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ll have new info to entertain yourself with while i revise posted by green armadillo at 1 27 pm 0 comments labels housekeeping quality of service thursday july 17 2008 internet connection required to play program note my move went great but the internet has been out at my new apartment for four days and counting comcast has no idea what the problem is has to be reminded each time we call them that there is a general outage in our area though they keep trying to send us more technicians in case the first technician missed something specific to our building no idea when i ll get to blog or play again out of sheer morbid curiosity does anyone have experience gaming on a dsl internet connection i know it ll make patch day suck but there are no other cable companies in our area and slow internet might actually be an improvement over no internet updates as they happen posted by green armadillo at 8 02 pm 2 comments labels housekeeping quality of service saturday july 12 2008 call back in six to nine months i previously posted that mmorpg launches have been sufficiently hit or miss that it may make more sense to wait a solid six months for the devs to fix the bugs and patching in whatever else they didn t do before the end of beta well there have been two breaking stories on that front this weekend hellgate mmowned first of all scott jennings linked a writeup on what appears to be the endgame of the hellgate london debacle once upon a time many of us expected the world of the game but it was in such horrible shape at launch that the nda on the beta was left in place until nearly launch day after all pre order customers were already admitted to the beta which is pretty silly when you consider that pre orders represent a large chunk of the people who will buy or not buy in my case the game a week later this whole thing was so bad that it made a list of worst pc game launches ever and the folks i know who bought it were back in wow a few weeks later the breaking news here is that the failure appears to have been catastrophic enough to sink the studio voodoo extreme reports that the korean financiers publishers have taken over the game if i understand things correctly flagship put the actual games themselves up as collateral for loans they now are not able to pay back and the two main creditors have decided to cut out the middle man and try and see if they can recoup their losses if this is how it ends it s a sad end to a sad story warhammer now with 17 66 less warhammer on the same day mythic delivered some serious bad news to the warhammer online community the whole premise of the game is that three realms men dwarves and good elves are fighting three other realms evil men orcs goblins evil elves every action players take in the game is supposed to help their side progress towards ultimately invading and destroying the enemy city only problem is four of the six cities aren t even really started yet they re apparently so far behind schedule that months out from their hypothetical fall release date they decided to give up altogether and launch with only two of the capitols in place effectively reducing a three front war to a single front war with skirmishes on either side that fail to lead anywhere to add insult to injury they also bumped four of the game s 24 announced classes including two of the six tanking classes cause there are so many willing tanks in mmorpg s to begin with that this change won t have any dire effects on the community even the game s staunchest advocates are taking the weekend to process what has just happened i think that s the right call no one can know what the final game is going to look like after these changes i think mythic saw what happened to hellgate and age of conan and decided that they d be better off trying to fix what they could instead of launching with a complete but mediocre game the issue now is one of confidence what else are they hiding behind that pesky nda what else might be placed on the chopping block when crunch time hits how many features can be unfinished before mmorpg players won t tolerate being asked to pay full price for less then a full game i d argue that this puts a lot of pressure on mythic to get their game ready enough to drop the nda as long as that wall of silence looms people are going to fear that there s another hellgate hiding behind it the bottom line is here we have one heavily touted game dead in the water seven months after its launch i ve previously commented that lotro took an entire year to get their 1 50 leveling content finished and now the biggest mmorpg left on the horizon sounds like it s going to have more than six months worth of postponed development work after it launches remember once they go live they re going to have to maintain the content that s released in addition to working on the stuff they didn t finish at this rate we re going to need to start waiting 9 12 months rather than a mere six to see what things are going to look like when the dust settles posted by green armadillo at 6 15 pm 2 comments labels quality of service warhammer friday july 11 2008 packing up i m getting ready to move this weekend not the blog or my hearthstone etc but actually packing up my physical stuff getting in a truck and driving across several states aside updates will probably be sparse for the weekend in some ways the process of packing is not unlike cleaning out a bank in an mmorpg there is some stuff that i m saving just in case e g heavy winter gear i probably won t need much like healing and ret gear on my prot pally there is some stuff that has purely sentimental value but would be hard or impossible to replace e g souvenirs from long ago sporting events cosmetic rewards from the latest in game holiday storage space is finite and getting more would cost more money there is stuff that i m holding onto because it is in principle worth money even though i have zero interest in spending the time effort to sell it e g an old but technically still working stereo that pile of miscellaneous crafting goods of course games aren t bound to realism in the real world i have to commute and can t jump off tall buildings because i don t feel like taking the stairs i also can t cast fireballs or fight with a sword and shield that doesn t mean that the game must follow suit i don t have a problem with games limiting your storage space more storage space can be provided as a reward later and it encourages you to clean out your bank occasionally there are two places though where i think the devs could stand to do a better job stuff you actually might need down the line and won t be able to replace if you get rid of it again hybrids like my pally suffer greatly for this he has a heal set a tank set a spell damage set and a ret set and many of these are made up of quest rewards that i actually can t get back if i have to sell them tokens marks and other currencies i don t object to marks etc on principle but wow has gotten pretty out of hand off the top of my head there are the four basic battleground marks world pvp marks in hellfire peninsula spirit shards in auchidoun three separate tokens related to halaa and a fourth reputation token elsewhere in the zone and badges of justice all of that is just the soulbound ones that are relevant to level 70 and generally you need to save up a bunch of all of the above before you can actually spend them there are additional currencies and tokens that you can at least mail to a bank alt because they aren t soulbound apparently this game has so many pseudo currencies that it needs to have a coin purse to go along with the keyring my fury warrior is wrapping up in felwood and he s got a total of five soulbound inventory slots devoted to plant salves the beacon the salves and hunting skinning mining tokens to turn in for salves that said these are quick to gather and easy to spend i e the rewards don t cost 20 30 or 100 salves so i ll spend what i can and destroy the rest it could be worse cough argent dawn cough but it could also be a lot better i m just saying this is one of those places where the game could stand to look a bit less like real life posted by green armadillo at 7 01 pm 0 comments labels pvd wow thursday july 10 2008 calling technical support massively just posted an interview with cheyenne mountain entertainment about the forthcoming mmorpg stargate worlds based on the tv series es for those of you who haven t watched the shows the adventuring team typically includes a scientist and someone who can interpret the local alien languages and cultures of course being a tv show with a regular weekly cast these irreplaceable technical experts are handed guns and expected to shoot enemies but i digress yes the show s premise is that the government is keeping a stargate capable of interstellar travel hidden in an air force base under cheyenne mountain and that this gate has been used to fight wars against the aliens who built the pyramids still i draw the credibility line at the point where the us air force is organizing a commando mission vital to earth s survival they for some reason refuse to send any more than four people and they pick the world expert in stargate technology and the world expert in alien languages and culture over i dunno expendable people who shoot guns for a living you d think that i would have gotten used to this aspect of the show after 14 seasons of sg 1 and atlantis anyways the mmorpg will include scientist and archaeologist as playable character classes though they supposedly will be able to play a role in firefights i d sigh but again this is consistent with the source material they re also going to be needed to deal with technical challenges the example used in the interview is a minigame to open a locked door non combat character classes aren t entirely new to mmorpg s but what happens if you re in the enemy mothership and you hit a locked door but you don t have a scientist in your party apparently you can call other players who might be back at home base or otherwise not where you are at and have them hack the door for you remotely they even get the exp for this this is an intriguing concept i won t go so far as to call it a good idea until i see it in action the practical consequence might be that everyone has a scientist alt parked in the base so that one member of the party can quick log their alt to solve the puzzles before switching back to the actual character on the mission there are also various social implications to consider will players feel that this is a service being provided where in game currency changes hands and if so who gets paid the person who gets to go through the now open door or the guy who got free exp sitting in town will scientists and archaeologists ever get groups or will min maxers prefer to bring all combat specialists secure in the knowledge that they can call in tech support later will there be drama in pug s over whose alt gets the door opening exp all of which brings me back to my initial comment intriguing in world of warcraft there isn t really any way to justify having a rogue in ironforge tell you how to pick the lock to blackrock spire over the out of character chat channel as a result there are serious limits to how many locked doors there can be in the world and all of them have to have keys that can conveniently enough be obtained by killing someone or doing something outside of the locked door how many traps there can be in the dungeon etc in a modern setting such as stargate communications with your home base would actually exist in game and you could very well take a picture of the ancient writings you need translated or hook up a laptop with a modem to the door and have someone at the base take care of that for you again technically this isn t consistent with the setting because that expert should be following you around where they could be shot and killed but these are allowances we make for games as a result stargate worlds can have puzzles anywhere they feel the puzzles would be required rather than only in places where they are sure someone present can solve them this game has a ways to go and i will be shocked if they make their supposed 2008 launch date the interview hints that they know this as well but it s interesting to hear that someone somewhere is thinking a bit outside the box posted by green armadillo at 9 14 pm 0 comments labels pvd stargate worlds tuesday july 8 2008 fast track to outland or my characters let me show you them part 5 my fury warrior dinged 53 today and i realized abruptly that i m a mere five levels away from outland how did that happen alright let me back up a step in late january some fellow george martin fans decided to re roll from the european server they d previously been on to a us server to start a new raiding guild two of them halkale and baelor have blogs of their own almost exactly five months later fire and blood the name an allusion to martin s series a song of ice and fire downed mother sharaz in the black temple a solo player on no particular schedule such as myself doesn t really have much business being in such a high powered guild fortunately they were willing to let me keep a slow leveling alt on their roster anyway in the world of westeros messages are carried by trained ravens and thus was born greenraven a tauren fury warrior with the darkest raven black skin and horns wow offers at the time my old pally who would later become uncrushable without setting foot in a tbc instance was just hitting outland and the draw of rapidly replacing all of my gear with stuff that was raid quality just over a year previously was more attractive than leveling through old world lowbie content i burned through to the mid 20 s and parked greenraven to start earning rested exp state once i d finished the uncrushable project i picked up greenraven and played him as my primary character for april and early may which left him in the low 40 s greenraven was quiet again until the previously discussed midsummer firefestival which saw him leapfrog up to his current level in basically a week the point being i ve been very surprised at how quickly the trek to outland has gone my first level 60 character took me about 7 months worth of gaming time from re roll to the final ding this time out if you exclude all the time where i either wasn t playing at all or was playing other characters i d say i m on pace to reach level 60 in three months worth of gaming time some of that is greater efficiency on my part but nowhere near enough to finish leveling in half as much time especially when you consider that i have never previously had a horde character above level 30 and that i was doing this on a server where i had no assets or such cheats to get a head start on bags gear etc blizzard has really done a good job adjusting the pacing of leveling when i finished leveling the mage to the cap both times i wasn t really ready 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