Originally posted by BadSpock

I'm assuming there was/is an embargo on being able to show us gameplay videos?

 

I was solo. No gameplay vids, sorry!

Originally posted by jtcgs

Umm, the entire article is more of a "let me try to convience people this is like TES" instead of "This is what I saw in the game".

Not a good sign seeing as how you just actually played the game...HOW is it like TES? What did you actually SEE? o.O is Zenimax feeling so much heat by the parent company because of the backlash that they are paying for articles to as fluff pieces to try to change the games perceptions?

Tell us HOW and WHY its actually like TES if you expect that...worse yet, why do it on THIS site where there are a majority of DaoC fans that actually WANT IT to be non-TES.

I saw all the same stuff we covered extensively last week, so I didn't want to rehash it. It was the same build. Going into this I had one real goal in mind: find out if TESO actually felt Elder Scrolls. To me, it doesn't matter what the game is like if they boned this up. They would be missing the point. People are excited because they want to play Elder Scrolls...online! If it was just a standard MMO with an ES skin it would be a bust and so that's really what I wanted to find out.

You can run around and pretty much do what you want. The character creation is just as deep (if not deeper) than the singleplayer titles. The customization is too (skills, weapons and such). And the combat really embodies the spirit of Elder Scrolls combat. However, the whole package doesn't feel as good as say, Skyrim, but as I noted in the article, that's OK. There's no way it could have been.

No one is paying me, or us, for anything. Feel free to discuss the article, but let's leave the conspiracy theories at the door. I don't know if ESO will pan out to be an awesome game in the end -- but I do feel that they're doing an admirable job on geting the 'Elder Scrolls feel' right based on what I played at PAX, and that really frees up the rest of the stuff to even matter for me.  That's what the purpose of this article was. We've got tons of straight information coverage for you to pore over and it's all from the build shown on the floor.

Originally posted by BrownAle

I see a fair amount of games with no ability to post in sub forums. Is it suppose to be that way? Should we post in the pub when discussing these game?

 

If you need me to i can link at least 10-15 games listed here with no possiblity to post in a sub forum for the game.

 

When you click ont hese games it just shows the overview and a large grey area where the forum posts would go.  Often they have no screen shots either.

Please get in touch with me at community AT mmorpg DOT com with this list and I'll get it to the right person if necessary. :)

Originally posted by Torvaldr
What I would love to see for any game is the daily trending over a long period so I could see where the peak concurrency hits.  It would be interesting know what contributes to peak concurrency.

Probably prime time. :P

I'll help you all out here. :)

Now that we are in a post-subscription world, you want to look for the following metrics:

• Daily Active Users (or DAU) / Monthly Active Users (or MAU)
• Peak Concurrent Users (PCU)

The first metric tells you, as you might imagine, how many people total are playing the game every day (or month). The second metric tells you how many users are logged in at once during a day.. For example, Riot Games recently reported that League of Legends is hitting 5 million PCU.

I'm glad to see TERA is doing better with the switchover, but I generally don't pay attention to the "registered users" metric. It's pretty much worthless. In TERA's case, it tells us the game has improved since going F2P, and that's about it.

I'm fairly certain the Cathar Honor Sword is a nod to the Thundercats, but this is still pretty funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyI9sax7FOA&feature=youtu.be

As Ben said, we went ahead and removed the listing and forums at the developer's request.

Locking this now.

Originally posted by Karteli

Or .. it's to just get people to know each other who post here, what their interests are. =D

Pretty much this.

MMORPG.com has partnered with Aeria Games to give out gift pack keys for the Closed Beta of Scarlet Blade. Each key will grant you a number of useful consumables to get you started on your adventures, so be sure to grab one quick before they all run out!

Get your key here!

Originally posted by Jemcrystal
Just that.  No more linking videos.  Embed plz.

Looked into this for you! Our code wizards are working on this now. ;)

Camelot Unchained is currently (far and away) the most discussed game on our forums. The rating you are referring to is our Hype Meter. This meter is used to gauge community interest in a game pre-release. Once a game is released, the meter converts to a Rating meter, which allows for community members to actually rate the game based on their experience with it.

In short: there's just a lot of hype surrounding this title. If you want to know why, I suggest you peruse our CU forums and see what other people are saying about the game!

Originally posted by Yanted

Hi,

I just grabbed a key, and followed the inscription process on the site.

i've got this message :

"The access key you entered does not exist. Please check the key."

Can an admin help me on this ?

 

 

Get in touch with me at mikeb AT mmorpg DOT com and we'll see if we can sort you out!

Originally posted by nilden
Even better hold a contest and pick the top winners with MMORPG designs to put on merch like t-shirts, mugs, bags, etc. Then use the money to fix the search function. I tease.

Fairly sure we set something like this up a while ago. I'll check again!

Originally posted by tiefighter25

It has been datamined that SWTOR's cartel shop will be expanding the different types of Jawagrams you can purchase to send to other players.

Link?

Originally posted by catlana

Originally posted by vadess40

Originally posted by gaou

to anyone interested in the new op, i suggest checking out darth haters preview of it.  they werent able to complete but from what they got through, sounds like alot of fun and pretty long

 

http://www.darthhater.com/articles/feature/23310-operations-preview-scum-and-villainy

 

My raid group ran through the SM version of the ops. I'll be honest it is a tough operation that will require a lot of strategic planning. However, it was tonnes of fun and really makes both my character and how to do ops fresh. 

One thing I'll say is that there are 5 main bosses in the ops that count towards your achievement system,  and 2 mini-bosses. Though the 2 mini bosses might as well be main bosses because they are toughies, sometimes more so than the main bosses. It will be interesting to see how different groups do the giant puzzle for one of the mini-boss fights.

I am glad to hear that Bioware decide to make the operation tough. PVE content without challenge gets boring very fast.  

Yeah, my original crew pretty much quit because the launch OPs were a bit on the easy side.

Originally posted by tiefighter25
Personally I think it's kind of premature to comment on content on a test server that may change; and more importantly, no one really knows how it will mesh with the Makeb x-pack.

 

Developers tend to put stuff on test servers because they are looking for feedback and help finding bugs. ;)

As for me, it's part of my job to comment on all this stuff!