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Despite the title, this isn't a whine post. Yes I am listing a number of complaints to the devs as input, but I'll preface this whole thing by listing some of the stuff I think they did right first. I don't know if they read the forum, but here goes.
Things Gates of Andaron Did Right
- Bosses : Finally there is a MMO that "gets" it. Bosses are powerful, but 98% of them CAN be soloed, which is a far cry from other games that force you to stop and beg for 4-6 people to help or cheat by asking someone 20-40 levels highers to kill them for you. Soloable bosses that are challenging and still fun. Good!
- Repeating attacks : The basic melee and range attacks will repeat, many MMO forces you to keep pressing the key. This is good. But the implementation is bad (see below).
- Visible GM presence : They talk in public. Unfortunately they are zero deterrent to the gold spammer. But at least we know there are GMs, and they are doing stuff. Much better than some other MMOs.
- Some zones with no Forced-PvP : There are battle zones that are FFA, but enough zones that you cannot be attacked unless you are attacked first. A fairly good balance has been achieved.
- Surprisingly little lag : Probably due to the fact that the game is new and there aren't that many people, but for a new game with this little lag this is a rarity.
- Not much down time : self explanatory, and is nicely done.
- Very minor dying penalty : You don't lose XP when you die, your gears don't fall apart when you die. Your corpse doesn't pop spill out all your expensive items. Other people can't loot you. Did I mention you don't lose XP??? Thank you! Other game devs - LEARN from this!!! Dying is ALREADY annoying enough. This is the RIGHT way to handle death, there is no need to slap your players and customers on the face on top of being killed.
- We can see! I'm tired of these dark dungeons and night maps where even with the brightness of your monitor turned way up you can still barely see where you are going. Thanks, my eyes are bad enough already I don't need a game to make me buy new contact lenses.
- Other minor kudos : items linkable to chat, zone map that displays party member location, existence of personal shop (see below), team teleport ability (this needs to be much more common), return-to-town teleport ability for being stuck, perfectly balanced factions (cuz everyone can make every class), flight, ability to use potions to "forget" skills, bank storage (see below)