In warhammer, you can have your thumb in a few pies at once. You can be questing around, but have set yourself into a PVP battle ground que from any point (even from the very moment you start playing a new character, actually). It'll pop you into the scenario once its ready, then put you right back afterward. That way if you want to do PVP, questing is something you can work on in between scenarios rather than being a big one or the other, not both situation.
To me, the low level PVE questing is much the same as other mmorpgs - somewhat interesting, but if it's the only thing your doing, the shine wears off quickly. However, if your breaking it up with an occasional intense PVP scenario, the questing doesn't drag on an keeps it's shine. Or if your enjoying the questing just for its own sake, don't turn on the scenario que. It's up to you and you shape how you play, rather than being stuck in the way some developer decided to go.
That and you can dip into public quests as well while on the way to your normal quests, which you were doing while you were waiting on the scenario que - you genuinely choose how you have fun and in a way that doesn't hurt your progression (sure in other mmorpgs you might have freedom to explore, but generally it hurts your numbers progression - and if that doesn't matter to you, then 95% of mmorpgs don't matter to you).
I'm done - go play! :)
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Progression only matters to me inasmuch as it allows me to do new things and go new places. It sounds like WAR lets you do a lot from day one, and I appreciate that design ethos.
ReplyDeleteProgression matters to me in terms of actually completing the game. Yeah, I know, people say mmorpgs are called endless, but I'm not interested in engaging what they've decided to say. What I see in WAR is a level range with a top level - and beating the enemies city a few times (till I feel I have mastered it pretty much as I can) will be the end for WAR. And even the never ending story, ended.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of doing alot, I think it's like a smorgasboard sort of arrangement, where you decide what's on your plate at once - instead of being trundled out one meal at a time of the designers choosing.
I find it very attractive - apart that the mmorpg demographic might not be into PVP much, I don't know why it lost any customers over time. Well also you can't beat social metrics with content. People probably just gravitated back to where their social scene was.