08-21-2009, 10:27 AM
Either way you are going to have a group of people that have no fun. If the game is too structured, people who are left out of a group or can't fill a group are left out.
Too open, and its not fun for the majority of players who aren't on the dominant side/guild/whatever.
Instancing has its place and is one of the reasons WOW became the breakthrough MMO, IMO what killed it wasn't instancing it was cross-server battlegrounds that made community pointless.
You can certainly instance but still make reasonable real world goals as well and cater to both sides. And as AI improves I think using NPCs to balance things will become a viable option too.
Too open, and its not fun for the majority of players who aren't on the dominant side/guild/whatever.
Instancing has its place and is one of the reasons WOW became the breakthrough MMO, IMO what killed it wasn't instancing it was cross-server battlegrounds that made community pointless.
You can certainly instance but still make reasonable real world goals as well and cater to both sides. And as AI improves I think using NPCs to balance things will become a viable option too.