All Posts by gatheris

try Best Buy

that's where i got mine

without having to do any research myself - ahem - does anyone know where the finances come from for the development of this game?

are they going to be dependent on the profitability of Gods and Heroes?

Originally posted by kyrawolf

 

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Originally posted by Gime
You and a ton of other people seem to forget the MMO part in MMORPG. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of onling role-playing game (RPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.
I still can't understand why people want to solo in this type of game... there's also another type of game... they are called "First Person Shooters"... those might be more your speed. Leave the grouping for the adults.

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This is a common view from people who are fine with grouping. I think that may include many developers, which may explain why they are so clueless about solo playing, pretty much putting it exclusively in the beginning of the game sort of as an introduction path to the "real" part of the game, dungeon crawls and raids.

What they don't understand is that it's not the grouping that makes MMORPGs come alive, it's the players that people the world. You don't have to group with them in order to prefer to have them there, for the alive feeling of the game as opposed to the static feel of FPS games that are just you and your computer.

Just as in the real world you don't have to be a joiner, have to be part of this or that orginization, to be part of the world. Or to appreciate that the people, most of whom you don't know and don't want to know, are an essential part of your world.

So it is with virtual worlds, at least for some of us. Perhaps more of us than developers realize.

 

your response saved me from all that typing - though yours was much more kindly phrased than mine normally is - get tired of trying to explain this to people that think there is only one way to play MMORPGs

Originally posted by Nitrius

 

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Originally posted by tachgb

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Originally posted by Lukain

 

For those that didn't get the offer here is a reason why , I emailed SOE & got this response

Response (TSR Richard M.)
09/27/2007 01:42 PM


Hi Mark,

If you didn't get the email with the promotion, it's because you didn't opt-in for the newsletters and promotions. If you'd like to see future promotions, you can chage those settings at our website, such as eq2players.com.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Richard

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Damn that's not true, looking at my 'Newsletter and Promotional E-mail Selections' page, I have EQ2 ticked to recieve newsletters and updates, and I have Promotional E-mails ticked also to recieve e-mails from station only.

Ah well, re-subscribed to the game anyways, and purchased Echoes of Faydwer digitally. Gotta figure out which server has the best population to start a new character on.

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I'am not able to find where i can tick of these, so could anyone push me in the right direction of where i need to go from the eq2player site?

under your account and then email settings

Originally posted by Lukain

For those that didn't get the offer here is a reason why , I emailed SOE & got this response 

Response (TSR Richard M.)	09/27/2007 01:42 PM
Hi Mark, If you didn't get the email with the promotion, it's because you didn't opt-in for the newsletters and promotions. If you'd like to see future promotions, you can chage those settings at our website, such as eq2players.com. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Best regards, Richard

when i was a paying subscriber to EQ2 i would get an email every few days confirming that i had cancelled my newsletter subscriptions even though i hadn't

i would sign up again and a few days later i would get another notification that i had unsubscribed 

i did finally give up

i am not a grouper  in MMOs

the only time i've teamed up is when i been playing with someone i know in RL

but Star Trek was gonna be different for me i thought - i wanted to be a scotty or bones or a spock equivalent and help with the running of a starship - but oh well

personally, i think game companies should aim lower

not lower in quality but aimed at a more select group of gamers

games that would survive just fine with 10k players - maybe several smaller games by the same company

it's a dream of course - they all want a WOW

Originally posted by ianubisi

I'm not worried about it. I won't play games that use this model, so thus I won't be concerned with having to deal with it.

perfectly stated

PVP - if it isn't full loot it is just carebear

I know that all those big bad gankathon, full voiced PVPers out there would beg to differ but is there really any difference between mamby-pamby PVP and plain ol' PVE

Originally posted by lonewolf01

well i been watching over this game for like a years now but seriously nothing ever been mentioned if this game will be open pvp or not i do understand there the RvR thing but guys admit it that if this game isnt open pvp think about wth how would it be if som kids starting to piss u off ksing n pesting u n there nothing u cant do about it......wth ur gonna let urself go n look for another spot to grind blah blah? no doutb som ppl will do that.Soo wth im asking here is there any1 with any info about if this game will have open pvp=can fight/kill ur own side/race/country, i would realy appreciate it if som1 can hook me up with some info like u could imagine i cant read korean either chiness wish i do tho :S 

anyway thk ahead guys hope hears good new soon DL

so unless they are out to create a niche game it ain't gonna happen

yes

and it shows where their focus is, doesn't it

 how about a link?

thanks

SAGA is the only mmo i play on a daily basis so that must be the one

and have you quit the game or are you still paying them your monthly fee?

if it is free - including the box/download of the client i'll certainly give it a shot

if the box/download of the client is not included in this "free" thing - as in they are just talking no monthly fee/subscription but you still gotta pay $50-$60 for the box - i won't give it a second look

nothing worse than buying a game and finding out parts of it are not available to you - as in Oblivions doors to nowhere unless you pay extra

i get the newsletter but i don't get the alerts when someone responds to a watched thread (been going on for months)

i asked 2 sincere questions

interesting how much you were able to make up about it

entertaining though

and i did sign up again - though from what i've read it won't do me any good this time around

no such thing as free updates unless you are not paying a monthly fee