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• • Answer on WAR vs AoC right here!

  • Originally posted by Kanubis
    

    If they both turn out to be awesome games in their own right, will the universe implode?

    I'm sorry if the mere revelation that two competing games can both rock has caused fits and dribbling in some of the people who frequent these threads....

    
    /Golfclap

    Best Post in this thread both of these games have the potential to either be huge hits or complete flops.

    I for one hope both become huge hits. Anything beats the tired WOW vs XXX threads.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 12:26 PM
    General Discussion
• • What is your "taking a MMO break" game?

  • My favs are Need for Speed Most Wanted & Carbon on the 360 good fun racing fun.

  • Posted: 4/29/08 9:55 AM
    General Discussion
• • AoC Publisher Sneaks an extra $5 from would-be subscribers

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    Originally posted by iwantmyswg
    

    i think fc went to the $OE school of how to rip your players off.

    
    If so then some of you went to the school of Hyperbole. You're getting a head start for a nominal fee I don't see this as being sneaky.

     

    BTW the abligatory SOE dig no longer nets brownie points, time for a new poster child.

  • Posted: 4/21/08 6:12 AM
    Age of Conan
• • General: $73,600 Average Game Industry Salary

  • Originally posted by CaesarsGhost
    

    That's a little less then 3x and a little more then 2x what I made at 2/3 companies I worked for.  The 3rd company was a Contract job so it wasn't salary.

    I'll have to read deeper to figure out where they got this from... maybe that's the average salary for a owner for a game company and I'm boning myself. :-P

    Yes I'd be interested to know where these figures come from as well. 

    I know some regular high end programers that made cheese like that but not regular Artists, Audio engineers, Designers or Producers. That's far above what I was making and that's after 5 years at one company.

    I suspect the numbers got skewed a bit..

  • Posted: 4/15/08 10:38 AM
    General Discussion
• • Why I Hate PvP and PK: And Why I Quit the Last MMO

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    Originally posted by goneglockin
    

    Boo' F'ing Hoo.  You knew this game had PvP.  You knew something lame like this could happen.  Now you're bitching about it?  It's the people like you who ruined this entire genre before it barely got started.  People thinking their sub money gives them the right to influence design doctrine, and spineless developers caving into them.

    This is why all MMORPGs suck.  They try to be everything to everyone and end up being nothing. 

    
    Hyperbole for the win...

     

    No All MMORPG's don't suck it's the childish brats that make them suck as you say. Ever heard of the word honor? Back in the day griefers were hunted down and slaughtered like game and rightfully so. The problem is as society has taken a down turn MMO behavior has followed suit. Look I love PVP but other than a few titles like DAOC & GW for instance by and large it's been handled quite poorly.

    Take some lawless brat who can play for hours accumulating high end PVE gear. Next put Him / Her in a guild with like minded dopes= bad news. I agree with a previous posters idea of NPC squads that actively hunt down these deviants. Towns where these types are KOS heck even bounties on their heads.

    While Anarchy sounds cool in theory it can never be. Remember pure lawlessness = Chaos and action without consiquence is completely at odds with the concept of MMO's. Old school tactics that rely on honor mean nothing to this new generation of players hence stronger deterents are in order.

  • Posted: 3/29/08 6:39 AM
    General Discussion