Sunday, December 14, 2008

Realms vs. Districts

so everything i read on 'realms' is that unless you want to spend $25 every month to move your character once you make him, he's stuck there. the idea i'm getting from this is that in order to play in a group with your friends, you all have to have characters on the same realm.

this may be the normal thing for MMORPGs but i'm used to Guild Wars where anyone can meet up with anyone and form a party to play together. in GW, your characters are all stored somewhere and when you log on you appear inside a town/outpost. each outpost is instanced into multiple districts (where necessary). so say i've been playing for awhile and a friend logs on. He can tell me he's in Ascalon in district 3 and then i can just join him there to form a group. GW adds districts as the number of players get larger so that the districts don't get overwhelmed.

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