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Originally Posted by username17
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It has to do with the way SOE retained it's subscribers.
SOE had to think, ok we got all these people. How do we keep them?!
Lets make everything a time sink! This will keep people playing long hours trying to get to X level or Y piece of loot.
Their system of time sinks worked, until WoW.
Blizzard came along and asked the same questions as SOE. How can we attract and keep potential subscribers?
They came up with a different (better?) answer to that question. Simply, make everything FUN!
Make every single aspect of the game fun and entertaining. Create goals for the players and show them how to achieve them. Replace time sinks with fun interactive game play.
Players went from EQ where it would take 30 minutes just to make a group to WoW where they could start a quest and complete it in 30 minutes.
In two words: Instant Gratification
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Well as far as SOE goes, with firsthand knowledge of the whole SWG debacle as the obvious example, they didn't give a crap about existing subscribers. They seriously dumbed SWG down (removing lots!) in their own words "for new players". The existing community totally fell by the wayside, and there was absolute hell to pay when NGE released, or was 100% snuck in. But that is not just SWG, it's SOE's play on their game projects and the way they are notorious on dealing with their player base. Their philosophy is more like too big to fail and who needs vet players promoting their game excellence, drawing in new subscribers, when they can just mass market a new spin on things, themselves. Fail.
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Originally Posted by Kika Maslyaka
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i would not mark that as instant gratification- this is just too overused.
WoW simply broken down one GIGANTIC grind EQ1 had into thousand small steps with a little carrot attached to each.
And yeah, I prefer to log in for 30-60 min, and actually complete SOMETHING, than spend 30 min just putting group together, then another 30 min running to a dungeon, grinding it for 30 min, then discovering that oops cleric has to go, then spend 30 min looking for another cleric... And what about those 8 hours VT raids? I mean fucking seriously? I have a full time job you know.
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And that is an example to site concerning the fanboi approach to sabotaging every other game than their own, having been done in masses at every gamesite. Fortunately at EQemu it's in poor taste, but asshat publishers like SOE eat it up and go chasing after the fanboi playerbase they will never get. Fail.