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around an hour or so in the neverwinter beta courtesy of a key contest over at epic slant press i have mixed feelings about the increasingly common weekend only paid open beta for new mmo s they feel contrived to concentrate word of mouth i e collect lots of social media posts i suppose including this one during after the weekend rather than scattered as players trickle in and out while the short duration limits player access to the higher level game never the less there was a post i was meaning to write about the competing dungeons and dragons online expansion plans at turbine so i decided it was worth at least a brief look in general i was pleasantly surprised some people do not like the graphic and or animation style and perhaps i m just not that picky but i was fine with the visuals like bhagpuss i am not especially fond of being forced into mouse look mode with the requirement that i push the alt key to toggle the mode in which i can actually use the mouse to click on all of the ui elements that are visually placed on the screen combat was action clicky with visual cues to dodge increasingly common in newer mmo s these days but seemed smooth enough i was underwhelmed with the rpg trope of the player character washing up from a shipwreck incidentally also the current tutorial sequence in ddo but i suppose we all start somewhere contrasting neverwinter and ddo cryptic s neverwinter will in fact be the second action based non subscription mmo set in the forgotten realms thanks in large part to changes that turbine has been making to their older dungeons and dragons online game last year s ddo expansion created a lore excuse to move the game from the more obscure eberron setting to the more popular forgotten realms turbine confirms that the original setting will not get new content save for revamping updating old content periodically in between patches where new stuff is available this year s expansion will offer the option to start a pre made character at a high enough level to skip all the old stuff personally i ve spent way more time reading pen and paper dungeons and dragons rulebooks than actually playing dungeons and dragons and i ve probably spent more time with forums character planners wiki s and podcasts than actually playing ddo from my perspective ddo s wide open character class system which allows an unusual degree of flexibility to make permanent choices that are either really good or really bad for your character is a key selling point even i had a lot of trouble getting started in ddo due to the magnitude of the choices you face in character generation but i m not sure the solution is to go running to cram in pre made classes with talent trees just because the new competition is doing so speaking of which neverwinter offers one of five classes with skill progression that feels very much like diablo iii s with several pools of skills from which you get to equip and use a small subset it s probably the right call for a game that seems more focused on action and short sessions but there definitely appears to be less meat to chew on in the character department on the other side of the coin neverwinter also presented me with many poorly documented choices during character creation it was unclear to what extent my choice of deity home city background etc were cosmetic versus impactful meanwhile the limited information that is presented in game e g the game s statement that my cleric should focus on the wisdom stat per dnd rules may be inaccurate in practice if some forum goers are to be believed perhaps this issue is inevitable if you re trying to include familiar stuff for the pen and paper crowd also with only two character slots and five classes more possibly on the way you can expect to delete and repeat if you want to try them all before settling on a main buy to play versus free to play one final area that i will be watching closely post launch is the business models turbine chose to call ddo s relaunch free to play in an era where such a re launch was a pretty new thing in today s parlance though ddo would more accurately be called a buy to play game in which for the most part players will need to pay for access to small dlc like adventure packs and individual character options but will face no recurring fees for their use an optional legacy subscription model also allows rental access to much of this stuff under this model i ve spent a comparatively large amount per hour of time played but there s no beating the flexibility this offers the player in how to consume the content that you ve paid for by contrast neverwinter appears to be designed from the ground up without a subscription unless there are plans for one that i m unaware of the prices in the beta store looked rather high but it s hard to have much context when the numbers stand to change in testing and without understanding which of the purchases are necessary or available in game one could imagine a model where this ends up costing longtime players more than they would have paid under a subscription system while those who dabble could potentially pay little or a lot if there are a certain number of things you need to unlock before getting underway in the game i deliberately did not invest much time in my temporary beta character as a game that does not carry a box purchase price there is no need for me to make a decision now on whether i will spend money if nothing else neverwinter has that going for it a low barrier to entry on a game that seems reasonably focused on getting players into the action quickly other than all of those choices during character generation time will tell which way this dnd duel plays out labels business models cryptic ddo rise of massively multiplayer online gameplay anthologies mmoga s blizzard s newly announced hearthstone online card game is neither new to blizzard which has had a paper card game for years nor online games soe has had online card games playable in several of its mmo s for years it is a natural fit for a company whose flagship mmo is increasingly a platform which hosts a range of distinct types of gameplay as much as a single gaming product last week my world of warcraft mage hit level 88 doing a random pandaria dungeon i m generally reluctant to spend time running non heroic versions of current expansion dungeons that i can expect to run repeatedly once i get to max level the thing that changed my mind was the realization that this expansion s solo content just isn t clicking for me but that i d rather be playing the five man dungeon game in fact i m currently running max level hard mode 4 man flashpoints in swtor instead even though that expansion and accompanying gear reset is just over two weeks away so i m in when it comes to wow s pet battles and 5 man content and possibly its pick up looking for raid if when i get that far i m lukewarm on its solo game and indifferent to its crafting cosmetics i ve been out of its pvp which itself comes in multiple different flavors and structured raid games for years i may or may not be in when hearthstone arrives though this unlike pet battles is playable a standalone product without a wow subscription i d be very surprised if the two products don t have tight cross promotion if you look back at the old school pve mmo s i d suggest that there was effectively one type of gameplay killing mobs in groups with some variation to be had in terms of how big the group and what you might do e g crafting to gear up for said with wow and other games that have tried to mirror the something for everyone approach with varying degrees of success we increasingly have very different types of gameplay under one virtual roof to the point where we re no longer playing the same game rather azeroth is a platform that you go to in order to launch off onto one of the various gameplay options some of which coexist in the open world others of which build on its lore and some of which are just about some good competitive fun are we increasingly playing in a world of massively multiplayer online gameplay anthoglogies mmoga s to pick an acronym that s vaguely pronounceable rather than virtual worlds or traditional mmorpg s p s hat tip to josh of the game diplomat blog and various podcasts for producing what is almost certainly the internet s first hearthstone podcast within days of its announcement labels business models my characters pvd wow the myth of voting with your wallet i find the controversy surrounding the recent rocky launch of the latest sim city interesting due to parallels we ve seen in online gaming over the past few years much of the anger we have seen against drm dlc cash shops and item gambling boxes goes beyond the specifics of each individual episode rather these changing business practices driven in part by increasingly visible online capabilities are driving home to customers who purchase video game products that they have no effective way of directing the development of these products one of the more interesting arguments raised during this controversy is the idea that customers anger is misplaced on a recent episode of mmo radio discussing the launch chris of game by night lamented that ea had already gotten their money from sales of the title and that the backlash is only punishing developers at maxis who had nothing to do with the more controversial business decisions pete at dragonchasers also feels that the game is not getting a hearing from gaming journalists and fans and suggests that people who do not like ea s decisions should vote with their wallets the vote with your wallet argument is not new chris a different one of mmo reporter fame often cites it in discussions of the latest addition to lotro s cash shop the problem with this vote is that the ballot has only a single check box next to the word yes when you are only interested in yes votes you don t find out why people have voted no in sim city s case this makes the longtime simulation fan who chose to avoid the game due to drm and server issues indistinguishable from the non customer like myself who never would have purchased the game for any reason in the days of subscription mmo s a significant number of canceled subscriptions would be noticed but this was at best a paradoxical way of conveying feedback the only way for your vote on improving the game to be heard was for you to quit the game and for the developers to believe they could get your business back in today s era of cash stores dlc etc the issue is no longer voting with your wallet but rather voting against other people s wallets to actually register a no vote you have to withhold money that you would otherwise have spent on the game the developer needs to be aware that this is why you are withholding the money and the amount that you and your like minded colleagues are withholding has to be greater than the amount that people are spending on gambling boxes or whatever it is you are protesting simply refusing to purchase the stuff yourself if you aren t also willing to cancel your subscription or not purchase the next expansion is not a no vote because only the yes votes are counted perhaps the increased prominence of indie games in general and video game kickstarter campaigns with their underwhelming track record in particular is not just a question of rooting for the creative little guy perhaps these are viewed as one of the few venues where producers of video games are more directly responsive to what their customers want and on the other side of the coin perhaps the anger over sim city s servers provided the rare situation in which there are enough no votes to be noticed the protests may be unfair to the developers and they may be unlikely to achieve a result that satisfies the customer complaints even so i can t agree that the wrath is mis directed when you deny people a say in something they are invested in and leave things such that the only way for players 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