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There's been a couple changes during the lull between Season 1 and the upcoming season 2. Notably, they've made almost everything account-wide (dyes are account-wide, wardrobe of transmogs is account-wide), they've switched the "you have access to all traits" to "choose to do this event to get...

Their biggest problem is that their pets are core to their play, but those pets are absolutely stupid. Even in PVE, the pets are going to stand in fire in a way that reminds you of your fellow LFR players in WoW, but worse. Yea, I have both a Ranger and Guardian, and I love my Guardian, the...

If you're shooting darts at random on a target (i.e. pick random area names listed in the Warcraft RPG book), you're bound to hit a few times.

Almost certainly Leatherworker and Huntsman. If you want to spend some and unlock a third profession rather than use an alt to craft, then Jeweler would complement it (since Huntsman consume more wood than metal, and jeweler is exclusively metal). But, as usual, professions are more of a money...

Their new system appears to be their equivalent of an x-pack. Basically, the new Living Story episodes can be finished at any time, including after their initial 2-week slot. Meaning you can do the entire Season 2 in a marathon session next spring, if you want. So Season 2 is like an...

Fun fact: here, in France, employees have priority. Employees get paid first, then government for back taxes, then creditors. (it's a bit more complicated than that, but employees get paid first, regardless. And if the company did not have enough assets to liquidate to pay the owed paychecks...

That list is the very proof that undead exists. No matter how often you shoot it dead and debunked, it rises again and rolls around, collecting new victims. From what I heard about their production pipeline, they have the basic thematic idea of the next two expansions, and most of the details...

Which Vanilla expansion plan? You mean the debunked fake list of expansions that got "leaked during beta" but somehow surfaced only just after they announced Lich King? And which was completely incorrect as early as the following expansion (Cataclysm)? (for info, the list was "Draenor" with -...

Good question. We had a bait 'n switch with The Burning Crusade, which had little Legion stuff in it for all the title promised. A couple of portals here and there with a few bored demons wandering aimlessly and the last bad guy of the last raid (slight exaggeration, I know). Hardly Burning. But...

Yes and no. It's a different Draenor, with just a passing resemblance in geography to the Outland maps. But otherwise, yes, it's probably an attempt to capitalize a bit on nostalgia. After 10 years, most of the subscription churn is probably going to be old players coming to play some new...

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

We've seen the Lich being born in the Novellas, and that's not him.

Except that the auto-generated stuff does suffer from the same problem. The distinction they make between player stuff and internal stuff isn't that the player stuff is different. It's that, once you've created whatever masterpiece there is, you can do a lot of processing to create the meshes...

Player mounts have exactly two uses: One, shrink the world size so that players can go faster from A to B. If you don't want to shrink the world, then don't have mounts. Two, extract revenue from players by offering exclusive mounts on your cash shop. Good luck arguing against this. Here's a...

Subscription Model to End in July | Asheron's Call | MMORPG.com Apparently, you'll be able to download the AC1 server to run your own world yourself. No documentation, people are expected to write their own.

At the moment, the X-pac looks like "more of the same". Same levelling process, same "no flying until max" limits, same "dungeons, then heroics", same Timeless Isle-type zone, same amount of raid tiers (just renamed), same PVP, no new races, no new classes. Just "let's see how different but same...

Since apparently, Activision wants to go after Call of Duty levels of money, but for consoles, that's appropriate. Anyway, nice to knowthat your WoW sub money is well used. Remind me, where's my Titan?

And everyone there knows CCP. I mean, I was touring on holiday last year, and we were on the last day in Reykjavik. I was just back from checking the CCP offices, and mentioned I was looking for their shiny black offices to our tour guide: "oh, those internet game guys?".

Cloth cap, cloth cap. Once you drop a cloth cap, you're good.

Apparently, the new "timeless isle" (Frostfire Ridge) was datamined to the same number of rare spawns, and a lot more treasure.

Apparently, your avatar is supposed to suffer from acute myopia (or those videos are really badly done). The blurring in distance to cover LOD is painful. Even without my glasses, I don't get that blurry long-distance vision.

So, you make an account on every board to spread the news about that game, do you?

It worked when you knew the trick, of course. But if you knew the trick, by the time you went there, you would have had the ability to purchase a light and know you needed one, unless you were absolutely stuck on "well, I hate the Halas starting area, so I roll a level 1 and run to Qeynos...

Kotaku is being mildly disapoint'by the game.

Management, strategy, etc, etc. In my old guild, basically, the officers team carried everyone else. It's a bit more than "one person", but basically, more than half the raid don't watch videos unless you embed them on the guild forum, don't research strategies unless you repost them with...

Oh, my! http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...weets-Wowcraft Executive summary: You will need a minimum pass in Proving Grounds before being allowed in Heroic Dungeons and LFR.

Being a Minecraft veteran, I'm not surprised that you get massive detailed constructions from some of the OCD people. (ok, I'm slightly OCD myself, been working for the last 14 months on a minecraft project which just broke the "half done" mark)

Blizzard slapped them down with the zone explorer stuff.

Yup. Too bad all that eye detail affect about 3 pixels on the characters you cross on the capital streets, and you probably need 2mn to fully load all 40 characters during a keep pvp battle. But hey, shiny!

But, will World of Warcraft support the newergonomic game controller???

Lots more info on the April changes. It looks like they're making as much stuff account-wide as they can (skins are account-wide, tints are account-wide, even Legendaries are account-wide now) and dropping casual coin costs (no respec cost, no repair cost). In before pussyfication cries begin!

Well, I've said since basically the inception of this thread (or shortly after... or somewhere along it a long time ago) that I wasn't interested, and nothing has changed my opinion one whit. So Ut has sported a boner for so long, he's had to get it amputated due to gangrene by now. But, it's...

You're projecting your wishes on those. The indications there are that the reward of the Trial is your position on the Leaderboard. That's it. Maybe there's something else, but I see not hint of anything. And, since it's Zenimin, you can expect ANYTHING by now.

They are probably done. I mean, it's hard-ass encounters, with timer, death counter, and a simple leaderboard. It's probably ultra-simple to implement, and not needing much testing (although, with their mega-server ultra-non-advanced tech and quest ass-biting bugs... who knows). If it was...

I'd read it, if the shit website didn't send me back to the Age Gate every time I click on the "ESO Veteran Content" vignette, then back to the homepage. No, there's portals to the instanced 12 man "Challenge Mode on Steroids that yield no specific reward - yet" (since you can retry as much as...

Yep. The rumors about it being a raid-zone and whatnot are gone: it's a pure max level dungeon, but outdoor (original!). The Trials sound like Challenge mode dungeons on steroids (and for 3 groups). Not raids; there doesn't appear to be anything gained except bragging rights for now. I...

Exactly. They want to prevent the "group with higher level second account, /follow, gain xp".

The point is, in EQ, you bypassed any API whatsoever; you dug stuff straight from the client's memory. There's nothing stopping people from doing the same thing with TESO if all they did was to remove the access to data thru an API. If the data is in memory, the botmakers will find it, parse it...

Intern programmers in action. Enjoy them. That assumes their architecture is capable of doing that. They probably banked everything on the mega-server being the be-all-end-all, discovered there's an absolute cap, found out that they would need six months to rip and redo the intern's code, and...

Every time I see that, I'm reminded of anold novelin which there's a civilization that's barely incomprehensible, is spewing some ramblings that seem disconnected from reality... ... and when you read the author's notes (on CD! In hypercard format!) you discover that basically, the guy had...