I watched this video with the sound off, and the lady on the right there just seemed to be staring at me, and doing this the whole time:

"Rawr ranr rawr rawr nram nram rawr.."

There's no such thing as 'Pay To Win'. You can't 'win' at MMOs. Where did PTW even come from?!

In fact, when did mashing buttons in a video game faster than others become a measure of achievement in life?

Neverwinter is a perfectly decent game if you are looking for something simple, casual, fun with friends or PUGs, but without spending a monthly fee. Also, Cryptic have thrown a bone to the roleplaying community, with the Foundry.

Neverwinter doesn't really seem to be intended for the hardcore raid/pvp community.

And for those with some creativity, or a group of old-skool D&D buddies, you can potentially have years of fun playing the Foundry.

All this 'waaaaaah! Zen stuff is too expensive!' nonsense is pitiful. If that extra 0.8% is important to you, then I am sorry, and I hope you can find other things to enjoy in life.

I think it's rather decent, considering you don't have to pay a damn cent/penny/chocolate button to play it!

Also, the Foundry is a system that all MMO developers should have these days. Making stuff in the Foundry is the giggedy.

For those wanting to play in peace offline, they are screwed.

So..

Always online DRM. Combined with the €60 price tag for a digital download (or €60 in the shop) puts me off buying any new games anymore.

To be honest, I think it's quite rude of publishers to be charging full price for digital downloads. It's like they bumped priced bit by bit over the last few years as digital download became viable, hoping that by the time they reached full price as physical objects, we would have just failed to notice..

So I vote with my wallet. When a game comes on Steam cheaper, I might buy it. Or, I will pay full price for a physical copy. I'll be damned if I pay full price on a digital copy though.

I don't know why people keep bitching about STO. I log in once or twice a week and have a great time. Foundry access, ships, two characters, and I haven't paid a single cent.

Then again, I'm a PVEer and roleplayer. I don't PVP, and I don't give a crap about 'leet gear', lockboxes, or trying to 'win'. (By the way, you can't actually win at MMOs).

All that for zero cash expenditure. Bargain!

I like this guy. He makes a lot of very solid points about the nature of internet goers, and MMORPG.com's forums. Actually, I think he might be the first person to speak openly about how developers really view forums like MMORPG.com.

So he got into a bit of a PR mashup with some d*cks here at MMORPG.com. The man's a fighter. He's used to brawling. I respect him for being open and honest about things.

Thumbs up to the guy for making his goals reality. For all of you whining about his lack of professionalism, and how 'he doesn't know what he's talking about' - man up and make a MMO, then come back with the experience and knowledge to back your words.

Unfortunately, it's useless for doing what some of us where hoping for..

Because (different from a world transfer) we are not moving your character between data centers, you may only guest on worlds in the same region as your home world. Players on North American home worlds cannot guest on European worlds or vice versa.

Firearms are what, a multi-billion dollar industry? Duh.. of course the NRA and other groups (including the government - tax) are diverting blame.

Stuff doesn't change while people are getting rich.

Take smoking, for example. We all know it kills, and racks up huge costs to the healthy care systems around the world, but they keep on selling and taxing them, while introducing periodical 'band aid' measures, such as hiding them away behind shutters.

Originally posted by clun7

Ok for the most part I'm very glad I picked up tsw when it went b2p. I'm having a great time with investigations and the skill wheel. I just have 1 issue/complaint. What kind of supercomputer do you need to have to run it with decent looking graphics?

I can run gw2 on max settings and get 35-40 fps in most areas, more if I tune my settings down just a little. I consider gw2 to have very respectable graphics. However, if i run tsw on the lowest settings possible I barely get 35 fps. Am I missing something?

What's wrong with 35 fps? The human eye doesn't discern much past 24 fps (which is a very basic way of describing what your tv used to run at). Is it possible that the stutter and flicker is not graphical, but back-and-forth connection, memory access, etc etc

Well deserved! Good job, Funcom!

I'll be looking forward to their next 'outside-the-box' MMO idea.

I don't get it..

Taking time out of the game to use my phone to perform an in-game task.. seems very inefficient.

Also..

Is this even legal? Looks like some guy getting money off of GW2's IP. If that's the case, why is MMORPG promoting this?

Not complaining, mind you. I just don't get it.

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by korvass

*laughs*

 

Supply and demand, I get it.. but wow.. I weep for humanity..

 

 

Why weep? This is actually pretty reasonable as a service I think...

I mean, people play for PLs and buy fake gold all the time... at least with this you are actually playing the game, being actively present in the word (hell, you are actually adding to the active pop of your game), and enjoying the content as presented.

I am lucky enough to have a static duo and enough in game friends to not need this, but I can see it appealing. Having someone to play with you and do the things you want when you want would suit a lot of folks.

Well, that was mostly humour and sarcasm.

But, it does make me sad that even with such world-spanning, instant communication methods like the internet, people still can't find a friend on their own?

*laughs*

Supply and demand, I get it.. but wow.. I weep for humanity..

Renton, I've seen you start at least three of these threads about different games.

My honest advice would be to check out the features offered by each game, read a few reviews, and then just throw down some money.

:)

Considering this doesn't look to be of comparable size to the considered 'norm' for what makes a paid expansion, it seems rather unfair to charge subscribers for what really just looks like a little extra content.

Free for subbies and 10 bucks for F2P folks. Seems more fair to me.

A paid expansion - for me - contains new content, more levels, bits of fun this and that, and new features that, you know, expand on the game.

I'll vote with my wallet, and that's about as far as the discussion goes for me.

Originally posted by Elevenb4
Ok, I was on the fence about this game since DayZ isn't "released" yet. But after reading the arrogance of this guy, no touching this game at all.

This is kind of a point for me. No offence to you or your opinion, but what does it matter if he's arrogant? It's not like you have to have a beer with him, or look after his goldfish. :)

Surely the only thing that should matter to you as a gamer, is whether the game is fun for you to play and invest money in.

I dunno.. I ready it just now, and it seemed like Gamespy were attacking the guy unnecessarily over the same minor issues. He was pretty blunt about it. Maybe he could have said things in a different way, but Gamespy were being a litle bit douchey about it all. I would be frustrated too, if I were him.

The main point of contention seems to be this 100 player thing. In the original Steam feature list, it says 'Up to 100'. Then people start crying about it when they only see 50? And that's the main point Gamespy kept bashing him over the head with.

The whole thing seemed kinda lame and blown out of proportion to me. Then again, I'm not interested in the game, so I can afford to be objective.

It just seems to me that the sense of entitlement among gamers has risen sharply in the last 5 years. Like, any time a few small details are out of place, people scream 'law suite!' and grab pitchforks.

Seriously, if you're interested in this game, and the core idea of the features interests you, just pay your Goddamn money and play it, give it a shot. Quit whining because you think 'up to 100' means 100 exactly!

Still playing. Still getting my main to 80. I like to take time, play casual, play lots of characters. I don't PvP.

I also roleplay a lot, like 90% of my time in-game.

Originally posted by Elsabolts

Originally posted by korvass

People can bitch about Funcom all they like, but I will forever tip my hat to them for always trying to do things just that little bit different to everyone else.

Good on ya Funcom!

I concure " Life-Time " subscriptions are the proof that Funcom has the Gamers concerns first.

*Chuckles* That old sausage again?

Your comment isn't really related to my opinion, but I'll bite.

For one, life-time subs to products that by their very definition, change constantly, is just a dumb idea anyway.

That aside, as far as it looks to me, life-timers are getting all the stuff they did when TSW was a sub game, plus a handsome, exclusive monthly bonus on top.