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    Why in the world would one just use Point and Click...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by 133794m3r, Aug 22, 2009.

  1. 133794m3r

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    I understand that using a point and click movement system makes less stress on teh servers thus allowing for someone to have a tier server and have just as many players as someone with a really good server with poitn and click. I know it's all about the money but still. Tooo damn many f2p mmos are point and click. I never heard about them again after i try those.

    The ones that are complete point and click mmos i only hear about them when i stumble upon them then no one else ever tlaks about them. I don't get why they're doing the whole pnc design since obvioulsy not too many people end up playing them.

    My case and point will be another f2p game who decided that pnc wouldn't sell. It is Perfect World. It has some nice classes but is really money oriented. Very well programmed game it uses wasd. And there are versions everywhere. Those pnc games i've seen never go beyond the korean version and the us release. That's it never anything more. Perfect world has german, us, filipino, and a ton of private servers out there if someone wishes to go that route.

    Why do people honestly think that pnc will sell?
     
    133794m3r, Aug 22, 2009
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  2. GamingACU

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    Runescape is a fairly large point and click game, people pay to play that.
     
    GamingACU, Aug 22, 2009
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    Runescape is old school. I'm talking about new games. Runescape grew up in pnc age. MMOs weren't existent. New mmos who are pnc fail horribly.
     
    133794m3r, Aug 22, 2009
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    Point and Click is what killed Diablo (II mainly) for me. I swear my mouse looked new except the left mouse button.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 22, 2009
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    Well in defense of diablo 2, it was more like pointing and clicking while massively spamming various hotkeys
     
    TevashSzat, Aug 22, 2009
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    True, true. But WSAD just sounds weird for a diablo type game for some reason.
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 22, 2009
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    Haha....it was more like QWERTASDFG for me......and that was only with me playing a Poison Necromancer wearing Trang Ouls.

    For sorcs, its even worse.....
     
    TevashSzat, Aug 22, 2009
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    BC it's sometimes fun to just go pncing...
     
    grbac, Aug 22, 2009
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    All games that have wasd also have a pnc movement mode. So that doesn't make sense....
     
    133794m3r, Aug 22, 2009
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    Playing Rappelz and it's point and click too o.o I don't really find it that much different but yeah, I do wish you can control it with WSAD too :/
     
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    Two things I hate in MMO's, but is in there most of the time:

    - Point and Click to move
    - Target an enemy to shoot/cast/attack -_- Why cant I cast my magic on a tree or something? =P
     
    SirHase, Aug 23, 2009
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  12. GamingACU

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    lol, I agree. It's my magic, I should be able to use it on whatever I want.
     
    GamingACU, Aug 23, 2009
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