If you really have to buy now, then it is ATI.
If you can wait few months NVidia is planning to release a brand new chip, but it will take months before you can get the cheap version for it.

So I say ATI definetly

Originally posted by Arcken

Originally posted by Einstein-DF

 Great article guys. The game is developing wonderfully

 

To think the haters were stating the game would shut down in 6 months....lol....they are actually hiring new people and moving into a bigger building. 

 

Unlike some games....

 

Frankly I smell more spin.

How can a game with such a low population be getting anywhere?

It's actually quite simple

WAR - 10 offices for 10 programmers
DF - 1 office for 10 programmers

Apply this philosophy for every single part of the business........and voila'
We unveiled the trick. of course you need to be a business genious to figure this out.

And by the way DF now has 2 servers as opposed as the only one they had at launch.
This too is a wicked marketing strategy?
That one won't be cheap one though, because renting 10 or more powerful servers (to make the clouded server, which is what DF use) ain't exactly cheap.
So if they opened a new server, the reason is because they had enough people to fill both, not because they wanted to show off.

I didn't play DF for 3 months, but I am back and I plan to stay for a while, I am sure lots of people did the same.

Definetly a big improvement.
I left the game 2 months ago for several reasons, some seem fixed by watching the video.

I have to say there are still a couple of issue NCSoft needs to adress to make this game a competitor for WoW.
The grind (which we don't know if has been fixed) and the armor.

They should tone down the Armor, it is way too busy and from a certain distance you cannot distinguish a player from another or a class from another (apart the mages).
They are not ugly, but they are definetly too Korean, I cannot see myself committing to a long term subscription if I have to look at my character who looks more like a Mech Warrior rather than an epic hero.

But NCSoft is definetly on the right path.

It is a FPS kind of game you know..............
How many FPS you know have more than 1 animation, apart for showing the gun.
You are lucky if they show when you reload the gun.................but apart from that, I don't understand what kind of anymation do yiu expect from a first view in a FPS combat.

I play Darkfall and FV works perfectly.
I am sorry you feel like in this kind of game FV do not work.................but that's your opinion.

I will add that in heavily PVP focused game like MO and Darkfall, First View is a must, not an option.
If you cannot understand the reason why those games use FV, probably those aren't the kind of games you should play.

Would you play C.O.D. in third person view....................no, I thought so.
 

Originally posted by Bob_Blawblaw

Gotta love this line - 'The reorg will also see the publisher "provide greater focus on titles with higher [profit] margin opportunities." '

Does this mean they will focus on making games of a higher quality? Nope.

It means developing cheaper games (Wii, DS, iPhone, Facebook etc).

The layoffs have nothing to do with the quality of work these poor ex-employees were putting out. It's that the games they were likely working on were of a higher budget variety, and deemed to not be able to justify the cost (read:WAR).

So say hello to the new EA - Wii Excercise, and Facebook games comin' at ya!
 

Mhhhh...................not sure about that
Dragon Age = Quality = Profit
Mass Effect = Quality = Profit
FIFA = Quality = Profit
Battlefield = Quality = Profit

I mean it would be stupid to try to sell half baked games when you can have classic games that sell millions instead of 10 that sell thousands.
Let's see how it goes, but let's remember that the current CEO of EA was the founder of Bioware which only makes quality games...........so I won't be that sure that EA is choosing quantity over quality this time.

Originally posted by coffee

As much as I hate to spark off yet another "wow pet store" thread, I thought this would be interesting to peeps.

WoW.com ran a poll to see what their readers thought on the "pet store", as we can be sure a very high % are current wow players its a more acurrate sampling of the "WoW communities" feelings on the "pet store".

The poll has since dropped off the front page of WoW.com so i doubt it will see much more traffic, I am also aware many of the *ahem* anti-wow/blizzard crowed will spam the poll so I have included a screen shot as of November 9th 4:30GMT.

http://www.wow.com/2009/11/05/breakfast-topic-will-you-buy-the-new-in-game-pets/

As you can see from the ~17,000 voters 1/3 seem to like the idea, 1/3 are indifferent and 1/3 hate the idea.  Make of that what you will.

 

Not really.............2/3 said they do not like the idea from what I get.
And yes...........we all know there are people who are going to buy them, the same people who buy gold from third party.
We all know there is a market......................but that's not the point.

The point is, should developers legalise virtual selling in their games?
I believe they shouldn't, as the poll showed 2/3 of players are against.....and keep in mind that WoW players are mainly casuals.
For real MMORPG players that figure in favour of RMT would be much smaller, trust me.

So the question is:
"Considering there is a market for RMT, would this market be more profitable than the subscription market?"
We will discover it pretty soon

To me RMT is only good on failed MMORPGs to keep them alive, it shouldn't be the preferred choice for a MMO.
That's my 2 cents

They still need to do something to entertain the newbies until they get competitive in PvP.
I believe after the next expansion the game will be a much better place for noobs, in which case they might offer the trial.

Originally posted by x3r0h

February 2nd, 2010. I don't like Star Trek. I don't like sci-fi. But for some odd reason, my gut tells me this is going to be one of the best games of all time. Just a gut feeling.

Check out the release date info at: http://www.massively.com/2009/11/09/its-official-star-trek-online-releases-february-2nd-2010/

I feel the opposite.

I like Star Trek, I sort of like SCI-FI, but for some reason I think this game will be a disaster.
It does feel too Console like for my taste.................but we will see

Originally posted by Agricola1

OK first I'd like to apologize for slagging off Aventurine also I'd like to apologize to Tasos for anything I said about him and his mother. I'm not sure if Downtoearth is still posting here but he was right (eventually) and this game was released. I have held back from purchasing this game due to waiting for other games (that have been pushed back) and that I was sure DFO would have shut down by now and Aventurine gone into bankruptcy. However DFO is still here and still offering open world PvP and sandbox play.

I'm not into fantasy games as much as sci fi but it seems DFO is offering alot in a large open world. Since this year has been a total loss for MMORPGs and next year will also and I haven't played an MMORPG since AoC last year I need my fix! So are there any tips apart from not buying DFO?

Listen mate.
Darkfall needs many more features added............but even as it is, it is still the best MMO out there.

Darkfall is a world not a game, if you like politics, backstabbing, PKing, drama then Darkfall is for you.
I have to say that with the new NA server up both the servers (EU1 and NA1) looks a bit empty but that was obvious, since they split the player base in 2.
With the new expansion DF will bring many new players and the game will pick up yet again.

The world is complete and awesome, it just need to be populated, many places are still missing the mobs.
But AV is adding slowly all the feature missing, and I have to say Tasos and Co had a vision and they are sticking with it.
They don't care what people says, they keep doing the game they said they would.
Tasos always said DF is a niche game and he meant it.
This game is one of those cult games that start slowly but grows with time (like EvE)

Darkfall is the best game at the moment if you can stomach losing all your belongings more than once, that is.................

Honestly, I spent 50 Dollars for Aion, I say that Darkfall deserve "wasting" those 50 Dollars more than Aion.
If you are from America NA1 is a pretty damn place to be.

PS: Oh.................... and do join a Clan, you will have much more fun

Originally posted by skeaser

Originally posted by metalliham

WAR is a great game.

 

I disagree, as do the majority who played the game.

I'm sorry that a game you enjoy is dying, but that's what it is.

QFT

Souless game..............no amount of improvment can save this game, it just doesn't feel right

Mythic will be merged with Bioware, which will take over the EA MMOs as well (it will be a bit more like Blizzard)
Watch this space

Originally posted by johnspartan

Wonderful article.

But the vast majority of those who read it will have to first remove their head from their own ass before they are able to comprehend what it actually means.

99.9% of gamers are retarded.

Protest charity!

Idiots.

How much did you donate this year in charity?
Let me guess..............zero dollars.

So you are waiting for Blizzard to start, what stops you going to your nearest Charity Shop and donate a bit of your hard earned cash?

Blizzard introduced the RMT with the charity attached, so naive people like you would not noticed the cash shop as such, then when the charity thing finishes, you still won't notice it, but they will start selling items from 100% profit.
They will keep introducing more and more stuff  in small steps so you keep not noticing it.
When they will end up selling entire T8 Epic Armors you still won't notice it.

So Blizzard will have achieved its goal to introduce full RMT without causing any uproar and that's all because people like you which are so simple not to see beyond the charity thing.

The point is not the charity, it's the fact they use charity to throw smoke on your face and cover the fact they are actually launching a cash shop which they gonna use for other purposes after that..........and people like you fall for it.
So who is the stupid............

Originally posted by Xerith

Originally posted by ste2000

This smell bullshit.

AoC has been built to be the WoW killer, not to have a tight smaller community.
So lets not change the rules now.
The reason why AoC is not a WoW killer is mainly because Funcom doesn't give a shit about the comunity.

Funcom released a game half done (until lvl 20), with no PvP rules, sieges not working, no PvE after lvl 20, client crushing every half an hour or so, just to mention few issues.
But worse of all, you lied to your customers (unforgiveable)
All the community in Beta said you should have waited few more months before releasing that lump of pixels............but what do we know.

Famine........can you tell your friends at Funcom that AoC should have been like the Tortage bit (all of it), not just the first 20 lvl.
After 2 years they still don't get it.
You had an original idea but didn't take advantage (the storyline thingy).......now Bioware stole it from you and they gonna get the rewards.
Shame.

You are still in time though, that is if the developers finally wake up and pull their heads off their arse.
Without the storyline element throughout the whole game, AoC will always be an average game, no matter how much crap you add to it.

If I had the same experience of Tortage throughout the whole game, I would come back to AoC.
Until then it is just a waste of time whatever you do, I am afraid.

 

 

I actually feel the opposite about this, and if I may be so bold, so does a large portion of the community that is playing. A huge complaint on the AoC boards and a request that has been asked for time and again is the ability to completely skip Tortage on your alts and have a level 20 character from the onset.

I respect your view...............but you are one of those few who like the game as it is.
I was talking about the other 70% who left already.

I understand that repeating the same storyline in tortage can be annoying if you reroll often, but my theory was that the whole game should have been like Tortage............end game included, where new stories were addedd to keep the player entertained, so you didn't have to reroll 20 times because you get bored with the end game.

The point of MMORPGs is not to reroll a new character.........the more you reroll the more a MMORPG suxx, because it means the end game is kinda boring, and it shouldn't

Bioware SWTOR will show Funcom what AoC could have been if they actually finished the game with the same standards as the Tortage bit.

Originally posted by kishe

Originally posted by ste2000

Trailers, screenshots anything that shows this stuff?
Or shall we just believe their word?

This game has even less info than Darkfall had during Beta.
Is there a way Starvault can release some kind of beta footage (it takes few hours to edit) so we know what the game looks like now?

Is it Tasos working for them too or what?

 

1/10 for trolling

 

Youtube is full of MO beta leaks, go look for yourself

Yes it is full of vapor.
Do me a favor, there are 2  official beta trailers and 3-4 beta leaks in total.
And between all of them they show basically nothing interesting.

Considering the game is coming out Q1 2010, there is not a great deal of material going around.
I understand the game is in bad shape (from beta leakers), yet if they could release trailers of what they actually implemented and works, they might attract some more interest to the game.

If a company has to rely on beta leaks for marketing, it is not a good sign really.
 

I agree with Lordwhatever, let's stop blaming the launch.

Let's say things like they really are...........AoC is just boring.

Originally posted by maskedweasel

Originally posted by fyerwall

Originally posted by ste2000

It doesn't matter................

There is nothing wrong with the NGE
Problem is that NGE was the wrong thing to do to SWG.

But if you make a game based on the NGE theory, it's not a problem................as long as we know that in advance.

 

Aye.

Having someone who worked on SWG and helped with the NGE doesnt mean that TOR will be any worse.

I mean NGE changed the way the game worked and played, in the middle of the game while players were already used to the old way.

The NGE in SWG was an MMO fluke. And since that time I dont think we will see any dev team pulling that 180 after launch anytime soon.

No one knows how TOR will play, or what the game is like currently. So anything done to the game before launch wont have any real impact on anything save for the unfounded expectations of the potential player who created a would be TOR in their head.

Long story short: Who really cares?

 

Who really cares?  Obviously people who wouldn'tve bought the game anyway due to misinformation about its gameplay and what it really is.  They're the type of people who are just looking for logs to throw on the fire, and the same kind of people who will trash talk the game even if it is well executed and popular.  For those reasons, it should be an easy dismissal by anyone that can clearly understand that a single poorly executed developmental update to an already bug ridden game (as fun as it was at the time) by a collaborating developer does not automatically infer that the developer can not deviate or create something worthwhile with a groundbreaking and highly influential studio.    Did you get all that?  Good.

I think he did, although I believe you probably didn't................

Unfortunately there are 2 different kind of people who play modern MMORPGs.
Real MMORPGs players, who are the ones who put a focus on the RPG part of the world and like to build their charater slowly by playing the game.
And there are the single player gamers who play the MMORPGs for the Massively aspect and don't give a stuff of the RPG element, they want to be Uber now so they can compete with others as soon as possible.

Because of this second category, RMT will be introduced in almost every MMORPG unfortunately.
I am old school and I don't like companies implementiong cash shops in the games, therefore I won't play those games.
Others unfortunately will.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Originally posted by MMO_Doubter

Originally posted by Ruyn

Blizzard needs to be very careful here.  Trust is a hard thing to re-earn after losing it.  If Blizz introduces a full RMT model for things like gear, etc you will hear a "disturbance" that would make SWG NGE or Trammel to UO's outrage seem like a whisper.

Players don't forget and seldom forgive.  If something like that happens then Blizzard really should be worrying about the success of their next title.

I have already crossed off SC2, D3, and the next Blizzard MMO, unless this move is backed away from.

 

Apparently from what I have been hearing there will be a "free" option for people to play on battlenet servers and there will also be a payment option on battlenet as well. If Blizzard does the sub+rmt model for their new mmo I will not be playing that either.

I second this.

I am not gonna play any game that has cash shop in it, even if they sell fried air
I just don't like the concept ...........they shoulxd do more to eradicate the gold sellers, lazy bastards, instead of give in and doing it themselves.

QFT the OP

I mean this game is pathetically a clone of WoW
The graphics are identical, the UI is identical

I am starting to think that Blizzard is selling the engines to other companies and those companies don't even have the decency to redesign the sample models.........................
There is another game around who is very similar (as in clone) to WoW, so with Alganon will be 2 WoW clones around already.