…sorry..this is awesome:
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Very interesting pieces about Warhammer out there right now…all with the same theme. First up is Massively:
Second one comes from Snaffy’s:
The message here? WAR still suffers from an identity crisis. Take note of #1 prediction for 2009: “Warhammer will continue to have it’s audience shrunk. This will not be a bad thing because they will also find themselves and start really coming into their own as an RvR (…not PvE…) alternative to WoW. They will fall into the same issues as Planetside does for new players.” It’s not going to be a good summer for WAR as they continue to figure out what audience they want to appeal too. The recent shake-up and grouping with Bioware will hopefully help in this area, but time is running out due to the upcoming titles that might just have a better sense of self than WAR does. Really, they need to go as niche as possible with WAR. Sure, the money is in the big WoW market but..seriously..this is about being realistic. Eve is a great template on how to stay niche, and then build an audience from there. Darkfall is kind of in the space where WAR should be. Mythic should go head to head with those guys…and they would win hands down. It’s not too late. It wouldn’t take much to turn WAR into an Eve-like game where PVP and PVE are in a healthy(-ish) balance with one another. Oh oh oh….here’s a nice little feature list. Cause we all like lists. - Remove tiered approach to RvR. This is gating your community and you don’t need to do that. Open the world up. Make it dangerous. I really think that there is a market where Darkfall is trying to land, but is missing. I think WAR can nail it. D out. Good gawd guys:
Yes. The Great Firewall of China continues to be build brick by digital brick. It seems that the Chinese never learned their lessons the last time they tired to keep the nomadic hordes from invading their country. Interesting to notes from that:
I know. Can’t help but wonder who the Wu Sangui is going to be in this modern story…eh? Only a matter of time. D out. I found the answer: I was grumpy or in some weird state when I first fired up Runes of Magic. The game is actually quite good. It’s not original in any sense of the word, but it is good. My original thoughts regarding UI and graphics remain, i.e. those are a direct rip-off of WoW and they could have done better. But, if you put everything else “into the pot” and just play, then you come out with a pretty good experience. Right now, my character is a level 10 Scout, level 6 Mage….which means I rain death from a distance. Quests focus on the trilogy of “kill 10 rats”, “go deliver that to there” and “go find that over there”. Crafting is really nothing special that I can see so far, except that you can be any and all crafting professions. I have not participated in the RMT yet, but I plan to in order to see how they’ve done it and how what the value is. The most unique part of the game up to now has been the dual class system. With my Mage class up to level 6, I now have access to some spells as a Scout…like Fireball. So, I usually throw down a vampire arrow (DoT), then a Fireball and maybe another arrow shot if the thing is still alive. Usually, most mobs don’t even get to me before they drop. You can change your class in your house. Simply talk to your house maid and select which class you want to be your Primary and which one you want to be the secondary….and off you go. PvP. I did do a 1 v 1 PvP match as well and I kind of dominated the whole thing ;). It was against a Rogue and he was a very good sport about me shoving my arrows up his ass for the better part of 15 minutes. Again, same as in WoW, you get Honor points for winning PvP matches. Up to now, I have no idea what you use them for…probably for equipment. Here’s the thing. Runes of Magic is just different enough from WoW for bored WoW players who tire of that world. It doesn’t shock the system and pretend to be something its not. It is a WoW clone on the surface with some tweaks in gameplay that make it fresh enough to stay. I played almost all day yesterday and I plan to keep playing. …shame on me for being grumpy. D out. It was bound to happen…a price war. For shuttles no less. Somebody, in my target system that has been really lucrative for my shuttle business has come in and started to undercut me. When I first saw this, I kind of just said, “damn”, and listed the price a couple thousand below his. No biggie. I have plenty of headroom with the price I’m charging as it is a price for the convenience of shuttles actually being in that particular system. The price stayed roughly the same for the last 3-4 days and just as I logged in this morning I noticed that he did it again. He’s just listing the price 1000 ISK below mine each time, so he’s not aggressive…but he is poking me. I’ve got a strategy in mind so we’ll see how it goes. The drone business has not been touched. Nobody has come in to my targeted systems to try and undercut me…but it’s coming I’m sure. In the meantime, thoughts continue on how to expand my industrial empire. mmmmmwwwaaahahahahahaaa!! : ) D out. ummmm…ok?
D out. First off…thanks everyone for the thoughts from the last post. Very much appreciated. Hard to segue from that, I know…but I’m going to anyway. Eve Online. What has been going on there? Well…Johanthan and I have been playing pretty regularly and we’ve mostly been doing mining together. A couple days ago, we managed to pull in about 10 million ISK in ore…each…with his Hulk and my Retriever. That is not bad at all. Most of the trit from my half went to production of drones and shuttles, which will turn into way more than 10 million ISK at the end of the day. The other great news is that my Mammoth can now fit a whole can of ore, so we are well set up for mining operations right now…but we have lots of room to grow and that is what this post is about. Up to this point, my training has been about beam cross-training with the focus being a kick-ass Harbinger. With only a day left to go in that training cycle, I can now start to think about other things. I don’t know if I’ll buy are Harbinger just yet…but at least I now have the option to do so when the mood strikes. I now realize, after the last mining op, that I will have to start the training plan for the Hulk. Looking at EveMon, I have about 23 days to look forward to for that. That gives me more than enough time to save up enough ISK to pay for the thing. After that, we’ll have two Hulks tearing up our (…new…) secret mining spot. The trit…at that point…should be just flowing and then I can start to really ramp up the production side of things. I think that is the way to go….until something more shiny comes along. We are also looking at the Orca as well to replace the Mammoth as the dump truck of our little operation. I talked a bit about production, so what’s the status and plans for that. Well…so far, my production has been limited to drones and shuttles. I’ve been thinking of expanding the ship making aspect of this by trying Badgers or getting into the ship component side and trying Invul Fields. Both of these have been recommended to me, but so far I haven’t moved on it. Right now, it’s a question of getting a good supply of trit going and I think I might be over-reaching if I put something else in the hopper. Once the other Hulk comes online, then I will probably be in a good spot for expanding. So…Eve keeps ticking away and the plans of what I need to do keep piling up. All systems normal D out. Got the phone call last night that my grandma (…on my father’s side..) passed away, so I just wanted to write a bit about her for today. Eggnog. That’s the memory that sticks out the most when it comes to her. We went there one Christmas and she introduced me to Eggnog. Man…I must have drank gallons of the stuff at the time because I can’t drink it anymore. I think I drank a lifetime supply at the time Family reunions were also quite big back in the day. There is a ferry that use to take us across the bay from Manitoulin Island to Tobermory to these reunions, which is one hell of a ride if the wind is high (….read: Darren got sea sick…). During these family reunions, I remember Grandma making lots of bacon and toast for some reason. lol….you wonder where I get it from. Grandma had a very dry sense of humor that would just floor you…and, she was a tough bird as well. She was 85.
D out There are a couple things that caught my eye this morning as I tried desperately to wake up. First up would be Star Trek Online. From a pure theoretical standpoint, I think that they are on the right track when it comes to combat:
Most Star Trek fans are very aware that combat within Star Trek is rooted deeply in Naval combat. It’s not quick. It’s not about balls to the wall pwnage. It’s about movement and positioning in order to bring the maximum amount of firepower on your opponent. Not only that, it’s about hitting them where it hurts the most while denying them the opportunity to do the same to you. If they even hint at bringing in twitch combat into STO, then they have failed the IP. So far, it looks like they are doing the IP justice. Now, we just have to hear more about the non-combat options in STO because we all know Star Trek is more than just phasers and photon torpedoes. The second piece of news was this story about Darkfall. What really caught my eye was this:
Darkfall is shaping up to be one of those games where a certain type of player has taken over the game completely. What happens next one of two things: devs do something about it to plug the number of holes that asshats can exploit….or….this game bleeds to the point where Aventurine can no longer support the game. Remember, Darkfall is Aventurine’s only MMO product…so they can’t afford to bleed players for stupid reasons like code exploits. It’s a question of numbers and momentum for this game and both are trending in the wrong direction and need to be addressed in order for it to be a viable PvP alternative to games like WAR or EVE. It’s got potential to do that, but you just have to ask the drunk, loud, obnoxious uncles to kindly leave the family BBQ to get there. Last, but certainly not least is Aion. Remember that Simpsons episode where Lisa goes up against Mailbu Stacy? There was that one scene where Lisa was in front of a crowd waiting to buy the new Mailibu Stacy doll…oh…here is a nice description of the scene:
…Aion apparently has a new hat… D out. I’m feeling like a shit disturber today. So, in the spirit of shit-disturb…dom, here is the difference between “carebears” and “hardcore” players. I’ll leave it to all of you to determine which is which: /runs and hides. D out. |
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