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New Stellar Loot and a Tease of Gems to Come - Trove Previews

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited March 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageNew Stellar Loot and a Tease of Gems to Come - Trove Previews

We’re counting down the weeks until Trove’s big Mantle of Power update by taking quick looks at each of the new features coming with the expansion when it drops. Today, it’s all about the new tier of gear known simply as Stellar.  Read on for the full details and a tease of the Gem System which we’ll be exploring in the next couple of weeks as well.

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  • thunderclesthundercles Member UncommonPosts: 510
    No offense but it might be better if you had someone else do reviews for Trove. Its not that I believe you would give a false review it just feels odd you giving a review for a game which the game company put a mount in the game named after you. Just my opinion. Great write up otherwise.
  • BillMurphyBillMurphy Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565

    thundercles said:

    No offense but it might be better if you had someone else do reviews for Trove. Its not that I believe you would give a false review it just feels odd you giving a review for a game which the game company put a mount in the game named after you. Just my opinion. Great write up otherwise.



    This isn't a review. It's a preview of content to come. And the mount name's a gag. It could have just been "MMORPGataur", would it make a difference?

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  • ThumbtackJThumbtackJ Member UncommonPosts: 669
    BillMurphy said:

    thundercles said:

    No offense but it might be better if you had someone else do reviews for Trove. Its not that I believe you would give a false review it just feels odd you giving a review for a game which the game company put a mount in the game named after you. Just my opinion. Great write up otherwise.



    This isn't a review. It's a preview of content to come. And the mount name's a gag. It could have just been "MMORPGataur", would it make a difference?
    Nope. People are going to complain regardless. :)
  • thunderclesthundercles Member UncommonPosts: 510
    edited March 2016
    If no one else thinks that a game naming an asset after a someone who holds authority in the gaming community couldn't possibly compromise the perceived integrity and objectivity of said person then I have failed in my understanding of ethics and I apologize.
  • t9rednecrot9rednecro Member CommonPosts: 1

    thundercles said:

    If no one else thinks that a game naming an asset after a someone who holds authority in the gaming community couldn't possibly compromise the perceived integrity and objectivity of said person then I have failed in my understanding of ethics and I apologize.



    id think that most of us coming here to read this allready play the game, since as he stated, this isnt a review, its a preview, and the content being previewed is only really for the late game players, for the most part.im not sure how there could possibly be any type of biase that could even go on there.but hey, thats just my 2 cents.
  • thunderclesthundercles Member UncommonPosts: 510
    edited March 2016

    t9rednecro said:



    thundercles said:


    If no one else thinks that a game naming an asset after a someone who holds authority in the gaming community couldn't possibly compromise the perceived integrity and objectivity of said person then I have failed in my understanding of ethics and I apologize.






    id think that most of us coming here to read this allready play the game, since as he stated, this isnt a review, its a preview, and the content being previewed is only really for the late game players, for the most part.im not sure how there could possibly be any type of biase that could even go on there.but hey, thats just my 2 cents.



    That's reasonable. And I think that the author is fairly objective. However, the author has been "gifted" with an ingame asset named after him. I would think it would open up all kinds of questions of objectivity. As mentioned in my op i think it would be best for perception if someone else did the articles to avoid the perception of any impartiality. Otherwise, as i said the article is good. And I think we're past the pretense that an article on a game news site cannot also serve as something that is beneficial to the game developer regardless if its a review or not. Edit: As I was thinking more about this i realized i should have just emailed Bill this privately. My apologizes @BillMurphy
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,478
    edited March 2016
    Bit confused I thought Trove was a more quest orientated Minecraft? It seems very MMO like, all about progression, not building?

    Oh and I can't see why Bill can't do a review, he has had a horse named after him, not got shares in the company.
  • RyuushimaRyuushima Member UncommonPosts: 63
    I don't care about some mount being called after a reviewer. I am here for the information regarding changes which we've been given even if only a tiny bit. I was expecting gems to all be class specific but I guess there are also other gems.
  • VolgoreVolgore Member EpicPosts: 3,872

    thundercles said:



    However, the author has been "gifted" with an ingame asset named after him. I would think it would open up all kinds of questions of objectivity.



    This website's "objectivity" in regards to Trion hasn't been in question for a long time anymore, as the bias got obvious times ago.
    Every frequent visitor should know by now how the relationship between mmorpg.com and the studios and publishers has been working for a while now. Giveaway mounts/keys for features and "opinions". If it's not a giveaway, it's again another "interview" *cough* with S.Hartsman telling us "how great everything is and how exciting all the upcoming things will be", which in return is generating siteclicks.
    They should really add the "sponsored" tag to every article about Trove or for once not let Bill, but some veteran user or author with less affection for Trion write an opinion on the game and see how long the keys keep coming in after that.

    According to the general reactions to Trove on these forums the title has a very low popularity, stirs up rather little and always mixed reactions to news about it and is commonly looked at as being a budget title from a company many forum users no longer want to deal with. Yet we constantly get biased PR ...pardon, "opinions" on Trove stuffed down our throats about every few days as if it is the hottest thing everyone can't wait to read about, while burning news on yet another major Trion f'up with the playerbase rioting about it allover the intarwebs never get mentioned at all. Just like many mmo news in general only get a headline after a forum user had already opened a topic on it days ago.

    It's the sort of "objectivity" that keeps this site going and while there isn't necessarily anything bad about that, to me it's not really the intend or content, but the wrapping of the package that smells fishy.







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  • chaztechchaztech Member CommonPosts: 7
    So just to clear this up, what is already hard to get (Radiant Gear) is going to be even harder to level up to "Stellar" WITH LESS RESOURCES! Thanks to the 3/1/2016 update which "leveled out" the amount of flux you get from looting gear (effectively making Flux Farming useless)? Yes on a normal U6 with MF700 shadow run you could get 1k+ Flux now reduced to 200flux...
    GG Trion keep up the great work :(
  • HowellThePandaHowellThePanda Member CommonPosts: 4
    I understand people commenting about the possible bias, which is almost unquestioned at this point, I won't deny that. But, the thing is, it DOES have a decent sized player base that does pay attention to stuff like this. Also, you act like this is the only game/company that mmorpg "promotes" highly because of stuff like this, or even possibly getting paid to at this point. There's no way for the general public to know what's going on inside unless they tell us. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that they aren't doing it, because they are, but you all are acting like this is the only company/game they do it for.
  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549
    Trove to me is like the Mona Lisa with half the colours missing.

    By comparison, WoW 2004-2008 was a masterpiece - a different painting but the mix of all the ingredients was just right.

    I could list the things that Trove misses, but I'd be writing off topic.
  • nimander99nimander99 Member UncommonPosts: 288

    BillMurphy said:



    thundercles said:


    No offense but it might be better if you had someone else do reviews for Trove. Its not that I believe you would give a false review it just feels odd you giving a review for a game which the game company put a mount in the game named after you. Just my opinion. Great write up otherwise.






    This isn't a review. It's a preview of content to come. And the mount name's a gag. It could have just been "MMORPGataur", would it make a difference?



    Couldn't help but chuckle at his/her comment Bill, it always astounds me that people can't understand tongue in cheek humor.

    As if "We named a mount after you, now your soul is ours MUHAHAHAHA" Although honestly I shouldn't be surprised by anything on the internet anymore...
  • thunderclesthundercles Member UncommonPosts: 510

    nimander99 said:



    BillMurphy said:





    thundercles said:



    No offense but it might be better if you had someone else do reviews for Trove. Its not that I believe you would give a false review it just feels odd you giving a review for a game which the game company put a mount in the game named after you. Just my opinion. Great write up otherwise.









    This isn't a review. It's a preview of content to come. And the mount name's a gag. It could have just been "MMORPGataur", would it make a difference?






    Couldn't help but chuckle at his/her comment Bill, it always astounds me that people can't understand tongue in cheek humor.



    As if "We named a mount after you, now your soul is ours MUHAHAHAHA" Although honestly I shouldn't be surprised by anything on the internet anymore...




    So if a game company named something in a game after you, even if it was a joke, you wouldn't think differently about the game at all? I am also not surpised by anything on the internet.
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