Originally posted by GtoRA2
What are some of the things you think WoW does to penalise the powergamer?
The whole "rested" system they put into the game. If you play for a continuous 2 hours you become "tired" and will gain less XP than someone that is "rested". You then have to log off, wait about 10 minutes and then log back on to get the max XP until the two hour limit comes back up and you need another "rest".
It will be interesting to see how well this works.
It is kinda funny you mention this, the one guy I know who is really stoked about EQ2, hates the whole UBER, powergamer thing about EQ1 and thinks all those players are going to stay with EQ1. I think he is nuts they are all going to move on to EQ 2.
Most of the hard-core EQ players and guilds have moved over to EQ2. But unlike EQ, EQ2 has made the effort to make the game a lot more attractive to the new player and in my opinion it has succeeded.
Even though I played EQ for a short time, I never really got into it. Mostly because I didn't want to really spend the time to level up my character and my gaming interests are more geared to the flight sims and first person shooters. The only RPGs I usually play are single player ones like Baldur's Gate. The only reason why I play Star Wars Galaxies is because of the recent Jump to Lightspeed expansion where they introduced space combat.
Having said that, I did play EQ2 througout it's beta cycle, from the time the in-house alpha test came out until it finally closed last week. I had a blast playing it and found it to be quite appealing. One of the nice things I liked about it is that I can level up at my own pace, which you really couldn't do in EQ.
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