You think cata is hard?

Remember before WoW, in real MMORPGs...

Back in the day, I used to play a MMUD, where if you were killed enough times your character ceased to exist. It took literally weeks and months to obtain a single level in that game too.

Different games are... different. Personally, think that Cataclysm heroic dungeons and raids present a welcome challenge =).

If you had a choice between playing your old MMUD and WoW, which would you pick?

Speaking for myself? World of Warcraft, hands down, any day of the week. Those other games are still out there, and I don't play them, because I personally vastly prefer the experience that WoW has to offer. That's my opinion anyway.

I guess thinking about all those old mechanics, and how (unnecessarily) brutal they could be, makes one appreciative for the present.

Back when you played your old MMUD, what were some things you wanted changed, if any?

Oh there were a lot of things I had hoped to change. I'm not in a position to answer the question without naming the game and going into specific details. I'll simply say that the game wasn't approachable. It was a grind of mind shattering proportions, and that kind of gameplay, while appealing to some, was ultimately not for me.

Hopefully, your answers might put an end to these silly threads like this.

I think discussion is good, provided that it remains constructive. There will probably always be those who will look back on the 'good old days' with lenses tinted a rosy red. Some players genuinely enjoy a truly monumental challenge. Others, want a different approach. I don't think it's possible to please all the people all the time, but it might be possible to please everyone some of the time, if you catch my meaning.

I think it's always wisest to live in the present, with a firm grasp of a past and with an eye to the future. Some have said that Cataclysm brings a bit of the old classic World of Warcraft flavor back, and I find that's not entirely inaccurate. Hopefully most players who experience it will have a lot of fun, as I have. That's always the goal.

Those changes to player security were ALL made AFTER EQ came out and people started to flock to it and not UO. Why is that? Because EQ was easier than UO. Much like WoW is easier than EQ.

I started playing World of Warcraft because it's fun, not because I thought it was easy. For me, there is a significant difference between those two concepts. While the kind of fun that I have has changed and evolved over time as I play new classes and new content, I still really enjoy it. Some of the changes have required some adjustment, of course, but for me, that adds novelty.

Right now, there's a lot of push-me pull-you going on regarding Heroic Dungeon difficulty; some worry that instances are too difficult, while others fear that they'll be nerfed into mindlessness. It's my opinion that these opposing stances might be a bit premature because Cataclysm is still very, very new. I rather expect that dungeons will get easier. Not necessarily because they'll be altered, but because the tactics required to win will become common knowledge and the overall gear level of the players queuing will improve over time. For those fearing that the challenge will evaporate, raiding will, hopefully, prove to be a significant hurdle. Naturally, it's probable that those encounters will also seem relatively "easy" once players are fully geared and know the tactics backwards and forwards. By then, we hope to have new challenges ready.