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I was trying to compile a current list of all the MMOGs I have played and this is what I have come up with so far:
A Tale in the Desert 1 (beta)
Anarchy Online & Shadowlands (retail)
Asheron’s Call (retail)
Asheron’s Call 2 (beta/retail)
Auto Assault (beta)
City of Heroes (beta/retail)
City of Villains (beta/retail)
Dark Age of Camelot (retail)
Dragon Empires (alpha/beta – game canceled)
Dungeon Runners (beta)
Dungeons and Dragons Online (beta/retail)
Earth & Beyond (beta/retail – game canceled)
EVE Online (beta/retail) Continue reading MMOG Throwdown
[Ryzom] UPDATE: More developments. A group of former Nevrax employees are looking to raise funds in order to purchase Ryzom and make it open source. They are not actually taking donations at this time, in case the attempt to buy fails. So if you want to help contribute, go make a pledge.
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Interesting news here:
Nevrax (as a corporate entity) will be going into receivership next month. We emphasize again that the game will continue to run and be supported as this is not the beginning of the end – just the end of the beginning.
As you all, we love our game and we want to see Atys and its homins continue to evolve. We are not alone in this feeling as from the shadows a company has emerged and are currently preparing a plan to take on Ryzom. We can’t tell you more at the moment since it is being discussed but we will keep you informed when we get hard facts. We can assure you that much is happening behind the scenes.
Continue reading Ryzom Changes – UPDATED
[World of Warcraft] Here’s a funny story.
Sundays are always a bad day for me. I pay bills on Sundays. Sunday is the last day of the weekend. I always get depressed on Sundays. I came up with a brilliant plan to, once again, attempt to play World of Warcraft with my wife on Sunday nights (I need a break from beta testing once and a while). It would give me something to look forward to. Since Guild Wars wasn’t doing it for her, and WoW did, it was an obvious solution. She was happy to go back and play more, she had fun in WoW.
Continue reading When things gO Wrong
I was getting ready to take another forced break from all monthly-fee games and spend more time doing other things, like watching Battlestar Gallactica on DVD, when I opened my email to find another beta invitation. I’m interested in the development of this one, so I guess I’ll have nothing to say here for a while. I’ll continue playing Guild Wars, even when it tells me I’ve played for 2 hours and should take a break. I love that.
Zubon, you have the bridge.
– Ethic
November 11, 2006 – CCP hf. and White Wolf Publishing, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The creators of the single largest persistent online role-playing world and the world’s second-largest developer of offline role-playing, strategy and collectable card games will create the industry’s largest independent Virtual World developer. CCP is the publisher and developer of EVE Online, the world’s largest virtual gaming universe. White Wolf is the creator of some of the world’s most recognized role-playing titles including: World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage) and Exalted. The combined company will introduce new online and offline gaming products across the science-fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.
Continue reading CCP and White Wolf to Merge
[Guild Wars] Picked up two copies of Guild Wars Nightfall the other day. My wife and I are migrating over from World of Warcraft. It’ll be nice to play something totally new for both of us. I’m not sure what our character names will be but I’ll post a comment below when I do. The [BLOG] guild is mostly empty now, but if anyone is looking to join up with us and understands that they might never see us online, let me know. Otherwise, if we can find an established, mature yet casual guild we might be interested in joining it.
I’m really starting to like the way Guild Wars structures it’s gameplay costs to players. It seems to be pretty friendly to casual time-restricted players like me. Even factoring in the costs of all three boxes, I’ve still paid less that I paid for WoW in about the same amount of time. I also feel no pressure to log in, because I’m not paying for each month. I like it.
– Ethic
[Ryzom] Once upon a time, I was in the Beta 2 of Ryzom. I tested and played. I really did not like the game much and put it out of my memory. When the announcement was made about the Ryzom Ring, I became interested again but was skeptical. Now that it is out, and after reading a lot about the game from Kwip, I decided to download the free trial and check it out for myself.
This post is mostly just an introduction and first impressions. I plan to post more down the road as I get more playtime in. But for now, let’s get started. The demo download took about an hour to grab off their website and get installed. There was also a small patch, about a minute’s worth. Registration was easy, no credit card required. All and all quite painless. The graphics displayed during the install showed scenes of space as well as fantasy. Hard to even know for sure what the game is going to be like from those shots.
Continue reading Ryzom Revisited
[World of Warcraft] I was listening to one of the many WoW podcasts the other day and they mentioned putting different instances on “farm status”. I was pretty sure I knew what they were talking about, but I looked it up in the wikipedia. Here is what they have there:
Farming(instance)/on farm status:A statement used to refer to an instance that is frequently completed with ease and in little time such as “We are farming Molten Core†or “We have Blackwing Lair on farm statusâ€.
Seriously, the gamers that are willing to continue playing games that don’t have enough content for them are basically making sure MMORPGs remain as crappy as they are. They could be so much more, but as long as a good majority of people seem to enjoy doing the same damn instance over and over again – we will be stuck here in the crappy MMORPG present. Why? Why is that fun? I don’t get it. I don’t mean to flame these people (my brother is one of them), but come on.
– Ethic
[EVE Online] The Band of Brothers (BoB) alliance (the 6th largest in EVE with 1531 members) has declared war on the Ascendant Frontier (ASCN) alliance (the largest in EVE with 3829 members). My corporation, Ars Caelestis, is part of ASCN. While this is part of what playing EVE is all about, I really wonder how the server cluster will hold up in battles with the potential to become huge.
Continue reading BoB Declares War On ASCN
I came across an old post today on Terra Nova. Part of it hit the nail on the head as to why I prefer EVE over WoW. Let me share that part with you.
WoW (and too it symbolizes so much in the genre) is a place that reeks of fun and playfulness on the surface, but once ensnared, players are led into a deception that spells W*O*R*K. Eve-Online on the other hand is Icelandic with Calvinist overtones – yet in this confining straightjacket there is opportunity to find one’s own way towards a demeanor of play. One represents a fall into an abyss, the other, a rise from one to redemption…
Most all MMOs out there that I have played go for the fun and easy right off the bat. Levels ding several times a night. New skills and new armor in a flurry of action. Fast forward a few months and it’s days to get a level and you are still wearing that same ugly cloak you found 2 weeks ago. EVE on the other hand starts out kind of rough and ugly. Confusing at times and seeming as if there is nothing to do. Fast forward a few months and you can go from a hardcore ice miner to a covert-ops pilot sneaking behind the enemy forces in the time it takes to dock and switch ships.
Yes, I am an EVE fanboy and I hope more MMORPGs can find a way to make a game keep getting more fun as you play it, like EVE does.
– Ethic