MMORPG News - Class or Skill @ Ten Ton Hammer

Also at Ten Ton Hammer is a roundtable on class vs skill systems from IMGDC:

In the round table discussion room, even before the particular topic was introduced and convened, the battle lines were being drawn.

“I am a big fan of the Asheron's Call system,” I heard one participant whisper to another. “Skills are the way to go.”

“But classes and that system are so…comfortable,” another participant said. It was obvious that people had there favorites, but everyone was eager to draw out the relationship between the two systems and what it meant for the development and end-product of MMO-genre game and the livlihood of indie MMO developers.