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Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
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The last time I made a run at World of Warcraft, I made my wife play along in the interest of creating something else we can do together. We made it to about level 40 and then Lord of the Rings launched. We gave that a try and she went back to WoW. I was hooked and so we went our seperate ways even though still sitting side by side in the computer room. After I switched to playing LotRO in a static group once a week, I lost interest in playing it solo the rest of the week so my thoughts turned back to WoW. We tried to have her now level 80 hunter power my level 40 hunter through some quests but it just was not that much fun, and I was not finding my hunter to be much fun anyway.
Flash forward a few patches and I asked her if she would be interested in giving the refer-a-friend program a shot. She’d have to start over but with triple XP we ought to get up to level 60 pretty fast. She was ok with the idea so we launched our attack, this now being my third account at this point. Blizzard loves people like me.
Continue reading Refer-A-Friend
I understand why your game goes through the two-button phase. It gives new players a moment to learn things before adding complexity. Maybe it is comforting for people on their first MMO. You have a little/auto-attack and a bigger attack. Maybe it is a melee attack and a ranged attack. Whatever it is, when you are in the tutorial, you have two things you can do other than moving around.
It is very important for your game to get past this phase as soon as possible. The longer I sit there with just two buttons, killing three flavors of rat ten times each, the less likely I am to think that anything awesome lies behind it all. Giving me something non-interactive next is fine. Armor, a defense, a buff or heal that I will not need in the intro, fine. Very soon after, give me something shiny to hit things with. If I am still in the two-button phase ten minutes into things, I am probably logging off and never coming back.
: Zubon
Advice for future Champions Online players:
The name you choose for your forum name is what becomes your @name. Do not use your account name for that would be stupid. A friend of mine did that and now he has to wait for them to change it for me. I mean for him. Right.
– Ethic
If Guild Wars 2 was not enough, ArenaNet seems to have really been paying attention to what fans have been asking for in other mediums. One of ArenaNet’s crown jewels is their art team. They have produced hands-down some of the best concept art I have ever seen. Their art constantly appears in trade magazines and books like Spectrum. Now, they are going to be releasing a hardback, 128-page concept art book for Guild Wars 2. Fans have been asking for something like this for a long time.  The book’s first showing will be at the upcoming PAX, where they will be giving the books away! Worry not, those stranded in sunnier climes, the book will go on sale at a later date.
On another note, while Guild Wars 2 news is still coming at a decent pace, some of it is crafted through lore forum theory, wiki postings by the devs, or other “off the radar” bits. Right now the folks at Guild Wars 2 Guru are doing a great job at putting these blips on a central radar on their front page. Things like Guild Wars 2 gun concept art!
–Ravious
a speed understander
EVE is going to mix things up a bit. Soon, there will be planets that need to be controlled in order for the rich to get richer. Who controls which planet at which time will be determined by a new FPS / RTS game called Dust 514. The announcement was a while ago, but I didn’t hear about it until my husband saw it on EQ2-daily.com.
Continue reading Dust 514: Sounds like a great idea
She does not mind being in the basement for hours on end. She minds being locked in the basement for hours on end. Open the door, pay attention to her for 30 seconds, and she will happily go back to the couch to nap. If she is not alone in the basement, she may never feel the need to leave.
: Zubon
I joined a raiding alliance. It seemed like the perfect solution. My kin had never beat any raid bosses and I was tired of spending three hours a week dying to the watcher without any rewards. My kin had also been wiping on the first boss of DN with no luck. So I signed up for a DN raid on my alliance one week, and sadly my kin decided to go into DN at the exact same date/time… they just didn’t post it until the night before the raid.
Continue reading I bet on the wrong raid
To the chagrin of many of the old school, whatever games we see inclusive of the MMO genre now have soloability as a necessity to gameplay. Many of the millions are playing their own little game where a bit of social contact is never more than a Party-With click away, should they choose. Even those that crave group challenges as the epitome of their MMO gameplay will find themselves crafting, leveling alts, or advancing rep until the event group starts gathering. Raids have become some paramount achievement because they are easily made difficult requiring a herding of cat-minded guild members to a number of dance steps. Yet, solo content is often just considered going through the grind. “Exalted rep with all the factions,” you say to your guild mate of leisure, “glad you had the time to do that.” The connotation that skill was not required for the achievement would not be missed between the lines of congratulations. Continue reading Soloing Difficulty
Useful: using Twitter to find local vendors on the streets of San Francisco.
Not useful: using Twitter to send DC Metro updates that are all longer than 140 characters.
: Zubon
As you play in Middle-earth, you would never guess that you are running around 900 MPH.
: Zubon