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- The Anvil of Crom: Alternate advancement explained
- PAX 2011: SWTOR Alderaan PvP session captured on video
- Global Chat: Choosing your path edition
- The Daily Grind: Does Origin's new EULA make you feel better about playing an EA game?
- Massively exclusive: Luvinia Online enchants, crafts, enhances and reshapes
- China and Korea partner to form a $46M investment fund for game developers
- The Secret World's beta signup postponed
- One Shots: Stop and smell the tree
- The Mog Log: Land and Hand rising
- PAX 2011: WildStar panel discusses playing with paths the Bartle way
- The Tattered Notebook: Jeremy and I go house-hunting
| The Anvil of Crom: Alternate advancement explained Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Game mechanics, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Anvil of Crom, Guides  This week I'm going to step back and take a high-altitude look at one of the game's mechanical aspects, that being the alternate advancement system that shipped with 2010's Rise of the Godslayer expansion. I say high-altitude because many of the AA tricks you'll learn over the course of your AoC career will be class-specific, and though I'll eventually get to those in my series of class guides, today I'll start with an overview of the system as well as a bit of commentary relating to why you should care about it. For you free-to-play folk, yeah, Funcom did lock your AAs behind the paywall for the time being, and yeah there is quite a difference between a "fresh" level 80 and a level 80 who has had even a little bit of AA training. Join me past the cut to see if upgrading is worth it. Continue reading The Anvil of Crom: Alternate advancement explained
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| PAX 2011: SWTOR Alderaan PvP session captured on video Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, Events, real-world, Game mechanics, MMO industry, New titles, PvP, News items, Star Wars: The Old Republic  The video runs for around 10 minutes, and we get to see quite a lot of action as well as a good bit of the layout of the Alderaan warzone. Also of note is TOR's unique take on respawning after death. There's no annoying countdown timer like in your standard online PvP match. Instead, you'll spawn on your ship and have to fly a speederbike back to the battle zone in real time, which gives you a tactical view of what's going on as well as the feeling of still participating in the game as opposed to watching a clock for several seconds. Check out the clip after the cut.  Massively's on the ground in Seattle during the weekend of August 26-28, bringing you all the best news from PAX Prime 2011. Whether you're dying to know more about SWTOR, Guild Wars 2, City of Heroes, or any MMO in between, you can bet we'll have it covered!Continue reading PAX 2011: SWTOR Alderaan PvP session captured on video
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| Global Chat: Choosing your path edition Posted: 28 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Massively meta, Global Chat, Miscellaneous  This week's comments have proved to be all about decisions. Where do you want to go in a game that you purchased when you often have a broad variety of choices available? What game should you support in the hopes that it will succeed? Should you hope for another game to die so that your favorite one might live? Will you go down the creepy forest path or run back to the car? OK, maybe that last one wasn't in the comments this week, but the rest of them were. Jump on past the break to see some of the choice comments from the past week's articles. Continue reading Global Chat: Choosing your path edition
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| The Daily Grind: Does Origin's new EULA make you feel better about playing an EA game? Posted: 28 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Miscellaneous  A few crafty fans of the upcoming MMO looked more deeply into the service, which sparked an eruption of rage. Origin was denounced as everything from spyware to an elaborate identify theft system. EA recently responded by changing the service's EULA, making it absolutely clear that the company is not out to steal anyone's personal information. But is that enough for you? Has Origin completely soured you on SWTOR and any other EA game, or do you trust the new Origin EULA? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!  Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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| Massively exclusive: Luvinia Online enchants, crafts, enhances and reshapes Posted: 27 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, Free-to-play, Dev Diaries  So what does Luvinia's system for gear upgrades look like, and how can players best utilize these features to fine-tune their characters' potential? We'll let the devs at Outspark answer this for themselves: You gotta have options Last time we talked a little bit about some ways to make what you've got even better with energy stones. While the energy stones are temporary and add quite a bit of personalized bang for the buck, there are also a few ways to permanently update your gear to better suit your role. The two big ones we'll cover are enchanting and card placement, but there are a few other tricks in game to help you too. Continue reading Massively exclusive: Luvinia Online enchants, crafts, enhances and reshapes
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| China and Korea partner to form a $46M investment fund for game developers Posted: 27 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, Legal, Miscellaneous  Kunlun is a major player in China, claiming a respective 20% of the market in the country with over $187 million in sales last year, enough to take second place. The company owns Koramgame, an MMO publisher that's made inroads with both the Chinese and Korean markets with titles like Three Kingdoms Online and Dynasty Saga. Koramgame already has over two million subscribers worldwide. Koramgame's Joe Zhou hopes that it'll capture a slice of the American pie, too: "We are catching more and more attention from North American gamers now."
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| The Secret World's beta signup postponed Posted: 27 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Horror, Events, real-world, MMO industry, New titles, News items, The Secret World  A blurb on the game's website delivers the official "we're deeply sorry for the inconvenience" yada yada and also goes on to say that the registration for The Secret War event is delayed "until further notice." We'll keep our eyes peeled, and our heads on a swivel, as it's no doubt the fault of those dastardly Illuminati. [Thanks to Paul for the tip!]
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| One Shots: Stop and smell the tree Posted: 27 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, One Shots, RIFT  While questing in RIFT, my Rogue Simbala has so often run by this tree located near Hammerlord Post in Moonshade Highlands and admired how it stretches over the road. Each time, she stops to admire its beauty and the way its pink leaves slowly blow off into the wind and the glow it casts. In all my travels so far in RIFT, this spot is memorable.We're looking at the best MMO environments all this week, but next week we'll be revisiting another old favorite of One Shots: bug week. Whether it's unwanted guests in cutscenes, funny graphic glitches, or a prank you played on a buddy, we want to see. Send your screenshots in to oneshots@massively.com and we'll feature them in next week's One Shots!
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| The Mog Log: Land and Hand rising Posted: 27 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, Patches, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log  Of course, we've also seen no shortage of people happy about both of these changes; I don't mean to imply that there's some sort of uniform opposition to this approach. And these are big changes, without a doubt. Coeurl Step essentially removes monsters from the equation for all but the rarest gathering attempts, and changes to synthesis greatly simplify the system's overall level of complexity. It's easy to see both of these as negatives, but it's also easy to see both of them as positives when you look at the roles of the classes in the game and the overall thrust of the changes. Continue reading The Mog Log: Land and Hand rising
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| PAX 2011: WildStar panel discusses playing with paths the Bartle way Posted: 27 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, real-world, Game mechanics, Previews, News items, Massively Event Coverage, WildStar  The panel began with a brief viewing of the game's cinematic trailer to kick things off, followed by an explanation of the game's core design philosophy. As the team from Carbine Studios (Jeremy Gaffney, Eric DeMilt, and Mike Donatelli) put it, most games are built with a basic set of design assumptions that push players in a fixed direction determined by the designers. WildStar was built from the ground up to let players enjoy the game when they want to, with whomever they want, and most importantly however they want. The paths are the key to that system -- multiple overlaid playstyles that ensure you have your own play experience no matter what class or race you pick. Continue reading PAX 2011: WildStar panel discusses playing with paths the Bartle way
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| The Tattered Notebook: Jeremy and I go house-hunting Posted: 27 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Tattered Notebook, Guides  There's a plethora of new content that will appeal to both new and veteran gamers, but of all the additions, the one that's most intriguing is the new house rating system. Players will now be able to design, showcase, and rank each other's homes. The housing directory will also make it a lot easier to find and visit players' homes, something that was increasingly difficult to do because of all the different types of homes -- and addresses. As it so happens, Massively's Jeremy Stratton, who pens the Runes of Magic column Lost Pages of Taborea, has been spending quite a bit of time over in EQII's Norrath and fell in love with the housing system. This week's Tattered Notebook features Jeremy's impressions of housing in EQII, and then he and I present a few tips for those who are interested in showcasing homes through the new system. Continue reading The Tattered Notebook: Jeremy and I go house-hunting
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