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ond seeks revenge upon have maneuvered themselves into positions of power and prestige but they remained fundamentally the same lowborn conspirators who betrayed him all those years ago or in baldur s gate you re introduced to the big bad in game in the intro only you don t realize what the context is until you ve played the entirety of the game by the end of the game your position in life has changed but the big bad has not both however are works with a defined beginning middle and end mmos don t really have that luxury so the stakes constantly change with each expansion and the easy way out for mmos is to raise the stakes with each successive expansion unfortunately that can back developers into a corner content wise a legion thing i presume from know your meme that meme aside when you get successively more earth shaking and more powerful end bosses in each new expansion whose plots to do whatever are even more outlandish than the one before it you get past a breaking point lotro had it easy relatively speaking because that mmo followed the books right up until the end when the ringbearer completed his quest and sauron was destroyed now the mmo becomes what do we do next to top that and there s no easy answer but other mmos such as wow have a harder time of it when you have to raise the stakes with each successive expansion without falling into any one of the following traps i m not bad i m defending us from the next big bad meet the new big bad same as the old big bad bait with one plotline and switch to a repeat of an old plotline an i was good or at least neutral but now i m bad big bad changing the backstory to create a new big bad out of whole cloth plotline even if the plotline of an expansion covers one of these traps you can still find an mmo story expansion that doesn t necessarily have a corresponding escalation in power to match the players own arms race it s not a given by any stretch however it takes a rare mmo to avoid falling into the more bigger better more design more gear more shinies more powers more everything and then you wake up one day and wonder just how you started out as this and then you find yourself looking like this and this is before the current expac in wow classic and you are hanging around with people like this you bet your ass she s bowing or this i m running out of screen space how the hell do you describe this to people back home without them wondering what has become of you and what do you do when a suitably lofty opinion of yourself creeps into your psyche when beings of this amount of power and prestige call you friend and invite you to sit at the table it can t help but influence your opinions of yourself and just how far away from your beginnings you have come more indeed there s no easy answer to the power creep per se since to a lot of people there is no problem at all there s always another hill to climb another challenge to overcome but i guess getting on toward middle age has taught me a bit about that spiral how there always is an upper barrier on what can be achieved and eventually we all have to live with our limitations our regrets and our failures of course a game that provided such an outlook wouldn t have a lot of players because it s more fun to win than be reminded of our mortality dark souls notwithstanding even changing the overall trajectory of the power creep just a little bit whether it be by level squish or moving the focus away from a world shattering in game story can engender more than its share of angst think of dragonflight and how there were more than its share of detractors when the expac was announced i for one applauded the movement away from the world is ending vibe that tends to permeate the wow ecosystem but i wasn t so foolish as to think that wow was going to stop being on a gear treadmill once the dragonflight released that treadmill is still there and the surest sign that wow is still wow is that you get to help choose the next leader of the black dragonflight think about that for a moment why would the two rivals for leadership of the black dragonflight a flight in famous for their haughty attitudes toward all lesser beings be wanting your support they only respect people more powerful than their own that i ve yet to see a post saying hey waitaminute from my blog feed pretty much shows that people simply accept that you can make the choice not necessarily that you may want to but that you are in the right to do so in effect you are the cardinal richelieu of azeroth who are you for king wrathion or cardinal sabellius d artagnan probably i guess that this is the nature of the beast that power creep is inevitable and you either accept it or jump off the train okay there s a third option to simply ignore it and i hear silvermoon is nice this time of year or maybe just hang around the pig and whistle and roleplay or maybe the lion s pride from reddit or create a twink for bgs and just do that or run one of those places in ffxiv or form a band and play in bree on fridays or maybe be a roadie for that band fwiw this band still plays on friday afternoons on the gladden us server there are things to do but they are decidedly against the spirit of mmos or are they nothing says that you can t simply ignore what the developers want you to play and just do your own thing crafting your own resolution to the hero s journey isn t necessarily a bad thing to do after all you re in effect doing what i did all those years ago retire your character from active adventuring and again nothing says that you can t spend your days playing a d d campaign that consists of minding a tavern as adventurers pass through just gonna put this here i was so happy to give my local bookstore my money for this of course you re not obligated to buy any new mmo expansion or in the case of lotro or swtor or some other mmos you don t have to buy anything at all but that s up to you if nothing else you can control your own resolution to the power creep which is a good thing you have the option to say that you are not a god you are a person and even the heroic need a reality check from time to time i think i officially called them demi gods because being a good catholic kid i wasn t messing around with actual godhood itself some mmos guild wars 2 swtor elder scrolls online adjust your level downward if you re in a low level zone and dole out rewards accordingly this has varying levels of success based on the amount of tuning the devs have performed but at least it s an attempt at a solution some mmos don t even bother trying i d have called it spoilers but you can t throw a stick in a retail wow blog without some mention of it in there admittedly the twilight drake vesperon says you pose no threat lesser beings give me your worst but come on where do you think that vesperon got that idea from posted by redbeard at 3 00 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books ffxiv lotro memes musings retail wow monday december 12 2022 meme monday miscellaneous memes because the memes can pile up without a specific theme here s a few of an assortment of memes this is cardwyn as dps facing patchwerk in naxxramas pretty much from pinterest because i can t resist teasing my son but there s a bit more to this than just that something worthy of an actual post from know your meme this along with it took you more than a week to get to level cap are two defining features of old versus new mmos from elder scrolls online forums and that s why i m a bit of a minimalist regarding addons from know your meme posted by redbeard at 12 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday december 9 2022 and we just couldn t get rid of him well i guess the era of megamergers is over for the time being this is the graphic the bbc used for activision blizzard i was about to use the acryonym ab but that was too close to anheuser busch for my mind the us government filed suit to block the microsoft acquisition of activision blizzard blizzard was essentially along for the ride anyway with this acquisition as this was mainly about activision and call of duty go figure right i guess that means that we re still stuck with bobby kotick for now posted by redbeard at 7 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news video games monday december 5 2022 meme monday you all meet in a tavern memes it s a standard trope in any rpg whether it be a tabletop game a video game or even an mmo that you meet at an inn tavern is how the party gets together given that i spent my weekend repairing my tavern painting my home office and moving stuff around i thought it appropriate to share some tavern themed memes at least i can read write common from dungeons and dads on fb you know i don t think i have started a tavern fire yet from pinterest you know i could make a month s worth of meme mondays just dedicated to goldshire and not have them officially nsfw either from pinterest and one straight outta jojo s bizarre adventure from ifunny co think goldshire no no don t think goldshire oh well it was nice while it lasted posted by redbeard at 11 02 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday december 1 2022 watching the bronco busters work i m watching the initial posts about dragonflight from the sideline such as kaylriene s and i wonder whether dragonflight is for me or maybe a better question to ask is whether dragonflight is for someone who liked the open world of vanilla classic but gradually became disappointed with the tone and direction of tbc classic and wrath classic i already know i don t like the revamped old world brought about by cataclysm over a decade ago and the focus of you in wrath and onward as a sort of superhero for merely doing the job of killing ten rats kind of wears on me yes other mmos have something similar in design such as swtor and lotro but the transition from vanilla s do a variety of things or a couple of mini stories in a zone to your character having a soundtrack straight out of a bonnie tyler song by the end of wrath doesn t quite do it for me if i m coming back to dragonflight it will be from the standpoint of a player who had effectively retired after defeating arthas teaming up with neve to teach apprentices away from the crowds of stormwind and silvermoon card would have to be coaxed out of retirement by acquaintances among the dragonflights in her case it would likely have been haleh or maybe awbee asking card to come help explore the dragon isles since her eye for detail would prove invaluable coming back into the fray after having been effectively away for 20 years would be difficult for card which mirrors my own difficulties stepping back into retail and finding so many different systems and expectations beyond what things were like in retail wrath look at it this way there have now been just as many expansions in world of warcraft after i left than before i left 8 years ago that s a lot of learn something only to discard it two years later playing but also a lot of changes to the basics and the systems behind the game one need only look at the map to see evidence of that this is wrath classic but it s functionally unchanged since vanilla classic yes that s the original azshandra the map is that smallish thing with all of the quest markers and whatnot in it the integration of the map with quest markers along with other items would have been provided with addons until when the default map was changed sometime after the mists of pandaria expansion you can customize the map to an extent i had to hunt around for it but this is brought up by the magnifying glass above but not too much the main quest markers are still present i guess i wouldn t complain about it so much if it was something i was used to from the start such as swtor s map courtesy of my baby imperial agent except that swtor s map has changed a bit over the years some of the non story quests are now hidden by default and you have to manually select an option to show them but largely it has remained the same in fact the quest design itself behind swtor is very similar to that of wrath classic down to the display in the default ui linna taking a short break at valiance keep note the list of quests in the upper right it s been so long since i played this agent that some things have been reset but the quest list is still present again in the upper left of course i never knew that the quest list being turned on by default was an innovation in wrath itself until i began playing vanilla classic and discovered it simply didn t exist wasn t turned on eta corrected this but kept the original in editing thanks to indy for pointing out the miss here due to my lack of clarity what i have found is that throwing away the map and playing in a non optimized manner allows me to just explore and figure things out on my own something i d never experienced before in mmos until i had the chance to in vanilla classic i m obviously in the minority here because mmos have evolved away from exploratory play and in favor of directed play all you have to know about that is that retail conditioned players to sprint to max level to begin the grinding of prepping for raids despite design intentions in dragonflight to counter that fomo the relevant portion is at 0 51 10 about the design change of players logging in without mandatory content however if you ve the time the entire video is very much worth it old habits are hard to break particularly when the next expansion is well underway all of that aside the question remains will a person who likes more of the open world more cold war version of the pre cataclysm world of warcraft find enough to love in dragonflight which on the face of it seems to be a completely different game if it were a matter of using the same subscription to go ahead and play that d be one thing but wow still requires a person to pay for the expansions so it becomes a matter of whether 50 is worth it to buy play for a few hours and then discard if i don t like it and i don t know about you but especially during the holidays i don t have 50 just sitting around to blow on what to me seems a pretty risky gamble so i m going to sit on the fence for a while i m kind of used to that as after all it s not like i haven t done that before i ve been pondering that quite a bit lately and i considered several reasons why i didn t like the revamp the focus on the horde and alliance conflict the shoehorning of goblins and worgen into an already existing world and the constantly depressing viewpoints of the conflict cough hillsbrad cough but i think the biggest reason why i didn t like the revamp was the need for every single zone to have an overarcing zone story in vanilla wow and to a lesser extent tbc 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