One thing I would suggest to people doing Tipa’s stick with one game idea is to stay away from the forums. Blog about it, keep up with other, positive, upbeat, bloggers for the game; but stay away from the forums. They only drag you down and beat you to death with stupid. This is what I plan on doing with the next wave of MMOs. I’ll probably pick either AoC, WAR, or CoS stick with it and ignore the community outside of people whose opinions I want to hear.

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I love the idea, and there’s a lot of truth to what you say. Everquest had my complete attention until DAoC came out. Well, EQ had my complete attention until the great equipment wipe on the Test Server and I got pissed at Sony, but that’s another story :) Comparing UO and EQ is a little bit of apples and oranges, so EQ was the only game in town for quite a whle. Everyone I knew who was interested in these types of games was playing the same game.

I think I kinda saw the future when DAoC came out and I tried to get all my Druid’s Grove and Safehouse and EQvault friends on to the same server, and everyone else was trying to do the same thing, and it was an incredibly difficult task to manage. It didn’t work, of course. Far too many choices, people spinning off to other servers, and then to other games, it was the twilight of an era. I do miss those days of feeling like we were all in something together, somehow.

I’m drifting at the moment. Gave up WoW, played Eve, moved to Lotro, and I feel the call of other games. I want to see Vanguard for myself. Tabula Rasa is $10, I’d like to see what they’ve done. I don’t feel like any of that will be permanent, it’s more like a game tour. Maybe I’ll be surprised, we’ll see. I’m intrigued by your idea, though. There’s something to be gained by diving headfirst into a world. I’ve always felt that you’ll only get out of a game what you put into it. Without community, the game isn’t giving you everything the developers intended, right? I like your idea, I just know myself, and…oooh, shiny.