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No, he means ban the 19 accounts of the guys who run the mythic Uldir raid for you. Getting a large enough raid geared for that raid takes a relatively long time, during which you earn no revenue at all. That kills the professional outfits, and puts a chilling effect on the small-scale raiding...

Regarding VR, we still have to solve the problem of movement. Anything where you have to move around (while you're not moving in reality) gives motion sickness to the vast majority of people. The illusion of standing still is the only real antidote so far, which makes racing games, space sims...

Yep. The point is, you want stuff that's fixed and "mappable", but enough stuff that you can move to a different part whenever you're ready for a change. The point where I would disagree is the need to have world "grow" on a regular basis. If you have procedural generation, you already have the...

Then what? You're back to a World of Warcraft single player game, but bigger. Besides, you do need an even more massive innovation in procedural generation if you want quests that reach even to the worst quality of WoW quests. You'd need CCN writing your quest text and dialog, and let me tell...

That's... dangerous. The point about quests is that, basically, they DO transform any multiplayer RPG into a solo game. Think about it. I have this quest, which requires me to kill 12 Winter Wolves. Ok, so I'm heading to the map with Winter Wolves. I kill 12 Winter Wolves. And then I leave...

You only get those on characters that were not around 13rd anniv. Did that last year? No free badges (you can still do the dailies)

Still waiting for that one. Orbit ebooks half a 50-50% chance of being screwy on my reader, so I always pick dead-tree editions, and for some reason, the paper version's availability is delayed by 3 weeks...

14 years later, they still do not (I'm looking at you, G'huun fight)

Just in time for the loooong wait between last BFA raid and the next expansion.

And then, they'll put a CGI reskin version of him. Stan Lee will live Forever!

What do you mean, forgetting??? I always have a full stack of Peridots!

Are you sure that's not an addon? Because I think that, on my first day in WoW, I had the quest journal, and that's it. No sidebar tracker, no map zone highlights, nothing... until I found QuestHelper (much much later)...

It's a bit better. It's still not procedural; they handcraft their parcels, place everything by hand, and then let random numbers pick which one appear. I think the very first thing that tells you this does not scale is the guy stating at the beginning "I spent 11 months making that one". Oh...

I was going to say "nothing I describe is remotely extraordinary", but most of everything done these days isn't extraordinary. At best, you take known ideas, and make them work better than anyone previous. Which is why Blizzard became #1 in the western MMO scene. The key point that makes or...

You still can do that. Procedurally generated does not mean random. You have a procedurally generated dungeon, which means all the mobs in it have been pre-generated, they always respawn the same, and the game can make appropriate loot. Like, we're generating the nameds of a frog themed...

Except that Crowfall isn't doing procedural generation. They're making a stock of pre-made chunks, and assembling them by hand whenever they want a new world. You still need a world designer to come and create the world every time they'll start one.

Did you read that little word "procedural"? You can't scale WoW. It took devs 14 years to produce the content currently in WoW, and you can't do it faster while using the same method Blizzard uses to make WoW. If you are making a procedural generation system, then you start with a test world...

You can blame the timer. Which is why I've never done a M+ since they've been introduced. Having to fight the dungeon AND time means you need to take shortcuts everywhere, and "pausing DPS" (because something is CCed) means you're not fighting time. So people don't, because the game tells them...

More like "we already know why people quit mostly, so there's little point in getting more data we won't use".

Which is why I was talking about a world 80 times the size of WoW. Because at that point, you don't need a lot of servers. One is probably enough. I did the math a year or so ago; a game with 80 times the size of current day WoW can have a 300-400k player base which translates into 100K...

The big problems with this are also well known: 1) Story and everything else is fully and completely spoilered three months before you even encounter it 2) The main challenge is watching the video showcasing the fight, and doing it correctly enough when it's your turn 3) and lastly, all that...

Now that Metzen is out and Thrall sent to pasture, it appears we have a new pet Orc from the new main man, Alex himself Guess who will end leading the Horde at the end of 8.3.5?

Islands are ok, I think. The only bad part is that the grind to get everything from it is horribly long. I do 10-12 a week, and got like 3 pets (and a dup) and 5-6 xmog items that aren't even in the same set. (almost everyone by now knows that you skip everything and rush every rare you can...

Massive procedural generation. Instead of making a 2 square mile terrain replicated on demand, make a single server 80 times the current size of WoW. With 6000 dungeons. Maybe the dungeon you're visiting today is spoiled, but it's probably better to find someone who has been in it and can guide...

I have this on my mage. And it's very obvious at time, because I'm under Combustion (everything crits), got my first crit in, and... I don't get the second crit. At all. Waiting for my insta pyro... nope. After 2-3 tries, it finally lands, but of course my cooldowns for instas are all consumed...

Now, imagine sharding vs The Opening of the Gates...

French version here; the % is dropping all the time, but we had compulsory one-year in military service until 1997. You could delay it a bit if you were doing college/university, but you needed medical waiver to avoid it. Or be female. I did mine in the navy. I almost got an extension, because...

Last alpha running now (supposedly a complete standard game). Still no non-Win client, so it's still a pass. Bleh.

Everyone is doing BR these days when they lack imagination...

Are they going to hold the door? BlizzCon 2018 Closing Ceremony Music Festival - Featuring Train, Lindsey Stirling, Kristian Nairn Hodor is going to do the DJ on one of the three stages for this Blizzcon

Unlike Hubble, which is in earth orbit and can (and was) serviced, Kepler is in deep space heliocentric orbit. So, to service it, we need to go beyond the Moon. But yea. That's the main problem of space telescope: they cannot be expanded, upgraded or serviced, and they need to fit into a...

Of course. You will have flying in 8.2, and they will add the Emerged Nazjatar zone where you cannot fly (because too much kelp stink) in 8.3.

Do they? I'd argue that, with less massive worlds, you get more and more instancing/phasing/mega-servering that basically destroys community, since every player is irrelevant to your playing experience except the ones that the game randomly associated with you when you clicked on "join queue"...

To bring back the original post, A New World is - at last - a first western MMO that is NOT a crowdfunded shit. Unfortunately, both ANW and Ashes seem to be very PvP-oriented. While this is good for some, it's now an instant "shelve it to uninteresting game" for me.

He wasn't fired. He was moved to the World of Diablo (or whatever the big unannounced is) that probably had major pvp difficulties to fix those, and he's their "PvP specialist". Now his "loan" is finished, he's back.

No they don't have any. Just came out of a WQ where you bombard a ship and have to destroy a forsaken blighthrower. There's four of them on the ship, plus the quest forced respawn, so easy right? Wrong. Two of them don't take any damage, no matter where you aim. There's a string of 6-8 gryphon...

Abraham worked with G.R.R. Martin, but he's not GRRM. The characters killed off come back stronger!

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Paul Allen died. He was the 4th of the Space Barons - people always forgot him when they talk about the space billionaires.

I want next book to have Cara showing up and "fixing" things. (if you have no idea who Cara is, you need to read the Stange Dogs novella)