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est alpha test in software history and the biggest abuse of the term alpha test the game has largely met my expectations compared to league of legends the game is more cooperative your team has a shared level so you never risk hampering your team by damaging foes and thus stealing experience or resources you unlock talents at fixed team levels without the need to return to your base hub to spend time shopping and opening the door for a team to hit level 10 mid battle and suddenly bust out a bunch of newly unlocked heroic abilities collectively i play this game much like i play marvel heroes the maps are the same but my approach to the maps is different depending on who i am playing the huge advantage of setting the world among blizzard s various properties that the characters are already established they look and sound like they should so even in the space of a few lines ability animations etc you can recognize and appreciate that you re playing a familiar face business model my current roster the business model will be familiar to league of legends and marvel heroes players but with a few quirks players will have access to a weekly rotation of 5 7 heroes the final two are available at higher account levels and typically have more complicated kits for free and earn currency that can be used to unlock characters permanently one possible issue for people looking to jump in with their friends is that this roster is applied to the entire game so you and your friends will be stuck with exactly those five characters on your first play sessions you can pay between 4 10 to unlock characters immediately with better exchange rate compared to in game gold for the more expensive heroes and a huge premium for brand new releases there are hefty one time bonuses for your first few account levels so you can unlock at least one character and be less at the mercy of the weekly rotation and for trying each character to account level 5 to encourage you to do so beyond these blizzard is very likely tuning gold gain which is currently very heavily slanted to daily quests these quests effectively offer up 100 bonus gold per match for playing a certain type or franchise of hero compared to 10 30 base gold depending on the game mode and whether you win very rewarding to log in once a day or every 2 3 days as you can hold up to three dailies in your quest log for an hour significantly less rewarding to continue playing after you ve cashed in at the moment it looks like you can expect to unlock a new hero every month or so depending on which price bracket you are aiming at which is not bad blizzard is also offering some bundles which can be a good way to establish a baseline stable of heroes to run your daily quests with i put 43 into the game when the tech alpha reset happened to snag some limited time offers the current bundles aren t that impressive but i assume that more promotions will happen as the game is actually open to the public the shop also includes cosmetic skins most of which are 10 though some are as low as 5 or as high as 15 cosmetic mounts are also available for 10 20 that said blizzard has an unusual number of free visual options including color variants for every skin and mount in the game unlocked free with character experience and exclusive gold only cosmetic skins to sink some of that gold so that players will pay for heroes with cash instead outlook there are definitely some bugs left to sort out for example losing a cooperative match awards no money or exp and does not display a match results screen so you can determine how you did but overall this game is looking solidly like what we would have called a beta before marketing people killed that term for the moment i am logging in whenever i have daily quests available and sometimes playing beyond that given my calendar and the fact that i haven t really stuck with a moba in the past this is relatively high praise posted by green armadillo at 7 09 pm 0 comments labels business models heroes of the storm pvd wednesday october 15 2014 playing on their schedule syp has posted his latest action plan for fitting four separate mmo s into a week i don t have anything so specific no one is expecting multiple weekly columns about different mmo s from me but i am starting to arrive at a decision tree of sorts for my mmo time for better or worse non subscription titles combined with daily weekly monthly quest rewards often leave a clear cut choice for my limited gaming time my decision tree in rough order starting from 30 seconds total in front of a computer all day down the list as time permits log into marvel heroes to collect the daily login bonus 1 daycount towards exclusive pets team ups and other goodies may immediately log out depending on which of the below is available log into neverwinter once daily for 2 3 minutes to invoke 1 token towards an epic quality healer companion at the end of a year and send my profession minions off to farm cash store currency for me if possible check the web portal roughly twelve hours later to refresh completed missions i ve bought an account wide cash store mount this way time will tell if all this farming eventually pays off in actually playing the game itself time critical content will be gone or massively harder forever may need daily attention last week that meant several loose ends in pandaria that i feared would be prohibitive after the patch in particular i pushed to finish all of the of the siege of ogrimmar lfr wings once so i could say i d done them as i feared this could be a huge mess after the patch due to nerfs to smart healing abilities time sensitive content typically not unique not gone forever but significantly more valuable to play this game at this time last week this meant the heroes of the storm alpha which was offering double experience i could also see heroes of the storm occupying some time every 2 3 days due to how its daily quest rewards and weekly rotation work some of marvel heroes weekly events qualify because i like either the event or the rewards a monthly visit to the darkmoon faire if i have a wow subscription active falls into this category other content marvel heroes has typically fit in here but this accounts for less of my time as i finish leveling more and more of the game s playable characters expansions wow rift would fit here i e anything else that would ordinarily fit under the category of playing the games normally oh right i have a blog that i used to post on don t i funny how you don t get this far down the list when you have a toddler see also not getting around to new mmo launches most of these trends have been around for a while now and there are definitely days where i feel like some daily incentive is pushing too hard in the direction of having to play a certain type of content a certain way then again i suppose there are days when having a good idea of the most valuable use of my time can help dodge decision paralysis from having too many options it is what it is posted by green armadillo at 6 30 pm 0 comments labels business models cryptic heroes of the storm marvel heroes wow monday october 6 2014 pay not to play revan style the sad truth with swtor is that i d pay bioware a fair amount of money possibly as much as i ve spent on the game during sporadic subscriptions if they just removed the gameplay and offered an interactive movie version of the story in which my character just wins all the fights after i ve chosen my dialog i suppose double exp is the next best thing in that at least i don t have to do any side quests but this also does not motivate me to get back into the game when the exp drops back down to the normal rate me back in march bioware has launched swtor s latest expansion pre sale campaign with an odd pre order exclusive pay to get out of playing anything but your class story customers who pre purchase the digital expansion for 20 and also subscribe to the technically subscription optional title will gain more than 12 times the usual rate of experience from their class story missions the boosted missions grant enough experience to reach the maximum level of 55 without doing any side missions pvp dungeons or other content to supplement their experience gain bioware s decision to offer eight distinct class stories each with writing production and acting costs to rival a reasonably sized game added significantly to swtor s notoriously high budget the investment largely failed to pay off as players burned through the one eighth of the story content available to their characters inside of a month and canceled their then mandatory subscriptions the concept of movie quality stories for each additional character sounded nice in principle but in practice i was never able to get excited about taking characters to the same worlds in the same order to do or work around the same planetary storylines sometimes with classes that played similarly just to eventually earn a minute or two of conversation towards the class story plot and thus the compromise you still cannot get out of playing at least some swtor to see the story but you can get out of playing most of swtor only trouble is that may still be more swtor than i m willing to play much less pay for such is the peril of marketing not playing your title posted by green armadillo at 5 30 pm 0 comments labels business models star wars newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe subscribe to pvd about player versus developer i m what they call a wow tourist wow was my first mmo and being able to set my own schedule is a dealbreaker at any given time i can be found ducking in and out of half a dozen different mmo s this blog details some of my own personal exploits but it also focuses on a meta gaming issue that i find very interesting the decisions developers make on how to reward player activity and the decisions players make in response to maximize their own rewards i can be 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