I never played RO. I tried RO a little awhile ago and couldn’t get into it. I tried ToS because I heard it isn’t really a “successor” to RO. Plus, I always expect outdated gameplay to be updated for the times.
Not everyone enjoys outdated gameplay or follows nostalgia. People may find that, over the years, they just grew out of the things they used to enjoy in games.
I played Everquest for 3 years in my youth and would spend an entire day grinding out 1 level sitting in the same spot, watching the same enemy get auto attacked until it died and rinse and repeat or hours just doing a corpse run. Or camping a spawn for a week trying to get my epic quest item piece.
I can’t do that anymore. However my real complaints about the grind in ToS besides:
- We have a limit to the dungeons we can run per day. So bad RNG + dungeon limit = frustrating.
- Spawn rate seems bugged or something. They seem to be on a global timer instead of a respawn timer beginning after an enemy or group of enemies has been killed. Channel hopping + bad respawn times = frustrating grinding experience.
- No real social environment to entertain us while we’re grinding. I come to the forums for entertainment while I’m grinding instead… lol. Might be a social environment at end game when people are forced to party but while you’re leveling up it’s almost non-existent. I understand how RMT take advantage of zone chats and stuff but man… give me back zone chats and put in a proper chat filter.
At least EQ had a heavy social environment to entertain me while I was doing boring repetitive work. I did partner with people to do quests but it was just that - doing quest. No one really talked much we just worked on quests.
So that’s all I’m going to say here. I like ToS for the most part but I am sorta frustrated watching people blindly justify things that are just terrible such as glaring balance flaws etc just because some ancient retro game had all of these issues too.
I went from EQ straight to WoW and didn’t once criticize WoW for not having a lot of the horrific design that EQ had in it. I, instead, took a breath of fresh air and was relieved to see that they weren’t in WoW. And please don’t come at me saying WoW was bad, it was awesome during its vanilla days.
No reason ToS can’t innovate for the times and improve upon the RO experience. People really want to just go from one game to a game that’s exactly the same down to its fundamental game design flaws?





