Author Topic: Official MMO News And Information Thread of Etoilet Jacking Off Over Shitty GW2 (Read 211499 times)

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #420 on:** February 15, 2011, 11:14:37 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 15, 2011, 11:07:53 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2011, 10:48:42 PM
Buy it, play the free month, dump it. It's basically a single-player game anyway.

Why wait til the game comes out to dump it?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #421 on:** February 15, 2011, 11:31:35 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2011, 10:48:42 PM

Buy it, play the free month, dump it. It's basically a single-player game anyway.

That's my plan. I may co-op with my brother who mad homo for Star Wars but that's about it.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #422 on:** February 16, 2011, 12:19:23 AM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 15, 2011, 11:07:53 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2011, 10:48:42 PM
Buy it, play the free month, dump it. It's basically a single-player game anyway.

Why wait til the game comes out to dump it?

ManaByte · « **Reply #423 on:** February 16, 2011, 02:14:06 AM »

Will EA ever attempt a MMO again after the TOR implosion?

ManaByte · « **Reply #424 on:** February 16, 2011, 02:23:57 AM »

Atari is losing money... Except on their MMOs:

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Without an equivalent of the Ghostbusters game, Atari's revenue for the nine-month period from April 1 through December 31, 2010 was, well, a bit busted. Through the first three quarters of its current fiscal year, the publisher has reported €41.0 million ($55.3 million) in revenue, down 55.7 percent from the same period in 2009.

However, Atari doesn't seem too bugged by the decline. In its latest earnings release, CEO Jim Wilson said that current-year revenues are "in line with our outlook and show a continued shift toward fewer but more profitable retail releases and the growing online games market." And, in fact, Atari's online revenue has increased by €15.3 million year-over-year to €18.4 million ($24.8 million) through nine months, thanks to Champions Online and Star Trek Online.

Revenue from online games represented a whopping 44.9 percent of Atari's total net revenue for the period, compared to just 3.4 percent in the first nine months of its previous fiscal year.

ManaByte · « **Reply #425 on:** February 16, 2011, 02:37:27 AM »

TOR will sell every copy EA ships in the first month and then be under 300k subs by the end of the year.

ManaByte · « **Reply #426 on:** February 16, 2011, 02:39:00 AM »

Still the co-studio head of BioWare Austin bailing to make Facebook games isn't good.

ManaByte · « **Reply #427 on:** February 16, 2011, 02:50:16 AM »

A lot more than that since it went F2P and people are spending a lot of money in the cash shop.

They have over a million and they're making three times as much money as they did when it had a subscription price.

The difference is that LOTRO is a real MMO. TOR is a single player RPG with MMO style quests from 2004 and a monthly fee.

ManaByte · « **Reply #428 on:** February 16, 2011, 03:08:25 AM »

Yea but WOW has a ton of instances where you play with other players.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #429 on:** February 16, 2011, 03:37:05 AM »

Anyone trying the Rift beta?

ManaByte · « **Reply #430 on:** February 16, 2011, 03:41:32 AM »

Yes. I played a Rogue to 18 in Beta 4. I'm leveling a Mage now on Faeblight.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #431 on:** February 16, 2011, 05:00:24 AM »

How does the cash show work with LOTRO? You buy items and stuff? I wonder what price ranges are. If they're making money despite it being F2P they must be selling a shit ton of stuff

ManaByte · « **Reply #432 on:** February 16, 2011, 07:53:49 AM »

Because it's a scam. It actually costs LESS just to pay the monthly fee.

Corporal · « **Reply #433 on:** February 16, 2011, 12:54:17 PM »

If you subscribe you become a VIP member and get 500 points each month and a special PvP mode among other, more superficial perks. The freeloading scum must play the game to scrounge together points in 5-20 point increments (for example by completing quests, exploring areas, killing certain monsters, a number of things, really). You can also pay good money for these points. You don't really need points to play the game, but they certainly make life easier.

Points can get you, among other things :
two(?) more bag slots
a shared chest for your account
the content from expansions
additional content like highlevel quests
boosts and crafting materials/recipes
a reset on your daily quest completions (there's a limit)
other stuff I don't remember anymore, it's been a while.

etiolate · « **Reply #434 on:** February 16, 2011, 07:43:47 PM »

I popped into the Rift beta again today. I notice that my skeleton pet can't hold aggro at all now. I may drop that spec from my mage as I don't want to level up that spec just to make the pet useful. It made it tough to quest though. Not that many rifts open today and that sucks. The regular old mmo stuff is still boring and I try to avoid it by rifting whenever I can.

I bought LOTRO before F2P and after the switch it didn't feel like I was locked out of many things. I also have a good amount of points unused. I'd play it if the quest structure didn't fall apart at the 30s and 40s.

ManaByte · « **Reply #435 on:** February 16, 2011, 08:13:05 PM »

Guess it depends on what server you're on. I leveled my Mage from 10 to 14 on nothing but Rifts.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #436 on:** February 16, 2011, 08:13:58 PM »

so is Rift actually polished / decent? or is it going to be a victim to the 30 days is more then enough time

pilonv1 · « **Reply #437 on:** February 16, 2011, 08:20:58 PM »

No idea, see what the beta is like. I got the client last night but was too tired and fell asleep before I had a chance to try it out.

ManaByte · « **Reply #438 on:** February 16, 2011, 08:32:05 PM »

http://eq2wire.com/2011/02/16/destiny-of-velious-beta-nda-lifts-just-kidding/

Holy shit. EQ2 is dead.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #439 on:** February 17, 2011, 03:53:20 AM »

Rift reminds me very much of Warhammer Online, but in a good way. The interface is a little cluttered and there's a heap of shit going on while you're trying to get accustomed. I'm playing a Bard and it's quite fun, something different. As etiolate said the regular MMO stuff is boring but the rifts are cool, however there seems little here that would entice me into playing. It's still too themeparky.

ManaByte · « **Reply #440 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:55:21 AM »

Just listened to Rift Podcast 31 with the first half of the Dev roundtable. So

about the headstart next week.

etiolate · « **Reply #441 on:** February 18, 2011, 03:43:07 AM »

I haven't posted the recent GW2 updates because anyways can go check them and they have been posted on GAF. The Guardian looks nice. Rumor is the next class shown will be a rogue/assassin type. Some murmurings of a new build to play at PAX as well.

ManaByte · « **Reply #442 on:** February 18, 2011, 12:41:42 PM »

http://games.on.net/article/11634/Massive_Attack_Scott_Hartsman_Executive_Producer_of_RIFT

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games.on.net: Denzil would like to know if there’s “any possibility of buffing up character stats for Warfronts? When you reach level 10 it's quite hard to be useful for your team, and it's a bit pointless PVP'ing against level 19's.”

Scott: How about this - are you ready? You ready for this answer?

games.on.net: Sure am.

Scott: Done. Yep. We put that in the game last beta actually. The way it works is that it doesn’t fully buff your character such that there is no incentive to continue levelling up, but it does make it so you are contributing much more and surviving much longer. You are in fact boosted a pretty significant amount. That said, it’s still going to slightly more advantageous to level up. I am not a big fan of the systems that do the “one hundred percent everybody is set to level nineteen and everybody has the exact same everything and okay go”. That is not a big help. But at the same time, you don’t want level tens getting one-shotted by level nineteens on their first day. So we were going for the middle ground that gave you a significant boost, such that it was more fun, without removing all the incentive for levelling up.

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games.on.net: He continues with: “There's not much information out there in regards to raid content currently and it's something that is not currently accessible within the beta. There's no doubting that raiding is a huge attraction to one particularly successful MMO on the market currently. Do you see RIFT’s end-game being strongly raid focused?”

Scott: At the high end, they will definitely be able to do expert and hard mode raids. We definitely see high-end people enjoying the “on-demand” raid content that we have. How this works is that we have our expert rifts, which are rifts where you can craft a lure and lure out a particular encounter, and suddenly you’re taking part in an extended expert mode encounter in the overland for cash and prizes. And then also there’s raid rifts, where again you craft out the lure, and summon yourself down a raid to play. So for us it’s really about trying to find new, cool ways to make a raid system.

games.on.net: Do you have plans for any other endgame content alongside raids?

Scott: Yeah, definitely! We have the tens and the twenties and the experts, but even prior to the raids, for every dungeon in the game there’s an “expert mode”, and those are broken down into “tier one experts” and “tier two experts”, and the cool thing about that is that a lot of the time, they unlock new areas in the dungeon. So if you play one that only has four bosses, the next tier might have six bosses, and an entirely new area to explore that just doesn’t exist at all in their earlier tier. On the PVP side our prestige system unlocks at level 50 where you are now able to earn “prestige levels” which unlock the ability to spend points in PVP-specific souls, for people who wish to be PVP-hardcore.

And then also at the high end our fourth Warfront, the Battle for Port Scion, unlocks, which is a 20-on-20 PVE/PVP Warfront instance. So for us we’ve been focused on making sure there’s as much of an endgame, as there is to do while you’re levelling up. It’s so hard to get an MMO that’s fun and of the right quality, and so many people get to that point and go “Phew! Now we’ve got to build content to level 50!” and then they realise “Oh crap! We now have to meter how very carefully how long it takes to get level 50 because - dun dun dun - there’s nothing to do afterwards.” And we’ve been focused for the last year or so on adding content JUST for the endgame. We have an endgame content rollout plan that extends through the life of the game also.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #443 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:49:56 PM »

I kinda wanna try Rift out, but I fear it'll be like DCU where I really enjoy it for a week but then decide to never not touch it again

ManaByte · « **Reply #444 on:** February 18, 2011, 04:54:02 PM »

Played mostly Guardian in Rift beta so far, but I rolled a Defiant and like their starting area much more.

Headed to a Death Rift:

Defiant HQ:

ManaByte · « **Reply #445 on:** February 19, 2011, 02:36:26 PM »

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/51369/Rift-Endgame-Walkthrough---Greenscales-Blight-Zone/?quality=hd

http://www.riftpodcast.com/blog/2011/02/14/trions-rift-communication-and-honesty-a-refreshing-experience.html

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They will be releasing more Endgame content than any game that’s been released in a long time. Two level 50 dungones. Ten expert Dungeons as well as expert Rifts. Then there are Raid Rifts and the Greenscale Dungeon. This will be followed shortly by another dungeon – and a little bit later by Hammerknell. And Hammerknell is not a myth. We all saw it, it does exist, and all we can say is it’s Imposing and quite awesome. But it’s definitely there.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #446 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:09:46 PM »

What's an "expert Rift"? I'm guessing expert dungeons are like heroic dungeons right

ManaByte · « **Reply #447 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:12:47 PM »

They show a ten man one in the video.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #448 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:16:18 PM »

Played two characters to level 5 in rift beta. Pretty awesome. I really enjoyed Rogue Bard Ranger but Cleric Shaman Druid was boring as shit. I think I mightp ick it up though the game is pretty damn awesome.

ManaByte · « **Reply #449 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:23:31 PM »

Couldn't get into any of the Clerics. I've played a Ranger/Bard/Marksman and Pyro/Ele/Storm to 20 and am leveling a DPS warrior now. probably going to play a Defiant Warrior in release. The Bahmi HULK STOMP racial is just too awesome.

And if you've only played to level 5 you haven't even experienced the game yet. You need to get out of the newbie area first to do some rifts.

ManaByte · « **Reply #450 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:59:07 PM »

Major Death Invasion (Rifts open EVERYWHERE):

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #451 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:09:37 PM »

I mostly just wanted to make sure I could stand it's controls / interface. One of the big problems I have with new MMo's is how janky they feel and I didn't want to invest so much time into this only to have to re-do it again in 2 weeks.

ManaByte · « **Reply #452 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:26:10 PM »

With dynamic content you don't re-do it

ManaByte · « **Reply #453 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:40:58 PM »

This is why you don't release a MMO on consoles because of dumb ass motherfuckers like this distinguished mentally-challenged fellow:
http://www.ign.com/blogs/halhalpin/2011/02/16/dcuniverse/

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #454 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:58:36 PM »

What's dynamic content?

ManaByte · « **Reply #455 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:09:23 PM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on February 19, 2011, 04:58:36 PM

What's dynamic content?

...

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #456 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:11:38 PM »

I haven't read anything on this game, does it mean that every single quest will be different?

ManaByte · « **Reply #457 on:** February 19, 2011, 05:35:27 PM »

No, Rifts are dynamic.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #458 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:39:13 PM »

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Another wrinkle regarding the owned/licensed issue for this title was that retailers and rentailers didn’t widely know that it would not be a traditional PS3 game

LOL REALLY? DC Universe ONLINE wouldn't be a traditional PS3 game?

ManaByte · « **Reply #459 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:52:03 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on February 19, 2011, 06:42:18 PM

Quote from: pilonv1 on February 19, 2011, 06:39:13 PM
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Another wrinkle regarding the owned/licensed issue for this title was that retailers and rentailers didn’t widely know that it would not be a traditional PS3 game

LOL REALLY? DC Universe ONLINE wouldn't be a traditional PS3 game?

Doesn't mean anything. Sony has put out online only games before that didn't have a key or subscription fee attached.

Really?

On the PS2 there was:
Phantasy Star Universe
EverQuest Online Adventures
Final Fantasy XI

Even before that PSO on the Dreamcast was like that. And both PSU and FFXI on the 360 work the same.

Asstards are acting like DCUO is the first game ever to do this.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #460 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:57:58 PM »

Green Man sony has

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #461 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:58:06 PM »

green man said*

ManaByte · « **Reply #462 on:** February 19, 2011, 06:58:48 PM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on February 19, 2011, 06:57:58 PM

Green Man sony has

EQ Online Adventures was Sony too and that was the exact same deal.

chronovore · « **Reply #463 on:** February 20, 2011, 12:34:32 AM »

Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain to me why there are physical media versions of MMOs? Why not just go entirely digital?

ManaByte · « **Reply #464 on:** February 20, 2011, 12:35:29 AM »

Have to keep Gamestop happy.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #465 on:** February 20, 2011, 01:02:24 AM »

Bought the Digital CE edition for that dumb turtle mount.

Rift

pilonv1 · « **Reply #466 on:** February 20, 2011, 04:40:55 AM »

Quote from: ManaByte on February 20, 2011, 12:35:29 AM

Have to keep Gamestop happy.

I would think so. Also I would think there is some sort of "prestige" in having your MMO boxed in store, especially if you're targeting the WOW crowd.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #467 on:** February 21, 2011, 11:05:33 AM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on February 20, 2011, 01:02:24 AM

Bought the Digital CE edition for that dumb turtle mount.

Rift

Same.

Also got the Riftwalker achievement in TF2 to unlock my free Well-Spun Hat in Rift.

ManaByte · « **Reply #468 on:** February 22, 2011, 11:20:29 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on February 21, 2011, 11:05:33 AM

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on February 20, 2011, 01:02:24 AM
Bought the Digital CE edition for that dumb turtle mount.

Rift

Same.

Also got the Riftwalker achievement in TF2 to unlock my free Well-Spun Hat in Rift.

I cheated for that. A guy made a custom map just for the achievement, so I used that.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #469 on:** February 22, 2011, 11:41:57 AM »

Wait how do you do that

ManaByte · « **Reply #470 on:** February 22, 2011, 12:06:24 PM »

Read the description on that video for the link to the map.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #471 on:** February 22, 2011, 12:11:26 PM »

totally forgot about the hat, thanks mb

what server you guys rolling on? I think Goon Squad is going on briarthorn so that will be mine

ManaByte · « **Reply #472 on:** February 22, 2011, 12:12:53 PM »

Sticking with Faeblight. If they change the name of Faeblight, the community is just taking the first alphabetical PVE-RP server on the list.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #473 on:** February 22, 2011, 01:54:18 PM »

think I fucked it up. I cheated for the achievement but disconnected out of server instead of dieing so I never got the item

ManaByte · « **Reply #474 on:** February 22, 2011, 02:49:44 PM »

You're an idiot. Once you get the achievement the item goes in your notifications and then you grab the code and assign it to your Trion account.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #475 on:** February 22, 2011, 02:50:20 PM »

methodis

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #476 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:26:46 PM »

it's a known bug it's not a troll

ManaByte · « **Reply #477 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:30:28 PM »

It's not a bug. It's you not even playing TF2 and not even actually playing Rift.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #478 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:58:05 PM »

fine you got me, i'm a troll i'm so sorry as to intrude on your perfect video game life to make discussion on this dead forum

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #479 on:** February 22, 2011, 04:59:16 PM »

also

http://steamcommunity.com/id/bostoncollegefan/stats/TF2?tab=achievements

http://steamcommunity.com/id/bostoncollegefan/games

manabyte

its not a troll, i dont ahve my fuckign item

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