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You’ll recall that yesterday I wrote about Everquest 2’s new producer, Smokejumper, making this statement on the removal of mounted combat: Well, I guess it’s time to stick my head in the dragon’s mouth. Here goes nuthin’. I’ve played with the system as it is currently on Live (rather extensively). I’ve also played the system that is on Test now. It’s basically a change about “what looks best”. The fact is, the Live solution doesn’t look very good. Especially if […] There are two horrible decisions in the current Everquest 2 test-build that are being protested strongly by the playerbase. You’ll find them both at the top of the patch notes. GENERAL * Qeynos and Freeport have been disabled as starting cities. * Mounts will now be temporarily suspended while in combat. They’re similar, in a way, in that they both take things away from the game, instead of add new choices. We were already somewhat aware of the threat […] Shipping containers. They’re ubiquitous, be they filled with frozen lamb, children’s clothing, or some plastic crap destined for Walmart. Or are they filled with doom? Beware, as from now on, shipping containers are… MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE! Somewhere in Russia, a new plot is born. Well, not so much a plot as a marketing video for weapons of doom from munitions firm Novator. It has better production values than most Saturday morning cartoon shows. Seriously, who decided […] Armonica the Warforged Bard says Hello! Warforged are a race specific to Eberron, the setting for Turbine’s Dungeons and Dragons Online. Constructs built with one purpose in mind; the waging of war. Their creators were a little too clever for their own good, and in their pursuit of building walking weapons that would be able to make good decisions without direction, they accidentally managed to imbue them with sentience. For a while this wasn’t too much of a […] I’ve been trying to not pay too much attention to Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, so as to not get caught up in the incredible amount of hype surrounding it, but I have to admit it, this video makes me really excited. What excites me most in this video is the way that lightsabers appear to be synchronised with everything else that is going on around them. They seem to really clash, and block incoming fire. If […] A couple of weeks ago, many players of Mythic’s games found themselves billed multiple times, in some cases racking up hundreds of dollars worth of payments. Needless to say, they were not best pleased. Today the Executive Producer of DAOC and WAR released letters of apology, and detailed the compensation that players will receive. The DAOC letter. The WAR letter. The letters are the same until you get to the bottom, and the game specific compensation. The shared portion […] There’s been a lot of talk recently about MMO profits, spurred on by the Celestial Steed Kerfuffle. About how subscription fees have not gone up in line with inflation, so companies have to find other ways of increasing their income. It is felt that consumers would not be willing to pay more than the industry standard of $14.99, so other ways need to be found to get them to hand over cash. I’m not sure if that is really true. […] |
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