By far and large, the design ideas I throw out over here at Of Course Ill Play It are iterations of existing concepts and notions within the classic MMO.  There is a reason for this.  I am a huge fan of give the players a lot of something they know, and a little of something new.  While I like as much as anyone the idea of revolution and innovation, the truth of the matter is if you throw something completely foreign and new to a playerbase that has preset expections, you are setting up a recipe for fail on an epic scale.  And the MMO landscape is littered with the corpses of those that have gone that path.  So much of my ramblings are about ways we can take things we know, and make them better.   This however, is not such a post.  This idea is so radical *I’m* not even sure it’s a good idea.  But it’s a notion that’s been kicking around in my head for some now, and hell they don’t pay us the big bucks to always sit around and play it safe (okay truthfully no one pays me at all), so let’s throw this out and think about it.

 
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