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All the fun in Minecraft is working with the limited elements you have to make stuff. And the result is far more impressive because people figure out how you solved that problem.

About three months after people have finished the continent of Westeros, why?

'fess up: Who here wrotethat article?

Apparently not (as far as we know), but each area has specific resources. It might be that resources are more or less evenly spread all over a biome, even the rare ones, but with different biomes having different rarer resources, in which case it doesn't matter, resource-wise, where you place...

Raid size are good if you want difficult raids (because you can design tightly tuned stuff), but devastating for social stuff. A fixed raid size means your game is a gamer's game, not a social game. Funnily enough, I think MMO should be primarily social.

The Landmarks are supposed to be the trade hubs (i.e. the local place where you can put trade offers I presume), so proximity to them is a good factor. In addition, ressources are unevenly distributed, so certain plots may have that rare special tier 5 diamond marble thing that every palace...

Levelling is a single-player game, it's no wonder having more people is useless. Except to fill the chat channels of the Barrens.

That's what they do. But, curiously, people still want to connect to a lot non-v6 services, and thus, use a v4 address (with v6tov4 you can "connect" to a v4 service even if you have only ipv6. Guess what: you have a gigantic NAT at the v6 to v4 gateway).

Not a good idea. As the costs of getting an IP(v4) address rises for providers, they're going to start doing mass NAT; i.e. you're going to find yourself sharing your "public" IP address with an ever-growing number of households. Assuming that "one IP = one household" is going to go the way of...

Well, there's a lava moat in the video, so who needs a boring damp moat...

It's not about saving bandwidth. It's about playing the correct game. If I can log on, play, never ever talk to a single human being, and get to the last ounce of content, then what is the point of making that game a multiplayer game? Make it a single player game, add a multiplayer lobby...

And we all know why this happened. This happened because you needed a tank, a heal, a slower and preferably a mana regen (but could do without). Until you had those three (first two only in the early levels), your group couldn't do anything. The solution is now known: everyone can be DPS and...

Microsoft fails one OS every two: 98-good/ME-bad. XP-good/Vista-bad. Win7-good/Win8-bad. Wait until Win 9 (or whatever named they invent, if they ever do now that Ballmer is gone).

You mean "subscription-based single players RPG with multiplayer lobbies"?

Yes. There's no wipe between open beta and launch (which tells you how "beta" the open beta is).

Well, the servers are still going to be wiped (but you keep your character , skills, and inventory), so landgrab away if that's what's interesting.

To be honest, any system in which you have class customization (a "talent tree" or anything similar) with all talents being available from fungible points is going to be minmaxed. The only thing that you can do to reduce minmaxing is to make your talents (or whatever) be obtainable in...

Once you start thinking "this is Minecraft survival mode with real spheres", everything becomes clearer.

Remember, the servers will be completely wiped at the end of alpha. Your land grab will vanish at that time.

The essence of the problem is that mistakes are what you remember. If you take Magic the Gathering, everyone agrees that Black Lotus, the Moxen, or even the dual Lands were errors that shouldn't have existed. Yet, they're what makes MtG a legend, even among the people who don't play it much. I...

No, they haven't called it that. All the explanations about the interaction between Landmark and Next do feel like that, however.

Well, as usual, it depends if you think getting a free version of things you can get in-game is important or not.

At the moment, it appears to be the "housing instance" of EQNext's servers. Your chars can switch between EQNext world and your own plot's nearest Landmark. Game. You need to harvest the resources for your buildings, there's presumably some kind of fauna, and the Landmarks are supposed to serve...

He was answering the derail about the quote-parallel-unquote between SC's quickstarter and EQN's founder packs.

If you think your early adopters are replacing QA, you're delusional (well, if SOE thinks that, they're even more delusional, since they're supposed to be professionals).

Yes. And like every F2P game, you can play the base game for free, or spend some cash for some extras, often to get some leg up on free players. I can choose to play the game for free, or to get some advance on you for 20$.

Just watched, for the very first time, a gameplay video. I assume it was an official one (no email incrustation anywhere), which made it worse as it was supposed to be promotional, and show the game at its best. If that was the best they could show, well...

A huge majority still doesn't. The statistics for WoW accounts did show a majority of players without a max-level character for most of the game's life. I suspect it has changed by now, because chiefly, only the more hardcore are still playing it. But the idea that... ...is false. A higher...

One post-it, one death:

Someone can snipe your quest mobs.

Professional wiring (and yes, writing because you have to, even if unpaid, is professional writing) is work. Which reminds me that I've got to fill my work blog. If you think writing for Junkies is unfunny, try peddling computer security awareness to bioscience researchers.

Barnum was an optimist.

The onions are too big!

13 millions copies on PC. At 20$ a copy. Umpteen on XBox, Android, and soon PS4.

That's because the WOW-type dungeon run is a bad model for group content. So much that, basically, they've invented scenarii because that's where this mode of player content tends to go naturally. At this point (since most people run dungeons to get JP/VP anyway), you could simply dispense with...

Before we re-socialize, let's first say what we define as socialization? There's two components to "social": One is talking to people, one is keeping track of people. Those are the two components, and if you only focus on one, you're not going to be very social. The first, "talking to"...

Half the leet minecraft architecture skills is basically trying to make slanted/curved stuff with cubic blocs. You have two brushes to make that, so you're good to go. The other half has nothing to do with UI, and everything with visualizing the intended result as/before you start. The UI...

Yes they do, and yes, it's why they won't get my CC number ever.

From the UI, I think there's "garrison coins" (looking like some green discs) to collect somehow to expand the Garrison and/or recruit additional followers. The rest is mostly automated; you've got the map UI to build and expand, then an interface to send your followers to a mission (and, I...

Well, JJ can do it. Metzen can just try.