PWI in comparison to......

Hi all, Ive been away for a month which is the longest break Ive taken from PWI in some years. I decided to jump on the bandwagon and play the newest PW game - which shall remain nameless to avoid breaching the TOS.

Please don't delete this thread - I am supporting PWI here.

After reaching the level cap on this new game in the month I've played it I have some observations to make, especially considering this new game is supposedly so new/modern/ good etc.

1 - PWI pvp is much better - just Nation Wars kills that other game.
2 - PWI classes are more varied
3 - PWI skill system is better and allows more options
4 - PWI mounts is better and PWI has flyers which the new game doesn't
5 - PWI crafting is better and more thorough
6 - PWI has many, many more quest options
7 - PWI economy SYSTEM with AH/personal shops is better/more varied (the economy itself has the same problems as the new game)
8 - PWI is open world and the new game is just instances tacked together - the open world has a much nicer feel to it.

Having said that though, the new game has a lot of people still playing and is much busier than PWI. Now I absolutely believe the new game is sub-par to PWI so just maybe PWI could learn a couple things -

For non-pvp'ers that one HUGE thing that keeps people questing in the new game is the rewards - for each quest I do, even though its basically the same as all MMO's being kill that, collect this, is that I get probably 5% of my level for each quest I do plus sufficient drops of hp pots/pve equipment/coins etc. Now this has been a complaint with PWI for some years - which, to some degree, they fixed for levels 60-80 with added quest xp rewards, but again, to get people 80+ to do quests, the rewards need to be greatly enhanced.

The second thing is the 5 v 5 pvp arena which is extremely popular and if PWI could see this, they might realize the importance/benefit of fixing their own Arena.

The new game does look newer. The cities/towns look like cities/towns and there are tons and tons of npc's etc. PWI cant really fix this - unless a PWI2 is on the horizon. But can keep it in mind for future expansions. Even looking at the little town hubs in Morai - they are a really simple design. But the look of the new game doesn't fix all its other areas of weakness.

The other HUGELY popular part of the new game is the player made content. Now say for instance we were talking about housing - which we aren't - but obviously housing requires much different mechanics due to the interaction with the game world around you. This player made content is just tacked on small programs, that other players can jump in and complete - its obviously a bit more complicated than that. But it seems to me that PWI could follow suit and develop a similar system - I mean there shouldn't be copyright issues so to speak because PWI owns both games. And players would therefore have, as with the other game, endless dungeons/etc to play around with, that the other players have created.

Anyway, cutting a long story short. PWI is years ahead of the new game in certain areas and, I believe with a couple changes and some new marketing, could get people back joining up.

I did suffer a bit of burnout there and a change is as good as a holiday ......that's all for now.