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Should MMO players be able to freely choose the appearence of their characters, or should they have to earn it?

2008-09-03 07:29:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
 
...players wear ANY armour in the 'appearence' slots, because you can't have a Warrior who looks like a mage. Not only does it makes no sense that someone's able to hide plate armour under cloth robes, but it's game unbalancing in PvP. When I was playing my WoW rogue, I would deal with a Warrior and a Mage differently in the battlegrounds...
 
Tags: appearence, players, appearence slot, slot, models, armour models, armour, appearence slots, armour dyes
 
 
 
 
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LotRO Expansion To Bring Players into the Mines of Moria

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2008-03-14 16:35:11 by Stephany in Gaming Today
...players to explore the ancient underground cities of the dwarves, battle nasty characters within the depths, face off with the Watcher, be a part of the fateful release of Durins Bane, meet the ethereal Galadriel and more. Oh my, we get to fight The Balrog, sweet holy yes The new expansion is tentatively expected to be available sometime this...
 
Tags: moria, level, level-up, level cap players, players, moria promotion, mines, moria represents, enter moria
 
 
 
 
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World of Warcraft Exposed: 'The Players Behind the Scenes'

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2008-04-24 08:00:38 by mzenke in GameSetWatch
...players that have had the most direct impact on the game are, of course, the people actually running it. Blizzard Entertainment's jump from RTS developer to MMOG powerhouse seems like a no-brainer in retrospect, thanks largely to the people behind the project. Rob Pardo , for example, was a Designer on the Warcraft II , StarCraft , and Diablo...
 
Tags: player-run organizations, player, word player, player population, player experiences, player ecology, player combat, player perceptions, player community
 
 
 
 
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Do the most active players shape the opinion of the rest?

2008-01-29 08:12:55 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...players matter because they influence who buys and plays the game. The players who spend the most time in the game, the raiders, are supposedly also the guild leaders, the bloggers, the forum commenters, and so on. The theory is that if Blizzard wouldn't cater towards them, wouldn't spend more development time on their need than their number...
 
Tags: easy, easy raid dungeons, players, easy epics, pvp, realm pvp, epics, pvp epics, raiders
 
 
 
 
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Hooking new players

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2008-02-18 21:14:58 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...players to a massively multiplayer online game while still offering depth to dedicated gamers Remember that by pre-registering at pirates.gamearena.com.au , gamers can download the game or secure one of the 100,000 DVD copies, which will be available from February 27 The game includes a seven-day trial subscription and on-going play will...
 
Tags: free, free trader, spanish free traders, british free traders, players, people, people start, start, people on-board
 
 
 
 
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UC Irvine to compare WoW players from America, China

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2008-09-13 13:00:00 by Samuel Axon in Massively
...players, according to the Orange County Register. The study will mostly focus on explaining why American players are much more likely to employ modifications such as Cosmos than Chinese players are, but project lead Bonnie Nardi made some interesting observations outside the scope of this particular endeavor For example, she noted that...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese players, chinese play, play, warcraft players, american world, world, american players, warcraft
 
 
 
 
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Free PC Game Dungeon Runners Launches Update - Advertising Added and Non-Paying Players Benefit

2007-12-12 00:20:32 by Boggslash in Free PC Gaming Blog
 
...players will now be open to all. The only difference is that there will be advertising in loading screens and a banner positioned at the top of the game window. This advertising will offset the costs to play I LOVE this model! It gives us the choice let the advertisers pay for us to play in exchange for ad impressions or put up the cash...
 
Tags: dungeon runners, free, game, dungeon runners game, play game, play, free accounts, game free, hackand-slash game
 
 
 
 
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Attractive offers of WoW accounts for WoW players

2008-04-07 06:00:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...players are fascinated by complicated games, in which their efforts have to be every day bigger, strategy games become more and more popular. One of the most popular strategy games is World of Warcraft and its success and popularity can be noticed owing to the number of people who pay for playing this game. The possibility to buy WoW accounts...
 
Tags: strategy, quality strategy games, strategy games, attractive, popular strategy games, games, accounts, players, online games
 
 
 
 
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Veni, Vidi, Bloggi: MMO Players - An Underutilized Resource

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2008-07-07 10:47:05 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...players. We spend gaming-related hours outside of actually gaming. And we do it for free Different gaming companies here and there have programs that take some small advantage of this. EQ2 has a guide program; however, you aren't permitted to do it on your own server and are randomly assigned another server. I had considered applying at one...
 
Tags: players, guild leaders, guild, guild recruitment fair, volunteers, guide program, fair, player volunteers, community