Thread: 1.18 Bittersweet.

Originally Posted by options

You ppl do realize that solo has always been an option in mmos. Your defenition of multi player is sooo wrong. Even in multiplayer FPS games you can run around by yourself and kill people by yourself. Multiplayer just means that the other ppl running around are actually ppl and not some AI.

No Solo meant you had to truck through days of killing and grinding to level up, while parties do it in a faction of the time, thus it was beneficial to form them.

So are you a WoW boy or not? the invent of wham bam, quest time level baby, is a little bizarre in the greater scheme of things.

Right now Solo is at a decent pace, but people are somehow expecting 4->11 quests is the WoW level up, more quest route...and I'm afraid there's 100 different games that can do that for you.

Originally Posted by kukurumei

No Solo meant you had to truck through days of killing and grinding to level up, while parties do it in a faction of the time, thus it was beneficial to form them.

So are you a WoW boy or not? the invent of wham bam, quest time level baby, is a little bizarre in the greater scheme of things.

Right now Solo is at a decent pace, but people are somehow expecting 4->11 quests is the WoW level up, more quest route...and I'm afraid there's 100 different games that can do that for you.

Group play should always be more rewarding then solo play. A mob that takes 5 ppl to kill is far more stronger and challenging then a mob that 1 person can kill at the same lvl. I for one enjoy both formats. It all depends on my mood on the day.

My stance is on those ppl not understanding why soloers play mmos and using the word multiplayer. Sorry but i started my mmo days with The Realm and then UO. The time before everquest came and introduced group play. In those games it was mostly solo play. Yes you could hang out with friends and kill shit together but there was no group /invite. Farming and lvling even in those days were all done solo. It was quicker and the shit you recieved as loot was all yours.

And as i stated above, even multiplayer fps games you can run around by yourself and kill ppl by yourself without having teammates around you. A sniper would be shit if he had his teammates standing over the top of you giving away your location. A sniper would find a nice secluded spot and pick off his targets.

Multiplayer does not mean group. It means multiple players playing on the same server. Massive Multiplayer just means thousands more on a server.