Reflecting on SWTOR and XIV

[indira]

SWTOR = garbage.
its the streamlined WOW clone thats a mmo on rails, its a dead end once you hit cap.
only up side is the game reads the quest log for you with animations after that its horrible. SW galaxy's is many times better yet sony screwed it up then pulled the plug.

hope the big sand boxes coming will revive that kind of mmo, theme parks are played out now NO ONE tries anything different and trys to be wow, then they wonder why no one plays it. gw2 the only one that went away from the themepark norm. im waiting on EQ3 & archeage see how they preform.

[bobbygunz]

SWTOR = garbage.
its the streamlined WOW clone thats a mmo on rails, its a dead end once you hit cap.
only up side is the game reads the quest log for you with animations after that its horrible. SW galaxy's is many times better yet sony screwed it up then pulled the plug.

hope the big sand boxes coming will revive that kind of mmo, theme parks are played out now NO ONE tries anything different and trys to be wow, then they wonder why no one plays it. gw2 the only one that went away from the themepark norm. im waiting on EQ3 & archeage see how they preform.

Sandbox games have always been the future, which is funny because they were also the past as well (ultima online/star wars galaxies). Many MMO developers just don't seem to understand the platform they're working with. And Ive never understood the concept of a single player MMO with no emphasis on community/creativity. Isn't it called "massively multiplayer" for a reason?

Anyway, there's also Black Desert, which is another next gen sandbox. Mabinogi II info was released today also, but it doesn't seem to be very sandboxy like the first game, but still pretty innovative in the combat-department all the same.