Comments on: EASK

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:07:18 +0000

EASK, 100/50/50/0. Making me grind through time sinks as content gates is a great way to get me to drop a game.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:17:51 +0000

“Meanwhile, leveling goes from twice a night to every few days. Instead of trying a few toy every thirty minutes to an hour, I am trying a new toy every week or two. That is when a grind can become really annoying.”

I think this is why I am addicted to making alts. Only then you get to a point where you can no longer make alts without repeating content. And then you quit the game. And I thought I’d be AESK too (never tested).

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:31:25 +0000

Not all of us, Z. I canceled after Evendim came out.

By: Rog

Rog — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:46:20 +0000

I’m loving the game still, but it’s easy to question some of Turbine’s wisdom this past while. Like, why run an XP bonus weekend during a data center move and new patch?

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:48:52 +0000

There is the factor that all of us are playing The Lord of the Rings Online™ right now. And Turbine is having a really rough month. That is all we have to talk about, rather than, say, hating on the latest WoW patch.

Ethic, however, is in a good place, playing less than Ravious or I and in a much cleaner level range.

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:00:34 +0000

“You guys seem to be hating on LotRO a lot lately.”

I take exception to that. Some of us have been hating on it for a long time. ;)

jh/k.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:09:11 +0000

Isn’t this just a quest-based variation on the Angmar Battles? There we had to win N battles in the “Tier 1″ instance to unlock the next higher, and so forth. It’s still grinding, and I can’t say I approve of it though. There has to be some happy medium somewhere where we can actually do something FUN in the name of unlocks.

By: ran93r

ran93r — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:41:54 +0000

The opening of the Silithus gates in WoW was originally a server wide “war effort” and I thought the whole thing was ridiculous. I jumped on it from the point of view of free faction rep with whatever I was grinding at the time but waiting for the hardcore grinders to open the gates was a pain in the ass. To a degree there is the same kind of content lock-out for VoA, you have to hold Wintergrasp. Our raid schedule usually has VoA on there but if we rock up at raid time, don’t have control, we are generally dicking around for two hours waiting for the battle, fight, win (or lose) then on to the raid. That just plain wears you out.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:49:56 +0000

Melf: I’m considering it. They’re having a rough period, and Book 7 brought very little new for existing characters. On the other hand, I am seeing new things by trying new classes.

By: Twanni

Twanni — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:11:30 +0000

So happy to be ESAK instead :-)