MMO on Rails

[Kafeen]

I thought this looked familiar. This guy makes the same topics over and over.

Some people love the sound of their own voice, others love the look of their own text (or something like that).

[Rokien]

STOP BUMPING YOUR THREADS ROKIEN!~


oh wait....

[Duuude007]

FFX was a game on rails. DQ Swords was even moreso. The options to stray off the path were nil. XIV seems far from that. This is a nonissue.

[Felis]

How do you guys feel about a mmo being on rails?


"making sure players know where to go and what activities are there to do once they enter a new map."

Newest info about this:

What are your thoughts on how much party play is required?
Y: For content we have stuff for parties and solo. Also there are public contents which is in between. Basically it’s OK to think that the stuff that shows up in content finder are for parties, others are for solo play. Also when you login or change areas we have it where it shows recommendations of what you should try out.

Is that decided on players situation?
Y: It will display a list of contents depending on the considering the congestion of the content. For those players oriented to party play, party based content will be displayed

So that’s kind of system will be prepared.
Y: In MMORPG there are lots of stuff you can do so at around level 20 you will feel like you don’t know what to do. Would like to use this in those type of situations. Also the 10 contents will show up in the list and by playing all of them it will be about 2 hours.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post789751

[bobbygunz]

Interesting article about quest hubs and how everyone apparently hates them now:

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cf...d-Finally.html

Upon reflection, maybe wasn't such a good idea for SE to take that route?

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Interesting article about quest hubs and how everyone apparently hates them now:

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cf...d-Finally.html

Upon reflection, maybe wasn't such a good idea for SE to take that route?

Upon utter reflection, guild wars public quests are static quest hub you spam until need an highter level quest.
Also, 2.0 will have public quests too

[Dawiichan]

Upon utter reflection, guild wars public quests are static quest hub you spam until need an highter level quest.
Also, 2.0 will have public quests too

Yea, while playing right now, it doesn't feel like it is any different. You usually stay at the same area for a while until you level. Then you get 80 and the only events you do is that cycle of 7 or 8 in the 70-75 area over and over again. It's nothing great.