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I mean, can SOE actually make something fun? Without it being a reanimated corpse?

Another 70 folks fired, Chinese localization cut. BUT I THOUGHT FREE TO PLAY WAS A PANACEAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Zarhym gone. This is a weird day for MMOs.

Brad's in the twitch chat already answering random questions/making claims. I just went there to enjoy the EQN wailing, didn't expect the cult leader to be there 3 hours early.

Every time you hit the ball, your paddle will increase in length and width by one micron. If you grind long enough, you will be able to easily vanquish your foes. Different color paddles will be for sale in the in-game shop.

Obviously this means Blizzard can fire back up Titan development since they won't have to compete with the marketplace powerhouse that would have been Everquest Next!!!!!

"The future is dead, come relive your past with me!"

Also, I'd be utterly terrified to see what the game on their internal servers is like if it fails to meet SOE of all people's quality bar. Are the mob graphics just giant cloth caps with clubs that go SLASH!?

Not surprising, but still disappointing. SOE in a nutshell. EQN? More like EverQuest Never.

They've gotta get people to pay them $30 for sweet, sweet automated server transfers somehow. @Foggy: Hazzikostas said when they first implemented it (for Highmaul/Foundry) that current-tier Mythic raiding is not intended to be cross-realm as long as it is still relevant. After all the...

Cross-Realm Mythic is not a permanent change; it's just for this tier, and just for the "oh god doldrums" between last patch and the expansion.

People say our mana-bases have gone too far; I say they haven't gone too far enough! SIX COLOR GOOD STUFF.

And you can basically forget about playing any deck with Blood in it unless you're willing to drop $250+ on pixels. Really wish my kickstarter rewards had included Angels and Kings instead of 10 non-AA Pack Raptors...

Guess I'm finally free of this shithole backwater server; guild I've been raiding with since Wrath just finished the long slow death promised by Mythic invalidating 10man groups. Playing on a tiny server (even after server merge last year), with ~15 competent players on it total is not...

$100k Tournament has been decently fun to watch. Go go Spiders and AzureCannon. Also, Srimxl Dawn expansion spoilers are looking good. Although they've gone even further down the "Mythics are just pushed cards" rout.

I hope they also use the tagline "Become one of the Fallen"

GIVING OTHER CLASSES WATERWALKING RUINS MY SHAMAN CLASS FANTASY BLIZZ.

if you're willing to take some time to assemble a PDF of the deck, you can get a deck professionally printed out on playing card stock for relatively cheap from any of the little custom playing card websites. Much like Inked Playmats, they don't arse themselves to check whether the material is...

Well, at least they kept with the tradition of bullshit season endpoints.

Twin was fine, casualty of WOTC's pro tour mindset.

It's a dark day when people are rooting for Affinity to win a tournament.

Amusingly, Madness is awkward with Liliana of the Veil, since you can use it to activate your own Madness cards... but also risk activating your opponents' madness cards. And since lili generally comes down and -2s, it's pretty easy for the opponent to "set up" for her +discard.

They said under the new core-set paradigm we will be seeing Reprint Planeswalkers in expansion sets, because of the limited design space each individual Planeswalker has. "Jace draws cards and mills" can only iterate so many different ways without feeling silly, and reprints pad the amount of...

If it involves any of the big three (albeit Passtimes isn't in the same league of CFB/SCG), nothing will come of this in public. I'd guess SCG is involved, since they've got a Special Relationship with Wizards.

Hypergenesis cascade was pretty silly during proto-modern Maelstrom Wanderer does his best to shit all over the fun of any EDH group he wanders into.

Really wish the Mage Affinity added Charge instead of 1SP, it's kind of silly how much worse it is than the Warrior one. It's like you're getting 2-3/4th of a Charge per mage troop you play. Maybe Spellpower will prove to be more valuable as the talent tree expands. Of course, it could take...

I just keep a Tarmogoyf Die out when I'm playing Goyf.

Dwarf Cleric has been a nice combination of slow and fast. You have your explosive robots games where you straight murder folks right off, but also the healing and silly Soul Vessel synergy to go long. You attack from the ground and from the air. Being able to run 3 sapper's charge, 3 burn, 3...

I like the investigation mechanic because it theoretically lets them cost cantrip-spells as fine stand alone spells, since the cantrip part has its own separate cost part later. Also, Shape Anew shenanigans in Modern. Madness coming back is going to be hilarious with Jace. Also, tracking...

It's an internet "thing," Hoss. He knows it's seppuku. It's like the folks saying "RIP in Piece."

I like the cut of your jib.

I like that they're convinced the only reason they weren't blown away was because of the stream. "You need to do this David, the bravest and most liberty-loving thing you can do is to give in like a pussy. Like Christ and the Apostles."

I actually really miss the stupid Trinket-madness playstyle monks had for the Thunder King's Palace, with its hilarious reforging plate-spinning insanity. If you're going to design around a class being trash dps half of the time and above average half of the time, give me 0%/200% over 75%/125%...

Wintermoon Control feels like it was made to tailor to everything I love in CCGs: Control, Card Draw, Recursion, Mitigating Resource-Flood, Stupidly Game-Changing Unique Characters.

EQ2 devs seemed absolutely terrified of the "emergent" game play in EQ1, and wanted to make sure the shackles were firmly in place from the outset of EQ2. And then like a week after release you had all the tanks spamming group buffs for uncontestable ultra-threat, and "DPS Berserkers"...

Having worked in CCG/LCG playtest/design at multiple companies, a lot of shit that seems obvious in hindsight is overlooked in testing. Often because of testing directives/conceits that push towards focusing on other things in order to meet your job requirements. And sometimes they're caught...

The reasoning behind the shared EXP debt in EQ2 made sense. It was dumb, and wouldn't work in the wild, but there was logic behind it. Force people to be better at the game by making them absolute pariahs if they suck. Didn't work that way in practice, just made shit miserable and everyone...

Wouldn't it have to actually launch to be on that list?

Adaptatron with Equipment pretty much solos her.

"State of the art" and "Elder Scrolls: Online" in the same sentence? This must be trolling.