For several years now, I have played games like EQ, EQ2, Eve, Anarchy Online, Second Life, and others. Although many of them have beautiful scenery, no one can really enjoy it, since most of the time is spent killing or being killed. There is a place for those worlds; however, wouldn't it be great to be able to simply walk around and enjoy the beautiful surroundings, solve puzzles, play games, and never die?
"What," you say, I am "talking about URU!"
Yes, of course, but let's take URU even further, with the ability to create personal ages (do some writing) that could be made public for others to enjoy. Give us a powerful, complex D'Ni word-set to build worlds with, and let us create. Give us books to study and learn writing. We don't mind the work, even if it takes a long time to learn. I would rather spend my time learning to write D'Ni, than continue killing gnolls and orcs.
Also, please have large ages where the whole point of being there is to simply explore, and maybe find goodies we can use to improve our virtual lives. Have those ages be inhabited by friendly NPCs that are all about helping us explore the land. Give us NPCs that we can converse with and learn from.
I took the survey, as have many others, and checked off those things as VERY important.
I am so sick of mindless virtual killing, killing, killing and leveling, leveling, leveling! Many of us have moved beyond the current "slaughter the local monsters" mindset, and crave a place to go where you never age, or die, and can have some fun.
Second Life tried it, but their streaming idea kills the ability to do anything really useful. URU Live could become a real Second Life, with the ability to build, explore, and communicate. No need to stream anything, just download the latest expansion with new ages to explore.
I'll commit to paying you a goodly sum of money each month for a world like this, and will happily buy new expansions into the endless future. I've played EQ for nearly five years now. Could I play URU for 10? I hope so!
_________________ Regards,
Digital Darrell
Last edited by DigitalDarrell on Thu May 18, 2006 5:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
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