{"id":1246,"date":"2006-03-20T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-20T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T02:30:59","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1246\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Vs Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have expected this? Complains about the levelling speed in Shadowbane?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.f13.net\/index.php?topic=6262.msg168837#msg168837\"><b>Haemish<\/b><\/a>:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not even sure it was the lack of people. It was that PVE is a flat-out grind, with no trappings, or gravy or anything. It&#8217;s GODAWFUL. It always was, but it was bearable because I was coming off of EQ and DAoC. Having playing CoH and WoW and EQ2 now, it&#8217;s SO FUCKING SLOW. It isn&#8217;t even about how fast you gain experience, but how boring is the actions which must be done in order to gain exp.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spoiled by the little improvements of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>As I always repeated, <a href=\"\/drupalx\/node\/862\">a problem of quality, not quantity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shadowbane and DAoC have now probably the faster treadmills out there. And they both still feel as painful grinds.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I complain about when I say that these games are observed and then designed superficially. The problems are always seconded or dodged instead of solved directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have expected this? Complains about the levelling speed in Shadowbane? Haemish: I&#8217;m not even sure it was the lack of people. It was that PVE is a flat-out grind, with no trappings, or gravy or anything. It&#8217;s GODAWFUL. It always was, but it was bearable because I was coming off of EQ and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}