Comments on: But I Like Advancement http://procrastinationamplification.com/but-i-like-advancement/ Punditry on MMOs and games in general. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Belthil http://procrastinationamplification.com/but-i-like-advancement/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Belthil Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:27:40 +0000 http://procrastinationamplification.com/?p=581#comment-217 I like horizontal advancement better then vertical advancement since having to spend a lot of time to be competitive is annoying for me. Its nice to advance based on your skill though if you have to have it. If a player plays far above his level just grant him 5 levels instead of the tiny bit he usually gets since he probably knows what he does anyway. After playing a lot of beta in LoL its annoying to be stuck in the lower levels again with very limited time to play many games. I also like the idea that you can spend money instead of time to advance like in LoL since I got more money then time at the moment (at least on that scale ;)) Of course that does not work in games like wow where people play to get shiny gear/mounts/pets and the game itself is rather boring... if you could buy that gear it would just be boring and all the achievers would stop paying subscriptions ;) I like horizontal advancement better then vertical advancement since having to spend a lot of time to be competitive is annoying for me. Its nice to advance based on your skill though if you have to have it. If a player plays far above his level just grant him 5 levels instead of the tiny bit he usually gets since he probably knows what he does anyway. After playing a lot of beta in LoL its annoying to be stuck in the lower levels again with very limited time to play many games. I also like the idea that you can spend money instead of time to advance like in LoL since I got more money then time at the moment (at least on that scale ;) )
Of course that does not work in games like wow where people play to get shiny gear/mounts/pets and the game itself is rather boring… if you could buy that gear it would just be boring and all the achievers would stop paying subscriptions ;)

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