Originally posted by Strands

Requiem: Memento Mori, Alganon shortly after its release, SUN online.

Hehe, Alganon is getting so much hate so yeh its very possible they wont last long at all lol

WoW for sure.

Graphics look nice for my taste, getting sick of thoose insansly bright f2p games where your weapon is glowing with 15 diffrent colours. Gonna give this one a go.

I suppose EVE is a wow clone also ? 

Originally posted by Death1942

I'm in the same boat as you but i am very lucky and i have a world class games development training centre in my town

 

My plan is 2 years at this Special institute getting a diploma of games development (Programming) and a Business diploma at the same time (both courses only run 2 and a half days a week)

 

Once that is done i am going to my local Uni (i had a choice between a more theory or a more practical based Uni and i chose the latter) and doing a degree in software engineering (most likely specialising in games) and the 1st course knocks off a year from that degree.

 

While all that is done i am going to mod and help my friend make games in an effort to build our portfolios (and have fun of course) and above all try and gain as much experiance as i can.

 

As for you, Computer science is nice (and hard to get into) but realistically when it comes to games you want experiance and practical skills more than theory.

A lot of the courses have work placement options and I would also work on a side project while in university so practical skills should not be a problem. I'm just finding it hard to find the right course that would help me the most in becomming a game programmer.

Originally posted by Abrahmm

I would first try to learn a little bit of programming on your own to make sure you enjoy programming and aren't just doing it in order to make games. You may actually enjoy designing game better than you like programming.

If you find you enjoy programming, go for a traditional Computer Science degree. A computer science degree will give you the opportunity to be a game programmer, or any other type of programmer. A game degree will only allow you to work on games.

You may find that you like programming but don't care for game development, or don't want to do it professionally. That's the boat I'm in. I do some basic game programming in my free time, but I probably won't do it professionally, just keep it as a hobby. Regular programming jobs pay more than equivalent game programming jobs because competition for game jobs is higher.

I know a tiny bit of python and wrote a few games like a guessing game, and I enjoyed it ^^ . I love games so I  think it would be a lot more intresting making games then software but I suppose it's better to leave my options open when I know so little about programming.

Basically  I have been a gamer for as long I can remember and I am very intrested in becomming a game programmer. I am doing my last year in school and will be going to University next year and was wondering what type of course would it be best to do Computer science or courses specialising in game development?

What would it take to make a browser mmo like Ikariam or Travian in terms of money, time, skill needed?

To all thoose people who say they could make a better game then this, could you have done it 10 years ago? this was released 1999.....

Originally posted by SaintViktor

I actually think WoW is a pretty good game but when Blizzard starts touting subscription numbers after 5 years making people think they have 11 mill actually playing I just have to give them the old /facepalm not to mention how they just copy everyone else's hard work. I just wish for once they actually make something that is their own and not a copy of somoene else's hard work.

Diablo, Warcraft ?(rts) Atleast I don't think they were copies, I could be wrong I'm not that old ^^

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Let's put it the simple way. People are NOT rating Blizzard as they do with the other publishers on the market. Period

Period.

Wow introduced in just the last months  the following:

- leveling through PvP (guys AV from 60 to 79 is a must these days. You have to be in there to believe it).

- joining the BG's from anywhere (to avoid the "grind feeling" of pve leveling if you're not on a pvp server).

- dual specs (healers/tanks/dps you name it : it runs the game).

- everyone and his dog do raids and hi end heroics these days. EVERYONE,... so much the sentence "no more instances can be launched" is a standard these days....

- And the next revolution is clustered dungeon servers. A lfg tool the size of 20 servers ...enter ... CATA.

---OK that was just 4 months of latest "trivial" additions and news....

--------> Now think of the following: ..... suppose it was Blizzard who put out Aion or Fallen Earth....

I think the world would go mad.

To come back to the OP's question: it's the same why people hate Microsoft, why people hate the president, why people hate everything that stands for domination and power.

But seeing through it ... everyone knows it's a damned good game paid by millions just to play it.

Blizzard is God, It's a well known fact.

Originally posted by redbran

Originally posted by bboneheadd

You could try Wakfu, same as dofus graphics wise but some major diffrences or final fantasy online . That's the only turn based games I can think of ^^

 

Wakfu isn't out yet, is it?

You can download Wakfu from the french website, the text is mostly  french with some english, maybe they fully tanslated into english now not sure havent played Wakfu in a while.

You could try Wakfu, same as dofus graphics wise but some major diffrences or final fantasy online . That's the only turn based games I can think of ^^

As far as I know there customer support for the english speaking players is not to good... audio code option has been down for about a year now and still not fixed....

Very nice game indeed underestimated That's for sure, graphics must be a turn off for most  players to actually check it out but hopefully this review will help the game out a bit :)

Oh and I know I haven't played dofus in a while but they have good quest system now ? :O last I remember dofus had very unrewarding quests.

Another tip to get more LP Go to the personal beliefs tab and increase your Peacufull or Change beliefs that way you get 29% more LP :)

I started this game a few hours ago and it's pretty fun so far, hard to get into but fun. Few tips for begginers that I picked up so far

Start by finding a tree and picking branches and build baskets till you get 200 LP then learn pottery go to a river and dig for clay and make Tree planter's pots. Oh and don't try to swim across a river you will die and will have to make a new charecter yes permanent death, I learned this the hard way :D

Social aspect of a mmo does not mean you have to talk to every person you see, Walking around minding your business killing the mobs you need to finish a quest and seeing other people running around just like you gives you the atmosphere of a mmo that no other rpg can match.

Social category has not changed much at all sure it might be new to consoles and such playing nazi zombies with 4 people online but for pc no.... take CS for example.

What about runescape? It has and will have more subs then any of the 10 games on the list in 2012 (besides wow ofcourse)

Seems like everyone ingnores the fact that runescape is #2 most subscribed game out right now