Originally posted by inporylemQQ Originally posted by fistorm There seems to be a huge amount of love/hate for this game, make sure you read the reviews before you play this game because I for one know how shocking some aspects of this game are, a…
Interesting article. And coming not so far off the heels of another similar article at GamesIndustry.biz.
The article writer should check out the following
Fearing the Microtransaction Future
Then after reading it scroll down to the comm…
The $200 beta level was designed so as to make playing a drow exceedingly rare. If it had been priced at $60 there would be plenty of people who would pay that to do that. PWI don't want lots of people running around playing as drow. The $200 is des…
Originally posted by Demogorgon
That poll is very revealing of a clear agenda, about the payment models of our games, that as been going on for some years now.
We aren't powerless about it, but everyone really need to stop buying every single hy…
Originally posted by DavisFlight How in holy hell is LotRO losing to VANGUARD, the game with one of the most open FTP systems out there?
There's something sacriligious about breaking apart Middle Earth and selling them chunk by chunk, and then…
Originally posted by Torluk
Thanks for the reply SereneBlue. He certainly has more direct experience with the industry than I do and raises some interesting questions.
I hope he's wrong but I wouldn't be shocked if he was right.
Thank you…
Originally posted by Rasputin The economy is run by 99% sheep. These sheep do not have the ability to see where to go and therefore they follow the crowd.
That crowd is now going to Social Gaming, and they will blow a bubble bigger than MMOs did.
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Originally posted by Torluk Originally posted by SereneBlue The trend that INVESTORS are making (allocating their money on which products/categories, etc they think shows upward growth) is trending away from MMOs and traditional console games an…
Originally posted by Zetsuei Originally posted by DavisFlight The twilight of MMOs was 2004-now.
Or, a better name, the Dark Ages, where past knowledge is lost, innovation dies, and no one is really that happy.
We're starting to see a bit of…
Originally posted by Ardamax420 Uh, YOU GUYS DO KNOW THE SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS ARE FREE NOW RIGHT?
in the first station when u make a char in Hellgate Global, an NPC gives u the tickets to unlock everythng for your account FREE....
Stop w…
Here is a quote from one guy who was familiar with the Chinese MMO market (commenting on the video talk):
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It makes perfect sense that Jared used to be a gold farmer. I was one of the early successful gold farmers and that earl…
Damn. I'm actually intrigued by TSW and would love to play it. Unfortunately I don't have an option of going the subscription route. I would still try and possibly be a longtime TSW player (assuming I enjoyed it) if Funcom offered pre-paid game card…
Much sympathy to CoH fans.
I can understand. MY BF and I played Hellgate right up to the very second Flagship shut off the servers. I remember everyone gathering around and the various guilds were running around saying their final goodbyes. Sad …
Originally posted by rungard to be honest the future of mmos looks pretty grim.
the costs to make them are astronomical, the market is sautrated with games, the profit model is in jeopardy with the advent of b2P and F2P, and fail rate is very high…
Originally posted by SuperDonk
Once Runic has a decent sized fanbase - expect EA to swoop in and buy them out. They will then attach the Runic name to every crap game they make until they destroy it's reputation so bad they have to look for another…
Just wanted to say my BF and I are playing Torchlight 2 and loving it. Of course I knew it would be a good game because these are the same guys that made the FATE games (and I think at least a few also worked on Diablo 2 before that). The pet who fi…
Originally posted by Konfess P2W is any game that you have to pay for your playstyle mostly combat. Most combat playstyle gamers feel that social play style gamers should pay for combats game time. And that Combat playstyle should be entirely free…
Originally posted by aesperus Originally posted by nomss
I know it stands for pay 2 win, but what does it really mean? I played FFXI for few years, WOW few months, SWTOR for few months, DCUO a month. But I did not see anything regarding P2W.
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I have often wondered are there any MMORPGs that have random mobs roaming the fields? You know...something that's not part of any quest chain but rather as an incentive to explore the world and maybe enjoy it?
One of my biggest gripes about Atlanti…
Originally posted by Torik Originally posted by DefixoN
I could have grinded mobs in WoW..definitely. But with whom??? Myself? I'll pass. I've never once saw a group in WoW just camping a spot for Xp or waiting for an important spawn.
Grin…