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nd one pvp server each prior to the merge if you logged in you could get a boost of 20 character slots to cover your stable of toons across the servers but naturally i was unaware of that so i lost three toons two of which were only l1 so it s not too bad so all of those tera is doing fine much better than insert mmo here comments i ve seen on other mmos make me wonder whether that was just wishful thinking or whether tera isn t even close to as popular as the mmo community thought it was from my perspective it seems that the mmo shakedown that began with marvel heroes shutdown is continuing and even gathering a bit of steam does that mean the mmo is becoming a genre of one wow with a couple of hangers on no but i also believe that the mmo genre is retreating to a much smaller footprint in much the same way that a fad comes and goes mobas are the new hotness and in about 5 6 years they ll fade from view as well to be replaced by something else i don t think tera is on life support but it definitely isn t doing as well as it could be posted by redbeard at 12 28 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news tera wednesday may 30 2018 the clothes make the man several years ago mini red 2 was given a book on how to draw superheroes by stan lee as a christmas present by one of his sisters as far as art books go it s not that detailed about the mechanics of drawing but it provides a short background into where superhero stories came from and the basics about creating a superhero and the surrounding cast kudos to stan and the ghost writers for putting this promo shot of errol flynn and olivia de havilland from the adventures of robin hood in the book from pinterest i don t have much in the way of artistic talent but i still found the design and technique fascinating to read what also caught my attention was that in his own grumpy old man way stan was trying to make comics more inclusive part of the design for superheroes is that they look like more idealized versions of ourselves not us personally but people in general they look fitter more muscular more attractive more everything compared to most people not named david beckham while stan pays lip service to all sorts of body types for superheroes giving a nod to the obscure great lakes avenger big bertha he does focus on the fit and muscular for his examples of superheroes allies and villains big bertha deadpool and squirrel girl really from backissuebin wordpress com while perusing the book i kept thinking of how players are portrayed in mmos and how much they fit the specific ideal for superheroes now where have i seen this before from the nerdist oh yes from here from mmo champion or here considering the extremes of the male human in wow and tera as a muscular bodybuilder and the numerous examples of female elves humans etc it seems that the superhero standard is the mmo standard for body image when you come across the chunky male body image in swtor the hobbit images in lotro the female dwarf in wow it comes across as a breath of fresh air in the cookie cutter environment but what i find interesting is that even the non muscular male standard found in mmos such as the male blood elf in wow and the male elf in tera also reference another comic standard the japanese manga standard instead i believe the term i m looking for is bishonen from anime news network and for comparison my old wow main quintalan without all the pally armor so in a way the comic standard has become the mmo standard what does this mean to mmo designs not too much because game artists designers were obviously influenced by the comics they read both as kids and adults and really the oversexed outfits found in mmo designs are found in comics pro wrestling rpg books and anime to just name a few and video game design has a long history of oversexed characters so there s that tide that you swim against as well long before there was lara croft there was leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards and yes for the record i did play the first leisure suit larry while i was in college from the wikia but on the flip side denying characters any sort of sex appeal in the name of fairness or reality also seems like a waste of time because people are sexual beings and divorcing ourselves from this reality is making a mistake where would bioware be without romance in their rpgs well they do have plenty of good story in their games but story is only one of their pillars the other two are gameplay and romance from powerupgaming co uk i think the best way of approaching character design and creation is to acknowledge and work on several things people will want to play characters with all types of physical options and enable those options this is not a difficult thing to create as we see various body styles in swtor and other mmos just because you prefer to look at one style doesn t mean that others will too people will congregate in an mmo for funny business it s a collection of people for pete s sake and that means that a goldshire is going to inevitably appear yep that s the goldshire inn from imgur people will go clubbing or will go off to fool around and want their characters to dress the part at the same time don t go out of your way to provide only clothing gear options for the goldshire set but allow for more practical clothing gear design in this respect neverwinter has great practical gear designs that actually look like you d take into a dungeon even with wow you can use underclothing to make some of the more eyebrow raising designs look somewhat more practical and swtor does a lot of good work in this regard creating some practical and stylish designs while allowing the don t i look hot set to wear cosmetic clothing more suited to jabba s throne room have the npcs actually look the part wearing clothing you d expect them to wear rather than some hot and sexy little number that you d expect in a brothel unless you re in a brothel of course this is where gw2 still bugs me the most because most villagers wouldn t be wearing their best outfits while working in a bakery or bringing in farm goods to market having your villagers change clothing depending on the situation whether for a dance or working out in the fields makes far more sense than anything else if origin systems with their ultima v game could figure out how to handle npcs working vs not working back in the 80s surely mmos can figure this out an ultima v my old friend from lparchive finally clothes outfits are also a measure of social status if your toon is wearing crappy looking gear or clothes npcs should react to that sure that means having npcs who are quite shallow but clothing does engender reactions even among supposedly advanced and mature people today what i found most interesting about the book stan lee s how to draw superheroes is that it s published not by marvel but by dynamite another comic book publisher stan and the ghost writers actually did a good job of spreading around lots of different examples of superhero design covering dc marvel dynamite naturally and even zenescope or the rock or serena williams or any one of a number of incredibly attractive and physically fit people it s a pretty rare mmo or any video game at all these days where you find a woman not sporting a pretty decently sized chest even swtor which gives female body shapes ranging from muscular and large to curvy to short to a medium normal type has the c cup minimum chest size for female toons and while a c cup is being polite about it there are plenty of mmos where chest size goes up from there such as age of conan tera black desert online and others aion is one of the few mmos out there that acknowledge that women with smaller chest sizes actually exist do i really need to post examples there s plenty of them out there from sue storm s cut out fantastic four uniform to power girl s boob window to just about the entire zenescope lineup as an aside i really have mixed emotions about zenescope they ve gone full into the 90s era comics oversexed female design but at the same time their stories are well written with strong female as well as male characters i sometimes got the feeling that zenescope designed their characters to get their foot in the door with the comic community but i also truly feel that their 90 s era over the top designs and promos aren t needed as the stories stand well on their own this is also how i feel about the video game bayonetta but that s a topic for another post my most recent swtor character a male trooper using the heavyset body design has gotten more comments by far by other players than any of my other characters just goes to show what stands out to other people posted by redbeard at 8 03 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bayonetta comic musings neverwinter swtor tera wow wednesday december 20 2017 you don t know what you ve got till it s gone don t know what you got till it s gone don t know what it is i did so wrong now i know what i got it s just this song and it ain t easy to get back takes so long cinderella don t know what you ve got till it s gone in the eight years since we ve started pc i ve watched the mmo market change quite a bit sure some things never change wow being the 500 lb gorilla of the mmo genre the chief among them but the mmo genre as a whole has changed quite a bit looking back i can say say with a high degree of certainty that i entered at the high point of the mmo genre wow was at the height of its popularity other mmos were doing well for themselves and there were new mmos on the horizon in rift swtor and gw2 dota 2 wasn t released for a few years and mobas in general hadn t exploded in popularity of course it wasn t exactly a true golden age there was the disaster of age of conan s release and the bait and switch promise from the tortage into zone into a standard grindy mmo there were also the bugs lots of bugs and the perception that a fairly significant number of people were there for the nudity speaking of train wrecks there was also the warhammer online mmo which didn t last long and was mercifully shut down shortly thereafter perhaps aoc and warhammer were a harbinger of things to come where some of the mmo population was looking for the next big thing that would displace wow at the top and whatever they found never measured up in light of all of the changes in the mmo genre over the past 8 years i ve put together a few awards the how is this mmo still running award age of conan over 9 years old and reduced to just two servers this mmo is still active and has a few players i occasionally run into one or two out in the wild i ve speculated that if aoc shuts down that funcom loses the conan license and given that funcom has devoted all of their conan resources to conan exiles there may be some truth to that the it keeps the mathematicians busy award every wow update while theorycrafting is its own cottage industry in mmos and mobas it seems that every wow update no matter how small is overanalyzed to determine optimal rotation and class emphasis the latest hotness in bgs and arenas can change with one little tweak to a cooldown and raids can live or die based on healing changes wow s size has an impact on the amount of heat generated by the theorycrafter set which is why i chose wow over other mmos the wednesdays at the pub award lotro s band concerts when the mini reds were a few years younger fridays at 5 pm were required online time for lotro a band on the gladden server would play every friday at 5 pm est by the western entrance to bree the devotion the mini reds displayed to these regular concerts is not surprising to me as i ve seen regular crowds around toons playing music throughout lotro this is part of why lotro is still an active mmo and gets full marks for immersion i still wonder how those hobbits all got in sync the wrath of the fanboys award rift when rift went f2p trion said they were going to do it right and not be slaves to a cash store of course by the time i got back to checking rift out the cash store was present and heavily hyped which pissed off the long time players to no end that and several other moves by trion to keep the game afloat has generated even more dislike by the fanbase than the random this game sux 1 comments you still see from swtor ex players who were salty about the lack of wow style endgame on launch the i need a shower afterward award tera online while a strong argument could be made for age of conan and it s nudity tera gets the nod for this award because of the elin every time i login to tera just play out in the field for a while because the gameplay is very good lack of coherent plot or writing notwithstanding after about 10 15 minutes an elin toon wanders by and reminds me why i find the elin so disturbing the taking physics a bit too far award archeage the more i watch the female toon animations in archeage the more i m convinced that the developer staff kind of missed the point with breast physics the amount of effort put into breast physics in archeage and other korean mmos shows that the dev staff likely spent a lot of time conducting research because breasts especially larger sizes do move like how they designed it in game but here s the kicker that movement is for only some types of breasts and they have to be bare or skintight covered breasts not breasts covered in more normal fitting clothes or armor giving breasts covered by armor or even hidden by normal clothing the same movement characteristics of bare breasts simply makes the breast physics in archeage look well weird at times and far more obvious the will they ever learn award wildstar the entire modus operandi behind wildstar was that they were going to take the vanilla wow experience and crank it up to eleven the thing is the vanilla wow experience was fine enough as it was without trying to outdo it wildstar was in effect doubling down on the belief that the harder and more grindy the goal the better and that didn t exactly go over quite so well for carbine wildstar is still alive and kicking still putting out new content at least but i m not totally convinced that carbine learned their lesson they may look at blizzard s decision to create vanilla wow servers as a challenge rather than the correction they so desperately needed to their design philosophy some of their ideas were fine but others were a bit too much yeah whatever gave me the idea that they overdo it in wildstar from geek com the pride goeth before a fall award world of warcraft cataclysm cataclysm was a complete reboot of the original two continents of azeroth the old world sure there were five new zones but the revamp of the old world brought back a ton of old subs and pushed wow s subscriber base to new heights looking back nobody saw that those few months of returning subs were the high 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