TwistedFaith wrote:
kcirrot wrote:
Ironhall@Antonia Bayle wrote:
I miss the days of seeing a player with a cool item and I'd ask them how they got it and they would tell me a story filled with adventure and excitment and I would gather my friends to go out and try to obtain one for myself.
Now the cool items come from the Marketplace. How is that fun for anyone? You realize this is the ultimate downfall of this game?
I do not miss the days of seeing a player with a cool item and I'd ask them how they got it and they would tell me a story of placeholders and reputation grinds and doing instanced raids every week for a year until the RNG finally had mercy on them and released the item.
Now, you can look cool which has no effect on anyone else's game and statwise wear whatever is the best item you have for that slot.
Yeah because what is the point of working for something when you can just break out the credit card.
In my opinion the appearance of your avatar in MMOs is one of the most important aspects, it should show what you have done with your character, where you have been, what adventures you have had and act as a carrot to other players who want to do the same. Sadly these days your appearance is directly related to how much money you were willing to pay SOE, it's kind of sad honestly. It's pathetic that a lvl 10 newbie could have better looking armor than someone who has killed the most difficult dragon in the game.
Remember when SoE would tell us all how incredibly difficult it was to make new armor, yet it seems that every week or so they somehow find the time to make more marketplace items. But that's a totally different team right and all the proceeds of SC goto EQ2 right............................
Well, if SOE had started out with more cool things you can quest for and whatnot, there probably wouldn't be the same level of vitriol over SC stuff as there is now. The truth of the matter is that most of the drops, be they armour or weapons, in the history of EQ2 have been underwhelming in appearance. Most of the crafted stuff is bland as well. If there had been more diversity brought in *before* SC came to be, I think people wouldn't have minded as much.
Honestly, I just like shiny stuff. How I get it (or how anybody else gets it) at the end of the day is meaningless to *my* personal playstyle. Just don't tell me I can't get it at all---*that* would annoy me.