Questing.. is it needed?

In nearly 95% of the MMO's that are out there today consist of basically grinding out xp, and ALWAYS have the option of doing it the "easy" way through questing. I dont know about you but questing for so long in the games I have played has made me believe they are extremely trivial. I mean the only questing that we would do during our hardcore raiding days is so that we could progress further into the storyline and be able to access more content in the raider's perspective.

This isnt the case now, because after you hit a adiquate level where you can raid they still force you to quest to do things the easy way. I would rather do it a different way than the normal so I usually refuse to do quests unless I absolutely have to to progress. As a person that doesnt do NPC scripted quests I am pretty used to setting personal goals in my brain for what I want to achieve in the game that I am playing, this in and of itself is a quest of sorts. I remember back in EQ1 I used to dream and drool of being able to go to a plane of sky raid so that I could get to the seventh island and retrieve my Crown of Elemental Mastery. Oh the days I would see it in the bazaar for 100k and drool over it constantly, of course by that time planes of power was the latest expansion and everyone in the guild would tell me damn it man you have better stats than that outdated piece of trash. But you know what I wanted it more than anything still, even though I was way higher level than the item was intended I still couldnt aquire it alone.

These are the quests that need to be put forth, personal goals and player driven achievements to make you feel like you actually accomplished something. Do you think I give two damn's if a NPC said somewhere in the quest text dribble that they was greatful to have me around and help them out? Hell no I didnt really give a damn I just sat there and thought to myself wow I got about oh say 2000 more quests to go before I hit max level or get to the amount of gold that I wanted or get to the level of reputation with a faction. Developer's think that we have a blast when we do questing but to tell you the truth it is the only thing that we CAN do. The good old games back in the day didnt really have questing at all, I mean you could quest but good luck finding the NPC and knowing what the hell he is talking about and where to go because you was pretty much SoL in that department. A true fun game would not have questing unless it was for content progression requirements. A true fun game would have adventure instead of questing requiring adventure. The game would put me into a spot where I felt the need to venture out and discover things on my own and find out the secrets to the world that I was new to, not to get some old ass guy a book he lost in a river what the hell?

What makes a MMO a success?

Many of the articles that I have been reading in the press about MMO success the same phrase keeps coming up over and over, "If an MMO can grab 1/10th of the 11 million WoW players it is a success." That is actually saying a lot if you are a press company that is based out of the US, because I dont know you but I only really care if there are ENGLISH players, I hated it when EQ1 guilds consisted of only french players from france and canada because it made it where I couldnt raid with them.

FACT: WoW has around 1.9 Million players from US (notice I said PLAYERS not active subscriptions)

FACT: Most WoW server's are under populated compared to some other MMO server's. Also because of the faction division this decreases the amount of people you have to play with by atleast half, maybe less.

So if a MMO can grab well over half of the US players (not active subscriptions) then it will be considered a success, that is pretty much impossible unless it is the messiah of all MMO's.

Age of Conan -> FAIL
Warhammer Online -> FAIL
Darkfall Online -> SUPERFAIL/SUPERSUCCESS

Final Fantasy NerdRage!!11

• Final Fantasy XIV (14 tards) - It's like square-enix didnt take a step back and realize that final fantasy 11 wasnt bad enough, they are all like oh we need to release something newer with better graphics and more streamline. No offense to anyone that played that horrible excuse for a final fantasy but the characters looked terrible. I was actually considering playing FF XI recently but I took one good hard look at the character's in a couple screenshots and said PASS. I looked at the new FF14 screenshots and the armor and characters dont look to different from the first mockery of a mmo. So I will probably pass on this game, unless I hear some mad crazy responses when it releases in the near future.
• Final Fantasy VII - This is the game that should have been remade not some stupid ass mmorpg are you kidding me square-enix knows that this is a gold mine, they could get millions and millions just by charging $1 a copy because people would be hording that shit like nuts just so they could sell it on ebay for a couple hundred dollars when the game is out of print.
• Square-Enix What the hell!?! -I loved the hell out of your games and look at what you are doing?! Okay so you slightly redeemed yourself by releasing the original FF7 on the PS-Store, but I would like something physical to hold in my hand. If there was some black style cd's with original case and it said PS1 I would be spaztastic about the whole deal but geee wiz you had to go ahead and make it digital distribution, I didnt have internet at my house when FF7 released you retards why the hell would everybody get it if its only available for PSP and PS3!??! Milking me for every penny so I can play your watered down RPG's that arent half of what they used to be! If FF15 is an mmorpg, so help me god I will throw my PS3 into a brick wall.

WoW Horde Easy No Bullsh*t Leveling Guide (1-36)

I figured I would make a leveling guide for the internets because there obviously isnt enough free ones out there that make any sense at all. So I am going to make it as dummy proof as possible.

First of all your going to have to meet these requirements to be able to use the guide properly.

• You have the +10% xp Shoulder's
• Assuming this is an alt, he is twinked somewhat awesomelike.
• Assuming this is an alt, he has full rested xp 50% of the time.
• A buddy to run you through instances to get top of the line blues for your level, KEEP UP WITH THE TWINKING.

If you are undead or tauren move your happy ass to the locations that I say anyways, it will take a whole 5~10 min depending on how disabled you are. If you just mailed your shoulders to your alt this would be a good chance to pick them up at a mailbox. See I'm constructive!! :D

PART I Level's 1-6

1. Get your ass into Durotar at the Valley of Trials (right name? oh well newb grounds u know what I mean) If you are already there then whoop whoop you earn the troll & orc award.
2. Kill do the starting quests at the little hole in the wall BUT when you are in transit TO or FROM the quest location kill EVERY-T-H-I-N-G in your path. If you want to be a high level killing machine you have to start somewhere right?
3. I want you to name your shoulderpad's, because until level 20~ this is the only puss... i mean shoulderpads that you will get!
4. Give or take 15 min depending if your disabled or not you should be level 6. PROCEDE TO PART II.

PART II Level's 6-15

1. If you probably couldnt tell because of these shoulder's +10% xp and rested xp if your a bum and cant level for 15 min doing quests is pretty much pointless because they give squat at this point (6-15 DONT BE A NAZI).
2. Head to the troll village SE (SOOOUUUTTHHH EEAASSSTTT, WALK OUT AND BAM LITTLE TRAIL TO THE RIGHT) and get every single quest you can see on the little sorry excuse for a fantasy RPG radar holy crap horde technology is the bomb we got radar .. MAGIC RADAR.
3. After you are done collecting the quests go back up the little dirt road you came from (you should have really dug the ditch you pathetic excuse for an alt your LEVEL 6 WTF). Head to razor hill to the North (NNNOOOORRRTTHHH, STRAIGHT UP SMALL ROAD TURNS TO BIG ROAD NO NOT BACK TO VALLEY OF TRIALS WTF UR DEAL?!).
4. At razor hill collect all the quests you can, go to the armor vendor and buy as much equipment as you can put on that would be most beneficial to you. There is a mail box RIGHT there, so if your an orc or a troll get your main to mail that damn shoulderpads quit messing around.
5. When you collect all the quests use CARBONITE not QuestTardHelper2000 to locate where you are supposed to be running toward. On the way to the nearest quest objective kill everything in your path, if you get pumped up enough you can scream at the top of your lungs the name of that alliance character in stranglethorn that made you a sh*t stain on the neon green grass on your main character.
6. Do this till every single quest that you had is complete (that is within your level range, dont be a dumbass) repeat this process till you completed every quest in razor hill and at the ghetto rigged troll village. By this time you should be around 15~16 you have achieved nubness level 2, feel free to trash talk any person that is currently leveling in durotar because you are a higher level with them and.. and... SHOULDERPADS oh yea. Continue on to PART III.

PART III Level's 15-24

1. March your butt to the Crossroads in the Barrens, this is a reaaaallll nubville as you know. Grab everyquest1 that you can and then head down to Camp Tampjammero (SOOOUUTTH, u know the road look at your map gez) and grab every quest there.
2. Do the same process as you did for step 5 of part II.
3. Swing by stonetalon mountains and do some quests there at the entry point if you happen to pass by.
4. You can go to silverpine if the quests didnt get you to level 24 in the barrens, but do NOT I repeat this again do NOT go to hillsbrad or you will be stuck in a endless loop of logging onto your main and ganking hordes of nubs, trust me I have been there.. its very smexual.
5. By this time you should be around level 23~24. Proceed to PART IV.

PART IV Level's 23~24-30

1. Fall down the lift to thousand needles, you heard me commit suicide. We have no time to waste here. When you die use the ghost, who cares about repairing your Fing level 23 just do it. First run (while avoiding mobs) to the NE (NOOORRRTHH EAST, Right path) and grab everyquest1 at the camp with the goblins and cows. Now run to the horde base on the road to the SE (SSOOOU gottcha!) grab every quest there.
2. Repeat the same process as you did in step 5 of Part II, but when you get to the large camp of centaurs just mess around and kill stuff here for a while, its easy as piss to kill and pretty decent xp. Mess around till they turn green levels.
3. After you do all the quests you can do here find your way to Arathi Highland, shoudnt be that hard considering you probably went to hillsbrad anyway without me telling you to. Because your just uber like that.
4. Kill anything you can on the way to hammerfall, grab every quest u can do do the normal process at which we do quests in this guide. By this time you should be level 30, FINAL PART V.

PART V Level 30-36

1. Fly back to undercity and buy all the greenhills pages you can that are not duplicates. I know you have the money for it.
2. Take the zep to Stranglethorn, make this place your home if you havent get every quest you can then head north and grab all those quests at the little camp where everybody usually gets ganked. Ride your level 30 mount to booty bay, get every quest there and then start the same old ass process as we used before and in not time you should be level 36. If you get stuck dont worry just head to desolace for a few. Congrats you finished this guide because I'm too lazy to type anymore.

This is the exact same guide I have done with my alts, it work 100% you get no money back because you didnt give me any. With every character I did this with I had around 1 day 5 hours played time so not too bad.