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Re: "Skyrim" successor to be multiplayer?

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From: David Lamb
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:10
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On 17/03/2012 8:00 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:41:45 -0700, John Slade<hhitman86@pacbell.net>
>>       What everyone seems to want to do is be the next WOW. Well
>> WOW already has that market and anyone else trying to get into
>> it will probably fail.

Not relevant to Skyrim, but: wouldn't a change of genre, e.g. to science 
fiction, make a difference?

> For example, Admin Joe doesn't like the most recent patch.  It nerfs
> his beloved charmed longstaff too much.  He liked the old way where he
> was in his comfort zone.  So, he just doesn't apply it.  Now his
> server shows up in the server list, but when people join they get
> client mismatch errors.

Can't the server list include the server version?

>The game is not going to be fun if a clan can set up cheat-capable servers
> for their people to level up, then folks with ungodly powers can go to
> any other server and abuse (or just have the upper hand on) the
> mainstream crowd.

Disallow character transfer between servers?
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From: David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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Subject: Re: "Skyrim" successor to be multiplayer?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:10:25 -0400
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