Rune

The problem is, all the demanding "give me's" that people have voiced and that you're making in your article are the very things game developers are trying to do and they're making hollow, boring, uninspired games. Asking for instant gratification is what the new games have tried to do, and it takes away from the immersion.

Also asking to stay in a niche is a double-edged sword because even some of the best PvP games had a large amount of PvE. Look at DAoC vs. WAR: DAoC is known for its PvP yet a large part of the game has always been PvE and players needed that to keep the game from being 1-dimensional and keep them interested for more than an hour each day. WAR cut out the PvE and it cannot hold on to players interests.

"I want it all and I want it now." Don't you get that more in most modern mmos? I mean, that's exactly the opposite of what the original mmos did. If you show all your stuff off in the start, there's no reason to continue playing.

Its rather brainless to act like an ADHD stimulation starved customer with no time to invest in fulfilling goals and long-term activities, and that's giving developers the wrong idea on how to make games. If progression and growth are things you no longer have patience for, maybe you should retire from MMOs? I think the real point should be that most new games are not worth the patience and time, and then you feel like you need the instant gratification, but that's a different argument.

Sounds like you should stick to FPS or games like savage 2 with minimal leveling.

A lot of the fun in mmorpg pvp is making yourself more competitive. Its boring if its purely pve that is getting you further, but on daoc Mordred and some other pvp games like darkfall, the pvp was everywhere so you could stop others from leveling and fight over territory where it made a difference if you got leveled and geared or not, and that difference was part of the strategy and struggle.

DAoC - Mordred server

Mordred was a completely different animal than the normal servers. It was truly an immersive experience, and it had the great combat mechanics of daoc.

Everyone thinks daoc rvr was great, which it was. But it pales in comparison to Mordred's dynamics.

DAoC had this years before WoW was released. Minstrels, sorcerers, mentalists, and hunters could charm any PvE mob within his level range and each mob had different abilities you would get access to and use in pve or pvp.

I'm talking about visually it looks too much like it. And it isn't a leap forward, a lot of MMOs don't rely on autoattack. The day an MMO does non-auto attack right is the day it isn't a spam contest and relies on strategy instead.

Looks too street fighter/arcade fighter style in the combat; makes it look cheesy and flashy.