Comments on: The Problem with PvP http://iceclad.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/the-problem-with-pvp/ Tales of life and adventure in Everquest and other games. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chuck http://iceclad.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/the-problem-with-pvp/#comment-42 Chuck Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:59:10 +0000 http://iceclad.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-42 It took three years for similar bitching to make the Guild Wars staff, mostly all people who left Blizzard while WoW was in development, do roughly the same thing. However, they did so by making PvP versions of certain skills while leaving their original effects intact for PvE. I never did the serious PvP in that game and only play PvE on very rare occasions at this point but I always appreciate their innovative solutions to the commone MMO problems. WoW kicked ass back in the day when people would just mob up and raid towns just because they were there. In my glory days before 13 year old officers destroyed my guild, they took me on my first raid of Goldshire at lvl 14, the very day I joined them! I had never even set foot on Azeroth. Alas... It took three years for similar bitching to make the Guild Wars staff, mostly all people who left Blizzard while WoW was in development, do roughly the same thing. However, they did so by making PvP versions of certain skills while leaving their original effects intact for PvE.

I never did the serious PvP in that game and only play PvE on very rare occasions at this point but I always appreciate their innovative solutions to the commone MMO problems.

WoW kicked ass back in the day when people would just mob up and raid towns just because they were there. In my glory days before 13 year old officers destroyed my guild, they took me on my first raid of Goldshire at lvl 14, the very day I joined them! I had never even set foot on Azeroth. Alas…

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