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ed for the platform such as the mouth and visual problems me a had on launch or the problems archeage has with npcs speaking in korean in the english version of the game posted by redbeard at 9 58 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nintendo zelda saturday december 23 2017 an mmo quickie lotro is having its annual winter themed event the yule festival with an elk as one of the available mounts like this from lotro wiki com i took one look at the mount and quipped this looks just like the elk mount an elf gets on archeage for some reason the mini reds weren t so amused about that posted by redbeard at 11 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels archeage lotro 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 point of wow s subscriber base blizzard s decision to revamp azeroth was deemed to be worth it despite the major story holes that the revamp created but my belief is that the same major story holes basically shut the door on new players picking up the game and starting from scratch and now blizzard no longer releases subscription numbers in their quarterly statements ostensibly because they have better means of tracking the profitability of wow but likely because subs have fallen to the point where wow has fallen back to the pack in terms of subscriber base the no clue it was coming award employees of gazillion entertainment the publisher of the now extinct marvel heroes much has been made of gazillion s financial problems and the hiding of the same but the extent that management went through to hide these problems from the development staff to the blindsiding of the staff by the company s inability to pay for paid time off when the company fired them all still makes my blood boil i ve been in that situation when the company looks like it might not meet payroll and it sucks a lot and my ire goes to management not leveling with the staff we re all adults here treat us like one the you must learn patience grasshopper award the stereotypical go guy we all know this person that was so easily skewered by crendor because we ve all encountered the go guy this is the warrior that wants to speed pull all of the trash in the first area of halls of lightning and yells at the healer for not keeping him upright or the jedi guardian who just has to jump off of the platform in cademimu because it was taking too long for the elevator to arrive or the agent yelling spacebar in chat because the group wasn t moving fast enough ironically enough wow created instance speed runs just for the go guy to test their mettle but that hasn t exactly rid normal instances of the purveyor of timeliness ah narration by worgen freeman and lastly the golden trinket award to all of the people who would stop and help a new player or a player needing an assist or a player struggling along all of the people who reach out and assist others play well and encourage players to find a home in their chosen mmo world all of the people who treat each other well both in chat and in the world and make the mmo genre a better place i ve seen it happen where people picked up hunters and then dropped them from bgs based on an update in a wow downtime i know that the swtor raiders pvpers will argue that theorycrafting is alive and well in their part of the mmo world the last i checked they re still there playing away even the succubi and incubi are nude which actually gives them an unnerving appearance unlike say wow succubi you can look at an aoc version and not get it out of your head that this succubus is something totally unnatural please please please tell me that someone gets the spinal tap reference add to that the rise of the moba which peeled away players from the wow subscriber base and you ve got problems well pvp notwithstanding being mean to the other faction is kind of the point there eta fixed a grammatical issue and a sentence structure in the gazillion area eta fixed another grammatical error which leads me to believe i shouldn t be writing at midnight posted by redbeard at 1 05 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels age of conan archeage lotro marvel heroes mmos musings pugs rift swtor tera wildstar wow tuesday december 12 2017 same as it ever was i ve not had a big enough chunk of free time to pull off an instance run swtor or lotro in ages but this past week i actually had a few hours to myself without having to go anywhere or do anything so the siren song of running a swtor instance proved too irresistible rather than learning a new for me instance i figured that i ought to ease back into instance running with some of the original swtor instances hammer station athiss and mandalorian raiders why those three well they are my favorites of the original instances with the possible exception of false emperor and they are also the three i m most familiar with even with the leveling adjustment put in place i figured that these three instances ought to be the azjol nerub of swtor once you learn them it s a fairly quick and painless run unless of course you re dealing with an all dps group guess what groups i got now to be fair the hammer station run was pretty straightforward with a standard tank healer dps dps group configuration and we pretty much blitzed through the entire instance not exactly at the same level as a classic azjol nerub run but we finished in about 15 20 minutes and that included me getting stuck on the other side of the meteorite cannon while everybody else took out some more trash before the final boss but mandalorian raiders came next and the run consisted of all dps my prior experiences in the fun with mandos instance with an all dps group meant that the toughest boss to take out was the houndmaster the first boss and this group proved that in spades the houndmaster hits too hard for a standard dps to handle without utilizing tanking abilities or having a healer in tow and to compound the problem we had people attempting to down the houndmaster instead of the hounds first after the third wipe somebody asked in chat why can t we down this guy we don t have a healer the jedi sentinel tanking the houndmaster replied the jedi sage we had in our group wrote something incoherent in group chat and then said i ll do it but remember to move in the right direction got it of course this time we managed to down the boss properly with the sage s healing supplemented by the healing stations around the boss fight after that the mandalorian raiders instance proceeded much quicker with the only hiccup being the sentinel who thought it a good idea to jump onto the downward descending platform in the section leading to the final boss as you can guess he finally caught up to the platform in time to die due to falling damage rez me he cried i m trying but i can t select you i replied how the hell did you manage that one i m talented hee hee hee i grumbled something as the sage rezzed him athiss was a different beast entirely i knew i was in for an interesting time when we kept having people reject the instance before we finally got a full group then while a few of us jumped down into the ruins and healed up a jedi sentinel sliced the elevator and jumped down anyway hoo boy i thought i hope that was just an accident but by the time we got to the first boss i could see clearly that it wasn t an accident that same sentinel pulled one too many mobs for a pure dps to tank and we wiped on the trash then we nearly wiped on that first boss even though that s actually kind of hard to do with four dps burning down that boss quickly but things seemed to settle down a bit when we plowed through the next several rounds of trash until we got to the beast of vodal kresh there we wiped repeatedly on that boss because a people weren t using the healing stations twice b people including myself once got knocked off into the level below and the trash below aggroed and c nobody could hold aggro well enough against ye olde beast sometime after the fourth wipe the other jedi sentinel who d been acting as the tank all the while spewing invective in group chat ragequit i took that as my cue to leave as well since it had become obvious that this particular group simply wasn t going to get past the beast of vodal kresh i then decided to hang around my starship for a while and relax letting some 30 minutes pass by reading the codex and checking on college basketball scores i figured that 1 2 hour was time enough for me to not run into any of those three players again and queued up for athiss once more and i got an all dps group again this time however the run went without incident i d not call it smooth as prophet of vodal kresh took a lot longer to kill off than i prefer but nobody died and nobody complained in group chat it had been a long time since an instance ending in silence after those instances i decided that i m not going to venture ...