Beerbrain

I'm so glad you posted this. I am terrified, as a new role player, of number 1. I recently came back from a 2 year break from WoW, mainly because I wanted to take the next step in my mmo career and begin roleplaying. I have always enjoyed WoWs lore and there are so many people playing, I thought "what better game than WoW to do it in".

Problem is, I am terrified to initiate anything outside hellos and goodbyes for fear I might do it wrong and be publicly lambasted. Moon Guard has a lot of RP going on and so far I'm enjoying the server a lot but I know if I don't take the jump I'm going to lose interest. I've been looking for guilds that accept beginner roleplayers in hopes maybe I'll find a kind soul that would like to be my "RP mentor".

It's a big bad scary world out there for the new roleplayer like myself. I'm glad you brought that to everyone's attention. Love reading your column and look forward to more.

@Rialle

Scenarios (Instant Adventures), Aoe Looting, Challenge Mode (Master Mode) and 1 of the 2 BG's being very similar to Black Garden in Rift, I'm not sure what else they could have swiped.

Swtor had nothing good other than Hutball. The rest was a watered down mess.

How is this patch the the most epic in scope of any mmo made in the past 10 years?

Has anyone on this team every made or played an MMO before because from most of their statements I would say no.

I played my free month of this and I have to say it was a pretty boring MMO. I couldn't stomach anything past level 30. I can't speak for anything past taht but I can't imagine it's all that great. I'd rather play WoW if I am going to play a quest on rails, insta-gratification MMO.

@blackcat7k

My thoughts and feelings exactly.

I'm happy to hear this as I was starting to get nervous that maybe I wasted 60 bucks on this game.

I don't mind that there won't be a RP/PVP as in my experience those servers are usually dominated by non-RPers anyways.

For whatever reason I reinstalled Lotro a few days prior to this announcement. Call me crazy but I missed the Landro community. But this?, this has solidified my decision to uninstall.

What happened to this game. It wasn't the biggest or most successful but Moria was so grand on a scale I've never seen before and then BAM! out of nowhere. Sad.

I don't think I fall back in love with WoW or Lotro but those are the 2 games that I seem to fall back on quite often. More Lotro in the past couple years than WoW. I think it's the familiarity of them that is comforting or something. It's certainly not the games themselves.

@Germaximus

I also find "Sandbox" games very boring. To me "Sandbox" games are half finished games that have "Sandbox" attached to them to justify being incomplete. I mean, if you aren't putting in tons and tons of quests, lore, raids and otherwise then why can't you make the systems that ARE in place..oh, I don't know, actually work.

I could go down the list but the current "Sandbox" games are all pretty bad. With the exception of maybe EVE which is pretty successful. A lot of these games have some interesting ideas but poor execution.

So to me, what makes a "Sandbox" a "Sandbox"? The ability to shape the world. I don't know about you, but when I was a kid and I had a sandbox in the back yard I had all kinds of stuff to play with. It wasn't just a box of sand. I had trucks, bulldozers, toy animals, etc etc. But I also had shovels, and buckets. Let's stop using the excuse that sandbox games can't have attractions. Because they can.

This applies to Vanguard as well.

http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?section=News&month=current&id=1285