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I didn't see a thread about Steamboxes so if there is one close this one. I just heard about Steamboxes (a console for PC games) for the first time last week. Some questions for anyone who has been following their development. Since the Steambox will be using Linux as their OS, is it...

No idea where you are coming from regarding the graphics because IMO those are top notched. Fully get where you are coming from regarding the other things. At low levels with the low number of skills you have combined with the 2.5 second GCD means combat is extremely slow with you pressing...

Speaking from experience, being on a trial account has no impact on getting into a locked server. For the first 3 days of my trial Excalibur (as well as Gilgamesh and a couple other NA servers) was locked but on day 4 of the trial at 6am central time I was finally able to create a character there.

Some good drama going on now on the reddit and official forums regarding the actions of the Carbine employee who leaked the F2P info. To prove he was a Carbine employee the leaker posted a picture of a W2 but with his name blacked out but with the value of the gross pay visible. Since the...

The market size for gamers is continuing to grow. The first question is what percentage of the gaming community plays MMOs (compared to MOBAs, consoles, etc). The next question is for the percentage of gamers who play MMOs, what percentage of them want a difficult, challenging game that rewards...

The game is almost a year old and almost all of the raiding guilds are still trying to complete the existing raid content. Supposedly the attunement process isn't as ridiculously painful as it was at launch so now more guilds are beginning to progress thru the raid content. If the raid team...

On the official forums WS mods are not locking the threads discussing that leak so that gives it legitimacy IMO. I wonder if it was a planned leak so that Carbine could see what the public reaction was to the hybrid F2P model before making an official announcement.

Back in the day I remember raiding guilds like FOH and Afterlife competing against one another for world firsts in EQ1. Success in raiding required a lot of teamwork, wiping over and over again to learn the encounter strategy, recruiting and retaining players who were good enough to execute...

NCSoft released their quarterly earnings report and apparently their entire company took a major financial hit this past quarter with Wildstar bringing up the rear with less than $3 million in revenue. Earnings Releases http://i.imgur.com/QRScRh0.png http://i.imgur.com/ZPDKW2t.png

Does WoW's token system work like Wildstar's CREDD where someone has to pay real life cash for the token/CREDD and then sell it inside the game for game currency?

So where do you think these 3 million gamers are going? Other MMOs, MOBAs, console games, or somewhere else? FF14 seems to be the only MMO increasing in popularity lately (at least on this board). With their expansion coming up soon and the similarity in gameplay with WoW, odds are FF14 is...

To whoever the idiot was who negged me with this comment... Quit it. Nobody else but you likes TESO. Let the butthurt go ..learn to fucking read. Draegan asked a question about FF14 so I gave him a truthful answer. Based on his posting history here, he isn't going to like FF14 because...

You better untwist those panties quick before your balls turn blue. I guess I'm the only one who finds it's humorous that the one person who has ranted, whined and complained the most for this board's entire history about WoW clones, theme park MMOs, etc is playing both FF14 and SWTOR now.

Who said anything about TESO? You two have been complaining about tab target combat, WoW clones and theme park MMOs for years, going well back to the old FOH boards

You're welcome. I was just surprised to see you (and Utnayan a couple weeks earlier) playing a MMO that has every major design feature you always complain about.

It's a good game but based on your posting history and dislike of tab targeting WoW-like combat and themepark MMOs you will have to deal with all that.

I was aware you can get a G510 on Amazon and will go that route if no other brand supports the LED panel feature. The 710 and 910 are better keyboards from a functional perspective in every regard compared to the 510. No idea why Logitech removed that feature since it was one of the main...

The G510 has an LED display on it that can display multiple types of information. The feature I always use is the one that shows who is talking in voice chat. It supports several voice chat clients like Mumble, Ventrilo, etc. My G510 is wearing out so when I went to Best Buy to buy a new...

Since most expansions make previous gear obsolete, the simple way to allow newer players to get caught up to the 2.5.5 story is to sell the end game gear required to do pre-2.5.5 dungeons on a merchant. Since all the hardcore players have moved on to 3.0 and the better gear drops from the...

Curious to know how much of an impact, if any at all, the P2W aspects of this game are affecting the popularity of the game. On numerous MMO official message boards, you see players predict doom and gloom, threatening to quit playing, etc if their MMO decides to implement a cash shop...

If I buy the console version for my son it is a one time purchase thanks to the game being B2P. Only reason to have a monthly sub now is if you want to buy the cosmetic items, mounts and pets from the crown store. Stuff like that is a waste of money IMO so I cancelled my sub on the PC...

My teenage son pretty much plays nothing but 1st person shooters on his Xbox with the Call of Duty games being his favorite. He got Ghost Recon as a gift and it was a 3rd person shooter. He didn't have any problems adapting to it. My guess is console gamers are so familiar with manipulating...

I Are you pulling an Utnayan and just making shit up? If a dev really said that I'd like to see a link to where you saw it at. It does seem extremely odd to me that there is no keyboard text chat support since that is a staple of PC MMOs. An explanation from a ZOS rep on the official forums...

The game that gave me carpal tunnel was the original Diablo. That was the first online game I ever played and it came out before I got married so there is no telling how many hours I put into that game. I'm right handed so I got carpal tunnel in my right wrist from all the mouse clicking...

To me the fun of playing a bard all centered around all the multiple tools you had at your disposal to save your party from a wipe when the shit hit the fan. I played a bard from day 1 of the game being released. Long before The Concert Hall message board became popular, the bard community...

Any info on that report for Wildstar potentially going F2P?

No addon support for the console. The default UI of the PC version was bad and without some key addons that gave basic MMO functionality I don't see how anyone can play this game. The UI for the console version has been completely redone and everyone is saying it looks almost identical to...

That is a fairly objective review. That guy would get negged to hell if he posted the same things here. The one major negative he failed to mention is the lack of new PVE content for several months while they focus on the console release. Instead of having a conniption fit and getting all...

Well I'm not into irrational hatred of a game that I only played a few minutes of. When developers do something that doesn't make sense to me, instead of ranting and raving I try to figure out why they chose to do what they did. Does that bother you?

After playing FF14 for the past couple of weeks, I wonder how much of TESO was designed from the ground up to support console gameplay? Reason I ask is because in FF14 the global cooldown is a base 2.5 seconds and you have plenty of time to walk out of AOE telegraphs. It was explained to me...

Word of advice on levelling up your primary and secondary classes to unlock your first job. Assuming both of your classes wear the same armor type, don't sell or convert your old equipment into materia until you know you won't ever need it again or you have so much gil that you don't have to...

Is there a list of official criteria that determines if gameplay is action combat? I listed TESO in that group because it is marketed as an action MMO. All characters have the ability to dodge, block and interrupt while the combat has features such as telegraphs, animation windups and emotes...

J If the real challenge is coordinating large groups of people with decreasing amounts of time for instruction and in less forgiving environments, does WoW qualify as the MMO gold standard since all the hard work is performed via addons? The point I was trying to make is that to get away from...

Global cooldown is still a base 2.5 seconds.

I'm on Excalibur and it took me 3 days of logging in around 6:30am central before I was finally able to create a character there. I assume Gilgamesh is the same way. If it's already locked by the time you try to login in the morning, you are pretty much screwed for the rest of the day.

I'll go out on a limb and assume your friends are not the target demographic of MMO companies looking to make a profit since they spend most of their time on free emus. On that note, when designing any MMO I always assume making a profit is the underlying primary factor that affects every...

What MMO out there right now supports "laid back" gameplay? Every MMO I have played for the past 10 years has required active button mashing as soon as the global cooldown was over in order to play your character competently.

What was so great about Titan? I killed him yesterday. Was just a standard boss fight for the most part. Are you saying that is the first boss fight where gameplay starts to get challenging?

For someone who bitches and complains all the time about WoW-style combat with tab targetting, it sure did seem odd to find out you were back to playing WoW. Having played both, WS combat takes more skill that WoW in my opinion. The tougher combat helped make the solo quest grind more...

I don't think the game was bad at all. I just don't belong in the target demographic the game was designed for. There was just no point in me paying a monthly sub once I figured out that I would never be able to do any endgame raiding or hard mode dungeons. It appears there were a...