Thread: So I'm not seeing how this is them changing things up from 2.0/3.0

Originally Posted by RaijinSupreme

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People are cranky or at least seem cranky. The expansions are glorified patches. If you remove the actual adding of the zone everything that has been described is a patch. The only thing that patches don't have are the new skills and animations that leveling up brings.

To the people that want pop items. Wouldn't a gate item like Aquapolis work better? gather the stuff and instead of an open world spawn you can enter an instance. I just worry that you might end up with something like odin fate. In older games skills didn't have so much dependency on other skills. So open world lag just ment fire took longer, not that you lost stacks and buffs.

Originally Posted by Moonlite

People are cranky or at least seem cranky. The expansions are glorified patches. If you remove the actual adding of the zone everything that has been described is a patch. The only thing that patches don't have are the new skills and animations that leveling up brings.

It's funny, I remember the first game expansion I ever played, Covert Operations for Command & Conquer. It didn't add any new mechanics or units, a new mission tree, or new cutscenes. It just added a bunch of individual one-shot missions. Meanwhile, in the same time frame, a "patch" was literally that, fixes for issues.

Now what we call a "patch" is more substantial than an expansion was then, and what we call an "expansion" is expected to be an entirely new game. How times have changed!

Originally Posted by Talraen

How times have changed!

Back in my days, telephones had CABLES. No more than one meter unless you pay extra. One gigabyte hard drive was just recently released as top state of the art. Video games had graphics that allowed you to count the pixels with the bare eye. Pixels, not polygons. It was the time where games didn't even know what an expansion was because you had physical cartridges for the game.

In retrospect, Arcade games seem like one of the biggest rip-offs of all time >.>

Originally Posted by Zojha

Back in my days, telephones had CABLES. No more than one meter unless you pay extra. One gigabyte hard drive was just recently released as top state of the art. Video games had graphics that allowed you to count the pixels with the bare eye. Pixels, not polygons. It was the time where games didn't even know what an expansion was because you had physical cartridges for the game.

They just weren't trying hard enough!