Author Topic: Official MMO News And Information Thread of Etoilet Jacking Off Over Shitty GW2 (Read 209841 times)

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #900 on:** August 22, 2012, 11:12:15 PM »

But remember guys, etoilet isn't here to evangelize GW2.

ManaByte · « **Reply #901 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:06:05 AM »

Turbine testing a native OSX client for LOTRO with the new expansion:
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?412407-Lotro-mac-client/page4

WoW, D3, EVE, LOTRO, then Elder Scrolls. Macs will have the only MMOs that matter. Flush Win8 down the toilet!

etiolate · « **Reply #902 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:07:30 AM »

People got bored of the MoP beta too.

I agree that I think they should let more people try the game, but it's not a big loss that they didn't. Maybe if ANet was a bigger company they could have had a team just monitoring and running support for a week long beta, but if the choice was either sacrifice work on the game or have a longer open beta, I'd rather sacrifice the beta.

I don't think ANet is worried. They seem rather pleased with their pre-purchase numbers. The game can also grow in numbers post-launch. If they get 2-3 million in their first three months then that's huge.

edit: jesus wtf ANet

they just announced a stress test 20 minutes ago... that would start..10 minutes ago. Now I'm downloading 4,500 files. They're trolling us now.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #903 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:34:52 AM »

I'm guessing they'll be tracking active players, since there are no subscriptions?

etiolate · « **Reply #904 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:44:49 AM »

The game is designed to be profitable based on box sales and some microtransactions. I am not sure if they will track active players or how they will mark active. Blizz does some weird qualifications to make up their Asian subs. Is active logging in once a month? That's pretty easy to retain with no sub fee. Is active logging in weekly? I think they'll just talk about box sales, money from the gemstore, and hours played.

ManaByte · « **Reply #905 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:07:21 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on August 23, 2012, 12:44:49 AM

The game is designed to be profitable based on box sales and some microtransactions. I am not sure if they will track active players or how they will mark active. Blizz does some weird qualifications to make up their Asian subs. Is active logging in once a month? That's pretty easy to retain with no sub fee. Is active logging in weekly? I think they'll just talk about box sales, money from the gemstore, and hours played.

Weird qualifications? Is that the official ArenaNet spin now?

BlackMage · « **Reply #906 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:17:24 AM »

Quote from: ManaByte on August 23, 2012, 12:06:05 AM

Turbine testing a native OSX client for LOTRO with the new expansion:
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?412407-Lotro-mac-client/page4

WoW, D3, EVE, LOTRO, then Elder Scrolls. Macs will have the only MMOs that matter. Flush Win8 down the toilet!

Lotro is such an underrated MMO.

etiolate · « **Reply #907 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:32:38 AM »

Turbine pushed back the exp for LOTRO another month to refine it some more. Curious how the mounted combat plays.

ManaByte · « **Reply #908 on:** August 23, 2012, 08:08:34 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on August 23, 2012, 01:32:38 AM

Turbine pushed back the exp for LOTRO another month to refine it some more. Curious how the mounted combat plays.

Actually the delay is apparently to finish up the Mac client according to people in the beta who can talk now that the NDA dropped. But if alluding to it being crap makes GW2 viral marketers feel better, so be it.

etiolate · « **Reply #909 on:** August 23, 2012, 11:11:36 AM »

Or it's what they said in their own press release

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We've had a very successful Beta program with some of the largest and most active beta player populations we've seen since Moria. The amount and quality of feedback on our largest expansion ever has been fantastic.

Thanks to some great efforts from beta players, we've identified issues that we think need to be addressed before we can launch. In order to address those issues and meet our expectations for quality we're going to need more time. As a result, we've elected to delay our launch to October 15th.

keep fucking that chicken manabyte

ManaByte · « **Reply #910 on:** August 23, 2012, 11:41:37 PM »

WoW mobile guild chat and AH access is now free on the Armory app.

ManaByte · « **Reply #911 on:** September 04, 2012, 09:49:19 AM »

Stupid uninformed cunt writes for a site covering a game that runs on Macs:
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/02/macs-heat-and-wow-how-to-fix-and-prevent-heat-issues-in-5-0-4/

The dumb bitch then continued her Mac and Mac owner bashing on Twitter.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #912 on:** September 05, 2012, 07:16:17 AM »

Tera is already shutting down.

From 11 to 3 servers.

Fucking mmo's model is now to launch, cash-in for a few months, then shut down.

I think companies should make mmo's with the mindset that no one will play them within a year/6 months and make a game thats fun for a year and thats it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #913 on:** September 05, 2012, 09:22:50 AM »

I think companies should just stop making MMOs.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #914 on:** September 05, 2012, 09:28:35 AM »

There's always a market of people with too much time so that won't happen.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #915 on:** September 05, 2012, 05:52:50 PM »

Its a bit overwhelming with new shit coming back

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #916 on:** September 05, 2012, 06:45:21 PM »

ruzbeh's trolling has gone full circle

I know I'm gonna buy MoP regardless

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #917 on:** September 05, 2012, 06:53:25 PM »

TROLLCEPTION

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #918 on:** September 05, 2012, 07:45:45 PM »

wow

Why create a human character lol, everyone has done those areas a billion times

etiolate · « **Reply #919 on:** September 05, 2012, 08:20:54 PM »

Ruzbeh is the worst everything.

City of Heroes is closing down.

Ragnark says he's not worried about new MMO releases because he feels The Secret World offers something unique. Their August update got pushed to this month and they are making some changes to "Lairs", but I am not even sure what Lairs are. =/ I like the idea that their world will have changes that are permanent. Most companies don't like that concept because it makes time spent on content less productive when that content gets removed and it upsets players who bitch that they couldn't do it, but most everyone who gets freshly into WoW skips outdated content anyways.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #920 on:** September 05, 2012, 09:08:49 PM »

MMOs are dying, to no one's tears.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #921 on:** September 05, 2012, 09:19:39 PM »

I still wanted to play Terra if only for the character maker.

ManaByte · « **Reply #922 on:** September 05, 2012, 10:31:36 PM »

Quote from: Ruzbeh on September 05, 2012, 10:09:55 PM

Welp. I just saw a night elf cruise around Goldshire on a motorcycle.

Gnomes on Motorcycles are better.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #923 on:** September 06, 2012, 04:02:23 PM »

what rp-pvp realm did you choose

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #924 on:** September 06, 2012, 04:48:35 PM »

Today WoW boils down to everyone hanging around SW (or Org for horde) doing nothing. Few people que for random dungeons/raids, bank alts running around, people showing off their CE mounts...that's about it. I either fly around SW seeing how many players I recognize from "back in the day" or fly through Elwyn Forest/Westfall looking for low level players to give gold to

ManaByte · « **Reply #925 on:** September 07, 2012, 12:28:46 AM »

Roll a character on Moon Guard and go hang out in the Goldshire Inn.

etiolate · « **Reply #926 on:** September 07, 2012, 12:36:06 AM »

Yes, that's a great idea.

ManaByte · « **Reply #927 on:** September 07, 2012, 06:44:58 PM »

Moon Guard. Goldshire Inn. DO IT.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #928 on:** September 09, 2012, 06:50:13 PM »

Early quests were never particularly hard. I don't think I died until I did Deadmines the first time

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #929 on:** September 09, 2012, 07:28:02 PM »

Yeah early levels were only hard if you were new to MMO's.

Or if you were leveling as a restoration druid in vanilla wow, although in that case the correct term is SLOW.

ManaByte · « **Reply #930 on:** September 09, 2012, 11:37:59 PM »

Completed the latest Warlock tier set just for transmog because I like the shoulders and helm so much. Demo is so OP after the patch.

etiolate · « **Reply #931 on:** September 10, 2012, 01:45:05 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on September 09, 2012, 07:28:02 PM

Yeah early levels were only hard if you were new to MMO's.

Or if you were leveling as a restoration druid in vanilla wow, although in that case the correct term is SLOW.

slow, but if you equipped mixed druidy leather and went feral you could live forever

mana: why does that look like negroid lips on your warlock?

Freyj · « **Reply #932 on:** September 10, 2012, 05:36:36 PM »

Vanilla wasn't exactly difficult in comparison to the other MMOs of that time, but it was never particularly easy. Having leveled a couple of times recently on a 1x private server, dying isn't uncommon. Especially so if you aren't a healer and pull multiple mobs. Caves and what not can be frustrating as fuck to solo and unless you were leveling an alt of a well-stocked main, being in level and class appropriate gear almost never happens.

1-60 now is more or less using your main damage dealing / resource building ability twice to kill just about anything. Most elites can't really touch you. It's hard to realized just how quick and easy it is without retreading Vanilla.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #933 on:** September 10, 2012, 07:05:51 PM »

Early dungeons are definitely easier than they used to be. Especially Gnomer

etiolate · « **Reply #934 on:** September 10, 2012, 10:18:49 PM »

Your autism is epic.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #935 on:** September 11, 2012, 10:46:29 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #936 on:** September 11, 2012, 11:21:30 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #937 on:** September 12, 2012, 12:12:05 AM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #938 on:** September 12, 2012, 02:18:55 PM »

etiolate · « **Reply #939 on:** September 14, 2012, 03:07:27 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #940 on:** September 15, 2012, 09:40:23 PM »

Quote from: Ruzbeh on September 13, 2012, 07:47:58 PM

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit.

The Zar'jira thing is pretty much the worst thing I've experienced in MMOs. Worse than anything in Guild Wars 2.

Basically, I'm just standing there while a few NPCs go at this level ?? naga slut while I get to deal with the ocassional spirit. This went on for like... 5 minutes?

And of course that Zuni motherfucker dies in the end. I COULDN'T HAVE SEEN THAT COMING AT ALL. GEE I WONDER WHY THEY MADE HIM FOLLOW ME SINCE LEVEL 1.

Unbelievable.

UNBE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #941 on:** September 16, 2012, 12:22:36 AM »

Quote from: Ruzbeh on September 14, 2012, 08:25:31 AM

One big difference between WoW and GW2 is the writing. The writing in GW2 is almost embarrassing, but in WoW it ranges from good to incredible. Some quests are written beautifully, it's kind of sick actually. Motherfuckers clearly know their English.

"These grumpkins are driving me insane! You there, can you help me protect my farm? Collect the bones of grumpkins and plant them around my farm as a warning to other potential attackers, plz"

Ruzbeh: Worthy of Twain!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #942 on:** September 22, 2012, 01:06:28 AM »

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #943 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:41:13 AM »

Thing is all those skill made sense in vanilla cause you had to use more of them to level up, now that the game is easy you don't need them while leveling.

ManaByte · « **Reply #944 on:** September 22, 2012, 03:54:03 PM »

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #945 on:** September 22, 2012, 10:22:52 PM »

Watching that trailer makes me kind of want to get back into WoW, but I'll be so behind. Haven't played since BC.

Freyj · « **Reply #946 on:** September 22, 2012, 11:32:08 PM »

Still seeing some vehicle / environment non-gameplay bullshit. Wish they'd kill that already.

Troll / Undead Monk animations look absurd as expected.

I don't really understand what they're getting at with the quotes before and after. "So what new is Blizzard doing with Mists?" "ALL KINDS OF NEW SHIT. CHECK IT: Zones, Dungeons, Raids, Battlegrounds, new Race/Class. YEAH HOW ABOUT THAT SHIT." So, you're doing the same content you've always done, but the point is that it won't be shitty this time?

Focus on Pet Battles, Scenarios, etc. if that's the purpose of the video.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #947 on:** September 23, 2012, 12:02:40 AM »

I won't deny it's the same shit with some visual changes; sort of like building a new floor on top of a burning building. But I heard yesterday a few of my friends from the old days are coming back...so I'm definitely coming back.

I like the new dungeons, raids, new abilities, and I'm REALLY hyped for challenge modes. I'm too committed to this abusive relationship to quit :'(

ManaByte · « **Reply #948 on:** September 23, 2012, 12:43:35 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 23, 2012, 12:02:40 AM

I won't deny it's the same shit with some visual changes; sort of like building a new floor on top of a burning building. But I heard yesterday a few of my friends from the old days are coming back...so I'm definitely coming back.

I like the new dungeons, raids, new abilities, and I'm REALLY hyped for challenge modes. I'm too committed to this abusive relationship to quit :'(

Exactly why I'm not leveling a Monk for a while. I want to hit 90 for challenge modes ASAP.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #949 on:** September 23, 2012, 01:13:24 AM »

Yup that's something I've wanted for awhile, as I've said before. WE used to always do our own challenge runs by timing ourselves in HoS, HoL, etc. A few of us used to piss our guild leader off by doing them 20-30 minutes before raid times haha, although we always finished on time for the raid.

ManaByte · « **Reply #950 on:** September 23, 2012, 06:17:20 PM »

Well I have full Heirlooms ready for my Monk for when I do start leveling it. Just bought the new Heirloom AGI/STR staff. Once my guild gets 600 points in each crafting skill, I'll buy the pants. Should get him to 90 pretty quick then. Definitely going Brewmaster.

ManaByte · « **Reply #951 on:** September 24, 2012, 10:36:09 PM »

Well it's a good thing all the other races are getting new character models as detailed as the Pandas.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #952 on:** September 24, 2012, 10:51:29 PM »

ruzbeh can't win

watched some EU streams. I don't see the point in rushing to lv90. Take your time bros

etiolate · « **Reply #953 on:** September 25, 2012, 02:43:15 AM »

Why is there so much drama over Cross Realm Zones?

ManaByte · « **Reply #954 on:** September 25, 2012, 09:28:50 AM »

There's none in the US. But in the EU one gaffer says its because the countries hate each other. CRZ has been active since the patch.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #955 on:** September 25, 2012, 11:49:47 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on September 25, 2012, 02:43:15 AM

Why is there so much drama over Cross Realm Zones?

Bored 85s making dailies areas impossible - they've probably all moved on already now

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #956 on:** September 25, 2012, 11:52:19 AM »

Pandas will be pretty unbearable (pun!) for the next little bit, but honestly doubt they'll have a whole lot of staying power once the new character models arrive.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #957 on:** September 25, 2012, 12:20:19 PM »

This happens every time a new race is instituted. New players flock to it, old players try it out...and in a few months everything is back to normal. I tend to wait until the hype has died down before trying the new races, although to be fair I never made a DK or Worgen lol; only tried Draeni

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #958 on:** September 26, 2012, 01:43:19 AM »

alliance got our realm first lv90 at 1:40 EST lol

Had some fun leveling a bit. The alliance story is kind of lol worthy tho

etiolate · « **Reply #959 on:** September 26, 2012, 02:39:58 AM »

Quote

In what is most certainly a coincidence, Trion Worlds has announced a special promotion today to support pandas with the help of players who purchase a certain expansion. No, not that expansion.

Starting tomorrow, every copy of RIFT: Storm Legion pre-ordered will prompt Trion to donate a buck to Pandas International. Pandas International is an organization devoted to saving the Giant Panda, who probably would not need saving if they were martial arts monks (just saying). The pre-order has to take place through the game's website, and it ends after October 3rd.

News:

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