DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - Re: [MUD-Dev]SOC:Willcompany sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity?

[Paolo Piselli]

--- Michael Hartman <michael at thresholdrpg.com> wrote:

> WoW hasn't moved away from the cliches at all. It has refined
> them. The PvP is dramatically inferior to both DAoC and
> Shadowbane, and certainly cannot approach the feeling of
> Counterstrike and its ilk.

> It really is little more than a new way to farm. You kill each
> other back and forth for honor points that eventually gives you
> the right to buy PvP gear from a vendor. This is a huge step
> backwards, imho, from DAoC and Shadowbane.

Yep.  Just like those silly chess players who check-mate each other
back and forth for rankings - and most of them don't even get any
phat loot! Ladders are proven systems for ranking players in a
competetive game, and have been in use for far longer than online
games have existed.  IMO implementing a PvP ranking system as a
ladder is a tremendous step forward, as the idea of becoming a
grandmaster at chess simply by playing a certain number of games is
absurd.

-Paolo

Paolo Piselli
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