Well, now I think that I'll actually apologise to the prognosticating portion of my brain. The vision that told me that CoH will fall from grace within this year. The Freemium Plague (like the Black Plague, but nobody dies; they just zombify) has ca…
Well, the Betas for Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa were fun, but I quickly uninstalled both soon after I heard of their up-and-coming demise. I though TR could have been a great game, but AA still needed a lot of work.
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@dougmysticey;
Actually, I should have added that Open Beta would be the ultimate Server Stress Period before release, and not some marketing gimmick. I guess I was just reliving some of the Betas from 2000-2005, like Earth and Beyond, WoW, Eve, Co…
Originally posted by Alienstudios
The testing should be done by the alpha testers, Open beta is just a busniss move to get more players hooked.
The testing should be done by Alpha Testers, Closed Beta 1 with about 10-20 trusted, professionally-min…
Yeah, thanks AO for reminding me...now I DO feel old!
One of my overall favorite games back then, and it still has much going for it as far as gameplay, the UI, and a social aspect far better than most MMO's today.
I just wish they'd get to work…
Originally posted by Xondar123
I bought City of Heroes, Cty of Villains and Going Rogue all seperately. But it looks like if I chosde to return to the game and play for free I would lose a huge amount of the stuff I had paid for when I bought Going …
.....And a line of WoW fanatics queue up in homage to the Mighty Bliz once again, Azaroth boards in hand, chanting "Epic Looooots, Sparkly mouuunts, shiny Warcraft Mega-Blooooks (CRACK), Epic Looooots...... "
Well, the best way for me to get someone into the Oblivion/Fallout/Skyrim RPG immersion factor is by saying;
It's not an MMO. Period.
No linear advancement
Noone spamming 'LFT' or 'Need PL, please'
No Chuck Norris jokes
No Ignore list to continual…
Originally posted by birdycephon
Originally posted by The_Quester
Originally posted by Teala
I would love to play some of the Eastern MMORPG's. but I just can't get past their grindy-ness, nor their art direction.
Look what she is we…
Originally posted by Draron
For one, it's kind of hard to tell a bot who's mining from someone who's alt tabbed from the game or afk, since mining pretty much requires no skill.
They did say at Fanfest this year that they plan on bringing a few chan…
Originally posted by Meowhead
Originally posted by Saarosen
Well, since I've read almost every Discworld novel, I would find an MMO of this world to be fun. However, the experience would probably be ruined; not by bad combat mechanics or slow, cr…
Well, since I've read almost every Discworld novel, I would find an MMO of this world to be fun. However, the experience would probably be ruined; not by bad combat mechanics or slow, crafting gameplay, no. It would be ruined by the current MMO crow…
Very good article, Jon. Now if you could only spam this across Corporate E-Mails to these Gaming Companies, staple it to every CEO mirror where they can view it before they preen themselves in the morning, and set up billboards across from their cus…
There are some good points to an ability to call up Guildmates from anywhere, at anytime, and yes, if an employer were to allow employees to access this feature at the workplace when there's nothing else to do, it's fine.
However, it's bad enough …
Here is the business end of the NDA.
You are an artist, and some company hired you to design something really special, something that has never been seen before in your field of design. And yes, if it sell very well, as your company believes it wil…