ZDub 303
Escrow Removal and Acquisition
Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2014.10.01 15:10:00 -
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Open world pvp died in wow because it had no point. There were no resources in the open world worth fighting for, anything that was good to have was locked away in instances, safely away from other players. In battlegrounds you would be able to farm for pvp ranks far faster (the only currency worth a damn back when BGs first came out) to buy the high end pvp gear.
Its not a case of 'instant battles' killing off world pvp. It was a case of risk vs reward. There was all risk and no reward in open world pvp. It died due to poor game design and little else.
In Legion, you can fight instant battles, get some cash and lose a few suits. In the open world, you participate in content that generates new items for people to use. This would be the exact opposite. If they balance it correctly, then all of the good gear will have to be acquired in low/null sec open world areas. Enough reward to justify the risk of open world pvp.
Sure you can farm isk in instant battles to buy that gear as well, but those items you buy have to come from somewhere.
With proper game design not only can open world and instanced pvp exist together, they can even be complimentary. With the current plans they've discussed, its looking great.
Instant battles generate isk to buy the items farmed in open world content. In both types of content they are actually enriched by the existence of the other. You could have solely open world pvp where you farm items to be able to farm more items but it becomes self defeating rather quickly.
You can have only instant battles, like dust, and a npc controlled market, but we already have that and know that while it works, its also not ideal.
Both of these systems together should give a nice variety of game play so that people who are tired of instant matches can wander around the sandbox for nice goodies and people tired of wandering around LF a fight can hop into an instant battle and get right into the action.
The only worry is economic balance, they need to make both systems as rewarding as their risk. A player only/driven market should help that significantly.
B C R U are letters, not words - Wierd Al Yankovich
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