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On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:43:31 -0400, Tim O <timo56REMOVE@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:27 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Might be good stuff if they find a way to keep what's good about
>>existing Elder Scrolls games separate about what makes WoW and similar
>>games so tiresome.
>>
>>http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html
>
>Great!  This adds exactly what Skyrim was missing... 60,000 assholes
>roaming around with names like BigHooters_FTW, Kill_All_Niggers and
>Chronic420 floating above their heads.

Well that's part of what I meant with the "if" statement above.  There
should be a way to make a MMORPG game less of a pain in the ass.  It
may come down to down to whether or not they are able to innovate, or
if they just follow the formula that has already been laid out.

Think outside the box for a moment.  What if they limited the choice
of names to a first / last name combination based on a fixed list
(Second Life did that).  Then kept everything first or third person
(no zooming out for RTS style battles).  No nametags perpetually
hovering overhead, it could work like Skyrim where names are shown
only when in close distance and the cursor is on.  Perhaps lots of
players overall, but never more than X per instance of the world,
where the instances are divided into copies of the world with only
enough players that you'd be seeing about as many other players as you
see as NPCs in Skyrim today, allowing you to preserve the loner-ish
solitude feel as much as you wanted, while banding together for
battles when appropriate.

It could be done.  Bethsoft has the funds to do it right.  Whether
they will or not?  Anyone's guess, but with something like this,
they're going to do it anyway, so it would be better to get on their
forums and contribute, help shape it into the game we want, rather
than to either not show up at all or call them idiots for trying,
ensuring our thoughts wont be heard.