Alpha First Look: Video 5 - Quests and Combat

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Here's the thing..

When you play a WoW-like MMO, level progression is always the same.

1. Go to Quest Hub
2. Obtain all Quest in the Area
3. Leave Quest Hub
4. Complete simple Quest Objectives listed above
5. Return to Quest Hub
6. Move to Next Quest Hub

This is mindless, repetitive and boring. Worse than that though, it makes people not want to read the Quests. They serve no purpose but XP. This severely degrades the enjoyability of the game. You might as well be doing an FFXI Party grind. At least in a party grind, your not alone.

The fix, is very simple.

1. Go to NPC Hub
2. Select One Quest
3. Proceed to Location
4. Complete simple Quest Objective
5. Something Dangerous happens
6. Quest Objective - Run for your life
7. Get Saved by something
8. Examine the Previous Danger
9. Get call on your Linkshell from Quest Giver
10. Investigate what caused the danger
11. Get lead to some cool location like a dungeon
12. Unlocks a new area
13. Complete a starter objective in the dungeon
14. Bring your Findings to the NPC

The Quests demonstrated in the Alpha video are the painfully boring cookie cutter WoW-Clone Quests that have destroyed this Genre by turning MMOs in to Single Player games. By simply adding plot twists and adding additional objectives to quests, you remove the boring NPC > Kill > NPC and create a Miniature story progression. Players will become immersed in the world and pushed to explore if the quest spontaneously pushes them away from their original destination and grouping will be Promoted by guiding players to group combat zones or boss fights.

NPC > Kill > NPC is the reason every WoW-Clone has failed to hold the attention of Modern Players.

You sound just POSiTIVE that will be the only option for the 100's of quests promised to us. NPC > Kill >Npc? There is NO possible way it could contain other quests (out of 100's of possible quests) that follow more along the format you laid out?
I bet you will still play this though and pay money to do so. So whats worse? A game designed after something that you yourself have stated is responsible for destroying the genre? Or someone that knowingly pays money to support said game they just "knew" was cookie cutter while at the same time condemning it?
You see how this is making people that say things like this look?

There is of course a third option. One that plays out in real time and is, IMO, whats going to happen. You will buy the game even though your SURE its a WOW clone (or try it anyway, you may not even pay a cent to do so being a vet) because, while the cynic in you is just SURE that its going to suck, the small little optimist in you that wants this game to do well, besides all the evidence you claim to provide to the contrary based on a 5 min alpha video, wants it to be good and do well. All thats left in this 3rd option is to see how things play out, but at least this way, if it doesn't go the way you want, you can then jump back on the forums and say I TOLD YOU SO for three to six months before moving on to something else. See you on here in april either way I guess man. Way to stand for something.