Age of Empires Online Open Beta!

[vlad321]

Scoobes said:

vlad321 said:

Scoobes said:

The levelling part does make it addictive for many people though. They may not even find it "fun" for large sections but a levelling system will keep them comming back and that's what they're targetting. Just look at facebook games where all you do is press buttons and level up. Completely pointless, but it keeps those players comming back. And for others, the core AoE gameplay is still present.

As for the last part, lol, because so many games (mainly MMOs) do this now!

I dare throw the word "casual" right here, especially when it comes to the facebook games.

Also, are you trying to justify one shitty game mechanic with the argument that it's ok since there's a lot of games using it? If anything you should be outraged such an amount of games use it, not try to jutify other games with them.

Maybe I should, but I also find it can work on me.... call it a guilty pleasure :P

I'm not really justifying it, but I accept that devs will do it these days to get people to keep playing. Blame WoW.

You know, I don't understand why people still bash WoW about that. Yeah back in vanilla it was a pain to raid. However I hear that nowadays doing the quests, especially with Cataclysm, is actually a lot of fun. Plus, yu gotta remember it's an RPG, your character's rise to power is part of the whole role-playing "I am fucking awesome" alure. An RTS is an RTS, you go, and you win with your strategy, or lose because it wasn't good enough. There shouldn't be persistent levelling involved. I understand the draw it has, but it creates an artificial "quality" crutch.