Haesslich said:
Asheron's Call 1 has/had an ongoing story in which the world would change monthly, and events would often be run by staff... the whole Bael'zharon episode comes to mind, a multi-month plot which involved thousands of players across all the servers.
The Bael'Zharon arc was the only one that actually involved direct GM participation, and even then, it was pretty weak. I met neither BZ nor Asheron once during that entire plot-arc, and I played a whole hell of a lot.
My brother saw BZ once though, in one of the Sho towns, and booked it the hell away from there.
You had the moderators in question actually running into the game as the title character or his nemesis, doing things like killing people, talking to them to encourage them to do something, and so on. I could look for a site with pictures of when Bael'zharon went into Cragstone again, if someone wanted them.
They never really spent much time playing, though. I was disappointed by how few and far between the BZ massacres wound up being.
Though events like this have been rare these days, especially since they're putting more effort into AC 2.
Actually, I think it's because they don't give a damn. The maintainance team for AC doesn't have anything to do with the AC2 team, as far as I know.
Plus, anyone who's played AC2 knows they didn't really put all that much effort into it.
If there were ever to be a WC MMOG, I would
require for there to be multiple GMs playing dedicated, plot-relevant characters on a fairly constant basis, interacting with players and driving the plot before I signed up. I would also require the underlying game mechanics to be constructed such that it was possible for these GMs to lead large numbers of players into situations (battles) that would actually decide the course of events, and provide some tangible benefits/consequences that people cared about.
At least the first part is easier than breathing - it shouldn't be too hard to hire some goons on to play games from 9-5 as GMs, even at minimum wage. Although I figure responsible and reliable people would be culled from the dev team for that job, and paid lots more than minimum.
dextorboot said:
Irritating when a person tries to nail you on something in a sentence when the next sentence addresses the issue.
He wasn't trying to nail you, pull that burr out of your ass.
One of what people? The kind that understand that people have their own opinions and it's ok if they're not the same as yours?
No, the kind of
little newbie bitch that throws a fit when everyone in the discussion doesn't suddenly agree with him 100% and cries, "This discussion is boring/annoying/stupid/pointless." Get over it.