Do any of you have more ideas about “meaningful activity” that could be incorporated into the game to get people out of Shattrath and back into the world?
As pitiable as it may sound, I quite enjoyed the photography element in Bioshock. For those of you who haven't played that game, the photography element was a mini-game where you took photos of enemies and, once you had collected enough shots of a particular enemy, it earned you a 'research' bonus which granted you various character improvements, such as extra damage, for example.
I think that a mini-game along the same lines within an MMO could be quite a lot of fun. It would have players searching out locations, flora and fauna and taking pictures of them to earn bonuses or vanity items. For example, take a picture of all the various species of tiger in WoW and get yourself a mini tiger vanity pet to run around after you. It could well have players visiting old areas to find various mobs and locations. If mobs or items were deep inside some of the old-world dungeons then you could even get people running those dungeons again to get to the photo bonus objects.
What better than photography to make one open their eyes again, focus on more than the mundaneness of their immediate surroundings and see the vast expanse of the world anew.
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I like this idea! And the implementation must already be worked out, because there is the quest in the Hinterlands, given in Tanaris, that has you photographing a dangerous turtle using a goblin invention.
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