Sure. And your point is? What constructive criticism can we take from your post? Are you implying gear should drop at a lower quality?

Is this really the fault of players, or is it fact the fault of the devs? Blue=rare, however that's legitimately not the case today, blues are everywhere to the point that they really are vendor trash.

Everything else though I agree.

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Is this really the fault of players, or is it fact the fault of the devs? Blue=rare, however that's legitimately not the case today, blues are everywhere to the point that they really are vendor trash.

Everything else though I agree.

In ESO, the color isn't even about rarity. It's just about quality. I think the old mindset of "only the most devout nerds with the most time to invest should get this color of equipment" went extinct when MMO devs realized that players will continue to play, and pay, regardless of what color their gear is as long as the content is enjoyable.

OP, please define who "they" might be.

Shoooooot, back in my day we didn't even have mmos. Now they just sit in their parent's basements playing video games and eating Doritos. We were out in VIET FIN NAM! I was waist deep in rice paddies!

For real though, the fact that any generation is sitting around playing video games is pretty laughable in the larger scale, regardless if back in the day it was "grindy" and required playing all day to get loot. I like that I don't have to waste too many hours for a chance at perfect gear. I'd rather play a bit and get to exercise or visit friends or family.

Anyways, I got to get back to work. I just killed a deer with my barehands and I know I'll have to wrestle some bears to keep them off my food.

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jainiadral wrote: »

OP, please define who "they" might be.

Everybody knows who “They” are: The Government. The Man!

Hah, I knew it was the POTUS' fault!

Now, get off my lawn!

I'd argue that 'arbitrarily restricting access to content behind a random number generator' is far worse for an MMO because when players can't actually, you know, play the game then they... don't. And they take their subs with them as they go.

This isn't 2004, MMOs aren't this new thing that no one's tried out, and they aren't only played by a small sub-group of nerds with lots of spare time on their hands. It's a large and deadly competitive industry, played by all sorts of people as social gaming experience. MMOs have evolved and shook off a lot of old systems because they didn't work and/or weren't fun, or else they were reworked/refined into their modern equivalents.

If ESO was the type of game where I couldn't do dungeons I wanted until I farmed the exact right super-rare bracelet from a rare mob named Idiot-Face the Brazen in the Wastes of Gohfaqurself, and was something I could only MAYBE loot once per week, then I would just... not play. I would go play a game where I could just get the gear through reasonable means, and then go do the thing I want to do and have fun. Which is the type of game ESO is, fortunately for me.

I do recall some early mmos using blue to be common items and green to be uncommon.

Then other games had green being common and blue being uncommon.

It's all relative.

want too blame someone for wrecking MMOs? Blame Blizzard and their World of Warcraft.

It's ok, zos introduced imperfect and perfect gear now, so they can still get decent stuff but are gonna have to work for perfected

Good luck with WoW Classic, See you soon.

Since op used one large run on sentence I’m going to assume this is just a troll.

Former Everquest player here too. I absolutely loved that game. When it came out in 98 I blown away and a Evercrack addict from the get go. The idea I could play a rpg with all these from all over the world was mind blowing. Grind? Their really was no quests. You leveled up grouping up with other players and finding a good camp spot for your level and grinding to he same mobs over and over till you was ready to move to a higher level spot. Ever group required at least the 3 holy trinity Tank, Healer, Enchanter / Bard ( crowd control). Solo? Some classes could effectively grind low lvl mobs that were just about to stop giving xp. I remember there being a joke about a Warrior solo’d a green conning mob. Time to nerf them!

I still remember when one of the main developers sent a system wide message asking for everyone to get their friends to log in cause they was about to hit 400,000 players online for the first time. 400,000? Modern games have way more than that online all the time.

This generation didn’t ruin anything. Consumers changed it cause their more of us that enjoy the content that you don’t like. While it was a blast back then it was mainly cause there’d never been any thing like it before. When we realized we could still have fun playing a Mmorpg without having to stay in one spot killing the same mobs over and over we voted with our wallets.

If anything you should be upset with people like yourself who haven’t found a game that caters to your likes. Maybe Brads new game will come out someday and do that.