I hope they *can* focus on fun. Shadowbane was so amazing that its all I ever wanted to do, ever. I skipped parties and ignored my friends while I was playing it, and I don't know how that makes me feel. On one hand, it was so good I couldn't drag myself away from it, but on the other hand, I was skipping parties and ignoring my friends, lol. I'd like to see someone implement a system where NPCs were cheap for hire and just as good as PCs so if you were raiding or defending a city you could do it alone, as long as your guild had a lot of cash saved up to hire NPC soldiers (well, maybe not alone, but with 5 people logged in at 6am, when the Asians are plotting our late night demise, instead of 50)

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