No Community

[Aramina]

The most salient thought I’ve had here is I miss hating someone so bad that I wrote their name down in a book and stayed up till 3AM grinding so the next time I seen them I'd kill'm and dance on their body while they watched from the afterlife. I want to feel genuine gratitude to someone who escorted me thru Jugnar Forest for my first trip to Jeuno.

Wildstar tried to bring the challenge back. As a commercial venture, it failed. Miserably.

edit: Also: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...e_.php?print=1 I know it's cool these days to claim 'they must be 14 year olds in their parents basement' but it has been proven time and time again this is simply not true. FWIW, I am a 43 year old... though I do have a 14 year old daughter so maybe I am gaming vicariously through her? o_O

[Seig345]

This seems like an age old argument that has been through the mill on these forums.

Yes, the older MMOs were harder, and therefore you had a greater sense of connection with other players (be it friendly or hostile). WoW broke the genre from niche into mainstream gaming, and businesses are only going to look at those numbers.

We also knew ARR was going to be WoW since at least 2013 when Yoshi himself made a direct comparison to what his goal was for FFXIV's design. Anyone who was paying attention to the game prior to relaunch wasn't surprised to see the game running on the themepark formula.

[Kosmos992k]

I’ve been struggling to define what’s missing here to those who didn’t get PK’d and all their shit taken in UO. The most salient thought I’ve had here is I miss hating someone so bad that I wrote their name down in a book and stayed up till 3AM grinding so the next time I seen them I'd kill'm and dance on their body while they watched from the afterlife. I want to feel genuine gratitude to someone who escorted me thru Jugnar Forest for my first trip to Jeuno.

I see, and you are complaining about a lack of community? If you really think, feel and act as you described, then your exactly the wrong kind of person to be trying to talk about a lack of community.