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what you find in later expacs in these mmos there s something comforting in the anonymity provided in these vanilla esque zones even if you re on an active server you re still not likely to run into many other players at all in these original zones because the latest and greatest zones are where the action is that is even the case in these megaservers in wrath classic where most everybody has gotten multiple toons to max level and unless there s another 50 xp boost they re not likely to run another alt through the gauntlet i discovered this while waiting around for a deadmines run in the past couple of weeks while those dungeon runs were active in the lead up to wrath classic launching they re almost totally dead now so while you wait you go out into the world and quest or fish or level a gathering skill or explore all of those sorts of things can be done on those three mmos at your own pace without any concern for life the universe and everything thank you douglas adams while these areas tend to be quiet and relatively empty disruptions can show up when a high level toon rolls by and wipes an area clean of questing mobs perhaps they were going back and completing quests that were left behind or perhaps they were farming for materials or maybe they did have a slightly cruel and or trollish streak and did it just because whatever the reason the effect was to basically throw off my cadence and i have to wait for respawns if said high level toon zaps those then i just abandon the area arguing with idiots never ends well in my experience as a consequence i ve learned to do any low level questing on my high level toons when i know i m not causing disruptions to people already there on a now empty server like myzrael that s not a big deal because there have been times when i ve literally been the only person in a zone for several zones in a row but an active server or a server where i m new yeah i m sensitive to disruptions okay enough about me where do you go or play when you just need a helping of comfort food all about whether i ve got a combat heavy game going the combat heavy games are much longer than the ones where i simply out develop the other civs minus the ridiculously sexy clothing and the elin of course okay so you can t fish in swtor but you can do a lot of crafting and datacron hunting posted by redbeard at 10 39 am 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro mmos musings sid meier s civilization swtor tera wow wow classic saturday may 14 2022 end of an mmo tera well tera is shutting down the game which is an acronym for the exiled realm of arborea is one of those mmo titles that can bring out strong opinions among fans of the mmo genre yes it has exciting action combat yes the graphics are well done but almost from day one tera developed a reputation for what i m politely calling fanservice if you thought my cheeky commentary by neve about the stitched trousers was something imagine if she got a hold of the outfits i discovered in tera this was one of the milder ones i encountered and this wasn t bringing in the so called running form the castanic females have apparently running bent over with your panties out is a thing in korean mmos but the thing is even if all that went away tera would have the reputation it does because of one thing only the elin i won t dignify a link to it but the elin are supposedly an ancient spirit race who just so happen to look like prepubescent girls all of them and then to top it off tera dresses the elin up in sexualized outfits because of course they do the kicker is that the us release of tera actually has the elin s outfits toned down the korean release shows them even skimpier if that isn t a call to a dark corner of the internet that boy have we got a game for you i don t know what does i can t simply justify tera s behavior in this manner because they had to know that the elin would attract a certain crowd but there it is and because of it i m not sorry to see it go the way of the dodo while i d like to spend more time musing about tera i think josh strife hayes did a great job on the game with his wost mmo ever series when he took on tera i think there s a good story somewhere in the game but it s not engaging enough to overcome all the ridiculous outfits and the lolli creeper vibe i get from tera i mean the graphics are great the combat is fine and the music is good why oh why did bluehole make these design decisions if you d have asked me which game would have died first tera or archeage i d have picked archeage the rapid decline in server population coupled with missing pieces to the story from the get go usually would be the death knell of a game i mean both games share obvious fanservice elements such as obvious boob physics and overly revealing costumes and there s parts of the storyline in both games that make me feel like i m in an anime so there s a ton of similarities here the biggest difference here is that tera has the elin and archeage doesn t full stop so i guess i can look at tera and think what if and shake my head and let s be honest more than just that the walking and running motions of female toons the exaggerated bustlines and the tendency to wear high heels all the time are all hallmarks of korean mmos both games happen to have these in spades but i think it needs to be said i m not a prude if things such as the outfit options had a wide variety of available selections and you could choose what you liked to wear whether sexy and revealing or more realistic armor then i d be fine with it after all everybody is different and has their own opinions on what to wear it s the lack of choice that annoys me the most posted by redbeard at 6 57 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels end of an mmo tera friday june 28 2019 perusing the landscape i ve been poking my nose into a few of the mmos that i ve tried and not really done much of anything with such as rift and tera and found that the environments are somewhat stable well kinda for example the last several times i logged into rift i was practically the only person around just about any sign of life would be better than what i found at the time after it was pointed out to me that it was likely that a particular server might be more active when i was logging in i made an effort to try various times and days of the week still i saw hardly any activity the past few weeks however i ve seen an uptick in the activity in rift on both factions to the point where i can be reasonably certain that if say i needed an assist on taking care of a tear there would be someone in the vicinity to help out i would definitely not call rift as having a healthy population but it s better than the dead it certainly seemed to be several months ago tera is in a better situation than rift but that s not exactly saying much unlike rift tera is still being actively developed by bluehole they recently released a new race class combo for instance but tera still has that shameless look that a lot of korean mmos have for better or worse that look tends to attract some people and repel others the look aside tera had finished server merges and gotten down to two servers one pve and one pvp from my end i think the server merges where absolutely the best thing to do for tera because there s a viable population in both what i can say is that there seem to be more people active in tera at any given time than rift but i m not sure if the population is at the level that is good for the long term health of the game let s put it this way if tera were owned by ncsoft i d be a bit nervous about ncsoft shuttering the game which brings me to archeage i ve been seeing youtube videos for a couple of years about how archeage is dead and when will they kill archeage but archeage is still here i do have to wonder how much longer however i have two toons in archeage one of the quirks of the game is that you get exactly two toons total across all servers unless you subscribe and with one parked in a mid level upper level capital and another in the intro low level zones i simply don t see the population there in rift at least you do see people creating new toons in the intro and low level zones but archeage feels dead perhaps the decision to allow only two toons total has something to do with that because if you want to experiment on different servers with race faction class combos before subscribing you have to be in a constant state of deleting toons and lets face it not everybody is so keen about constantly zapping toons because of that artificial limitation but the thing is archeage seemed a bit healthier in the intro and low level zones before the server merges than after even though the population is likely higher than rift at least rift is in maintenance mode while the devs for archeage are still trying to put new content together and there are other glaring problems that are more obvious to an english speaker than to a korean speaker because the english port is well a bit inconsistent you have npcs speaking to you when you walk around and at first i thought the reason why i couldn t understand them was because i was an elf and they were human it turns out that they were speaking in korean and the devs for archeage never bothered to provide english voice acting for these npcs i wouldn t necessarily mind but having to constantly check out the text box to make sure i m not missing anything does get really annoying after a while okay i doubt the english port is a deal breaker for most people but the overall lack of toons to work with in the free portion of the game is and i ll be honest outside of the lack of toons and the english port there s not that much that sets archeage apart from its other korean mmo competitors black desert online tera etc and when you ve got such a low population as archeage seems to have that s a problem anyway this wasn t by any means an in depth analysis of the state of those games these are just overall impressions of hopping back in after having been away for a while and just seeing what s around one mmo that i really ought to get back into playing is neverwinter because despite the overall generic nature of the forgotten realms i do look on that d d setting a bit like comfort food now if someone had created an mmo based on the d d world of krynn i d be up for that i still have my copies of the original dragonlance chronicles around and if you gave me a chance to hang around with tanis and company as rohan put it which is likely the best way to put the toon and clothing choices they took place a year or two ago right when i was testing the game out i m used to make sure you pay attention to everything because you might need it later mode you get when playing rpgs for as long as i have besides if you re an elf and you re in elven territory you ought to be able to understand everything said presumably in elven wandering into human territory is a different thing and i d not expect to understand the language but having a foreign language everywhere just breaks immersion for me all the p2w debacle aside you could argue that was a problem with rift while i found the story intriguing and the fact that rift deliberately kept the talent trees around if you re looking for a new game to play rift would have a hard time standing out from the crowd other fantasy mmos had better known properties warcraft lord of the rings d d conan elder scrolls which give it an initial leg up on rift and that becomes hard to overcome posted by redbeard at 9 17 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels archeage musings neverwinter rift tera wednesday september 19 2018 and even more contraction in mmo space for some reason i ve not been paying too much attention to some of the other mmos that i ve tried out but while rift prime seems to be doing fairly well at the moment tera has just completed a bunch of server merges the tera merges went live yesterday and in na at least the pc version of tera is down to one pve and one pvp server each prior to the merge if you logged in you could get a boost of 20 character slots to cover your stable of toons across the servers but naturally i was unaware of that so i lost three toons two of which were only l1 so it s not too bad so all of those tera is doing fine much better than insert mmo here comments i ve seen on other mmos make me wonder whether that was just wishful thinking or whether tera isn t even close to as popular as the mmo community thought it was from my perspective it seems that the mmo shakedown that began with marvel heroes shutdown is continuing and even gathering a bit of steam does that mean the mmo is becoming a genre of one wow with a couple of hangers on no but i also believe that the mmo genre is retreating to a much smaller footprint in much the same way that a fad comes and goes mobas are the new hotness and in about 5 6 years they ll fade from view as well to be replaced by something else i don t think tera is on life support but it definitely isn t doing as well as it could be posted by redbeard at 12 28 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news tera wednesday may 30 2018 the clothes make the man several years ago mini red 2 was given a book on how to draw superheroes by stan lee as a christmas present by one of his sisters as far as art books go it s not that detailed about the mechanics of drawing but it provides a short background into where superhero stories came from and the basics about creating a superhero and the surrounding cast kudos to stan and the ghost writers for putting this promo shot of errol flynn and olivia de havilland from the adventures of robin hood in the book from pinterest i don t have much in the way of artistic talent but i still found the design and technique fascinating to read what also caught my attention was that in his own grumpy old man way stan was trying to make comics more inclusive part of the design for superheroes is that they look like more idealized versions of ourselves not us personally but people in general they look fitter more muscular more attractive more everything compared to most people not named david beckham while stan pays lip service to all sorts of body types for superheroes giving a nod to the obscure great lakes avenger big bertha he does focus on the fit and muscular for his examples of superheroes allies and villains big bertha deadpool and squirrel girl really from backissuebin wordpress com while perusing the book i kept thinking of how players are portrayed in mmos and how much they fit the specific ideal for superheroes now where have i seen this before from the nerdist oh yes from here from mmo champion or here considering the extremes of the male human in wow and tera as a muscular bodybuilder and the numerous examples of ...