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Not only that, but the game actually discourages that (at least in PVE, never PvPed there and am not interested). Champion fights is mostly based around large insta-kill spikes that you need to identify and dodge. Your absorption and healing capacity is irrelevant to those spikes. There's a...

Note that this is not, in itself, an indication that there are no defined roles. I have no problem with having a character being able to fill any role. WoW's paladins and druids are immensely popular because of that very flexibility: they can switch to tank to heal to melee dps (and to range dps...

The onus of proof is on the innovator. Is it possible to have a role-based gameplay that's not the trinity? Possibly. Can SOE do it? Why not. Do I believe their promise? No. They have to prove. They have to show. Just saying that it is so doesn't mean it is, and thus, until they prove they...

Yup. Enough Elder Scrolls fanboi to fuel the cash grab.

Yea. No matter how good you are, there's always someone better than you. Except for ONE person in the entire world. But that's not you, nor anyone you know.

They did add a few skills not too long ago. Not many, but some.

With passion, of course!

My battle.net euro site lists as "expected Fall 2014", and, well, Dec 20th is officially the last day of that season. Sounds like the usual US lawyertalk ("can't have unwarranted assumptions. What's the last day of autumn?")

At that point, I'm starting to envision a kind of immersiveMighty Quest for Epic Loot. Minus the loot for now.

Stuff that makes the most money is usually maintaining business processes. Usually poring over a heaping pile of junk in banking code. Been there, wrote my Cobol, saved my soul quickly.

Somewhen this year. Probably september, at the rate they're preparing for beta. Veteran of much MMOs war, heh? You can never go home afterward.

But that's exactly how we pass judgement on a game. We see how it plays when we start (or even before we start), and the only way we're going to play it if the start doesn't generate enthusiasm is if we get dragged thru it by a fanboy friend who insist we have to play it. Otherwise, by the first...

Levels are the single most thing that de-MMOify a game. There's a reason why WoW made the whole "the game starts at max" and most MMOs have levels go as fast as the wind - because if you and your friends have different playtimes (and you always do), you find yourself quickly separated by those...

Crafting = A Tale in the Desert. SWG is barely scratching it. When A Tale in the Desert tells you there's a "mini game" for Gem cutting, you don't expect to get a block of random faceted junk, 3 different orientation of saws, and "craft what you can".

Actually, cooking in GW2 is probably the most interesting of the recent tradeskill implementations because they took care of making it close to "real" cooking. It's got an interesting mix of low-level reagents and high level ones (how many tradeskills require reagents you find in a level 1 area...

Hearts were there because there's quite a lot of players who were brought into the MMO with the WOW experience. These guys need a direction. Something that tells them: get your ass here, there's something for you. Hence, hearths on the map. Group-level events and end-of-meta events are what's...

No, but they tried to make it into aFacebook game, which failed badly.

You still keep your templates, right? You just have to refarm the resources.

Play turn-based strategy games. Anything that doesn't outright suck is easily a 100 hours play. Just. One. More. Turn...

Welcome to GW2!

Yup. One main raid to down the Miasma deployments, one additional raid to defend the rally points, and a couple groups going round to rescue citizens. x3 for each area (I hate Toxics btw. The Finish Him is a pain). It's starting to get organized, but the constant overflow is a pain. For a...

Mana, HP, and click rez. Is there anything else necessary?

I suspect people think they're going to see one of these. And are going to get the other:

It is a Lemarchand puzzle box, indeed.

Also, unlike WoW, you don't get intermediate content patches; the expansion is pretty much all there is until the next.

Nope. One of the thing they remember from the days of the Icecrown buff was that, when people got uberstats (due to buff), and then left and their stats deflated, they were unhappy. That's why progressive nerfs now deflate the bosses rather than inflate the players. Doing that for an entire...

No. But it sounds like you are completely single-minded: TESO is all there is, and it's the shiznitz! It's kinda hard to take you seriously. About every "real gamer" has multiple interests, follow/reminisce about multiple games, and so on. You? TESO. And you wonder why people think you're a...

The primary output of an engineer isn't powerpoint. The primary salesmanship of an engineer is powerpoint. You can have the best project, but if you end up making apowerpoint from hell, your project will never even exist. Style and design should be part of any advanced curriculum, because...

An evil twin? Of Garrosh? The universe would explode from evilness concentration! (come to think of it, that's pretty much what it does)

There's a few tools that take a mesh from 3DS or Maya and spit out sheets with each voxel plane required to make it.

Why get rid of the sub fee when you can have the sub fee AND the cash store.

The industry chews and spits out people with a very high regularity. A fairly large number of people don't last and get out as fast as they can when the hollywood-level shine wears out and the truth comes out. I lasted 15 months.

A more proper name would be "Recycle". You can put back any tool/prop you made and get some of the materials back. You probably won't recover the cobalt pick when recycling a failed Indigo, but you'll get back some of the elemental rubicite and rubies. (the ability is currently disabled until...

That's not a pick, that's a borehole drilling rig!

Thing is, those shapes must be done using cubic voxels. The sphere look nice if you make them big and don't go close, but, from close up, you see that the sphere is in fact made of smoothed facets. Disable voxel smoothing for a better look. Arbitrary shapes, and worse, arbitrary aligned...

Exactly. I might have been tempted to give it a try, but by the time it's going to go F2P, it's going to be empty as well, which means I'm not going to check it then, which means a pass.

For a better idea about what the EQNL/EQN tech can lead to, have a look at the various Adventure maps of Minecraft or the various PVP servers. (including Spleef, a PVP activity in which you're supposed to make your opponent's ground open up below him. Usually over lava)

Everyone loves Elder Scrolls for their wide open world and play freedom, right? (I get flashbacks of EQ2's newbie island suddenly)

Template early, template often.

I'm still expecting EQN "housing" to be really EQNL, with the Ley Line hubs being used to transport from EQN to EQNL and back. Given that both games use the same technologies and most assets, that should be doable. We'll see.