Do you want open book/blind meditiation?

[GhostCow]

Just doing a poll to see how the majority feels

[Fammaden]

There isn't going to be blind medding its already confirmed black screen won't be in. You'll have to have book open and med button clicked til 35 but can make the book window as transparent as you want and move it off screen even. Rogean mentioned all this on Reddit earlier and confirmed the black screen wouldn't be in during the thread about it.

This being a bare minimum compromise to remove the tedium but maintain some semblance of the old flavor or lore of the original book medding.

[GhostCow]

Glad to hear it! I can definitely live with that. I'm still curious to see how people feel about the mechanic though

[pink grapefruit]

Voted no, tho I don't *hate* it lol. It's not super game-breaking either way, just a silly annoyance.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just a silly annoyance.

/shrug

[Videri]

VOTE NOW FOR BLIND BLACK SCREEN SPELLBOOK MEDDING ALL THE WAY TO 65

[Albanwr]

doesn't matter. The guys in charge have the plan and they will continue with it. I think the blank screen thing is bad, but would still play green happily if it was part of the server.

[El-Hefe]

Originally Posted by Albanwr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

doesn't matter. The guys in charge have the plan and they will continue with it. I think the blank screen thing is bad, but would still play green happily if it was part of the server.

This is the right attitude to have.

[Azoraa]

Originally Posted by Albanwr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

doesn't matter. The guys in charge have the plan and they will continue with it. I think the blank screen thing is bad, but would still play green happily if it was part of the server.

There is soo much posts about this that I don't even know what is being done about it now. But if it is going to be the blank screen, my friend and I are not going to want to even start investing our time into it. There is a lot of time spend meditating and getting to level 35 will be very slow*, so NOT fun way to play.

*not implying that we want it to be fast at all. Just not going to spend out play time with a blanked out screen for days on end.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Azoraa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is soo much posts about this that I don't even know what is being done about it now. But if it is going to be the blank screen, my friend and I are not going to want to even start investing our time into it. There is a lot of time spend meditating and getting to level 35 will be very slow*, so NOT fun way to play.

*not implying that we want it to be fast at all. Just not going to spend out play time with a blanked out screen for days on end.

Azoraa, I can't speak for Rogean or Nilbog, but I think their honest response would be "ok".

Green isn't for everyone: it very much is a different game. If WoW is "EQ 3.0", and modern/live EQ is "2.0", then Blue is "1.5" (1.2?), and Green is "1.0". You're 100% right that things are slower, and "less fun" as you go down in versions.

WoW is absolutely, 100% faster: everyone here would agree. We'd also mostly all agree that WoW is "more fun", in a sense: perhaps it's more accurate to say the barriers to having fun are lower on WoW.

The reason people play older/harder/"less fun" MMOGs is because they're older/harder. When you accomplish something on Blue, like say getting your epic weapon, it's a monumental achievement. Everyone here still remembers getting their epic on live (if they played), because it very likely was harder than anything they ever had to do in another game.

The fact that it takes more effort to achieve a goal is exactly why the ClassicQuesters/ClassHoles are excited to play this even older, even "less fun" game, and why they want to be blind while meditating. When they get to level 35 and don't have to be blind anymore, they'll get to have a (genuinely fun) experience that someone who only plays on WoW or even Blue will never get.

It's just like if we get night blindness, or any other "less fun feature" here: people will get to experience the joy of acquiring an Ultravision item, something that is meaningless on Blue. Without night blindness no one will ever get to appreciate such items again (the way they did back in '99).

Green will be full of "harder, but in a way more fun" experiences like this, and we just want to book blindness to be one more of them.