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Altdorf fell for real this time

2008-10-13 11:17:04 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...game, with lots of zones, a great amount of content, and theoretically a large variety of options what to do at any given moment. But there are so many people who skipped all this content, just selected the one option that leveled them up the fastest (scenarios), and after slightly over 3 weeks basically "finished" Warhammer Online. What will...
 
Tags: game, huge game, game design, real game, city, inevitable city, time, altdorf, city sieges
 
 
 
 
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Turning your biggest strength into your biggest weakness

2008-10-13 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...games, but players tend towards the activity that gives the best reward to effort ratio. And in WAR that is definitely scenarios. So even on high population servers, after having to queue to get in, you can still press the open group button and find no group with more than 2 players in a 10 minute radius. Needless to say that 2 players can't...
 
Tags: public quests, pve public quests, suddenly players, players, scenarios, nerf scenarios, pvp scenarios, quests, fun
 
 
 
 
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Open Sunday Thread

2008-10-12 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
So, what do you want to talk about today? It's the open Sunday thread again, where it's your turn to write, propose subjects, and discuss
 
Tags: sunday thread, propose subjects, discuss, talk
 
 
 
 
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Blizzcon announcement: Starcraft II will be episodic

2008-10-11 09:35:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...game, but three. You can buy the main campaign for the three races as separate packages. Is that a cheap money-tripling scheme from Blizzard or a useful service? Discuss
 
Tags: diablo iii class, anonymous poster, starcraft, main campaign, real news, mike morhaime, blizzcon, cheap, races
 
 
 
 
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WAR announces 750,000 registered players

2008-10-11 08:06:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
Mythic has a press release announcing 750,000 "registered players". Interesting term. I'd guess a "registered player" is more than a "copy sold", but less than a "subscriber", what do you think? In any case Mythic is also increasing their marketing effort, so there is a good chance that they'll reach the predicted 1 million players before Wrath...
 
Tags: players, million players, press release, mythic, reach, effort, subscriber, lich, player
 
 
 
 
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A WAR plan

2008-10-10 09:23:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...games, are heavily dependant on the quality of their gear and stat bonuses. So having a main who is both rich and able to make great stat boost talismans should make playing that tank easy. I think I'll move over to the dark elf area, and level up there, to play through another series of quests. That leaves the chaos area in case I come back...
 
Tags: war, quit war, level, reach level, quit, free, pre-order free time, play, tank
 
 
 
 
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Tug of WAR

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2008-10-10 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
...game to play is based on mentally comparing the WoW I know well with the current state of WAR. And the reasons why that decision tends against WAR are as follows PvE content: From level 1 to about 15 I was happily playing WAR as a PvE game with the occasional PvP sprinkled in whenever I wanted. But then leveling up got slower and slower in...
 
Tags: war, play war, play, decision gauge, virtual decision gauge, war unplayable, game, decent pve game, public quest experience
 
 
 
 
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Groundhog Day

2008-10-09 06:17:44 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...game rules. And it has a beginning and an end, being currently in the third "telling". The Lord of the Ring Online has a series of "book" epic quests, telling a story that spans the whole game, and is related to the saga in the Tolkien books. Age of Conan up to level 20 has an interesting system where you can switch back and forth from...
 
Tags: epic quest line, quest line, quest line continues, quest, main quest, quest journal, quest rewards, quest continues, quest tree
 
 
 
 
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Tome Tactics

2008-10-08 15:52:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...game. Doh So yes, you can unlock tome tactics in your tome of knowledge already, but no, you won't get the actual tactic before Mythic patches the vendor back in
 
Tags: tome, tome unlocks, tome tactic yesterday, tome tactic, tome tactics, unlock tome tactics, vendor, champion bandit, barak varr
 
 
 
 
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Guess the BlizzCon 2008 announcement

2008-10-08 10:17:11 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...game. But as he already announced Diablo III in Paris this year, and the release date for Wrath of the Lich King has already been announced as well, it is hard to guess what he'll announce at the BlizzCon 2008 this weekend. Nothing? Patch 3.0 for WoW? World of Warcraft II? World of Starcraft? Something completely unexpected? Or something lame...
 
Tags: blizzcon, mike morhaime walks, mike, announcement, crystal ball fails, starcraft, starts friday, blog post,