Quote:
Originally Posted by French Wizard
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
there should not be any ip exemptions as they are going to be abused 100%
|
Because you and your friends are people who cheat 100% of the time unless prevented from doing so doesn't mean everyone is like that.
And there are in fact quite a lot of people who are not in a race with anything and don't get obsessed by having particular anythings in these games.
And I still find it nearly unbelievable that people actually box by choice, before P99 I had never paid much attention to it and always associated it with Chinese plat-farmer slaves. It's like having a nice sportscar and taking it out to drive 5mph in deep mud. Yes, technically you're still driving a nice car, but every drop of fun in the experience has been removed, and that's what I think of when I think of trying to run multiple characters at once with EQ, or any game for that matter where managing multiple characters isn't designed in (BG etc.)
People who box by choice in games like these, particularly 20 year old niche games, have absolutely zero interest in what these games were designed to provide: exploration, wonder, meet lots of people, with exciting combat.
They don't go anywhere other than where maximum value to them is, they're not interested by anything they see, they don't want to interact with anyone, and the only thing they think about combat is how I can make it quicker and easier and more pointless. Only thing they care about is having whatever it is they want, be it level or item, and anything between them and those goals is just an annoyance to be cheated/min-maxed through as quickly as possible.
They don't actually experience anything, and probably don't know what it means. All they know is blind desire for whatever thing they've locked onto now as the next thing they MUST have, probably because they think that thing will make them feel better somehow. But it never does. And so they're locked in an endless chase for things that won't fix anything.
Basically their priorities are so utterly farked that the one thing you can be sure of is that they're doing none too well in life, and it ain't getting any better.