Devs: Has Merrits Been Talked about?

[Blarp]

Why does advancement/customisation have to be based on killing the same monsters over and over for XP? Can we move on from 2003 and come up with something a little less mundane?

[Jennestia]

Why does advancement/customisation have to be based on killing the same monsters over and over for XP? Can we move on from 2003 and come up with something a little less mundane?

And yet the newely released MMOs (2009-2011) still utilize this, because there's nothing wrong with it.

[Blarp]

And yet the newely released MMOs (2009-2011) still utilize this, because there's nothing wrong with it.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's try something new instead of doing what every other MMO does.

[Jennestia]

Hey, I have an idea! Let's try something new instead of doing what every other MMO does.

Then complain about it to the ends of time till the developers turns it into a "standard" MMORPG?! That is a good idea!

[TheVedis]

Then complain about it to the ends of time till the developers turns it into a "standard" MMORPG?! That is a good idea!

we have 2 choices

1) do what other mmos do and complain about it
2) do something new and complain about it


wait, those are different choices right?

[Jinko]

I think distributable stats is enough.

I would rather the dev team stayed away from that elitist bull**** if they can, stats and gear choice should be enough.

[Jennestia]

I do recall only FFXI having a certain type of Merit system (probably the one being requested/suggested), but other MMOs do have merit systems in some way, once you reach cap they allow you to rebirth, which is essentially a merit system because sometimes rebirthing carries over your previous work. (However, rebirth systems are generally popular with Private Servers, official servers just let you "respec" in a way once you hit the class cap as people will generally focus on PvP at that point.)

[Andrien]

Point Allotment, is that not good enough? or even Materia?

There is still plenty of room for improvement on those things above. I don't think there is room for merit points yet. Not at 50, perhaps at 99.

[viion]

I believe it should be based on Materia, more flexible, more risky, more costly, more achieving, more epeen.

Merit was good, but I think Materia system covers this.

[SnickleWhiskers]

I couldn't agree I don't see how a stats stacking system like materia covers what the merit/talent system did.