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Turns out I understood it wrong. If you fail at tier N, you can keep on retrying (with no loot chest) until you succeed and move to tier N+1. However, you'll restart from tier 1 every week.

The new challenge dungeons sounds like that. Basically, you start at just above Heroic level, then every time you manage to finish the dungeon - in moderately reasonable time -, you get loot with +X ilvl, and the stone to do it with higher difficulty and bigger +X. Until you fail, and have to do...

Can you really make a guild hall solo? From what I read, it shouldn't be really possible...

It's something that I've loved to do since the days where EQ introduced armor tinting and I could at last have my armor look again the proper purple cleric planar armor (which was easy since so many armors did use the same basic texture). That and have my bard still look like he wore 7...

Plus, of course, your DH is level capped to 100, so you basically play the intro, ding a few levels during it, and get dropped with half an xp bar to fill for the next 6 days...

Nope. You can't even unlock the old-world mastery system part without doing the expansion intro.

Yea, meaning an achievement that tracks account-wide the fact that you did all of the outdoor content. Save Archaeology. I just hope they don't wrap faction reps in it again. Nor having to wait for the last patch of the expansion: if I've done all the outdoor content, then let me fly over it...

Figure out what current popular game genre there is (outside of RTS, MOBA, FPS, CC, RPG and MMO since those are covered). That's what they're brainstorming on currently. Their strategy always has been to take a popular genre, clone and put a gallon of polish, and go. PS: I want a...

To be fair, on paper, most of the WoD systems seemed perfectly fine. I mean, having followers being sent away to do missions and stuff for you sounds fine. Having alternate means of harvesting? Goody. A catch-up system that gives you slowly additional gear so you can improve on your raids? Good...

The only numbers I can find were those from 2013, where World of Warcraft was the #7 online game in terms of microtransactions earnings, with $220M.

Given the lack of fluidity in the token market, I'm guessing something like 75-100k people tops. And probably half of them would stay subscribed even without tokens. It's not going to go F2P until 1) They finish restructuring the game so that you have more incentives to purchase fluff (we're...

WoW tokens have an impact on EU/NA realms, where there are 1.9 million active accounts. Usual in the industry is 10 to 15% extra inactive but paying (people are lazy), so we have something like 2.2 million paying subs in EU/NA. I doubt there's even 5% of players that use the tokens as their...

Even Q1 is doubtful, unless they unleash the beta at Blizzcon (which they might). My guess is more like May or June.

The original format of GW1's classes was good. Fixed main class (fixes equipment categories for the character), secondary class from any, collectible skills. The GW2 format is much simpler, and thus lacks a certain depth.

While it's not impossible to find guilds, I think there's a distinctive lack of guild recruitment tools. We're still stuck in the era of city-global chat spamming. Considering about 90% of those recruitment spams consist of "guild at level X/13 in NM/HM, Y/13 in HM/MM, looking for class/specs...

Just came from doing Kazzak. A guy was joining pick-up raids, and repeatedly pulling Kazzak on the raid that was assembling, until he got kicked and de-zoned. That's what you get when you have bored people with no accountability.

Even my 80-year old mom switched this spring. You're late.

Yea. If you're only working with integer/fixed precision numbers, then going from 32 bits to 64 gives you 4 billion larger coordinates. Otherwise, if you're dealing with floating point, you go from plank-scale precision to beyond the edge of the visible universe, but it becomes more and more...

Didn't complete it. That jump point in the SW of the central WvW map was a major pain, and after an hour or so of falling every time on the same two-three beams of wood, I said "enough". Of course, they removed it from full map criteria now, since the map is gone (and they're probably going...

There were no "ton of quite similar games". If you define EQ as "3D MMORPG", then you had exactly three in 1999: Meridian59, EQ and Asheron's Call. That's it. For the next two years, you can add Dark Age of Camelot in the US, and untranslated asian stuff that would be barely playable in the west...

Again, Wowhead has a tool (the sidebar on the main page) which will display which dailies are up for this day, so you don't have to log in to check if you're real casual. However, if you take the quest from the table and do not complete it that day, it poofs from the log, so do it asap.

Mostly. LFR is still "raid lite" with most of the game mechanics that require actual coordination disabled, but if you want to see what the zone and bosses look like, then yes. I wouldn't qualify those non-raid epics as "end-game" or close, it's more like tier 1.5 of 4 last-patch epics, with...

I had completely forgotten that Hallow's End was starting this sunday, so I come out of my city hall, and I see a yellow ! I don't usually see and guess what: You even get a candy bucket in your garrison! Side note: apparently, they do Hallow's End on Outland, but not in alt-Outland. Not even...

And that's the goal here again. I'm pretty sure the numbers of people that are doing heroic randoms and LFR is steadily dropping, to the point where it will soon become problematic for the queue times. Plus, of course, the ones that queue are the ones who actually need it, so they're...

Woups.

For reference, Pluto is 5.5 light hour from the sun, i.e. 20k light seconds (*edit* which is less than 200k). 2 million km is about 7 light seconds. 2million km still gives you plenty of stuff to do, the average distance between asteroids larger than 100m in the solar system's belt is around...

No. They have Risen!

They don't succeed because of a single guy. However, they can fail because of one. It's the problem of leadership; you can't do much if you haven't the troops, but you WONT do much if you haven't the leader(s). A good leader will find the right guys to execute the VisionT. A bad leader will push...

Ken White of Popehat always wins.

Especially before it's release.

The gaming world has changed, and WoW faces competition for gaming time more than it did 10 years ago. Plus, WE changed as well. We're not the players we were 10 years ago. My F&F guild has shrunk again to non-sustainable size (we can't field an all-guild dungeon group except very...

Sounds like a plan. They do need to introduce new enemies, though. The Burning Legion keeps bringing the same troops we've always seen. We need some new twisted Old God nightmarish abominations. (I was just reading a preview of the horror-themed last MtG expansion) After Legion?

Smed isn't there anymore. No one to bail Brad this time...

At this point, is anyone really putting money in there to "help"? Instead, of, you know, buy some additional virtual spaceships for their collection because "oooh, shiny"?

Because one of the main uses of ilvl is to allow you to compensate for other "problems" in general gameplay. Like not being up to mythic-level insta reaction coupled with specialized addons. If you remove this variable, then either the mythic-level guilds roflstomp their way thru, or the...

Nope. Back when I was in the industry at the turn of the century, it was the 3 3rd rule: dev get 1/3, publisher 1/3 and retail/wholesalers 1/3. Then publisher would eat marketing costs and have most of the rest as profit, and retail would eat discount sales and kickbacks and whatnot, and have...

Well, well, there seems the number/progression of normal mode raiders was hit a lot more than expected by the summer:Normal mode mechanic nerfs inc!

Can't beat that entertainment for the price. Notably if you didn't even try to crowdfund this (my brain keeps inventing crowdfungi for this... why?)

I think I said it before, but I'll say it again. At this point, if you're tagged "Early Access", it's an automatic click on the "not interested, don't ever show me this again" box on Steam. If you go thru Early Access, you're probably a POS. If I'm missing on the next coming of gaming Jesus...

The problem with reducing the size of a raid is that, once you're down to 10, it's very difficult to balance stuff. With 20, you can tune stuff with the expectation that there's one of every class, one of every buff, plus competent players. If you're at 10, that's no longer true: there are 11...