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lete with a more robust feature set more maps greater variety of random foes scaleable group options custom npc soldiers and a wider variety of rewards how long can random content last in some ways my biggest complaint about lotro has generally been that there isn t enough lotro to go around as zubon observes that crunch will be especially noticeable for the next few months as turbine chose to increase the level cap even though they would only have a single 6 man dungeon for level 65 players and a single relevant 12 man raid which the login splash screen absurdly refers to as the most challenging 12 man raid ever ready to go with skirmishes turbine appears to be hoping that players will accept randomly generated content in place of the human designed instances that turbine apparently cannot supply in any reasonable quantity will it work time will tell but the apparently popularity of this type of repeatable content in the game suggests that turbine may have put all their eggs in this particular basket because they feel that it has the best chance of being accepted by players so far so good but the expansion is young posted by green armadillo at 11 44 pm 3 comments labels business models lotro mounts my characters pvd snap judgements of age of conan s free trial age of conan isn t really anywhere on my list of games i want to play however they just rolled out an unlimited free trial valid for those that create an account and log into the game before january 1st 2010 i don t see why a game that s trying to get more players would announce and then discontinue a free trial program during the busy final weeks of the year so my guess is that it will become a permanent offer that said on the off chance that they re not bluffing i decided that an unlimited trial was worth downloading the client and spending 20 minutes in game just so i d have the option of revisiting it in the future overall it turned out about as i d expected the game s combat uses an interface where you click to swing and you hit whatever is in front of your weapon i ve never been a fan of that model in stat driven rpg s i d rather just play an fps or a 3rd person adventure game the branching dialogue trees are an interesting addition to the single player story but i could be playing dragon s age for that feature i ended my brief session with an absurd negotiation with a slaver he wanted me to kill a monster that had the key to the gate we were both trapped behind and then surrender so he could sell me into slavery given that i had a quest that demanded his death for having enslaved me in the first place my counter offer was to kill and loot him instead somehow it took another three dialogue steps to complete this conversation and get to the killing overall i don t think i ll be in any hurry to get back to this game if i ever do then again the free trial was enough to win it at least a few minutes of my limited gaming time i guess that the fact that i can now return to tortage at will technically improves the odds of my visiting the game from zero to some small but non zero number posted by green armadillo at 8 52 am 4 comments labels business models pvd tuesday december 15 2009 does the launch rush hurt atmosphere the current episode of the casual stroll to mordor podcast mentions how moria is suddenly deserted and more challenging now that players have moved on to mirkwood there are many more mobs underfoot now that there aren t players killing them ironically this is somewhat appropriate for the setting moria is not supposed to be a happy fun social place to hang out it s supposed to be overrun with goblins not hobbits i probably ran through the mines in the middle ground because i started in on the expansion 9 10 months late many players were already at max level but the place was not entirely deserted and i was even able to find a partner for a few quests even so i see a major drop off in how populated the older areas are now that people are in mirkwood or instanced skirmishes is this a situation where it is better not to have played the expansion when it was actually the most recent chunk of the game to experience a more realistic atmosphere or does the lack of company and groups for group content hurt the gameplay experience it s one of those questions that does not have an easy answer though i m just as happy to be spending time finishing moria before i brave the mirkwood masses posted by green armadillo at 8 27 am 2 comments labels lotro pvd sunday december 13 2009 lotro skirmish experiences i ve been spending a fair amount of time with lotro s new skirmish feature this weekend this may seem strange in the context of my previous complaints about repeatable content in general and in lotro in particular what about randomized scenarios that differ only in the random bosses makes them any different the best answer i can come up with at the moment is the ability to customize soldiers if you look at say running random dungeons in wow for gear you aren t really getting any fundamentally different rewards each upgrade adds an incrementally higher number onto your existing abilities by contrast lotro skirmish soldiers act very differently depending on how you have chosen to upgrade them options for a champion as a melee dps off tanking class i immediately went for the healing specialist after finishing a few skirmishes and upgrading my soldier s abilities i suddenly found myself with a powerful ally capable of keeping me alive as i waded into large packs of foes on the downside enemies do not necessarily die very quickly champions have a decent aoe rotation but i m still trying to beat down a pack of 3 5 mobs with one character s dps instead perhaps i should go with a bannerguard a soldier type that offers offensive buffs melee dps and even a minor heal over time spell alternately i might take one of the two ranged dps soldier types i don t know that i d want to use the tanking soldier for lack of any way to keep them alive but i guess i could imagine a scenario in which the tank could let me switch to my most offensive based stance and wail away finally you can get cosmetic traits to determine the race and appearance of your soldier this is more fun than you might expect in that you can create characters who look like your present future alts all of your lotro alts on a server share the same house so it s fair to assume that they know each other and would fill in the skirmish soldier role accordingly other skirmish incentive impressions there are other perks to the skirmishes as well instant scale able access and the ability to purchase just about anything that you might be having trouble obtaining such as rare random crafting materials reputation tokens or items from the group only level 50 class quests there are also drawbacks to the system soldiers become available at level 30 now that mirkwood has arrived but players who were already level 60 when the expansion arrived can expect to find their new soldiers starting significantly behind the curve finally the lore behind these things is singularly bizarre in a game that doesn t like teleportation i can instantly teleport to the shire to fight off an orc invasion that never really happened in the lore perhaps the system is going to start getting old once i ve had the chance to take the other types of soldiers for a spin especially if it turns out that the healer is far and away the most effective choice i can be using even so it s an interesting way to re customize your character and playing experience without actually starting over from scratch skirmish soldiers are a lot of fun and i look forward to seeing what turbine does with the system in the future posted by green armadillo at 10 18 pm 6 comments labels lotro pvd friday december 11 2009 privacy implications of soe s facebook push turbine and blizzard are promoting their new twitter feeds with a variety of raffles ironically raffles actually discourage players from making an effort to promote the feeds more followers mean more competition for the same small number of prizes by contrast soe s new facebook twitter campaign will hand out the prizes up to 7 50 in station cash item store credit to every single player of eq1 eq2 and free realms not just the ones who participated if the respective facebook and twitter pages reach very attainable goals by february now players have a strong incentive to talk up the pages to their in game friends advertise the game to their out of game friends and even sample item shop goodies that they d previously been ignoring at no real money cost to soe incidentally your station cash balance applies to your entire station account not individual games if you don t already have one it might be worth taking five minutes to start a free realms character on your existing account so you can double up on the prizes the catch is that facebook s new privacy policy makes your name and your fan pages un hideable public information by clicking that become a fan button you may be irrevocably declaring your association with mmorpg s to potential employers unfortunately many non players still associate mmorpg s with addiction and all night marathons that leave players too exhausted to work there is an unfair but real possibility that someone who participates in this promotion will be denied a job because of it in the long run perhaps we re all better off if more players who don t reinforce the stereotype come out about their status as mmorpg players for any one specific individual at the moment though there is a very real possibility that they might someday regret having pushed that button consenting to but not necessarily understanding the consequences posted by green armadillo at 9 02 pm 0 comments labels business models eq2 thursday december 10 2009 pranking the lich king and other 3 3 impressions thanks to a well timed anniversary retrial i ve been able to take wow s 3 3 patch for a test drive probably the biggest feature is a new five man dungeon non raiders get to knock on the back door of icecrown citadel kill the doorman and some of arthas other servants raid his fridge and bravely run for our lives when the lich king comes home to find us trashing his bedroom this is supposed to make us feel like all the best lore isn t being reserved for raiders as it was in tbc and will be in a few months when blizzard lets raiders actually kill the expansion s title character instead of playing some practical jokes on him the dungeons also drop ilvl 232 loot on heroic marking the second complete gear reset in the year since i hit 80 lore and loot quibbles aside the dungeon s are actually very well executed the encounters are basically an 8 boss raid broken up into three wings to insert convenient stopping points the bosses do interesting things the very first is probably my favorite for sheer uniqueness and the dungeon tuning seems about right for a group that s geared to the levels of previous 5 mans that was the group i had for the first wing on patch night and we actually had to work wiping a few times and even using crowd control to clear the dungeon on the downside many players are geared well beyond the levels of the previous 5 mans i joined a group last night for wing two and wound up burning through that and the third wing the dungeons are connected to allow groups to chain them in succession which would probably take experienced players under two hours without really being challenged finally on the incentive side of things i won seethe outright off of the last boss of the first wing there was no reputation to earn no tokens to collect and now no particular reason to ever go back to that wing of the dungeon this weapon was a huge upgrade over the spire of sunset healer staff i d been using and i would have been willing to do substantially more work to obtain it such i suppose is the peril of the rng sometimes you don t get what you wanted e g the caster weapon off of the black knight in last patch s 5 man and sometimes it s almost insultingly easy even so it feels like the purpose of these dungeons is to gear up raider alts quickly rather than actually occupy 5 man players in the way that the 5 mans at wrath s launch did misc 3 3 impressions the new quest display on the map is great even more polished than warhammer s version the blizzard outfit manager now labels items in your bags with what sets they re in so you can tell what goes in your bank as promised it s now possible to mail heirloom items to cross faction alts on the same server if you re planning to test this be warned that your level 1 alt will have to kill some stuff for the 30 copper needed to mail the heirloom back i ve always preferred to have my horde alts on another battlegroup partially so they won t have to share character slots and partially because that way i have another server to play on if one is down i ll have to ponder whether it s worth setting up horde camp on my alliance server for the heirlooms also note that this now includes head and shoulder rep enchant items overall it s looking like a major polishing patch as blizzard gets its house in order in preparation for the expansion it s well executed but it will be very interesting to see whether the content that s here will keep players entertained through to whenever cataclysm happens personally i doubt that it will be anytime before summer the weapon that greenwiz will probably take into cataclysm barring the rare and coveted quel delar drop posted by green armadillo at 8 17 am 3 comments labels pvd wow wednesday december 9 2009 stargate torchlight the latest solo prototype for an mmorpg various sources are reporting that stargate worlds will be a single player game before it s an mmorpg we ve already seen one single player stargate game fail to advance to market after having a prototype that was good enough to use on an episode of the show but it seems that cheyenne mountain has a better chance of pulling off a single player game than an mmorpg given their funding situation at this point i guess we can say that pulling a torchlight is a legitimate business model build the game engine first and use the cash from that to finance the network code testing and larger amounts of content that players expect in an mmo the production values on the modern mmorpg are becoming large enough that this may be the only way for a start up to get into the genre that said it will be interesting to see whether the torchlight mmo and stargate worlds if it ever happens will be influenced by having begun their lives as solo games will the engine work with large numbers of players or will there need to be guild wars style single party instances fans of the single player version are going to be amongst the most likely customers for the mmo so developers are almost certainly going to be pressured to keep the games solo friendly at precisely the time when there s real room in the genre for games to hit 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