Shaden

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• I think MMORPG is offering Bioware coverage of non-MMOs (DA1 and DA2) in return for exclusives on SWTOR. I dont blame the website, its a good strategy, but its what I noticed a year ago with DA1. DA1 coverage on the site, then they get exclusives fr…

  in General: Hands On With Dragon Age 2 Comment by Shaden December 2010
• I am male and I play both male and female characters. Though I will say that if it is a melee non caster class, I will go male. If I go mage or healer, I will generally role female.... Does that make me weird? Am I falling into some sterotype?

  in Why do males play male characters? Comment by Shaden November 2010
• Well, they would pay employees first. Profit is left after all expenses, so the $100,000 is left after they pay employees. But, it is not a lot of money to hire new employees. They may be able to get one or two good programmers, but I'd say one at t…

  in Starvault 3Q report 11-4-2010 Comment by Shaden November 2010
• The conversion rate from Swedish krona to dollars is like 7.5 to 1 historically. Therefore, in 9 months they made about $100,000. Not  a lot to reinvest into the company.

  in Starvault 3Q report 11-4-2010 Comment by Shaden November 2010
• The simple thing that Blizzard does right, is that they refuse to ship products that are not fun. They are willing to take a financial hit to avoid reputation damage. Rob Pardo mentioned this in one of his interviews. They halted Starcraft Ghost bec…

  in Iam at the point where I believe most mmorpg developers should simply let Blizzard fund them under t Comment by Shaden November 2010
• You will notice that the date is an estimate. If you look at the 4 movies below Warcraft, they are all also releasing on January 1st. It seems the date is more of a placeholder, though the 2013 release may be accurate.

  in Warcraft Movie tent date 1/13 Comment by Shaden October 2010
• There are already well managed free classic UO shards. http://www.uosecondage.com/

  in Will UO be the biggiest MMO come back ever? I think so! Comment by Shaden September 2010
• Last time I played was months ago. There is a starter village which you can leave and go into a  zone and do some quests, but it is a lot of beginner stuff. After that, you go to the main city and do quests there. Each section of the city has quests…

  in Game World... Comment by Shaden July 2010
• A friend of mine worked for Simu and was laid off. What happened was that they were working on Hero's Journey, but realized how great the game engine was. The top management decided to start licensing the engine, and the game fell by the wayside. …

  in Estimated Release Date Comment by Shaden June 2010
• Part of me wonders the true reasons why these elements did not get implemented. There are three options: 1) They were not fun. Then I approve. 2) They were not practical. Then I approve. 3) Blizzard could not implement them fully before X mas.…

  in Blizz axes most Cataclysm features Comment by Shaden June 2010
• I am sorry but Vanguard's website is not doing the game any favors. I was thinking of doing the free trial last week, went onto the website to get information on the game, and found nothing useful. And when I say 'useful' what I mean is the followin…

  in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes: Can We Save Vanguard? Comment by Shaden June 2010