In short: because it makes you feel like you're actually receiving something substantial for in-game feats by seeing a higher number. Bars are for making you feel better when the keys you paid for don't give you squat from nightmare lockboxes. The zone-based currencies and celestial tokens push me over... can't pay…
This should be on top of the list. The respec system absolutely punishes and confuses players -- this is coming from someone who has dropped a few hundred on Zen, bought the Guardian Pack and has no problem with costs and so forth, but this punishes the entire player base. /signed
Pretty much. They're being as vague as possible and actually mentioned shareholders. This is about as bad as it gets. I shouldn't say that, now it'll probably get worse.
As far as I've seen there's been no mention of the wonderful Temple of Elemental Evil. So I'll just go ahead and say it's out there, it's a great setting, there's a PC game and it's good.
Icewind Dale (PC Game) has my fondest early D&D memories. Above today's character/party and attributes/affiliation standards by miles. You can make an entire party of folks that you personally would love to journey with.
This argument descends into the definitive quickly enough so that it will quite obviously never be "resolved." It all depends how you define winning or playing an MMORPG - silly and certainly varied concepts to begin with, to echo a first page poster.
I want to support the developers, I've wanted to be a founder for a while, but my bank simply doesn't allow for Pay-Pal or Moneybookers transactions as a security measure and there's no direct store option. Tis truly disappointing. Anyone know of a suitable work around?