06-15-2006, 05:33 PM
Wow! That news is so good, I should put that on the front page! :D
Yeah, I'm glad about that, too. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it. As he said, the whole reputation system was thrown into the game with very little attention given it. The main reputation grind in the beta was the centaur quests in Desolace, and since Desolace was far away and wasn't well developed, only a few crazy people (like Bolty) actually completed the grind. This is another symptom of the problem that most of the development in the game pre-release was devoted toward pre-level capped content and except for the level capped instance dungeons, the high level content was largely unpolished or unfinished. (And even the instance dungeons ended up needing several revisions along the way). The unpolished reputation system, which pre-level 60 was largely irrelevant, became a dominant mode of advancement -- or at least something to do between dungeons -- after the server populations reached level 60. I'm looking forward to the Burning Crusade, because it gives Blizzard a chance to really put some effort into thinking over content and game design for high level and level capped players.
Yeah, I'm glad about that, too. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it. As he said, the whole reputation system was thrown into the game with very little attention given it. The main reputation grind in the beta was the centaur quests in Desolace, and since Desolace was far away and wasn't well developed, only a few crazy people (like Bolty) actually completed the grind. This is another symptom of the problem that most of the development in the game pre-release was devoted toward pre-level capped content and except for the level capped instance dungeons, the high level content was largely unpolished or unfinished. (And even the instance dungeons ended up needing several revisions along the way). The unpolished reputation system, which pre-level 60 was largely irrelevant, became a dominant mode of advancement -- or at least something to do between dungeons -- after the server populations reached level 60. I'm looking forward to the Burning Crusade, because it gives Blizzard a chance to really put some effort into thinking over content and game design for high level and level capped players.