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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:38:39 +1300, Stephen van Ham
<svanham@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>My my, doesn't "chainbreaker" <noone@nowhere.com> look good in that
>trenchcoat:
>
>> It looks to me like they'll pretty much kill any reason to trade for many
>>of the upper level uniques, but the reason I say they're the final nail is
>>that I think they'll make a game that had already become too easy in many
>>ways even moreso. Not that I'm playing nowadays, anyway.
>
>>Wrong read?
>
>>Other opinions?
>
>First up, yes, the runewords were designed by a crackhead.
>
>But boo hoo. Don't like the words? Don't use em. Oh, wait, you quit the
>game already to go play WoW, didn't you? Never mind. ;-)
>
>Some of the words are going to be a boon for no twink players, some are there
>for the dupers to play with. Yes, trading could well be a crock. Dueling
>might not be balanced. PVM games could well become a romp. Well, has
>anything changed? We simply got some new stuff to do with as we please.
>
>What's the answer? Basic common sense, and intelligent use of the new toys.
Err - as far as PvP goes - those who play PvP for real have already
probably left this forum....... and the others, the likes of the tppk
crowd - probably couldn't give a rats ass about new runewords.
As I've said in many threads before - the only thing the current
Blizzard people can do to maintain any developing interest in the game
is to mess about with the data tables - ie a few new runewords here, a
few new items there, They can't fix the problems, and to be fair - why
should they. 'U' has a post in another thread which bemoans the fact
that they 'could' have asked Diablo PvP players to play on different
servers five years ago, but didn't - my guess is that on WoW they'll
have just the same PK problems in 6 months that they have on the
Diablo servers now.
PK'ing is *different* to PvP. It requires a different mindset.
Sorry if this was the wrong thread, and if the above doesn't make
sense to some of you.
It's been a long weekend.
Tim