MMO Updates |
- Global Chat: October 30-November 5, 2011
- The Daily Grind: Do you feel companies do enough to fight bots?
- Massively Speaking Episode 172: Inbox purge
- The Mog Log: Five zero
- Aion 3.0 trailer details housing, new dungeons, and more
- Tattered Notebook: EQII turns seven, time for a retrospective
- The Road to Mordor: The 10 most memorable quests in LotRO
- City of Steam browser title features unique steampunk world
- Massively Exclusive: RIFT - Drowning in Snow, Chapter V
| Global Chat: October 30-November 5, 2011 Posted: 06 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Opinion, Global Chat, Miscellaneous  Global Chat this week touches on some of our most reliable hot topics: free-to-play and game design. Business models, as well as how games are created and whom they're created for, are always good for discussion, so follow along after the jump to see what a few of our readers had to say. Continue reading Global Chat: October 30-November 5, 2011
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| The Daily Grind: Do you feel companies do enough to fight bots? Posted: 06 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  Development teams, of course, regard bots as fundamental problems, and usually a great deal of time is devoted to trying to quash bots for farming or repetitive tasks. But do you feel enough is done to try and stop them? Do you believe they're a result of game systems that are designed for too much grind and not enough fun? Or do you think they're just another face of cheating and deserve no special attention?  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 Speaking Episode 172: Inbox purge Posted: 05 Nov 2011 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Opinion, Humor, Massively Speaking, Miscellaneous  Have a comment for the podcasters? Shoot an email to shawn@massively.com. We may just read your email on the air! Get the podcast: [iTunes] Subscribe to Massively Speaking directly in iTunes. [RSS] Add Massively Speaking to your RSS aggregator. [MP3] Download the MP3 directly. Listen here on the page: Read below the cut for the full show notes.  Massively Speaking is the official podcast of Massively.com. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Shawn Schuster and Community Manager Rubi Bayer, Massively Speaking takes on the week's biggest news and dev interviews with plenty of opinion, rants, and laughs thrown in for good measure. Join us every Wednesday afternoon to listen in and see what we'll say next!Continue reading Massively Speaking Episode 172: Inbox purge
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| Posted: 05 Nov 2011 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Endgame, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log  Receiving the full red cobalt set a level earlier did mean that the level was a bit anticlimactic at the end, but it all balances out. But now that I'm here at max level, I can look back on the path as a whole and have a different perspective on several parts of the game's structure, both the good and the bad. Especially since it's the first time around that really matters. Continue reading The Mog Log: Five zero
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| Aion 3.0 trailer details housing, new dungeons, and more Posted: 05 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Aion, Expansions, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Patches, News items  The four-minute clip takes us inside the Promised Land patch's player housing mechanics, not to mention six new instanced areas and a variety of open world locales. You can also glimpse the patch's assorted air and ground mounts. We reported on some early looks at the 3.0 content last month, but the new trailer is even more extensive. Head past the cut to view it in full, and then mosey over to MMO Culture for a few new screenshots. Continue reading Aion 3.0 trailer details housing, new dungeons, and more
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| Tattered Notebook: EQII turns seven, time for a retrospective Posted: 05 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Expansions, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Tattered Notebook  Continue reading Tattered Notebook: EQII turns seven, time for a retrospective
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| The Road to Mordor: The 10 most memorable quests in LotRO Posted: 05 Nov 2011 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Road to Mordor  What makes a memorable quest? Here's my litmus test: When I sat down first thing in the morning, all bleary-eyed, to write this article, these quests bubbled up to the forefront of my mind. They've "stuck," for lack of a more precise term, in my head. They've made an impression, and because of that I feel they're among the cream of the crop in LotRO's repertoire. For today's Road to Mordor, I'm going to simply list the first 10 most memorable quests that came to me. I actually was going to just do six, but couldn't stop myself there; I could barely halt at 10, if that gives you an indication. These might not be your most favorite quests or even the best in the game, but they've been the ones that have stuck with me through thick and thin.' Warning: Past this point thar be spoilers! Beware! Continue reading The Road to Mordor: The 10 most memorable quests in LotRO
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| City of Steam browser title features unique steampunk world Posted: 05 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Game mechanics, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Browser  An interview at Light Speed Gaming spills the beans on the browser-based title, which is being developed by a Chinese firm called Mechanist Games. If you've ever wanted to play a mechanical dwarf, or explore a world that is literally a giant machine, City of Steam may be your game. The setting is borrowed from a series of RPG books and incorporates all the elements of fantastical steampunk (plus a few novel twists) that fans of the genre have come to expect. "The world itself is a giant machine, and is, in fact flat. The elemental planes aren't found by mystical methods -- you can literally walk across the teeth of the world to reach them. The sun and stars are actually tethered to the world, orbiting as gyroscopic pieces of the superstructure of existence," according to the designers. Head to Light Speed Gaming for more on the setting and the game mechanics, and don't forget to view the video embed after the break. [Thanks to Soren for the tip!] Continue reading City of Steam browser title features unique steampunk world
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| Massively Exclusive: RIFT - Drowning in Snow, Chapter V Posted: 05 Nov 2011 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Lore, RIFT  The wait for the next part is over as of today, however, and we can promise you that this installment will indeed answer the question of who the traitor is. But it might very well not be who you had expected. Take a look past the cut for the fifth chapter of Drowning in Snow, and keep your eyes open for the next installment. Continue reading Massively Exclusive: RIFT - Drowning in Snow, Chapter V
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