General Discussion

MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood sat down last week with Mythic Entertainment's Jeff Hickman to talk a little bit more about WAR. In this second part of the interview, Jeff and Jon talk about communication in-game, scenarios and more.

Jon's Question:

Have you thought about using a voice service in scenarios (and elsewhere) in the game?

Jeff's Answer:

“The answer to your question is yes,” he said, “there has been a lot of thought about it. We were walking down the road firmly about two years ago of putting voice into our game and we stepped back from that because as we started to analyze what it would mean for our game and the problems that could come from that, we actually backtracked.”

“That doesn’t mean we won’t do it,” he continued. “We do talk about it. It’s something that has a lot of interest to me, but I’m not sure if we’re ever going to do it, we’ll just have to see.” He went on to tell me not to worry, that it’s on his list of things to do.

Read the interview here.

Lots of good answers that people have been asking about.  Pretty much everything makes sense.  :)

Originally posted by Manchine

Lots of good answers that people have been asking about.  Pretty much everything makes sense.  :)

dont know when this was conducted but there is no answer to the area/chapter chat being too small to be adequate. i wonder if this simply wasnt an issue when he was interviewed or whether he just avoided it. maybe mmorpg failed at asking, please, stradden, can you pester him about this issue, i think we'd all love an answer on that subject.

overall a pretty darn good interview tho :) good to see and i hope more come along soon!

Originally posted by wartywarlock

Originally posted by Manchine

Lots of good answers that people have been asking about.  Pretty much everything makes sense.  :)

 

dont know when this was conducted but there is no answer to the area/chapter chat being too small to be adequate. i wonder if this simply wasnt an issue when he was interviewed or whether he just avoided it. maybe mmorpg failed at asking, please, stradden, can you pester him about this issue, i think we'd all love an answer on that subject.

overall a pretty darn good interview tho :) good to see and i hope more come along soon!

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Anyways, good interview. I was also hoping for a awnser about the regional chat thingy. To bad it isn't in ;)

PQ's are awesome.  My only problem with them is when I started headstart there were tons of people doing them.  But my server was decidedly more Destro than Order to the point that Order was getting smashed consistently.  So I rerolled on a more even server, and now after having missed the initial wave of players I often find myself alone at the pq's.  It's kind of a bummer because I do enjoy the pq's quite a bit.

Also in the last week the number of players I have seen has dropped dramatically.  I'm not sure what this means, if anything.  I'm playing at the same time as I was before....

Hopefully they will have free transfers if server pops get too low.  I know this is probably early to be talking about this, but playing by yourself is kinda boring and you can't fully participate in all the game has to offer.

Also I wish he would have talked a bit on the gold spammer issue.  A guy I reported yesterday morning around 7 am pacific time was spamming me when I came home from work around midnight, so someone either isn't doing his job or the system of reporting is not working as intended.

Renown Gear is freaking terrible. The stats on the gear sets are all messed up, and they tried to compensate by allowing Talisman slots.  The bottom line is that if you want decent gear in this game, forget the renown gear trash. Instead plan on grinding PQ's, PVE questing, and the rare win you might get in an RVR keep raid.

PQ's are ghost towns because usually there are only 1-5 people playing them, and they can't defeat the champion or boss mobs in Stage II/III. Instead they grind the Kill 50, 125, 300, etc mobs for Stage I and then let the PQ reset.  Making the PQ mobs in stage II/III champion levels was a mistake IMHO.

This guy is out of touch with his playerbase, and it shows in this interview. If people want grinds, there's no reason to leave WOW.

PQs are awesome. They're obviously the best when in a group but at least one of the three is ususally soloable so I don't know why people would complain about that. Plus you get influence so even if i'm doing a PQ by myself or even if I can't get to the final stage it's still fun and worth it.... people just like to complain but i think there is little wrong with it.

The renown gear isn’t meant to be the strongest equipment in the game (as many of those players were supposing). It’s there to make sure that players who advance solely through RvR and don’t do quests have access to gear that is similar to what a PvE player would get.

 This seems to be an incorrect statement. For tier 1 there are several pieces of equipment not attainable with renown rank. These pieces include a cloak, a helm, main armor, shoulders etc. There items are attainable for tier 1 from PvE.

 So, for people like me, who want to level solely through RvR, wouldnt it be nice to have such gear made attainable from renown and RvR mobs/players?

That being said, at the top of each tier in the game there is an RvR armor set of those players that just haven’t really been discovered yet. This armor is actually the most powerful stuff you can get for the tier.

This seems to be another incorrect statement. My main (a black orc named kruunk) had far superior equipment to this gear at level 11. You can do a character search on him now, he is level 13 with mostly level 11 gear.  Kruunk, black orc, red eye mountain. This shows that PvE gear is far superior to renown gear.

Another problem with renown gear is how it is attained and the requirements to wear it. Mostly my characters are 1 level apart when comparing level to renown rank. Most renown gear requires several levels higher in level than renown gear to wear. Experience gain from world RvR is slow. This forces you to run scenarios to advance. In tier 2 this isnt so bad. In tier 1, having a bunch of no geared level 1-6s pretty much guarantees a loss. This is mainly because there is no real renown gear for tier 1 and the starting gear is nonexistent.

In closing, all i ask for is three things.

1. Equivalent gear for RvR players who do not want to quest or grind PQs.

       If you force me to PvE to gain gear, your defeating my reason for playing the game.

2. Decent rate of advancement for RvR players in World RvR.

        Now I am not asking for equivalence with PvE. I just want a decent ammount of XP gain.

3. A method of turning your experience gain off.

        I would like to hit to cap for each tier, then sit there for a bit and enjoy the RvR before advancing beyond the tier.

Sure has been a lot of interviews with them...not that i think they are trying to spin things or whatever.

Maybe someday they will have some useful information, instead of the attitude they keep putting out.  Really if they can't handle people saying things they don't like, they need to find a new line of work.