Comments on: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a quest

By: Windpaw

Windpaw — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:07:10 +0000

Something that I’ve always wondered about regarding achievements and the like: Upon completing Loremaster in WoW, I found myself with almost zero desire to log back into the character I’d completed it on. Something about the post achievement let down or the “I’ve won WoW” sentiment that just seems to have sunk down deep in the guts of that toon.

I agree that achievements are an excellent means of prodding folk through content they might not care to revisit (etc) – but they also seem to have the effect of driving you away when you don’t have a clear idea of what to do next.

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:51:45 +0000

Yes, very much so. (I’m quite curious to see this in action and whether they’ll try to ditch text completely …)

The WAR public quests popped a list of PQ goals up on your screen when you were in the right area also.

And from what I gather, some of the Cataclysm quests pop up when you enter the right area rather than requiring players to click on a quest giver also.

By: Zed

Zed — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:49:52 +0000

Looked at from a certain angle, GW2′s dynamic event system is all about changing the UI presentation of public quests to a more ‘show, don’t tell’ format. Of course there’s more to it than that, but that is a significant innovation by itself.