Quote Originally Posted by Sandpark View Post
Do you not read things? Channels have alternate versions of the same open world. You get big competition on a big enemy? Switch channels until zero competition. You don't want to give it a chance? That's fine but don't alter truths to make your post seem you are right. Or that open world cannot be done right like my idea lays forth. Phasing works very well.
By saying this, you are already admitting the content has flaws and issues right out the door, and creating channels fixes that. If the content is as well balanced as you make it out to be, then that shouldn't be necessary to begin with.


Hunts are the worst example of open world done right, even XI got NMs better than this game and that game is over 10 years old. Phasing do you need it? Fixes every single argument you made in this post.
HNM Kings would like a word with you. FFXI was actually worse because it was claimed by one group, while several others sat there in hopes they die to it and get your chance to claim. People resulting to bots to get claims and some would cheat the system and get Fafnir/Nidhogg to flail the group. Open world NM's brought the worst out of people in that game, I watched it happen for nearly ten years. Even they created new conditions to pop them because of all the crap that happened with it.

Sure because team jump-rope and tedious done wrong mechanics make instanced content more interesting.
And a bunch of people zerging something on a open map is more interesting. Okay.

I could point out every flaw Diadem made but that would just turn into some way to skew the debate into "Open World has no place in an mmorpg because instanced is always more interesting and fair and open world content cannot learn from it's mistakes and advance in technology."
Open world content 100% has it's place, and I have heard several ideas on how you can improve it without conflicting with others or zerg fests. The ideas in this thread in particular want to have what is wrong with open world and why instanced content exists to begin with.