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Originally Posted by loramin
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Seriously though, your story is an example of exactly what I'm talking about. In every MMOG with PvP that came after the first two Zeks the PvP aspect was always team-based. DaoC, SW:G, WoW ... heck even Sullon Zek. Or if it wasn't team-based it heavily encouraged the players to organize themselves in to teams and put heavy restrictions on who can PvP who and where (eg. EVE). A free for all "let everyone kill everyone" server just isn't fun for anyone except those at the top, which completely explains where the "antis" came from.
I saw this great article ( here's wikipedia's summary of it) where some guy broke down MMOGs in to four groups of players, one of which was griefers (I think he called them "killers"). His point was that when you design your game you have to accept that you will have griefers, but you have to design things so they can have their fun without ruining the fun of everyone else. Red-style servers only give those folks the "at the expense of everyone else" ways of having fun (vs. team-oriented servers that let griefers and non-griefers have fun together), so naturally they have their fun and drive everyone else away.
Honestly given the failure of everything that came before it I'm surprised Red lasted as long as it did. |
That's sort of interesting, but not something totally new to me.
This Bartles Taxonomy is simply taking a Myers Briggs Type Indicator test and simplifying it greatly then twisting it with a MMO motif.
Still interesting though, because I always find personality type tests fascinating.
I'd definitely fall under the "killer" persona, as I greatly prefer fighting players over mobs and have always gravitated to PVP games. I honestly just enjoy competitive gameplay between players for the unscripted type battles you can have when doing PVP.
I see how others fall into the other categories though, like the socializers. There's always that guy that doesn't really level much, doesn't really do a lot in the game but just chats and talks to people. Sinstar/Wohse/Locos is like this, one that comes to mind. He seems to just log in to chat in /ooc.