March 2008

• Specialization Joshua Clausen
• [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Rozak
• • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch John Arras
  • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Sellers
    • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Rozak
    • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Scott Jennings
  • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch cruise
  • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Dana V. Baldwin
  • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Damion Schubert
  • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Sellers
  • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Rozak
    • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Michael Hartman
  • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch John Buehler
  • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Mike Rozak
      John Buehler wrote:
      > I've just duplicated that completely-informal poll in the mmorpg.com
      > general
      > discussion forum:
      
      With 46 votes, it's looking like character development (47%) and exploration
      (28%) win out. Questing and combat are both around 10%. And NPCs and Puzzles
      at 2%...
      
      Which is closer to what MMORPGs actually offer today than MMOWatch's poll...
      but not quite there. IMHO, I'd put a typical MMO design at:
      
      NPC interaction 2%
      Character development 24% (higher for UO)
      Combat 40%
      Exploration 10%
      Puzzles 0%
      Questing 24%
      
      My opinion of exploration is so low because MMOs are about visiting pretty
      places (thanks to good artists and DX9 graphics cards) and killing monsters
      in them. I found LOTRO particularly disappointing in this aspect because I
      thought that every area would have some sort of backstory lovingly tied to
      the LOTR/Silmarillion, fed to interested players as they wandered through
      the area (perhaps old ruins with dusty tomes). I didn't find this in the
      first 10-15 levels of play (so I got bored, and gave up). There was some
      backstory attached to NPC quests, but not much.
    • • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch John Buehler
      • [Media] Informal poll on MMOWatch Vincent Archer
• Class names Ricky C
• • Class names Damion Schubert
  • Class names cruise
  • Class names Ids Braam
  • Class names Steven King
  • Class names Dana V. Baldwin
  • Class names Christopher Lloyd
  • • Class names Travis Casey
• Specialization cruise
• • Specialization Sean Howard
  • • Specialization Michael Hartman
    • Specialization cruise
    • • Specialization Sean Howard
      • Specialization Damion Schubert