dont you think most of this is pointless fluff that would take up resources to add actual useful things into the game? Like, who cares if while your char is standing around doing nothing if you're leaning on a wall. I'd rather those resources go to something meaningful.

I doubt anyone expects any of these to happen, its just a for fun wishlist, dont take things so seriously

[Zyrusticae]

If you need being able to lean against a wall to feel more immersed in a game than I dont know what to tell you. I guess actual role playing has gotten just as lazy as everything else in an MMO. There's only so much resources the game can handle at any given time. Leaning on a wall...More shades of pink dye...etc...is a waste of those resources. Meaningful content is not limited to raids and fighting. But being able to /emote slapping someone and see your little pixelated hand swipe at air brings nothing to the game. I guess the days are long passed when role playing required creativity.

I don't know how long you've been playing these things, but MMORPGs were originally supposed to be working towards the dream of virtual worlds rather than just being these trite, overly-designed theme parks with carefully delineated rides and experiences. Many of these requests are born out of a desire to see the game work closer towards that eventual future, a future where we stop referring to these as MMORPGs entirely and instead inhabit them as virtual worlds like originally intended.

Of course, the intersection of these types of players (explorers and roleplayers vs. players who treat it as a "game") means there will always be some conflict of interest in where the direction of the game goes. A big part of this is to blame at the feet of WoW for popularizing the more gamey aspects of the genre and putting the actual "world" part of "World of Warcraft" on the backburner, which I think is quite an unfortunate thing. Nonetheless, I would argue that any attempt to improve the simulation aspects of the genre is worth lauding on its own, and would MUCH rather have development resources put towards this than yet another ride that I will outgrow within a week.

[Darki]

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For all your idiot woes.

Isn't that what /stagger is?

[Brightshadow]

I would like a better balance between the number of war and magic classes. Since we have around double the amount of war classes I think the magic classes should all unlock 2 jobs and the war remain with 1 job.