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Once your app gets approved (took mine all of like an hour or something), you should be able to see the ArcheAge subforum. I browsed through the threads, and there's a sticky thread that links to a google doc with a lot of information about the basics and some "go do this shit first" stuff that...

It's one of my personal favorite games, and I love the Zelda franchise probably more than any other franchise - but yes, LTTP is linear. There's a set order you need to complete the dungeons in. However, the new one 3DS may be my favorite ever. It is purposefully non-linear, and it is so much...

Cool, just submitted my application. Man, that was a nice old school app process. I dig it. It's a social construct, and should involve some talking/typing.

Hey Tuco - I think I'm just wanting a MMO to play with A Guild more than anything. I'm so sick of the solo MMO. Is PRX open to me joining as a F2P when that's open, and then joining in whatever guild shenanigans are happening when I'm online? Because if so, I'll go dig up your old post and do...

While cock-blocking progression in any game, especially with money, is a huge interest killer to people - how much does it ACTUALLY affect you once you're in game? Not having that TOP TIER of armor - how much of an ass-kicking does that open you up to? If you have just one notch under it, are...

I heard Zenimax has had great success taking an existing franchise and making a MMO out of it!

Nice! I got him Saturday. Now I'm stuck on Nibbleh heh. Not even getting close. I'm a shadow priest, I've watched vids of shadow killing him, but I can't tell what they're actually doing (other than backing up in a circle, heh). They don't seem to be stopping to cast. I specced out as they did...

...wow. I had no idea it was that bad. So the gear you want to make requires multiple archeum (spelling?), which you can only realistically get off the cash shop. That's really terrible.

I thought this was a pretty decent look into the game (yes, it's a youtube guy, sorry): An ArcheAge Overview - YouTube Goes over some basics, shows some combat, shows some farmville, shows some of the contentious decisions (cash shop for labor). He didn't get into the PVP itself (because...

Yes, but only True Christians heard about it when God spoke to them.

Again - not talking about AAA studios. There's a billion other game companies out there that people don't hear of. I've worked in my market (software development, web applications) for a decade. Not even a big town. There's *still* tons of shops of various sizes that haven't heard of, even...

This is obviously a huge fucking trainwreck, but if I wanted to play Devil's Advocate, you could totally make this look good on a resume: -Learned the basics of how to develop a MMO in Unity -Gained experience on launching a Kickstarter project -Organized and led a team of volunteers...

"LFM for Jafar, 10k achievement points & 5/5 H-Palace MINIMUM"

I think the same thing all the time from the horde side of the fence. It's hamfisted and doesn't make any sense. WoW can only get away with splitting its player base in half like this because of its enormous mass. Seriously - as a new horde player, how long before you take a quest from an...

I think you've put yourself into a hole though - people need something to do while waiting for the "rare and unique encounter". These are subscription based games typically. Hence why we have the repetitious mindless bullshit. The rare and unique encounters to get real progression (aka, better...

Hilariously?

On the plus side, once I had runestones done, I had my cloak like an hour later. The solo fight at the Celestial was challenging, but I had read up on it so I knew what to expect, and had some strategies planned out. I already had the timeless coins. Then I got lucky last night and...

Runestones is fucking terrible. I got 1 from 5 bosses yesterday, with the buff. I only needed 4 this week, and I was scared I wouldn't get it.

I've felt that way before, but I had another thought too - WoW has had unprecedented success, and noone else has even gotten CLOSE to them. Perhaps the fact that they make huge changes every expansion keeps the game more fresh than we realize, and has helped its longevity quite a bit...

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Thanks! Youtube is blocked at work of course, but I'll tag it to read when I get home. I generally am only on the forums during work, heh. It kinda dents my googles.

Pft, I'm on page 405. The classes page mentions a bit about how it would in work in theory. There isn't anything there about any of my other questions - like if they've made statements on how they plan to handle balance issues. High page count doesn't mean anything. There's still not a lot...

For someone who hasn't paid hardcore attention to EQ:N - how is the abundance of classes going to work with regards to balancing? Is there multi-classing? I've never gotten into MOBAs, but I know they have a crap ton of classes typically. Is the basic idea that for any guy that seems OP...

Quick, cast PRAY THE GAY AWAY faster! Did everyone eat their Chik-fi-la Nourishment Token before this?

I haven't heard anything about reps, but there's not the daily overload that MoP had. There's some daily content (like..3-4 things according to one account), but it's very very sparse, and none of it is for reps, as far as I've heard. There's supposedly going to be a legendary ring quest this...

I was playing with my daughter (4 year old). I told her we had to stop so I could go poop. She said "Don't forget your cape!" and held up her makeshift cape. You could say it what happened next was a....heroic movement.

I think we get into a bit of semantics, honestly. Everything I heard made it sound like the project they were building got scraped. They basically started over again. That game will never be made. They moved most of the people onto other projects. They're starting something new, might have...

Lamer than your spelling? (Or should I say, "lamer than you're spelling") *rimshot* I'll be here all night!

Yeah - I forgot while watching this that it's a KEYNOTE. This doesn't remotely seem like a keynote. Just a regular panel. I don't think Blizz is looming - everything I read indicates that after Titan got canned, they no longer have a MMORPG in the works. The team was disseminated, many went to...

Thanks Flex. Watching it now - Night Elves look alright, given the overall art style, but wow, that human run animation looks terrible to me. Is that a common gripe that isn't worth rehashing?

I was completely out of it during SOE Live - I didn't even realize it was happening. Does anyone have any youtube or other links of actual EQ: Next stuff (not Landmark)?

YES MORE PLEASE

Hah, that's exactly what I thought too. They're reusing some nouns is about it.

There are games out there with various EQ-like aspects to them, but they're not from a AAA studio and your friends aren't going to be playing them. They're going to be buggier, graphically worse, and much smaller communities. Hell - Vanguard obviously hit a lot of those buttons, but lost so much...

FWIW, I thought your posts were the best thing in this thread.

Thok, really? Pretty sure you just jinxed it for me hah - never, ever had issues on Thok. Edit: Again, just LFR for me. Going to try to get into a Flex this weekend though when I have some free time.

As a developer with a degree and 10 years of experience, I can agree with that. I've met great devs who had zero formal education in software development, and I've met terrible devs who have one or more degrees, plus certifications, etc. Also, I don't know how other careers compare, but in...

Cool, thanks for the answers guys. That all makes sense, at least. I still hate the small (IMO, obviously) size of the default claim, but interested to keep watching where they take this.

That Gamescon video did look pretty cool, for what it's worth. On the "cautious" side though: -For some reason it gave me some GW2 vibes. Not saying it's a GW2 copy by any means, but I got some of the same emotions looking at it. I got bored of GW2 much, much earlier than I thought I would...

One of the biggest things their new approach to software development with the Landmark alpha is show why most companies never ever let users interact this close with software as it's being written. Part of it's just us humans being our dumb selves, but software is never done, nothing is ever...