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We've seen the Lich being born in the Novellas, and that's not him.

Except that the auto-generated stuff does suffer from the same problem. The distinction they make between player stuff and internal stuff isn't that the player stuff is different. It's that, once you've created whatever masterpiece there is, you can do a lot of processing to create the meshes...

Player mounts have exactly two uses: One, shrink the world size so that players can go faster from A to B. If you don't want to shrink the world, then don't have mounts. Two, extract revenue from players by offering exclusive mounts on your cash shop. Good luck arguing against this. Here's a...

Subscription Model to End in July | Asheron's Call | MMORPG.com Apparently, you'll be able to download the AC1 server to run your own world yourself. No documentation, people are expected to write their own.

At the moment, the X-pac looks like "more of the same". Same levelling process, same "no flying until max" limits, same "dungeons, then heroics", same Timeless Isle-type zone, same amount of raid tiers (just renamed), same PVP, no new races, no new classes. Just "let's see how different but same...

Since apparently, Activision wants to go after Call of Duty levels of money, but for consoles, that's appropriate. Anyway, nice to knowthat your WoW sub money is well used. Remind me, where's my Titan?

And everyone there knows CCP. I mean, I was touring on holiday last year, and we were on the last day in Reykjavik. I was just back from checking the CCP offices, and mentioned I was looking for their shiny black offices to our tour guide: "oh, those internet game guys?".

Cloth cap, cloth cap. Once you drop a cloth cap, you're good.

Apparently, the new "timeless isle" (Frostfire Ridge) was datamined to the same number of rare spawns, and a lot more treasure.

Apparently, your avatar is supposed to suffer from acute myopia (or those videos are really badly done). The blurring in distance to cover LOD is painful. Even without my glasses, I don't get that blurry long-distance vision.

So, you make an account on every board to spread the news about that game, do you?

It worked when you knew the trick, of course. But if you knew the trick, by the time you went there, you would have had the ability to purchase a light and know you needed one, unless you were absolutely stuck on "well, I hate the Halas starting area, so I roll a level 1 and run to Qeynos...

Kotaku is being mildly disapoint'by the game.

Management, strategy, etc, etc. In my old guild, basically, the officers team carried everyone else. It's a bit more than "one person", but basically, more than half the raid don't watch videos unless you embed them on the guild forum, don't research strategies unless you repost them with...

Oh, my! http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...weets-Wowcraft Executive summary: You will need a minimum pass in Proving Grounds before being allowed in Heroic Dungeons and LFR.

Being a Minecraft veteran, I'm not surprised that you get massive detailed constructions from some of the OCD people. (ok, I'm slightly OCD myself, been working for the last 14 months on a minecraft project which just broke the "half done" mark)

Blizzard slapped them down with the zone explorer stuff.

Yup. Too bad all that eye detail affect about 3 pixels on the characters you cross on the capital streets, and you probably need 2mn to fully load all 40 characters during a keep pvp battle. But hey, shiny!

But, will World of Warcraft support the newergonomic game controller???

Lots more info on the April changes. It looks like they're making as much stuff account-wide as they can (skins are account-wide, tints are account-wide, even Legendaries are account-wide now) and dropping casual coin costs (no respec cost, no repair cost). In before pussyfication cries begin!

Well, I've said since basically the inception of this thread (or shortly after... or somewhere along it a long time ago) that I wasn't interested, and nothing has changed my opinion one whit. So Ut has sported a boner for so long, he's had to get it amputated due to gangrene by now. But, it's...

You're projecting your wishes on those. The indications there are that the reward of the Trial is your position on the Leaderboard. That's it. Maybe there's something else, but I see not hint of anything. And, since it's Zenimin, you can expect ANYTHING by now.

They are probably done. I mean, it's hard-ass encounters, with timer, death counter, and a simple leaderboard. It's probably ultra-simple to implement, and not needing much testing (although, with their mega-server ultra-non-advanced tech and quest ass-biting bugs... who knows). If it was...

I'd read it, if the shit website didn't send me back to the Age Gate every time I click on the "ESO Veteran Content" vignette, then back to the homepage. No, there's portals to the instanced 12 man "Challenge Mode on Steroids that yield no specific reward - yet" (since you can retry as much as...

Yep. The rumors about it being a raid-zone and whatnot are gone: it's a pure max level dungeon, but outdoor (original!). The Trials sound like Challenge mode dungeons on steroids (and for 3 groups). Not raids; there doesn't appear to be anything gained except bragging rights for now. I...

Exactly. They want to prevent the "group with higher level second account, /follow, gain xp".

The point is, in EQ, you bypassed any API whatsoever; you dug stuff straight from the client's memory. There's nothing stopping people from doing the same thing with TESO if all they did was to remove the access to data thru an API. If the data is in memory, the botmakers will find it, parse it...

Intern programmers in action. Enjoy them. That assumes their architecture is capable of doing that. They probably banked everything on the mega-server being the be-all-end-all, discovered there's an absolute cap, found out that they would need six months to rip and redo the intern's code, and...

Every time I see that, I'm reminded of anold novelin which there's a civilization that's barely incomprehensible, is spewing some ramblings that seem disconnected from reality... ... and when you read the author's notes (on CD! In hypercard format!) you discover that basically, the guy had...

Yep. The whole idea of the mega-server is that basically, you have a central character DB (with appropriate replication and distribution so that it can sustain the load), and then a bunch of server rack full of server blades where you spawn as many copies of any zone as necessary to accommodate...

So, there's a mega-server, then an overflow to the mega-server (that is not an additional instance within the mega-server)??? Oh, my. Suddenly, you are filled with confidence with their software engineers.

People were making bots in EQ, a game with no API whatsoever.

At this point, why are you pre-ordering a game (this game or any other)? Pre-orders made sense 15 years ago, when pre-orders told your retailer how much boxes he should think of ordering, and if you didn't ensure your box on massively popular titles, you might face weeks of waiting until the...

"Pain and suffering hits YOU for 20 damage. You died"

Ok, soit's time to have your traits come from doing specific stuff (or pay for them)

In practice, people do that. It's called rolling and gearing your raid alt. And within guilds, it's routinely done, Soandso logs off his Warlock, and logs in his Druid, which runs to the raid zone, and the next boss fight is joined. The WoW devs have recognized this necessity for a long time...

The Trinity is only one possibility, though. I think I need to restate every month or so what you need for an interesting combat vs non-soloable mobs: - The combat needs highly distinct roles by distinct characters. - Those roles should be complementary: a role by one character should...

You have classes. Your "character build" is basically done in three steps: 1) Pick a class from the ones you know. That gives you the type of armor you can use. 2) The class gives you 4 ability slots, which depend on each class. Like Blademaster would be 1 of each defense, offense...

Don't know. I've done probably a hundred hearts total, but thousands of events. I remember a video showing a map of Queensdale's scripts, and there were about 1.5 times events compared to hearts on that map. The difference is that all the hearts are visible, all the time (even completed) so...

Yes, but then, it becomes a bet. In this age of short leveling curves and rush-to-endgame, there's a very small window in which you actually play the game with other people. After the initial rush, the levelling zones and dungeons become empty, populated only by a handful of rerolls and...