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o check other servers at least there are fewer servers now except that my lotro main appears to have been from a server vilya i think that closed several years ago supposedly these characters are saved in a transfer queue somewhere but they took down the transfer queue 2 weeks ago due to server issues with no eta for the feature s return it was way harder than it should be to find this info and the net result is that i don t have a character at the moment hopefully not forever but who knows the free stuff they gave out for the promotion consists of a coupon code which i entered and the system says it accepted i already owned significant portions of this content and there doesn t seem to be an easy way to view what i own and what i don t nor do i know if viewing it on a level 1 character due to the aforementioned missing server issue impacts what i can see a number of other old mid level expansions were also available discounted to a nominal price i apparently had over 5000 turbine points when last i played lotro and definitely already purchased some of the expansions so it appeared there was only one i needed helm s deep which was indeed after i stopped playing again i could find no way to see the full list of what exists versus what i own i don t quite get the point of the nominal fee for some of these unlocks if you ve ever paid it was trivial and i think you can even earn this much currency in a relatively short period of time as a free player on the off chance that you on boarded an actual new player why would you want to have them hit a wall if they for whatever reason used the promo code but couldn t find the expansion sales or didn t get the points in time ddo as noted everything i wrote above was equally true for ddo except that my primary server cannith still exists so i did eventually manage to find my character again coupon code appeared to work there were two expansions that i know i didn t own for nominal prices and i can only assume i now own all the things since there is no more quest content listed in the shop technically this is dungeons and dragons fault and not turbine s but i had a thoroughly customized munchkin character build and i have very little idea how to get it up and running again if it would still be functional how i would continue from this point etc all of the enhancements were redone into a skill tree format with several trees per class and also a number of trees that appear to be available to everyone all mmo s have some challenges helping people who have been gone for years relearn their character ddo just has the quirk that who knows if the character actually functions if i remember correctly and from what i can figure out from the character sheet i started with a level of rogue to grab some of their unique skills this was common advice at the time and then went for a specific ranger monk build that allows the use of two longswords as light path self healing monk weapons more odd rules surrounded progression my character was due to gain a new level but you were better off not advancing until you were forced to in order to not miss out on exp because advancing greys out potential experience from missions thus i now face a somewhat significant and not readily reversible choice almost immediately also i played this before there were epic levels and i m not sure if i should be gunning for those if they re balanced so i would need to do reincarnations in the heroic levels first etc all this may be moot because who knows if i m ever going to try to play either of these games i guess this is just another variation of how you can t come home again posted by green armadillo at 1 12 pm 1 comments labels ddo lotro thursday august 20 2020 pokemon go still awkward if you don t live on top of pokestops i am currently revisiting pokemon go which i played briefly during its period of launch hype in 2016 playing the game in suburbia during a pandemic is in some ways more awkward than playing it from the middle of nowhere back at launch i recently showed my kids the random jurassic world ar feature that google offers and it occurred to me that there is an app that can do this same trick with pokemon the catch being that i would first need to actually catch the pokemon in question my account had a starter pikachu a vaporeon that i was fortunate enough to catch on a park outing sometime and a bunch of random pidgey s rattata caterpies and similar low level filler the gameplay loop remains weird if you are trying to play without multiple pokestops gyms in walking distance the most common pokestops in my neighborhood are at churches that are temporarily shuttered due to coronavirus which feel like a disrespectful place to be hanging out in the parking lot if you don t even go to that church the local parks are too crowded to feel safe in right now so my best route is driving between the local post office and subway and hoping that none of the employees think i m stalking them if you re just passing through you can tag each pokestop once for maybe a few pokeballs not necessarily enough to catch a single pokemon if you hang out at a pokestop your inventory fills up with potions and gifts while you continue to find monsters to throw balls at as fast as you loot them if you try to buy more balls with real money that fails because your inventory is full of potions and gifts so you need to trash them and or buy more inventory slots first alternately if you went into lockdown with a well built roster but no access to pokestops you will run out of the potions i am trashing and may be yelling at your screen as you read this i suppose you have to exactly balance the amount of pve pvp and pokestop visits you do to keep your supplies coming in at exactly the rate you are using them also regular balls most of what i m getting from stops also the only ones you can buy for real money are reasonably likely to catch low combat power loosely levels pokemon who you won t be able to advance unless you are able to catch large numbers of duplicates to obtain candy to use to level them my vaporeon 1600 cp is doing okay since basic eevee s are pretty common but my 16 cp pikachu isn t going anywhere unless i start winning raids for rare candy or more likely catch a new one and send my current one to the professor for his unspecified experiments the good news is that i ve hunted down charmander bulbasaur and vulpix so i m getting close to having the kids favorites for ar photos this game is obviously for a very specific target audience who either live in or spend a lot of time walking through high density areas all else equal i d rather be spending my time on a game that actually works where i live posted by green armadillo at 10 40 pm 4 comments labels business models pokemon pvd friday august 7 2020 spider man versus the x cloud sony no doubt hoped that bringing spider man exclusively to playstation in the upcoming third party game marvel s avengers would encourage players to order the game on its platform and transition to the next generation ps5 for me personally the move is more likely to make me pass on the game this holiday season and may ironically push me towards the xbox for the next console cycle previously on console wars when televisions capable of displaying 4k hdr video came out midway through the current console generation i chose to pick up an xbox one x rather than upgrading my existing ps4 to a ps4 pro the two consoles cost similar amounts and both would play third party games at the improved resolution so it was a trade off between upgrading the graphics on a handful of remaining ps4 exclusive games which i could still play on my ps4 versus having access to the xbox ecosystem i doubt i m the only longtime playstation owner ps s 1 4 who picked up his first xbox for this reason in the last year or two given that a large portion of the games i play are from marvel the exclusive we don t yet know if it is temporary or permanent offers an unpleasant choice by playing on my ps4 i would be downgrading the graphics and presumably performance of the entire rest of the game by playing on the xbox i would miss one of marvel s most iconic characters at a time when my kids are someday post pandemic old enough that they might learn from friends at school that he is playable on the other platform additionally as a polygon commentary notes today each avenger appears to function as a character class so missing one could be a reasonably big deal in an action rpg if it is indeed any good it is fair to note parenthetically that popular opinion presumes sony is the villain of this story locking out xbox and pc players with sacks of cash but marvel licensing can also be a complicated creature it was rumored that scarlet witch was out of the question for disney infinity in 2015 because the hypothetical toys to life figure would fall afoul of whatever understanding existed between disney and fox concerning the character being part of both the x men and avengers universes one can imagine a scenario in which square and crystal dynamics weren t willing to pay disney more to add spider man to their avengers game but sony felt it was worth their while if he could be platform exclusive life moves towards the x cloud meanwhile microsoft s ecosystem is moving in the opposite direction sony offers the chance to buy first party exclusive titles that will contend for game of the year awards with microsoft s game pass subscription you never need to buy another first party title again and even relatively high profile third party games come to the subscription within the first year of launch notably for this conversation including square disney crossover kingdom hearts iii for people who can muster the bandwidth i eye my verizon box with suspicion since it seem significantly more flakey than the one i had when i lived in a more densely populated area a few years ago the claim is that you ll even be able to play all these titles via streaming on any android device not apple but that s another tangent if this hadn t happened i would almost certainly have paid full msrp for an xbox copy of avengers now i m in wait and see mode and from experience i can say that once you ve skipped the launch hype it gets easier with each passing month to wait for more information as the price only goes down more to the point i don t make purchasing decisions on xbox recent aaa games simply appear at no additional out of pocket cost to me and no harm if i decide to spend an hour of my time on something that i promptly uninstall i m not boycotting anything if the ps4 version makes more sense when full reviews are in and there is better detail about spidey s role then so be it i m just saying i m at a point in life where my response to the hard exclusive sell is less that i have to have it and more that the other guys are more pleasant to do business with posted by green armadillo at 10 43 pm 0 comments labels business models console wars friday july 24 2020 intermittent ffxiv players better off starting over on expanded free trial ffxiv apparently has so little need of intermittent revenue from low level infrequent players that it is willing to allow permanent free access to its first sixty levels including its entire launch game and first expansion changing the trial so that someone who has the time to binge the game is able to play for a month straight could convince that player to stick around a telling side effect of the change is that i am apparently such a small fish that they don t care if i ever pay them again in 2013 i played 2 months of ffxiv on both pc and ps3 using the game s crossplay i tried a number of the game s jobs ultimately leveling a character named johari jeutremie to 27 as an arcanist and i always meant to go back someday the game is about to launch a patch that overhauls the level 1 50 main story quest i never completed and will allow new players as much game time as they would like without paying there may never be a better time to revisit the game unfortunately johari is not invited upgrading a trial account to a paid account is a permanent one way process that forever cuts off access to the free trial even if you are nowhere near the trial s level cap i can afford the subscription fee but i would inevitably play once and cancel 65 days later having been billed twice more without having logged in again i would be paying to get less access to the game than i would as a free player able to come back for a day every few months if i want when i am unlikely to finish the story and first expansion s level cap in the foreseeable future even if i did someday hit the trial s level cap it could rise again in the future i would be locked out all over again if i paid the only sensible choice is for me to start over and never pay again i don t love free loading but it isn t personal a single player who becomes a year round subscriber is worth more than a dozen tourists like myself and my hypothetical 13 isn t worth risking making it easier for current subscribers not to pay year round posted by green armadillo at 3 46 pm 7 comments labels business models ff online my characters pvd thursday august 13 2015 gamescom 2015 toys to life report i spend most of my gaming time these days on toys to life franchises which i am slowly introducing to my 2 year old daughter as a way to populate her dollhouse with dragons and superheroes in addition to the usual princesses and clothed animals my primary goal during my trip to gamescom was to focus on both the upcoming games and any good opportunities to collect more stuff various observations lego dimensions which won the award for best family game was out in force with a full booth and additional playable demo stations in the family gaming lounge they had the dr who and portal figures and periodic panels at the booth mostly in german but there was a dev from the us who did a walkthrough of the wizard of oz level in english people who like the game praise it for being just like the current lego games i see the glass half empty in that i saw nothing about the actual gameplay to justify why basically the same game needs to cost 5 10 times more there was a modest disney infinity 3 0 area with around 10 demo stations inside the sony portion of the show floor they had all the announced 3 0 figures in display cases and playable demos for twilight of the republic rise against the empire exactly one demo station had the boba fett figure and inside out you could generally walk up and get a controller with little to no wait time oddly they went out of their way to prevent you from playing the disney originals characters there were toy box demo stations with a marvel figure and a disney figure on the portal but there was only one controller and the portal was inside a glass case unlike the star wars and inside out demos where you could switch figures not sure what the reasoning for this was we ve 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