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General: Massey: Accessible Subscription MMOs?
News Discussion « General Discussion 7/04/09 6:41:55 AM
100% agree with you Dana. Another example of low requirement and high enjoyment game is classic Ultima Online. It doesn't matter how incredibily old for a game UO is, I still see hundreds of players logging in amateurial servers. It is all about that: good gameplay, immediate action, simple graphics, great fun! |
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What a weak line-up the MMO world has
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 1/06/09 7:58:29 AM
Reading threads like this, I really feel at home Recently, after AoC, another attempt at WoW with the release of WotlK (lasted one month before overwhelming boredom), I chose to try Warhammer Online, and it's nearly the very same do-and-repeat unimmaginative stuff. I am waiting (and hoping...) for Darkfall, too, and meanwhile I play simple flash games and old single-player VGs (because yes, they are more entertaining than the average MMO out there!). It's incredible how all the economic potential of MMOs market is wasted: today's MMOs are mature products, and need some sort of innovation to retain consumers' interest. But no software house invests in creativity, all the money goes to SW development and marketing. The proof of this is how we lack big minds like Garriott (I cannot blame him for the outcome of Tabula Rasa, NCSoft was not the place to go really...) or Sid Meyer, people who invented brand new videogame genres of planetary success thanks to great ideas and smart gaming mechanics. And if nothing new comes, there's always pen-and-paper RPGs (but who has the time to arrange a group of players this days? Ah, the joyful times of youth! |
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Made it! It was that little tab named Signup, thanks for helping :)
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Hi guys!
I would really like to give EVE a try. I read there's a 15-days trial available, so I downloaded the client right now, but.... where do I take the CD-KEY to create a new account? Is there a registration or something to do on the EVE website (I can't find it though... :( )? Plese help this poor nOOb to find the right way into the galaxy! :D |
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Sigh.. done with WoW.. need a new game.
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 10/06/06 6:28:08 AM
Since I'm in the very same position as you (played WoW inside out), now apart from some occasional nice PvP in the battlegrounds and waiting too see what the expansion will bring, I'm looking for fresh air. I'm keeping my eyes on: 1) Warhammer Online, if it keeps half the promises they made, it will be a great PvP game 2) Neverwinter Nights 2, I had a NWN1 roleplay server some years ago and it was huge fun. NWN2 will bring great graphics and more customizables, pity they didn't work on the multiplayer game server (was quite crappy) 3) Darkfall, I read some devs thoughts about implementing a really free world with little restrictions, seems nice to me, we'll see if they succeed in balancing it enough 4) Vanguard, I still can't understand if this is going to be another crappy EQ clone, or a deep and roleplayable setting.... it has some appeal though. My list is about games not yet playable (sigh... beta tests or in development...). If you want a different game to play NOW, I must say I didn't find anything better than WoW. I tried Lineage 2, Guild Wars, EQ2 (before PvP patch), D&D Online, Silkroad, City of Heroes, SWG and some other, older titles.... to be honest, after the initial appeal (because NEW is always BETTER, at least for some time ;) they showed to be much more boring than WoW. So the conclusion is: keep playing only the things you like in WoW (for me they are the occasional BGs, no grinding and no raiding at all!), and wait some months to try new toys. If you like roleplaying, UO and NWN1 are still, in my opinion, the best choices. |
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Good tips, just wanted to add another one:
Avoid enchanting as a gold-generating profession. On all servers I played on, enchanters had to spend tons of money to get to 300 skill. After that, they try to sell their services spamming messages like "selling X enchant, for materials price + fee". Usually people react pretending you lower the fee price, some even tell you shouldn't ask any fee other than mats value (!!). Moreover, it is the only profession which doesn't let you sell your products on the AH, so you have a smaller population to sell to. Better to choose alchemy+herbalism as the OP said, or be a pure gatherer taking a combination of herbalism, skinning and/or mining (I'm making good money as herb/skinner). If you really really want to be an enchanter, be sure to visit dungeons regularly so you can disenchant the least useful drops and sell the shards/dusts on the AH. |
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