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01-06-2013, 10:46 AM
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2013 MMO thread
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2012 MMO Thread Firefly Universe Online reactivates with Fox's 'well wishes' | Massively
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01-06-2013, 11:04 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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The prospect of a game set in the Firefly universe doesn't really do anything for me, even as much as I loved the show. It was a show that was great because of the characters, not because of the small amount of lore that was covered in 14 episodes and a movie. I don't see what it would add over any generic space MMO other than attempting to cash in on the name of the tv show. |
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01-06-2013, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Gotta agree with you there, Mc. I also don't believe there's enough there to create a full-blown MMO.
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01-07-2013, 07:16 PM
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01-08-2013, 01:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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They should do books on tape and graphic novels. A comic book series perhaps.
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01-08-2013, 03:28 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Toledo - Spain
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Surprised there isn't a survival/zombie mmo already, as it's a very popular genre right now. We have game mods like Day Z, but not real mmo.
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01-09-2013, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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TERA goes to F2P in Feb. Still too many restrictions on free players I think based on the comparison chart in the link, but not too bad overall.
TERA going free-to-play in Europe and North America | News | PC Gamer |
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01-09-2013, 08:46 PM
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01-09-2013, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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I read a hands on with that game awhile back (I think it was Rock, Paper, Shotgun) that was very, very negative. I don't think there was a good thing said about it. |
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01-09-2013, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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If the price points are what I think they are, it is a pure money grab. Too bad. I'm finding far more MMOs flat out disappointing more than anything. I haven't tried the past couple of days, but I never could get subbed for TOR and people wanting to buy stuff but not being able to was a known issue. Support was non-existent.
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01-09-2013, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Hands On: Marvel Heroes | Rock, Paper, Shotgun *sigh* Give me a DCUO styled game with standard controls and I am all over that. It's amazing CoH trounces the other superhero MMOs so bad, and it's the one that got pulled.
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01-09-2013, 10:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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With ya a hundred percent here. |
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01-22-2013, 12:44 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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02-14-2013, 12:30 AM
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02-14-2013, 10:56 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Well I didn't know there was a MMO Hall of Fame, but they announced the five to be inducted this year:
MMO Hall of Fame Inducts 5 New Games - RuneScape and City of Heroes Get In! - MMO Hall of FameMMO Hall of Fame Very happy to see my all time (and now dearly missed) fav City of Heroes get in. A bit surprised Runescape made it. Last edited by Thomkal : 02-23-2013 at 02:39 PM. |
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02-14-2013, 10:58 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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There may be a problem with getting to the site, so just in case the five that reached the mandatory 60% are:
RuneScape (80% of the votes) Asheron’s Call (80% of the votes) Dark Age of Camelot (80% of the votes) City of Heroes (70% of the votes) Meridian59 (60% of the votes) |
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02-14-2013, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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60% seems low, but the list of +70% looks good.
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02-23-2013, 09:28 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2003
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If you are interested in Defiance (coming out in April):
Just saw this at Green Man Gaming. If you are interested in purchasing - this may be of value (knocks price down from $59.99 to $48.): 20% off with: GMG20-P4DLK-FKYRS ** EDIT: Seems like GMG may not have a stellar reputation. PLEASE proceed with caution... Last edited by tyketime : 02-23-2013 at 02:20 PM. |
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03-11-2013, 11:58 PM
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03-19-2013, 11:04 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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PC Gamer got a look at Elder Scrolls Online:
The Elder Scrolls Online hands-on: first-person mode, skills, stealth and more | PC Gamer EDIT: Just added a video interview with the developers: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/19/th...king-skyrim-2/ Last edited by Thomkal : 03-19-2013 at 11:22 AM. |
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03-19-2013, 11:26 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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Have to say I like the idea of a single player mode with TESO, but not really sure why I would bother with it instead of a modded-up Skyrim - still on the fence on that one, but some green shoots of promise.
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03-24-2013, 02:49 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Is there anyone that has anything good to say about Marvel Heroes? I am a sucker for Marvel games like this and I am hoping it is decent.
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03-24-2013, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I've read a couple places that it's terrible. |
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03-24-2013, 03:03 PM
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One poster on another forum said it is growing on them, but due to it being in closed beta, they can't say anything. Outside of that, yeah, the buzz on it has been terrible.
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03-24-2013, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I know it is free to play. Is that free to play like GW2 or free to play like Wizards 101?
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04-04-2013, 02:39 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Neverwinter's Open Beta starts April 30 after one more closed beta weekend April 12-14.
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Free-to-Play MMO. Sign up for access! |
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04-04-2013, 03:32 PM
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College Prospect
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
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First ive seen the videos, looks really good. |
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04-04-2013, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Some of the old CoH players posted initial stuff on the game and didn't seem positive at all. They kept track of it and got into closed beta and seem to be enjoying it.
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04-11-2013, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Wildstar has entered into closed beta and has a fun new intro trailer:
WildStar enters closed testing, new beta sign-ups still being taken | News | PC Gamer |
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04-11-2013, 06:44 PM
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Too bad NCSoft is developing a history of canning MMOs.
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04-11-2013, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Yeah I was a big City of Heroes fan, so not sure I'm going to support Wildstar-but thought others would be interested. |
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04-11-2013, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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I know of three total offhand, but I think somebody said they are up to five. The game looks decent enough to try out, but I don't think I trust the company outside of the Guild Wars franchise.
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04-30-2013, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Open Beta starts today. I've had the client downloading for the last 3 hours. 48% done. |
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04-30-2013, 04:56 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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You're missing a lot of lag and rubber-banding so don't be in a rush to get on. Plus the servers just went down for maintenace |
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04-30-2013, 08:04 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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I'm on the queue for Neverwinter-started out in the upper 7000's and now suddenly I'm in the 44000's. Yes they are having problems with the queue system
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04-30-2013, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Got in after about 20 mins or so. Lag and rubberbanding mostly gone. A fun part of the game is The Foundry-where players can create adventures for other players to go on. This has already led to recreations of actual Dungeons and Dragons modules. I'm just about to try B2-The Keep on the Borderlands-which I think is the first adventure I ran as a DM. Yes I am a geek
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05-01-2013, 01:06 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Amarillo, TX
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But...B2 takes place in Greyhawk! Sacrilege!
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05-01-2013, 03:12 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: The State of Insanity
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It's a failure of planning to have nearly 2000 people in the queue to log in at 3:00 AM of your second day.
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05-01-2013, 07:57 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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It's called "creative license". Deal with it.  I haven't finished the adventure yet, but so far its good-other than the fact that first cave in the "Cave of Chaos" I went into was full or orcs that did a good job of owning me. And there's far nastier stuff like a troll awaiting me. Last edited by Thomkal : 05-01-2013 at 08:00 AM. |
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05-01-2013, 08:02 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Yeah, I'm fine with queues early in a game's existence when everybody and their brother is playing. But these companies never seem ready to handle the numbers. |
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05-01-2013, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Keep in mind that this is just an open beta. I have no problem with a company ramping up their capacity and testing during the beta. Hopefully this won't be the case when they release.
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05-01-2013, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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No actually I don't either Brian given its a beta-but its also a first impression for many of the players-and some (many?) are instantly turned off by a game they can't get into immediately or shortly after logging in. Its stupid of said players of course given its a beta-but the message boards are full of posts who think that way. And it will be a lot better on release too I think. They would be better served I think to have more capacity on the first day or two of an open beta to help prevent this attitude right from the start. |
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05-01-2013, 12:52 PM
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Apparently they are adding servers since the number of players was higher than expected. Perfect World and Cryptic have enough experience putting out games, let alone F2P games to where there is little excuse for them to not be better prepared.
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05-01-2013, 01:26 PM
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That is a fair point. I was thinking more of a logical perspective, but the customer impression perspective shouldn't be overlooked. Customers shouldn't get turned off by anything that happens in a beta, but that doesn't mean they won't. |
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05-09-2013, 06:55 PM
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After that first day of hiccups, I've actually been playing the hell out of the Neverwinter beta, anybody else? It's not anywhere near the kind of thing you want to evangelize about or anything, but there's just a ton of crap to do/collect/achieve that keeps you coming back, and it's a decent F2P model.
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05-09-2013, 07:03 PM
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I'm watching stuff via Youtube channels. It really hasn't done much for me. Even one person who is max level says there's huge balance issues.
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05-09-2013, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Same here, playing it like mad. I have a lvl 48 HWF on Beholden. Im really liking the core of the game so far, but as you said, it cant be evangelized yet. AH sucks, group queue suck, pvp sucks... but it looks pretty and I love the fighting mechanics. Im sure in due time my suck list will get shorter. Hopefully theyll come down on prices for items, 6 bucks for a bag, 50 for a mount and 5 bucks to even respec is totally absurd. |
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05-09-2013, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Anyone interested in Final Fantasy XIV Realm Reborn im looking into picking that up when it comes out.
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05-10-2013, 02:37 PM
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Grey Dog Software
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ by way of Belleville, IL
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Anyone tried Marvel Heroes yet?
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