[MUD-Dev] RE: CoH and others

[Vincent Archer]

According to David Eckelberry:
> Alex Chacha writes:

>> EQ made this mistake by releasing the Gates Of Discord expansion,
>> they catered to the tiny percentage of the people that have
>> gotten to the relative end of the game (last plane in Planes Of
>> Power).

> In my observation, this wasn't quite the flaw you make it out to
> be.  Yes, it was an expansion geared more toward the hardcore,
> raiding player, but such expansions have come and gone
> before. This one was even more so, and explicitly for the
> absolutely highest-tier raiding type guilds. And I do think that
> that over-emphasis was a mistake, but it wasn't the fatal flaw of
> the expansion.

In fact, it wasn't a flaw initially. The main problem of Gates of
Discord is that it was initially designed with the view that
characters would raise to level 70. That's why the expansion was
initially so hard. Unfortunately, the gimmick got shuffled off to
the next expansion, Omens of War. Why? Don't know. Maybe the
marketing department said "we have a selling point for the
expansion, the raids, so we should save the level for the next
one". Who knows.

> Gates of Discord, putting it delicately, "experienced deep,
> persistent flaws in both its design and execution of that design."
> I don't want to go into every detail here about the broken
> content, unbalanced content, ridiculous timesinks, etc., but
> suffice it to say, I don't think it was really the focus of the
> expansion that doomed it to rewrites and castigation. It was just
> very poorly done.

One of the most general complain I heard about the expansion isn't
the broken content or timesinks, or difficulty. It's "weirdness".
With names Pixxt Ixvet Pox, humanoid dogs straight out of a
Hellraiser movie, the invasion from another dimension story, people
were raising eyebrows. Where were the dragons? The big god avatars?
The normal fantasy environment? Suddendly, people were thrown out of
the AD&Desque Everquest straight into Asheron's Call.

For a lot of people, that's the biggest flaw of the expansion. You
simply don't relate to it.

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	Vincent Archer			Email:	archer at frmug.org

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