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This is my thinking. In the F2P market, there is a large slice of the population that won't ever pay a dime into a game, no matter how low the prices are. There's a thin slice that will or won't, depending on price, and there's another large slice that will pay whatever, because they are the kind of people who won't miss…
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"Just calm down, and start over. Show me again, how big was the fire giant that tried to squish you?"
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Too bad! I want a Mimic companion that I can name "The Luggage".
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It wasn't. Though, it does bring up an interesting point. I do recall, quite often, the various populations of the old games going to war against each other. It was actually a lot of fun to play EverQuest and see the players hating on Ultima Online or Dark Age of Camelot or whatever was coming out. But this whole thing of…
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Forums are nothing new. Complaining on forums is nothing new. Blasting every social media outlet with negativity is new. Hopping on Facebook and telling your entire 600+ friends list to "omg stay away from neverwinter it sux" is new. That's what I take issue with.
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You might, but I would contend that the game companies are still loyal to their player base and always were. The reason I know this is because of all of the reasons I cited in my original post. These guys have a vested interest in making sure their players remain happy with the game they are playing. They'll leave if they…
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Well... In the Forgotten Realms, if you don't *know* that your patron deity has passed on, you might as well be Faithless anyway. The clergy of any given deity know, to the minute, when something awful has happened to their god. Their power no longer flows into them, their spells no longer work. For you to not know your…
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"Hi. I'm Kelemvor. I've got this big Wall that goes around my city that could use another brick. Your soul looks like it'll do just fine."
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You seem to be missing the "spirit" of what the Need or Greed system is all about. The idea here is, you roll Need on something you intend to USE, and Greed on something you intend to SELL. There is no justification for rolling Need on something your class can't use. None. "I want to make money" is not a valid reason to…
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Dingdingdingdingding! Give this man a cigar and a blowtorch to light it with! Cryptic, formal request initiated: Let us have hotkeys that let us switch between different configurations of our skills! That's a great idea.
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Well? They went with last generation. What did anyone expect? It's like they were over there and said, "Okay! We've got Bioware style storytelling, what else do we want to do that's different from the other guys?" And then the purseholders at EA said, "Nothing. You will do nothing else different. You will identify the most…
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There's a game called Star Wars: The Old Republic. When I first played it I thought to myself, "This is going to be great! Star Wars MMO! I can't wait for that flavor of combat to come to the genre!" That's what I *thought* until I realized that having a bazillion skills on a skillbar just like WoW did it was not the way…
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Or follow on Facebook. Or Twitter. Or the other bazillion news outlets the game has. See my post above. It's symptomatic of the same thing.
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No, he's right. The issue is that there is no one source to cite. Community moderators across dozens of games say it in an off-handed fashion. Usually what they say is something like, "Only a small percentage of the population uses the forums." Over the years the various mmo communities have settled on numbers anywhere…
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They have said they want this feature in the game. The other two currently active Cryptic titles, Champions Online and Star Trek Online, both launched with it, so I wouldn't imagine it would be too long coming. Anyway, this has my support.
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Yep. A lot of people forget that you can purchase Zen with Astral Diamonds. Also, these rare mounts that exist for 2500 trade bars, I don't think anybody expects anyone to have one of these things from Day 1. These mounts are meant to be purchased after a long period of time invested in the game. They're not meant as…
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My wife games with me using her Mac. First of all, do *not* listen to the smacktards who seem to live to trash on Mac. They work just fine for gaming if you've purchased a model with a graphics card in it. The problem isn't that they aren't good gaming machines, the problem is that no games get released for them. So,…
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Yes. My wife works in that business and will be building for us a website, which I am sure will be excellent. It will have guild news and official forums for our use and I'll spring for an official URL and webspace. No ads.
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Thank you for your interest! I'll send you a private message so that we can arrange an in-character interview on or after April 30.
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I don't. I don't even know why you would think that. The music sounds like it belongs in a fantasy game. Star Trek Online's music is a completely different style.
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This is the way of all Cryptic games to this point. One shard, many instances on each. I do feel your pain, it really sucks when connectivity is an issue, but I hope they don't change it. To date I have not had to ask any of my friends which server of Champions Online or Star Trek Online they play on, it's never a…
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I know they got a texture polish at some point, they added some facial hairs and touched up some of the graphics and so-forth. They look a lot better than when I first joined the testing. Probably worth a look.
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There are seventy million Mac users. Many have late model machines that can run MMOs and other games just fine. There is plenty of cash to be had there for the developers who choose to put in the extra effort to go after it. My wife just purchased one. As a gaming rig it kicks the tail off my machine. Every time I see her…
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Leuthilspar
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Doncha understand I'm tryin' ta say I love ya?
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Take heart, ladies and gentlemen. Cryptic's previous two offerings, Champions Online and Star Trek Online, both had mentoring systems built in from the day they launched. They are big believers in it.
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The simple truth is that Beta is no longer used for that purpose. See my post above. Perfect World is an enormous company with a very large QA team that can be counted on to provide quality bug reports and gameplay feedback, professionals who are paid not to waste their time with "OMG THIS SUCK FIX IT NAO!!!!" type bug…
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Beta has not been about testing for a very, very, very long time. Today, beta testing gives the developers two opportunities only, and they are these: 1. Do the servers hold up under load? 2. Promote the game! I suppose if you were feeling generous you could say that they can also take the opportunity to get some general…