Bask in the attention granted by the Mighty Ghostcrawler all you want, it doesn't change the fact that Greg Street and the influence of Activision are directly responsible for what has become WoW's equivalent of Star Wars Galaxies ill-considered New Game Experience.  Street's experience before WoW was in Real-Time Strategy games. With his re-definition of role-playing as the "role" played in Dungeon and Raid groups, he has essentially turned once thought-out player characters into RTS units, lacking in any real depth or variance from one another. The MOP talent changes were a further push in this direction.  Extol Street all you want, but the current World of Warcraft is a far shallower experience than the original vision of the game.

I was ready to participate here, until the GameGuard launcher popped open. I know some people don't mind, but I just don't like it.

I have plenty of other things to play.

ESports, ugh.

It'll be interesting to see if the PvPers will put their money where their mouth is and support this.

I had this happen last night for the first time and I've been playing since the first beta weekend. I found that if I waited instead of being quick to hit the reboot, it straightened itself out.

ArenaNet has been tinkering a lot with the game without taking the servers down. That's bound to cause some hickups along the way.

Torchlight 2 is not Diablo 3! It can be played offline solo, network LAN, or online co-op mode. Take your pick!

The guys at Runic made this for Diablo fans. It's a far better game than the mess that is Diablo 3!

Hellgate: London is a good game, what there is of it. The big mistake Flagship made with it was trying to do too much at once. A single-player focus with LAN mode would have given the game a solid player base, provided they could keep Bill Roper from spending so much of the budget on PR tours. Plus there was the whole "using your game assets as collateral with foreign investors" thing.

Had they done like Runic did with Torchlight, HG: L would have a couple of expansions under their belts by now. Flagship just tried to do too much too soon.

I am not impressed by the live action promo. Did I hear that these LOTR knockoffs are going to be in cutscenes in the expansion?

What a waste of development $$$!

I guess I've never understood the drive to grant incentives for being social. Players either are social or they aren't. Some people just want to do their own thing within the framework of a persistant world while others feel the need to chat with everyone and won't take two steps without some form of group. Dangling juicy rewards for socializing feels to me like your mom making you play with the neighbor kids. In the end, the developer that does this risks alienating the person who is doesn't want to be part of a herd.

I've been interested in Wildstar since it was announced, but the fact that they have someone who describes themselves as "an avid MMO player and guild master" leaves me a little cold. At my age, I don't want or need someone encouraging me to "make new friends". We're not all middle-schoolers. To my mind, relationships should be organic, not something that has to be encouraged and incentivized.

Yes, I know they're claiming that you can play solo if you want, but the undertext seems to suggest that being in a guild is SO much better! Ugh!

Like LOTRO before it, SWTOR is about to be invaded by the Skint Armada!

I'm hoping that the mentioned costume items, as well as the silly "Hunger" event were just places where the developers were simply messing around for the last beta test. The world that has been created for this game is too rich to have it littered with clownish costume items. We already have World of Warcraft for that.

After playing since launch, buying D3, and enjoying the Guild Wars 2 beta weekends, I'm trying real hard to find my GiveADamn.

I've actually gone back and picked up Torchlight again. Better game, less hassle.

Now, I'm just waiting for Torchlight II.

This was an issue I brought up during beta. Apparently, Trion didn't agree. Riding a horse in Rift can seriously put you to sleep.