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and there goes one of the only mmo's I was interested in coming up.

And just as quickly Ill ignore it because it DOES mimic every past SOE F2P adaptation. Maybe if they went the way of ddo, or L2, even aion I might be interested, but in reality the only thing the lower non paid tiers are good for in SoE games are for SUPER casual players who don't want to dungeon grind, or raid at all.

In EQ2 you can't even wear decent gear, which in most dungeons just gets you face raped. I tried playing my 3 accounts f2p, but it was worthless and there isn't a large enough population to really justify the 15 a month.

Oh well. If they are doing good that is all that matters, just not my cup of tea but good luck to SoE lots of decent folks over there.

@kurosenshu except Koreans made this game not Americans.. so derp.

@Repopulation cry more.

Can Massively staff quit giving this hack the time of day on the site? No one is interested in his flops or rhetoric and trolls. I know it might be a slow day, but no day is slow enough for a Derek "I have a phd lulz" smart.

Here is my "miracle mmo":

1) EvE scale of land control and safe zones, but mixed with DAoC style property control and SWG style property management/city building.

2) 3 Factions, there was something awesome about getting "a** jammed" in an 8man, or going out in gank squads and getting jumped by a third party. Adds another level of excitement.

3) swtor companion crafting system. Instead of combat pets, just pets you get to do all the slave work a normal hero wouldn't be wasting his time with. For those people who want in depth crafting for trade goods can invest in factories and upgrades for a system more akin to swg. This would be a choice when you build the item, if you wanted to customize it and alter advanced properties and stats.

Crafting companions who harvest would be limited to non rares while you harvesting open world would net randoms and rares used for the higher quality schematics/patterns.

PvP crafting system with mats that drop for pvp based objectives. Rarity depends on difficulty of mission/quest involved in.

Advanced crafting would be a lot like the factory and industry in eve. There was something awesome about the fact that there were people who were truckers, builders, manufacturers and they all worked in tandem.

4) SWG Class system, but no one "tree" can be filled for defenses in that class to try and prevent "god templates" like the old (If I remember it right that is) fencer pistoleer bh builds.

5) SWG Spaceship control, mixed with the eve outfitting style system.

Future Item:
Atmospheric flight was up in SWG before it was shut down, don't see why they can't work this into the game at a future date also, once hardware allows large scale battles on the ground while a larger scale battle is happening in the air above you and space above them.

5) C9 combat style. I don't think that Vindictus feels right maybe too clunky, NGE Targeting and Tera style "action" combat don't go far enough. But I was able to check out C9 thanks to a Korean buddy who I know online and the combat is fast paced, feels solid and easy to control and fun.

6) Eve market. Haven't come across one yet with the ability built in to forecast trends, and set market pvp up. If you are a day trader, eve can be fun just playing the market alone when you get into it.

The setting doesn't really matter. Although I wouldn't mind something a bit more futuristic to start, you can always tie in other story lines and expansions that go back and forth between the sci-fi and fantasy genre's via "time gates". This would allow the needed story line expansions and change in game play that would allow people to still play the same game, but maybe alter their experience to be different of the guy sitting right next to them.

Granted like the article says, wouldn't make everyone happy but I would be!!!!

My Ideal MMO:

Star Wars Galaxies Class system

Eve politics and pvp world control

DAoC 's Validity of crafted armor and attachment system but with TOR's crafting and companion system

EQ2 Raids

WoW 's "ease of use" player enhancements like dungeon finders etc.

Mix of EQ2/WoW guild systems

SWG Player Housing / Player Cities.

@Daemodand

I used to think the same way, then I played NGE before it went dead and it was funnnnn. If they woulda left the classes alone and added alllll that content it would have been a hit.

@(Unverified) and that is the problem, they spent all their time on a gimmick ala EQ2 voice, and didn't bother to look at the outcome.

After a while it just gets annoying for a lot of people. Those who it doesn't great! But I can't help but imagine how much more they could have done with space, and other parts of the wow clone that this is, if they hadn't spent all their time on cutscene chats.

call me crazy but I don't see why more companies who go f2p don't mimic the ddo system. So many games I would play that if they used that method I would be in it to win it. EQ2, Aion, etc etc.

I don't like ddo game play but the way you can earn unlocks by doing tasks and the costs of things are cheap enough that the whole system just screams PLAY ME!!! these other ones, like EQ2 system and this proposed one by Aion team just scream "don't even try it!"