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Originally Posted by Firecrak
Instancing....bad. Locking down, impersonalising and creating deep seated rifts between the community and its participants are things best left out of an MMO, its supposed to be about social interaction (positive or negative) and not hard coded zone lines between players and thier goals (loot, mobs, quests, other people).

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Originally Posted by bigdogchris
Just lately EQ has added 'instanced missions' which don't remove you from the gameworld. They are like dynamic quest, having you move around the normal game world, special mobs spawn, bosses spawn, talk to NPC's for information etc... this type of instancing I think is great. Instanced zones which removes you completely from the game world? I don't like those. The instanced missions thing is very similar to Vanguards Encounter Route, so I think I'll be happy

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Originally Posted by Istari
The OP was mainly driven by the question as to whether or not there will be instancing. The info regarding it is, I suppose, not immensely accessable. But, posting is also highly personal. It lets people develop their own view points, or justify their existing ones better, in addition to understanding what other people think. Also, a title could release 3 months from now which changes everyone's opinion on instancing, and in that highly unlikely event all the VG fans will threaten to quit if you have instancing. Discussing things isn't entirely public service. People do it to talk about things they're interested or concerned about. I think encouraging people to discuss what they want(on topic), when they want is a good policy. Discouraging "reposts" has the ultimate goal of making the forum desolate and hostile.

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