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The one thing I hate in DIKU-style MMOs more than grinding, more than the level cap gear-reset, more than content gating is quite simply bonuses. I hate bonuses because there is such a delicate balance between the growing player stats and mobs stats up the leveling food chain that the bonuses have to appear to be insignificant.
Take one of the best crafted jewelries in Lord of the Rings Online right now, the glowing aureate band. It has a bunch of strong stat and morale bumps, along with a stepchild bonus to parry rating. +124 parry rating is about the equivalent of 0.33% more parry chance. That means that statistically speaking a player will parry 1 out of every 300 attacks made against him or her. It seems petty. Was adding the additional parry rating the item dev’s attempt at a joke? Continue reading The 2% MMO
The story mirror link does not get more amusing than the initial explanation that it happened, unless you enjoy watching normal humans trying to understand 4chan. In fairness to the theater, if you polled your workplace on who knows what Pedobear is, you would get a lot of blank stares.
Do not poll your workplace on Pedobear.
: Zubon
Bruce is having some trouble. Patrick explores and finds the fuller story. We make no actionable claims.
: Zubon
Dawntide. How refreshing.
… you may be wondering where the NDA that comes with most beta tests is. There isn’t one, because fundamentally we want people to talk about Dawntide and show things off, and we need to know when something is broken. If people find something wrong with the game, they’re going to tell other people it’s a bad game regardless of any NDA. Feel free to take and post screenshots and discuss the game with your friends.
Thanks to Werit for the invite!
– Ethic
I like alternative ways to rate things, and it is especially needed for Lord of the Rings Online because Turbine (a privately held company, mind you) does not and will not release subscriber information unless they want to. My new alternative benchmark for peering behind Turbine’s iron curtain of server populations involves black dye. Continue reading Dyed-in-the-Wool MMO Health
Regina at ArenaNet released news that Guild Wars Team Arenas and Hero Battles will be removed this week. If you want a bit of crappy nostalgia or some quick, ill-gained rewards from the much despised “red resigns” way to play Hero Battles better do it quick. I say good riddance and bring on the awesome of sealed deck. At the beginning of the month, ArenaNet said that sealed deck has all of its basic functionality in place but it needs to go through bug fixing/QA and polish. Hopefully we get a dev diary on the much anticipated feature soon.
–Ravious
the levy was dry
You have a great maintenance plan that takes into account the 25-year lifespan of the highway as designed. Each year, you perform maintenance that effectively replaces 4% of the road while doing minor touch-up work on the rest. You are on a different span of the road each year, only coning-off 4 miles of a 100 mile span. You proudly regard your system that keeps as much of the road as possible in as good of shape as possible, this year and every year.
To your users, it looks like the road is continuously under construction and never fully available. The four miles of construction lead to backups that extend further, and they are there every year. Why is this road always breaking down? Can’t they build it right?
: Zubon
Elder Game is one of my favorite MMO blogs, and each post is worth its weight in gold (especially at about 12 a year). Eric gave me a morning chuckle hypothesizing the creation of Champions Online’s profanity filter such that the filter started attacking NPC text. When NPCs are saying stuff like ““put that $#@*^!& a pine box” what do you think the normal MMO player replaces with the censored text? I think that would be a fantastic April Fool’s joke for an online game. Create a “censor bot” that replaces a few words in every NPC’s text with the comically stylized cussing text. It just sucks, especially in Champions Online’s case (according to Eric), when it is not really a joke.
–Ravious
#$%!!@#%
Via Bio Break I came across the upcoming Torchlight, bound to appear sometime next week, and was very pleasantly surprised. Can’t go wrong with Diabloesque gameplay, and Torchlight seems to deliver in spades.
Not to mention Runic Games seems to have a few rather awesome people making the game. To wit.
Grats Runic. You got yourself another customer.