Japanese dev posts today (April the 20th)

[Xatsh]

Wows Cross server party thing was one thing I was hoping they might pick up on, my only fear is people not partying up on your server anymore once that is in place... I mean staying in Uldah all day then instant warping to dungeons then instawarping back to uldah sorta would suck.

Maby some kind of penalty for auto grouping, like reduced SP in dungeons or rarer drops outside the dungeon finder, or to put a positive spin maby a 20% sp boost for going into a dungeon without party finder. You know give people the incentive to still group up without the autofinder. A completely instanced mmo is not a good mmo in my opinion.

If Square balanced instanced and non instanced encounters I would be all for it.

[Abriael]

Wows Cross server party thing was one thing I was hoping they might pick up on, my only fear is people not partying up on your server anymore once that is in place... I mean staying in Uldah all day then instant warping to dungeons then instawarping back to uldah sorta would suck.

Maby some kind of penalty for auto grouping, like reduced SP in dungeons or rarer drops outside the dungeon finder, or to put a positive spin maby a 20% sp boost for going into a dungeon without party finder. You know give people the incentive to still group up without the autofinder. A completely instanced mmo is not a good mmo in my opinion.

If Square balanced instanced and non instanced encounters I would be all for it.

Well, there is an inherent penalty with instant party. You're not playing with people you know, so the party will inherently less efficent. I would definitely try forming a party manually before using the instant matchmaking.

[Eekiki]

Maby some kind of penalty for auto grouping,

No.

or to put a positive spin maby a 20% sp boost for going into a dungeon without party finder. You know give people the incentive to still group up without the autofinder. A completely instanced mmo is not a good mmo in my opinion.

Yes.

[Commat]

Maby some kind of penalty for auto grouping, like reduced SP in dungeons or rarer drops outside the dungeon finder, or to put a positive spin maby a 20% sp boost for going into a dungeon without party finder

I like that you are kicking ideas around but this doesn't make sense at all.

If they were to spend development time making cross server play a reality then it would be insane to penalize people that use it.

The better idea would actually be to give incentive to use the system. Like extra buffs for easy completion or a gil/item pouch as a reward.

It is okay for a lot of reasons to not want this type of system but you better believe that if it is implemented. The only reason not to use it would be the comforts and good times of playing with friends.

[Shiyo]

-The team is considering instant dungeons.
Features to amutomate/facilitate the creation and organization of parties are going to come with the raid dungeons

They're also considering cross-server party functions, it seems, while the implementation may be difficult (i'd request confirmation on this one from someone else that can read japanese, it seems too extreme to be right lol)

Good to know I'll be quitting this game ^-^

If I want to play an instant gratification FPS/D2 "RPG" I'll go play WOW or rift.

[Abriael]

Good to know I'll be quitting this game ^-^

If I want to play an instant gratification FPS/D2 "RPG" I'll go play WOW or rift.

Careful of the door, might slap on your "hardcore" rear when it closes

Uh?

With instantiation it's really easy, Guild Wars being the prime example: from the point of view of the player there is only one server. Of course due to the mechanics of GW (limiting groups to 6 players I think), it doesn't really show the potential of this outside of the towns.

And that's why Guild Wars isn't even considered a full MMORPG. Excessive instantiation is the perfect way to make a MMORPG lose the first "M".

[Nipa]

And that's why Guild Wars isn't even considered a full MMORPG. Excessive instantiation is the perfect way to make a MMORPG lose the first "M".

Which doesn't change the technical point I was trying to make.

Also you try to say to DDO players they are not playing a MMO. I'm pretty sure they'll love it.