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"We'd do server merges, but that has a bad reputation, so let's call them virtual realms instead"

Sounds like the XBox curse. Halo was a full Mac game (with PC potential), then Microsoft came, and suddenly, Halo was XBox-only.

It probably resets after a timer while no one's around... Background info. A plague is supposed to have swept everywhere using infected banknotes. (of course it's terrorists! We're talking Clancyverse, here) Console-only (with tablet addition). I couldn't see a mention of PC version anywhere.

In other words, most modern MMOs are entertainment, not gaming.

I was only talking about the games I did play (and kept a bit tabs on them). Otherwise, I'm pretty sure games like Lineage I, II and its ilks have had lots of expansions as well. One old-timer thatdidn'tget 4 expansions is Asheron's Call. I think having new content every month alleviate the...

DAOC (Shrouded Isles; Foundations; Trial of Atlantis; New Frontiers; Catacombs; Darkness Rising; Labyrinth of the Minotaur) EVE (1 per year or even more) Anarchy Online (Notum Wars; Shadowlands; Alien Invasions; Lost Eden; Legacy of Xan) LOTRO (Mines of Moria; Siege of Mirkwood; Rise of...

Where's the Asheron's Call nostalgia???

The chief problem of the theme-park rails. Given that you are going to get "tickets" (quests) to rides (objectives) of short duration (so that you vacate the premises and let the next quester come in and get his own), you're never going to stay long in any area. Consequently, you can't take...

I'm not sure it would increase much their subs. At worst, curbing PvP might make the game more boring and cause a drop in their subs due to 0.0 boredom. What CCP needs to is to revampcompletelythe way low-sec works. At the moment, low-sec does not present much compelling gameplay to give...

Won't work. The idea of flex-dungeons require a pre-made group, which is not going to work with pick-up (the large majority of dungeon groups). Otherwise, I can see LFR, flex, heroic 25 (since, again, the large majority of heroic-raiding guilds are in 25M format). I don't think you can have a...

You're mixing sandbox with blank canvas. The two elements that make a sandbox are: - The players are the drivers/generators of the content and dynamics of the game - Each player can experience the game in a different manner and pursue different and achievable objectives. That's why a...

And get yelled at when you stop for taking pictures, have "awesome raiders" try to tell you that they don't need to tank swap, etc, etc. (at least they didn't yell at you for rolling need on everything to feed off your guildies anymore)

It is NOT intended for raiding guilds. It's intended for the social guilds who face the weekly problem of whom to bench among their friends (as opposed to warm bodies in the guild that no one actually cares about).

Yep. We'd have killed to have this feature last year. These days, getting just 10 members is not a problem; we get peopleaskingto be sidelined "if not needed". Yup. I don't see them getting an expansion out before Q2 2014, and they're probably going to end delayed anyway. I remember the...

Simple system here: Each zone has a Stonehenge magic/druidic/whatever ring. You can attune to any ring you can travel to... but you can memorize only up to Level/10+1 ring signatures. You're level 50? You know 6 rings only. You can drop one to take a new, but you need to pick 6. However...

Well, it's simple. If you're going to throw away all your efforts in how the game is played, you can still keep all the arts assets you've made since you're keeping the same world/IP as the home of your game.

The concept of "DPS rotation" has done more to destroy community than anything else. Even with voice, you still have to concentrate (it doesn't help that you're supposed to move away from fire, toward stuff, avoid being in the red circle on your range add-on... at the same time you maintain...

It is extremely difficult. Take the most common example of being special, i.e. equipment. I recently did a quick look. From 1 to 60, outside of raids, how many different robes are available to, say, an alliance priest. Today. The answer is 138. At that point, you can be unique. The problem...

Not just classes. Class skills. One of my many armchair designs since I left Nevrax involve what I call the "Book of tricks". Basically, turn all classes, skills and whatnot into a gigantic collectible (but not trading) card game. I start by stealing from TSW: You have a bar of 10 action...

I wonder how this is going to affect the next expansion, Odyssey, which is supposed to go live tomorrow...

Had disconnect problems this morning. *** EDIT *** And again... http://community.eveonline.com/news/...june-2nd-2013/

That's the only possibility. The odds that, in a pickup group, nobody knows the dungeon are extremely low, unless you are at the bleeding edge of the game (or during beta testing, and even then). In EQ, I think the only dungeon where I found myself with a couple friends, and none of us knew...

You also had "optional" sections, i.e. sections of the map that were closed or available at random.

Now that would be interesting.

They don't need that. Enough people are lusting after Blizzcon even knowing nothing about what they announce that the tickets would sell out in 25s instead of 15s.

One year every year; one year at a time...

That damage absorption shield looks sick.

No, you are. There's no end-game, you play a single-player RPG except it's online and you can group with other players who are the Prophetised One as well (lotsa Prophetised Ones around? Is there a convention or something?), and you get thrown in with a batch of different players of your side...

It's really hard on that kind of game not to be P2W, since there's nothing else to sell on the cash shop. Heroes have very low customability outside of gear (which would be P2W), you don't have outdoor aesthetics to sell (the castles all look the same from outside in that gameplay video... they...

There is no imbalance that can't be corrected... ... with your VISA card.

You know this existed since before the "F2P" wave, right? It's called "free trial". The only difference being that most free trials did put a limit on time rather than level. Or sometimes both. (and free trial is essentially what the "F2P EQ" model is)

Simple. Outside of raid night (or just before raid night), you ran your daily heroic for 30mn for the VP, then had nothing else to do. Maybe get some herbs for the weekly flask. So, either you did PvP, or you leveled an alt (and assorted professions).

The ones who enjoy constrained creativity with virtual LEGO.

This simple fact suddenly makes me realize for how long I've stopped playing CCGs...

It's not selling that well right now, but itdidsell that well, and no game in the PC category came close to its launch performance. Which is what the "#1" label meant. Probably faster patch content. They're now trying to alternate non-raid and raid patches, in the hopes of getting a patch out...

That's the only game in the universe where the GM and devs will reimburse people whose scam failed...

Stranger things have been known to happen...

If I remember right, you need racial frigates to 4 to unlock the racial cruiser skills right now (it will be only 3 when the expansion launches).

Perception. If it's cheaper, it must be worse. It is very hard to compete on a product based essentially on quality (people want great games) while communicating on price (we've got cheap knockoff of WoW!). Tons of consumer and marketing studies will disagree. Well, actually, it's not the price...

Note that this is nothing new, the recent EVE novels clearly name and reference some of the big fights and player factions (NC comes to mind).