Zero_Washu posted:

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Not even close.

1) Highlight NPCs with quests. Yeah I know, but it will dumb down the game. Well guess what, not being helpful to your playerbase is the real dumbing down.

A big NO. Player will just look for icon above thier head.(Realistic? LOL) And not bothering to read it and click to accept. The old style has no icon makes you talk to everyone... Its by your action if u wanna know whats up, not them luring you by thier worthless ICON.

2) Contracts, ie Quests. Nice idea, rotten implementation. Coordinates? Your kidding right? Instead of being smart and having contracts provide the player with a general locale they gave coordinates. Well, unless you write down the coordinates of each city you have no idea where X,Y is. So, name the nearest city/housing complex. Besides being helpful it makes the NPCs feel more part of the world.

Whatever.

3) All vendors buy all things. None of this having to find someone to buy your shit. I can't tell you how aggravating it is to a returning player, I can only imagine what its like to new players.

You kidding? This isn't the problem!

4) No item on drop on death below level 100. An old mechanic better suited for PvP than PvE. Worse its pointless because of DIs. Hell the Developers made an out for it, why not just remove it.

Just No, LOL

5) Better in game map. Would be even nicer if you could display portal routes on it. Please don't tell me that you lose something by adding these things, your in a magical world, and you run faster than most people in mounts could ever hope to in other games.

Actually, this is 1 of the best thing about the game, NO Clumsy and stupid mount. This is what make the game unique as well!

6) Did I mention highlighting NPCs who have appropriate things for people to do at specific levels? I think I did. As to what to put above their heads? The Aerlinthe symbol :P

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-Spacelord- posted:

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Make it f2p. that's it.

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e320 posted:

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Seriously after reading everyone's post word for word, it made me cry inside that I'm personally not alone in this situation. Does anyone remember when you had to figure out which powder/potion/scarab/color candle, etc to learn 1 level x spell was? that was hard as F, but I thought it was what brought me into the game, magic was amazing back then. Then they tied the account to your MSN nickname and boom all the combinations for each spell at each level was revealed.

About a month ago I oveheard a song playing on the english radio station where I am currently (Shanghai), at first it didn't hit me but once the lyrics popped in, a surge of memories and images came into my head while driving, It was the same song I use to run from Eastham to Arwic on the beach killing azure gromnies up and down with people I never met before,

AC has been watered down a bit, some for the good, some for the worse. AC is on its last legs for sure. AC2, well lets not get into that. IF, IF, IF, a game developer did decide to own the rights or create an mmo that is similar to AC1 with a bit of AC2 or current gfx engine, it would make all the difference to get the AC1 community from 1999 to sub in. But honestly nowadays alot of mmo's either go f2p after a few months, or are just flavors of the month and die out. Also note, better gfx doesn't essentially mean a better MMO, personally I would rather have lower gfx with better connection/less lag if it was due to the world and high demand for gfx. Ultima Online had a very good run at that. Its obivous with the low population of 1-300 on most servers minus DT topping 400 daily the servers are not what they use to be.

To justify everything, the world economy specifically the US economy at its state now, Turbine management, Turbine staff, and their plan for the future of their titles they hold, AC1 and LOTRO, is all up in the air, AC1 could end next week.

Personally I'd like to write more about my opinions but as I do I tend to drag off point. So to end my post, as a player who started in 99-left in 03, back in 03-left in 05, and back again 1 month in, I do believe if there is a stable MMO that has or will be released similar to the mechanics of pre ToD or DM AC1, with some jazzy gfx, the player base will move there. I must add that Eve-Online is still by far one of my favorite MMO's besides AC1 that is on my top 5.

I bid you all adieu and wish everyone the best, I will most likely be here (@DT/MT) till the end of AC1 or Turbine, whichever comes first. Please don't forget MS to thank for AC1 before it was sold to Turdbine.

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V_the_Warder posted:

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I think you'd get a lot more players back if the game wasn't $13ish a month. I'd resub and I know of quite a few more that would also. Hell I'd probably get 2 accounts and get the wife to play....as is, no way.

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einherjar_LC posted:

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I like the Steam demo idea.

I also agree with the sub reduction. This is a great game but a new gamer isn't going to pay $2 less than what a new AAA MMO sub is going for. Drop it back to $9.99.

Turbine needs to once and for all resolve the network issues some players have with the antiquated network code used for AC. I cannot, no matter what, get past the blue vials filling up. The game hangs then disconnects from server. I have actually had the supervisor for my ISP over to my house and do everything at his end in an attempt to get me connected to AC without success. We're talking weeks we worked on this and it boiled down to AC using such an old network protocol that communication through my ISP was not possible(due to newer tech and protocols).

Lastly, AC3. Same game, same mechanics, newer graphics. Add some of the functionality that decal brought to the game to rid it of the things some players consider mundane(i.e. making arrows-which I personally liked to do manually). Do not mess with the basic game beyond that or you'll just screw it up ala AC2.

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Sgian_Dubh posted:

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I think my wife and I would both go nuts for an updated AC.

I am tired of playing the same MMO over and over and over.

Same class archetypes, same skills (diff animations...whoopee) and the same tired PvP based on either who hits first or who has the most stuns.

I really miss AC, but I just can't justify the cost at this point.

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-Spacelord- posted:

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What will happen with February's update?

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-Spacelord- posted:

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Sounds like they want to do it the Blizzard way with cataclysm. WoW can loose customers but not AC.

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