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So a snake is going to drop 20 snake eyes on death?
Experience makes sense- although 100% seems way overboard, you will just have mobs of people fighting trash and levelling like crazy. But wait, it's only if they "significantly" contribute- good luck with that. You will have people playing characters that can do the most damage. Or healers who just heal everyone who doesn't need it.. fighting for heals such that everyone just wastes mana.
Loot does not make sense, and it was just lead to a world where everyone has everything. Fun.
Player's wanting items/spells/skills others do not posses is what makes MMO's interesting. If you don't think so, then just use IRC.
I'm not one to argue this viewpoint usually, but I think it's kind of scary to imagine the near future when any piece of media we want is so dirtcheap that it can't fund the people making it. Or heck, even fund some of them fairly well. We need incentives out there. Sure it can create some crap media/art/whatever else, but it's pretty lame if everyone just takes everything for granted and thinks they should be able to just click and have full access, for extremely cheap, to what people put a hell of a lot of time into (and all the fixed costs over the years that have developed all the technologies for the amazing stuff we have now).
Sorry but I think the only people being greedy here are those that expect everything for free/near free.
If we lived in a Star Trek world with so many resources/easy of manufacturing where no one had to worry about doing something to just "get by" comfortably*, then of course the drive would be purely intellectual/personal satisfaction, etc. Yes that is ultra geeky/optimistic, but come on, this is slashdot (well, about the geekyness.. not so sure most of you are optimists).
*Counterpoint: one may argue we are somewhat reaching that stage. I wonder how many people out there have their plasmas, surround sound systems, game systems, powerful computers that we probably didn't dream the average person could afford not too long ago... (and the insane amount of awesome open source software out there!)
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Wireshark and run them or stfu.
So a snake is going to drop 20 snake eyes on death? Experience makes sense- although 100% seems way overboard, you will just have mobs of people fighting trash and levelling like crazy. But wait, it's only if they "significantly" contribute- good luck with that. You will have people playing characters that can do the most damage. Or healers who just heal everyone who doesn't need it.. fighting for heals such that everyone just wastes mana. Loot does not make sense, and it was just lead to a world where everyone has everything. Fun. Player's wanting items/spells/skills others do not posses is what makes MMO's interesting. If you don't think so, then just use IRC.
I'm not one to argue this viewpoint usually, but I think it's kind of scary to imagine the near future when any piece of media we want is so dirtcheap that it can't fund the people making it. Or heck, even fund some of them fairly well. We need incentives out there. Sure it can create some crap media/art/whatever else, but it's pretty lame if everyone just takes everything for granted and thinks they should be able to just click and have full access, for extremely cheap, to what people put a hell of a lot of time into (and all the fixed costs over the years that have developed all the technologies for the amazing stuff we have now).
Sorry but I think the only people being greedy here are those that expect everything for free/near free.
If we lived in a Star Trek world with so many resources/easy of manufacturing where no one had to worry about doing something to just "get by" comfortably*, then of course the drive would be purely intellectual/personal satisfaction, etc. Yes that is ultra geeky/optimistic, but come on, this is slashdot (well, about the geekyness.. not so sure most of you are optimists).
*Counterpoint: one may argue we are somewhat reaching that stage. I wonder how many people out there have their plasmas, surround sound systems, game systems, powerful computers that we probably didn't dream the average person could afford not too long ago... (and the insane amount of awesome open source software out there!)