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He was answering the derail about the quote-parallel-unquote between SC's quickstarter and EQN's founder packs.

If you think your early adopters are replacing QA, you're delusional (well, if SOE thinks that, they're even more delusional, since they're supposed to be professionals).

Yes. And like every F2P game, you can play the base game for free, or spend some cash for some extras, often to get some leg up on free players. I can choose to play the game for free, or to get some advance on you for 20$.

Just watched, for the very first time, a gameplay video. I assume it was an official one (no email incrustation anywhere), which made it worse as it was supposed to be promotional, and show the game at its best. If that was the best they could show, well...

A huge majority still doesn't. The statistics for WoW accounts did show a majority of players without a max-level character for most of the game's life. I suspect it has changed by now, because chiefly, only the more hardcore are still playing it. But the idea that... ...is false. A higher...

One post-it, one death:

Someone can snipe your quest mobs.

Professional wiring (and yes, writing because you have to, even if unpaid, is professional writing) is work. Which reminds me that I've got to fill my work blog. If you think writing for Junkies is unfunny, try peddling computer security awareness to bioscience researchers.

Barnum was an optimist.

The onions are too big!

13 millions copies on PC. At 20$ a copy. Umpteen on XBox, Android, and soon PS4.

That's because the WOW-type dungeon run is a bad model for group content. So much that, basically, they've invented scenarii because that's where this mode of player content tends to go naturally. At this point (since most people run dungeons to get JP/VP anyway), you could simply dispense with...

Before we re-socialize, let's first say what we define as socialization? There's two components to "social": One is talking to people, one is keeping track of people. Those are the two components, and if you only focus on one, you're not going to be very social. The first, "talking to"...

Half the leet minecraft architecture skills is basically trying to make slanted/curved stuff with cubic blocs. You have two brushes to make that, so you're good to go. The other half has nothing to do with UI, and everything with visualizing the intended result as/before you start. The UI...

Yes they do, and yes, it's why they won't get my CC number ever.

From the UI, I think there's "garrison coins" (looking like some green discs) to collect somehow to expand the Garrison and/or recruit additional followers. The rest is mostly automated; you've got the map UI to build and expand, then an interface to send your followers to a mission (and, I...

Well, JJ can do it. Metzen can just try.

The problem being that the garrison is (of course) phased, so you can't invite people to visit your garrison when you're offline.

People are equating the Garrison with "housing". It's not, it's basically Tiller Farm ^2 hybridized with SWtOR. You get to manage and develop a full fledged Garrison this time, and hire a bunch of NPCs that can be sent on missions to get you loot, harvest stuff or craft you stuff:

Yep. A full year of no new content save some random scenario to prepare you for Garrosh's escape.

So, Warlords of Draenor is a fake, right? (new feature: Build your own garrison? First your farm, then an entire garrison on daily quests?)

Battle.net streams the opening ceremony, plus the finals of e-Sports I think. You won't get the detailed panels on the expansion, but you'll have the bullet points description.

While we wait for the opening ceremony to troll us with no news of Titan, a few things: Item squish is what they intend to drop the inflation of damage and stats to reasonable levels. Basically, since every expansion must end with raid items that have about 110% more stats than the previous...

Wants: - A character development that offers breadth (opening additional possibilities/abilities) and depth (increasing power) (I've harped on this in the vertical/horizontal progression. I have no problems with a character ultimately unlocking every single abilities of every single "class"...

I suspect that Liquids is defined as "Resources you harvest with the Bucket line of tools".

Background, not story.

Specially since the picture is one of a Gan'arg (the Mo'arg are the guys with a fel tank and tools bolted on).

Probably himself, thanks to time travel. (Can't even remember the name of the SF story in which the main hero is not only his own father, but thanks to sex change tech, his own mother as well)

It's "WarlordS", not "Warlord".

Of course they have. But if you're headquartered in the EU, it's very simple to pay VAT: you pay in your headquarters' country. Done. If you're a US business distributing in Europe, without a local presence, each government where you sell will ask your for the VAT. 23 countries, 23 VAT...

We'd talk about EQNext if there was any EQNext to talk about.

That's mostly the right track. A good modern game design would simply have the following progression paths: - Solo outdoor for short playtime: Yields some XP, good amounts of crafting materials and thus crafted beginner gear. - Pickup group outdoor for average playtime: Yields good XP...

And this is a problem... why? No. The guy watching the fight is doing the same DPS as the guy doing his laundry. He's not winning the fight, because winning the fight should not be about doing the DPS. Because winning the fight is all about doing the top DPS, and not doing the top DPS makes you...

Well, Simon Says (the venerable ancestor of all QTEs) was also about disengaging your brain higher functions so that your fingers reacted and pressed the appropriate button as soon as the fixed cue appeared. And there's already plenty of QTE going on. WoW raiding is all about QTE anyway: dodge...

And react to what happens. I've said that before, I'm saying it again. The need to be constantly mashing buttons in the X-X-O-+-? "correct order" is a symptom of consolitis: the idea that, if your fingers aren't mashing buttons, you're not having fun. That's what consoles brought us, and it's...

Finance and business scale. In the 2000s, SOE, and Turbine, and Mythic, and all those MMO pioneers were relatively small, autonomous structures. Basically, they had a local presence, and international sales were what happened by chance. I know, I got my EQ box by mail from a friend who was in...

And then hope to sell it on the Station Store for the lazy. The latter. You can't set spawn and stuff, only build. Basically Minecraft+, minus all the cheating tools, scripts and addons. Standalone. Your char can gate between EQN and EQL apparently. Think of EQL as the instanced housing area for...

All 12.5 millions of them? I'd think the SOE walls would be all gooey white from floor to top...

Actually, you're not "supposed" to do anything. You should do anything you like. You have a global quest line from level 1 to 80 that will send you across various zones (at lower levels, it is defined by your race and class and the story choices you made during creation, then later, all those...

My own preference for that kind of design was simple: You don't have a helmet (or any form of headgear). Period. No obstructing headgear, no problem. But the truth is that, no matter what, games don't have the finesse to let people recognize other people by facial features alone. We (as...