OK I've been playing games for 20 plus years so am posting this because it could improve so many online games - Currently am playing Aika ( http://aika.gpotato.com/ ) which is better then most free online games, but the reason it won't last is the same as most of the others out there. This isn't aimed at this game as it does some of the suggestions am about to offer for free :)
What you need to do game designers: Immersion = good game
First off movement - some many games don't have basic movement controls. A = left, d=right, w=forward, s=back and space=jump (also have an auto run, which aika does). Why? I expect to be able to move in those directions an to be able to leave the ground under my own power.
Environment - DON'T STOP PEOPLE FALLING TO THEIR DEATH. Sorry for shouting but ffs it's a cliff if i move to close to the end i should fall, not bounce off an invisible wall, if am walking down steps i should be able to jump the railing. Yes i might take damage but i can do it in real life and i want to forget am playing a game. You let em carry stupid size guns or swords, but trying to climb a small hill or hut and thats a no no.
Stop with trying to be realistic looking - too much time is spent on this, why do you think wow works so well and the others big games not so well. While i want to be immersed in the game i don't want real life. If you look at like a book, how big and boring would it be if it was just mundane life going on and on.
Character Creation Screen - I need to be able to choose either a male or female of all classes. Really would it be that hard to produce both, use the time you have saved trying to make the game look like the real world. Me, i like to play hunter, ranger, shooter (whatever ranged unit), my friend likes to play a Pally. The amount of games i won't even try because the ranged unit is a girl only, in Aika the pally is a girl, count my friend out. Maybe it's an old school thing but i don't want to play as a girl and am sure there are some girls out there that don't want to play as a boy...
This one is for all RPG games - Let me loot what I've just killed. By that i mean, cool I've just beat this creature and he had a BFG, wait where did it go? What do you mean all it has on it is moldy bread, wtf! I can see it on the ground, i earned it i want that gun (shield, sword, ect).
Don't make stuff easy for the come latelys - I played wow for 4 years, i was a casual player, i could only dream of getting what some of my hardcore friends. Until Wraith of the Lich King, then i kept catching them up, which should have made me happy, but then things like the cost of mounts went down which pissed me off as it took me twice as long as everybody else. Then i got bored and have stopped playing, my hardcore mates get everything too quickly and just end up repeating the same instance which equals them getting bored and stop playing.
PVP - don't give people the chance to not PVP in the world, unless the one starting the fight is so much higher there is no chance of it being a fair fight. In fact scratch that if you want to pvp someone 5 levels below, give the one with a lower level skill a (level difference x Damage) bonus and that would stop ganking.
Pets - people love them. so give them lots to choose from, but make them useful for different stuff
Mounts - I so want to fight on my mount, please let me (not like wow's fighting where every class has the same attacks). Also if am a class that can tame, let me tame my own mount.
Legend quests - This is an idea I've thought of, one off quests that are very hard but if you start it (no one else can do it, unless you give it up or it isn't completed within the time limit). But if you do complete it, you get something added to the game for ever (a huge statue or a brew named after you).
Random instances or one off treasures - every now and then spawn a treasure box in a remote location or open a single player dungeon. Once completed de-spawn never to be there again.
Finally GOD like power - A quest that gives the user god like power for 1 month or until they are killed by another play. But this creature is only on when the player is one.
My 2cp
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