Comments on: Ninja Looting – A Dying Art

By: keychainkid

keychainkid — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:22:12 +0000

Sadly, as “annoying” as it was, the cut-throat nature of EQ seems to be going the way of the dinosaurs. A few sandbox games like EVE, Darkfall, and MO are trying to keep the flame alive, but overall the production value of most sandbox mmos are greatly lacking, and it is hurting the genre due to most modern MMOs believing their player-base can’t handle getting a little dirty while playing a video game.

By: Carl70

Carl70 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:41:42 +0000

EQ was the wild wild west of looting…for a goof and we used to do races from Qeynos to Freeport with low level characters, winner take all. So one of my friends is busting through the mountain pass, hoping there will be some groups cleaning out the Gnoll population so he can make it through. He comes upon a group hanging around this gnoll corpse and decided to loot it on a whim as he’s running by…BAM Polished Granite Tomahawk. Much “OMG who took da PGT,” etc. etc….by the time these guys realized what had happened this guy was in the forest already.

By: thrinetu

thrinetu — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:12:30 +0000

OMG! someone else who has the same condition as me! i suffer from guilt if i even think about needing something i can’t use at that very moment for or for that toon

By: Social Morals - We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog

Social Morals - We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:21:12 +0000

[...] any sort of loot mechanics or target tagging. Ninja looting was a commonly used term (I even had a friend who specialised in it) and the only thing that prevented it was the social code that people conformed to. Same goes to [...]