The Daily Grind: Would you keep playing if your character was wiped?

By the way, Jef...

How would you keep playing your character if it were wiped? Finger puppets?

@Borick

Agreed - normally I'd say no but in the case of DFO I'd return to playing it.

I've never played a game as immersive as Darkfall - and while I don't mind the FFA PVP (keeps you on your toes), I'd like to see just as much (if not more) emphasis on PVE content.

@Tempes Magus On top of the PVP gankfest I had issues with the melee mechanics. Circle-strafing at short range while holding a reticle on the target isn't my idea of immersive action combat.

I don't understand why our MMO characters aren't limited to more realistic combat animation. A character shouldn't really be able to bunny hop and circle strafe at close quarters without getting himself chopped up.

I think there should be more work done on merging action selection with position and animation. If I want to run down my opponent, I should have a button for that, at the risk of being fatally exposed to certain counterattacks. Otherwise when my character gets within sticking range of the enemy, I would expect to feel resistance to actions on the controls that would leave me exposed. Sort of like... collision detection with a combat-variable gradient.

@Tempes Magus

Sure, many players would think like that. But you know, game developers are people too, and many of them have families to feed. Sometimes a reboot is less of a financial disaster than throwing the whole thing to trash.

And for a player's point of view, I'm really the type of a player that rarely gets to max level in MMOs that have levels to begin with. I tend to start new characters all the time. I usually enjoy the trip more than the destination, so to say.

@Tempes Magus

Thinking further, most of today's MMOs kinda concentrate on the accumulation of player wealth, whether that means money, experience points, skill points, some sort of honor points or simply bigger and shinier equipment. I can see a wipe making many more players mad in games like these if the accumulation of wealth really takes time too, especially if players are fixated to this mindset. Players who enjoy the social, explorative etc. aspects of MMOs more should tolerate it better though.

@Fire Walk With Me haha Eve's ridiculously vocal, and dramatic player base has kept me entertained for quite some time

@Unshra Wait, are we reading the same forums? I've never seen a game forum talk so much trash about the developers, and I've read a lot of game forums.

Whether I would keep playing would depend on how long I'd been playing before. Years? Probably not. Weeks or a couple months? Yeah, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Also, if I'd played a long time ago but stopped, I wouldn't be as attached to my character and might give the game another try.

I plan to try out Darkfall again when the relaunch happens. I played a trial, but the lack of a market and some underwhelming polish kept me from subscribing. But I liked a lot of what they had.

@Tempes Magus

Double dipping ripoff? You mean like when they forced people that wanted to play on the NA server either buy a new client or wait for months to do a character transfer?

@Tempes Magus Because as we all know selling vanity items is far worse then then a character wipe. ;-)