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The 38studios.com domain/website went live again, with a grey 38 Studios logo and a bunch of generic posts about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Project Copernicus pulled straight from google cache. Now there's just a meh, and a message from the new owners 'excuse our mess while we move in'...

No, it won't shut them up, because it must be universally forced or otherwise people won't use the checkbox out of the exercise of their own self control because queue times will be much shorter cross-server. Or something like that.

Re-upping the domain doesn't make sense though. No one who buys the IP, aside from maybe Curt himself, is going to still use the name '38 Studios'. My guess is the receivership guys don't know what they're doing or sold the domain and someone is just jacking around with it.

Last I heard, the IP was supposed to be auctioned off by end of 1st Fiscal Quarter 2013 which ended on March 31st. Although it was a privately negotiated auction, you'd still think its sale would be in the news which as far as I can see it isn't.

I'm already groaning under the anticipated weight of the faction/rep/resource/badge/honor/commendation/plaque/guild grind. For me, nothing kills a game faster than when play turns into work for no other reason than a time sink to keep you subbed (I'm not assuming a sub).

So is there a first-person option? Or is the game played strictly in third person point of view?

Anyone know if this was made before or after the real time global illumination was removed?

But does Mr. Firor pee with his pants on the ground? That's the mark of any truly competent MMO lead dev. And if Zenimax hired someone who doesn't? Well that's their own fucking fault for making such terrible decisions and not staying on top of things while ignoring the impassioned plea of...

They've also hinted at a non-combat game sphere being a totally viable way to play the game.

Awesome. Just leveled a zerker to 17 or so. Not sure I want to go through the starting isle again either. Still, I thought the game was pretty fun once I got the hang of things. In my limited exp so far I have enjoyed TERA's action combat a bit better than GW2's.

The usual smattering of past MMOs including WoW according to their website. I wonder though, why Tim Cain who was brought aboard so early and as Design Director no doubt had so much influence on this game, decided to leave in late 2011?

True, but Trion was funding it and it was they who ultimately pulled the plug, no?

You win some, you lose some, but if Trion's not careful they'll end up on the street. This, the Rift layoffs, End of Nations being canned, and a very risky project with Defiance could really hurt them.

I don't think that's the problem. The concern is more with statements like this: "We know what we're doing." "SoE is Second to none." "New MMO's have spiked and tanked, mostly in my opinion, because we haven't seen a lot of variation in theme. So EQ and EQII keep winning those battles...

If a one-two-three punch of SWTOR-38STUDIOS-TESO won't do it, then I'm afraid sadly this industry is permanently forked.

The game may have been designed primarily for consoles, but how can you compete with a controller on a platform (PC) that also allows keyboard and mouse controls?

And it sucked then, too. EA are turning BF into their yearly CoD clone seeing as how Medal of Honor completely failed to be a viable competitor for them. But seriously "It signals a new era of Battlefield and, frankly, a new era of interactive entertainment." -Patrick S?derlund. Really...

I am already bored :/ Nice looking game, but holy hell is EA/DICE full of clueless shit or what?

Quick, we may need James Cameron, stat. This is indeed a lowering of the bar.

I remember the gaming community shitstorm after their initial Gameinformer and subsequent reveals. It was frankly the biggest I'd ever seen for a just-announced MMO. Would have liked to been a fly on the wall over at Zenimax at the time. I'm certainly not against them retooling the game for...

You're depressing as fuck, UT. But that's because you're probably right.

I have to agree with Draegan a bit here; I can't left click to attack in Wow or Right click to block. I'm not sure about the targeting, but I think its positional with optional soft-targeting. Sure the underlying math is still DIKU I'm pretty sure, but I also can't viably dual-wield in robes...

Housing looks boss: http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03...w-and-housing/ The only thing I'm confused about is I was told this is too difficult for MMO developers to implement by Matt Firor, so how is this even possible?

Ten minute Massively overview. Unfortunately its just the dude reading his summary, but lots of new world footage.

Here's a pretty good one, and recent:

As long as its polished and feature-complete it should pull a fair number of WoW subs.

Don't forget the maths skills. Good design work needs sound arithmetic for a foundation as well as the creativity to produce a good game.

Well, to be fair, in the video I watched, he did show an example. In it, he said the mobs will group together (team-up) and attack the person with the highest threat. /groundbreaking.

Wait- WHAT?

From my understanding, Todd Howard has never been happy or approving of an Elder Scrolls Online. However, he's not the CEO or even on the Board as far as I know. Which is shit, because its entirely his studio and games that made Zenimax what it is today; they would be nothing without him...

I still think the game will be OK if it is released feature-complete and well-polished following the example of Trion with Rift, despite whatever gameplay merits TESO itself exhibits. However I must admit the state of the game and of its development does look increasingly troubled especially...

Quoted for Posterity. Also taking bets. ;P

Holy shit, where do I buy the C.E.? In advance. With a lifetime sub???

Well, seeing as how they've used the whole "there are certain gameplay preconceptions and standards of MMORPGs that we will be following that will be familiar and non-alienating to our users" type language already, I wouldn't hold my breath.

I think its perfectly valid to be able to adjust scores on most games nowadays since, as you point out, games are increasingly a service and evolving constructs. I'd be willing to bet that in a year or two's time, SC5 will be a fairly polished and fleshed out game with all the patches and DLC...

I agree with your said stuff, but here's the thing; it all could be in Rift's future. The tech, the potential, is all there... Trion won't divulge how well or not Rift is doing, but by most accounts and observations, its starting to struggle and breathe a bit heavily. All it would take is...

I am going to still disagree with that. For any profession you put the people qualified for the job to the task, and you make sure they are given the resources necessary to produce it. Anything less is incompetence or another agenda at work. While true most game mags and blogs simply are OK...

Also shows how "Game Journalism" is total shit. I mean, all these laughable reviews that don't even address or mention the fundamental problems of this utterly garbage of a game. Polygon has been the worse. Has IGN released their review yet? Game reviews are nothing more than another form of...

How the hell is half the game not even finished? At the stage the game should basically be feature-complete; content and features should be should be wrapping up and the team should be in tweaking / tunning / debugging mode. I honestly can't imagine Zenimax leading and funding a studio simply...

Soo.......... the $199 Founders pack is totally worth it then, yes?