I've tried other MMORPGs, this is a brief description of one of them(I won't put the name here, your guess):
Day 1:
Just downloaded the stuff, better graphics! Balanced combat system where lag makes little difference!
But then suddenly, on the chat auction tab
1337 +8 5w0rd 150k!
I just ignored it firstly, and as all on the game began on some "n00b area" with NPCs giving tutorials and such, the multiple choice rather than "guess words" system for NPC talk really is much better, but I felt constricted as I couldn't put a word on how my character would say the choice. Character? Wait! I don't remember having any choice besides on the looks department. No background history, nothing at all except for defining your character appearance! Again I ignored it, then I went for a quest. What? Loot 15 mobs and deliver their remains to NPC? Great! I continued as my character quickly reached lvl 5, I thought I was sleeping as my character was grinding and levelling up, I almost slept of boredom anyway.
That is all that happened, on a brief note.
Day 2:
Finally got out of the "n00b area", everything I see around are people running, talking OOC with constant use of esoteric acronyms and leetspeak and powerlevelling, and HOLY! Characters with names written in "1337speak" like "c00ld00d" and with swear swords as names. "I hope there are better quests now, as the community really sucks on RPing", that was what I thought as I searched around for NPCs, and by the way, they really are superficial, it seems what NPCs say was done by using CTRL+C and CTRL+V . Oh! Just more "Kill x mobs of the y type" or "Loot x a(item) from mob b" or in the best case "Deliver a from NPC b to NPC c". Add to the insult, a PKer got me as I was leaving the "city" where characters go, but it seems at least that PKers aren't tolerated, and someone killed the PKer that suffered lots of penalties(or perhaps a GM kicked him). Now what about guilds? Well, I wouldn't be surprised to see one called "1337Cr3w". I was full of it, then uninstalled the crap to never more see "leetspeak" and the related junk cause I'm a "RP Taleban" and would probably send a bomberman to blow the PKers out! BOOOOM!
* lordraleigh sends an army of RP Talebans against the leets
In conclusion: Planeshift is still
, but is virtually the only MMORPG that has roleplayers around and some actual "Roleplay" on it. On the other side, there are much more developed games, but they are plagued by hordes of "leets" and PKers, and are all the same "Kill Mob, level up" formula, that hopefully won't be used by PS in the future, that perhaps will innovate on the way character development of skills works.
I got it too late as now it's already 04/02
Happy April Fools Day!
PS: Hope AO Notum Wars will have more on gameplay to offset potential "leetness" of its community, or perhaps should I save time and bandwith for, Planeshift?
