Elite boredom.

[Romirez]

i have nothing to do with Romirez right now. i aint crafting(puts me to sleep), and i don't want to go around all the time aimlessly killing things alone.


why don't we have end game content in this game

[Vaz]

Because I'm playing it. Nothing I play for a significant amount of time has endgame content.

In earnest, though, the concept of endgame content is a joke in of itself. All "content", no matter how much work was poured into it and how much it was hyped, will be old news within one week of implementation. Then everyone who was looking forward to it starts whining about boredom again. It's an insatiable cycle. It happens even in games with huge budgets and populations.

Live storyline events, which are not strictly "endgame" but rather offer activities for the entire playerbase (ideally), are a good alternative.

[ScaleIron]

To me, "endgame content" for a character would be them dying and likely not coming back. The final death, or something that would keep them from ever appearing on Istaria, at least for a long while.

However, I'm also a roleplayer, so even if I run out of levels and quests and classes on my characters, I'll stick around for the interaction.

Or kill one of them off and completely start over on a new character.

But then, what I prefer and how I think isn't necessarily for other people.

[Mensar]

At least it's not like WOW where basically you don't even really get to play the game until you max out your level. But, of course, that's all about PvP basically. But having a high level only dungeon with random rare drops would be a good thing. Bearing in mind the lack of population in order to balance the encounters.

[LaughingOtter]

"Endgame content" doesn't exist, because "endgame" means you stopped playing. The correct term is "elder game". That may sound nit-picky, but it's an important distinction.

Istaria does have elder game content, such as the various boss mobs and property ownership/construction. It's certainly true that Istaria needs more elder game content, which is why we're working on the Blighted Labyrinth. I'd be happy to tell you all about the stuff we have planned for that, but it's team meeting time - Amon just sent out some brand new videos of things being dropped into industrial blenders....

[Mensar]

I'm playing an elder game.. now I feel all sage and knowing... or old and rickety.. I think it's the same feeling.

[Takora Drakan]

i have nothing to do with Romirez right now. i aint crafting(puts me to sleep), and i don't want to go around all the time aimlessly killing things alone.


why don't we have end game content in this game

Start a biped, help friends, start to collect things, etc. Elder game is there if you stand up and do something instead of saying "There is no End Game".

[Drakarr]

more[/i] elder game content, which is why we're working on the blighted labyrinth. I'd be happy to tell you all about the stuff we have planned for that, but it's team meeting time - amon just sent out some brand new videos of things being dropped into industrial blenders.... :d

oh you tease!!! Tellustellustellus!!!

...I have no idea how that bold thing happened >.>

[Teto Frum]

Firstly hey romirez good to see you. Boredom is what you make of the situation. Though i really yearned for new content before i left, i was seldom not busy, always lots of folks looking for comps, they dont have the patience for, thhough changed spawn rates, and better drop rates alomg with nadia's massive devaluation sale prices, hurt that some. Outside of Harro, with blight hounds, naghuks, thornwoods, plus dead zone right there should craete enough fun hunting to keep ya busy till the labrinth arrives.

Take care Romirez, give my best to the Banes.

[Melanth]

Personally i find that roleplay and thinknig up a personality/history for your charachter are fairly entertaining elder game content, but that isnt everyone's cup of tea

Maybe you should take up hunting epics?

[RuneDragoon]

Amon just sent out some brand new videos of things being dropped into industrial blenders....

Endgame (err.. "elder game") content: Will it blend?

[CallakDW]

Start a biped, help friends, start to collect things, etc. Elder game is there if you stand up and do something instead of saying "There is no End Game".

I've been in the same boat with Romirez actually, but this is one solution I have found to help. I pretty much RP mostly with Callak now, but I have three other biped alts that I play now to keep my interest. Each with their own traits and abilities, it does liven up the game a bit. I hear and understand those who play a dragon because they love dragons, but it does't matter how much content is in a game, any charactor is going to run out at some point. You have to start somthing new.

[Justa Mirage]

I never understood the concept of "Endgame content" either.

Looking at WoW and playing it, I see that the "endgame" is really a whole different world where making money so you can buy better things, ramping up with PVP content in order to toss out rare items.

Once you reach max. level there, you hardly ever look back at the old content unless it involves a quest which happens to involve old content. After a while, all that is left are quests you haven't done yet that pays little or no gold, and you ask "Why do them"

With Istaria, things have been fixed, things have been "renovated" but it's in need of that reality show "Complete Makeover"

For things like that, Virtrium has to have capital and employees to work on content; Art, coding, animation, modeling, writing, etc. They do with what they have, which is commendable seeing what content does come from a small company keeping our world alive.

The Labyrinth is a good start. A dungeon! *gasp* with high level content in it. If this works out bug free, I hope to see more "dungeons" in the future.

[Hrough]

I'm hoping the game rises far enough from this point that they can hire on more staff in the new year, and make some of the ideas more realistic. =)

They do appear to be doing what they can. I suspect the teams working on fixing things probably aren't the same as the ones working on new content, for the most part. But they're also probably stretched a little thin at the moment, or at least I'd guess.

[Velea]

I'm hoping the game rises far enough from this point that they can hire on more staff in the new year, and make some of the ideas more realistic. =)

They do appear to be doing what they can. I suspect the teams working on fixing things probably aren't the same as the ones working on new content, for the most part. But they're also probably stretched a little thin at the moment, or at least I'd guess.

There's only one "team", and it is the same people working on fixes and new content.

I do appreciate, though, the compliment that it seems that those on the Virtrium team are doing the work of multiple teams of "normal" developers.

[LaughingOtter]

The Labyrinth is a good start. A dungeon! *gasp* with high level content in it. If this works out bug free, I hope to see more "dungeons" in the future.

Sorry, but "bug free" is not a term anyone will be using to describe the Labyrinth - ever.

[peladon]

Sorry, but "bug free" is not a term anyone will be using to describe the Labyrinth - ever.

My words are but the whisper of a forgotten wind. Let them be lost or found as suits the seeker.

Elders and wise... it hath been said more times than one that each word spoken hath at least two meanings. That intended by the one speaking, and mayhap at least one more for each that hears.

And while mine fool avatar might set one manner of meaning to the Otter's words... I see those words also. And methinks that indeed they will be true and thrice true and ever true... For are not beetles, aye and spiders, and Fyakki, and most like yet other manner of Foe perhaps unseen in the land to this tide such that they might be spoken of as these ' bug' things the Otter speaks? And if the place he speaks of be much of peril, might it be that those very Foe never stand eradicated?

My words are but the whisper of a forgotten wind. Let them be lost or found as suits the seeker.


Sephiranoth, called by some ShadowSeeker
Nobody and Nothing ever, save The Five do Feast
A Fool that walks among the Wise

[velveeta]

no prob if there are bugs in the labyrinth - vel's triple socketed blood mith warhammer makes a great flyswatter!

maybe i will name it 'raid'........

[StalePopcorn]

no prob if there are bugs in the labyrinth - vel's triple socketed blood mith warhammer makes a great flyswatter!

maybe i will name it 'raid'........

Yes, I was thinking "bugs" more in the line of uber-beetles? WA-controlled bugs? Dare we mention... the Maggots Lord's offspring? *gasp*

[Thangorodrim Atanatari]

To me, "endgame content" for a character would be them dying and likely not coming back. The final death, or something that would keep them from ever appearing on Istaria, at least for a long while.

However, I'm also a roleplayer, so even if I run out of levels and quests and classes on my characters, I'll stick around for the interaction.

Or kill one of them off and completely start over on a new character.

But then, what I prefer and how I think isn't necessarily for other people.

so then istaria does have end-game content.. namely: the devs BAN button.