#12
by Nilas
My avatar - Nilas - is the second Druid to reach lvl 50 on the Bertox server during the Everquest craze during the early 90' s. My account is even still around in case I want to reactivate it. But the constant grind of leveling, along with camping for a few rare items has really turned me off to this type of MMO (after playing DAoC, back to EQ(maybe2), Anarchy Online, and WoW, my opinion is that these type of grind-it-out, camp over weekends to get some special gem is just not gonna work *today*. We - as a playing group - have moved on tto he low maintenance, minimal hours played, with a definite nix on camping. If One Thumb is trying to make Celtic Heroes like the MMO of yesteryear, it will fail, because we, who started that trend and allowed ourselves to be walked over, crushed, smashed, and divorced over a MMO are now 20 years older and too smart and tired for that kind of $hit. If Celtic Heroes shows one sign of trying to make a 90's level game, than its GAME OVER for One Thumb. I, and I expect thousands others, will just drop it and move on to "the next "greatest thing". In a heartbeat, if that. If you wanted an MMO in the 90's, you got EQ or maybe Ultimate Online. Today, there's way too little time to play *any* MMO, so it comes down to the easiest, fastest, and the ones the allow to use real money for in-game perks (traitors in my book). But I do know that if Celtic Heroes continues on its present path, it'll be without me, and loads of others I imagine. **** You can't make a 90's MMO in the '10's.**** You can try, but you will fail. Fail miserably.
Oh, and this is all my opinion from someone who has started and endured the various "play balancing” - i.e. nerfs. With a grin and muttering under our breaths ("I'll get you fygckers next time"). But that next time never ever came, and we eventually were forced to "walk the plank" and try the next new MMO out there. Scairy, but it has to be done. But today, 20 years later, all it takes is to click on that app Download button from your iPad. Wait a few minutes, then start kickin' the crap outta those baddies. Wow. MMO Nirvana has finally hit us all.