Blizzard is working on a new unannounced MMO

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Ail said:
It's kinda funny to see that so many still believe that players raid end-game content to get better gear though ;)

It's funny how people pay $15 a month for a chat room. It's actually a multi fold problem. Yes people can find that the EGC worth it, but as a social experience. The social experience is also flawed though. The EGC-SE is based on a group of people doing dungeons for the gear. There comes a point in time where the dungeon stops being fun. Except for a rare run. So the group moves up. This unfortunetly requires constant participation. If a players doesn't dedicate the same time then that player falls behind. Potentially falling behind too many dungeons that they can't participate anymore. This alienates this players social experiance since now his friends don't play with him becuase they are dungeoning higher places and don't want to be bothered with that persons appropriate level.

For that player to become part of that social experience either A needs to find a new group or B grind out gear. Which comes to the real problem with the standard MMO. These games are more about time investiment. So for those who can't spend the time it's mostly a solo game with occasional social experiences.

Anyways I still play on and off when there is new interesting content. This play style though is producing the above problem. I don't invest the time so I can't go to say Black Temple.

Heres the other thing. I actually get to gether in RL regulary to play Pen & Paper rpgs. In these worlds the players actions can and have defined the world about them. The world evolves with them rather than some static scripted growth. THe problem which makes MMO appealing is that MMO are easy to get into. Time work constraints dig into RPG time. Anyways given the choice between Pen and Paper RPG or Online I will take Pen and Paper.