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Originally Posted by kruptcy
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So how exactly do you define the difficulty of an MMO?
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Well that is the biggest issue in the argument. How do you define what is considered difficult or not. Maybe it is hard for someone to sit there forever regening mana, they just don't have that patience, so yes, EQ would be the hardest game in your life (personally, I still think FFXI has EQ beat there, but that is another argument for another day). I like to base my idea of difficulty on what is required of me to maximize the potential for my character. That is why I point out stuff like even though you lvl faster in WoW, it still requires more out of you vs EQ to be succesful in it. Sure there is bad players that can still lvl, but it is the same idea as just getting a PL in EQ, but that is why I also mention maximizing the potential of your character. There is a huge gap in performance between a bad player and a good player in WoW. The severity of this gap is a lot less in EQ, except a job like enchanter (which I've already pointed out).
I also base it off of the mechanics presented to you, for example, commonly referred to as twitch mechanics, but not limited to. These are present at ALL levels in WoW, and even more so in End Game. In classic EQ, in comparison, are basically non - existent, and this is me being generious, I don't think they are existant at all. So excuse my ignorance here, because lvling to max lvl didn't have anything, and due to the nature of end game stuff and being zerged, it didn't matter if anything did have said mechanics.
There is a few other things, but those are the big ones.