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- One Shots: Swimsuit issue
- The Daily Grind: What mistakes did you make when you first started in MMOs?
- Hi-Rez's Todd Harris argues Tribes: Ascend is a 'complete' and 'content-rich' experience
- The Tattered Notebook: Speculation's last stand for EverQuest Next
- The Mog Log: Final Fantasy XIV makes me happy in small ways
- Star Trek Online state of the game update talks Season 8, reputation, and more
| Posted: 21 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: World of Warcraft, Screenshots, City of Heroes, Culture, Star Trek Online, One Shots, The Secret World, Humor, Miscellaneous  We kick off today's swimsuit-laden issue of One Shots with this summer vacation shot of reader Draxos on Star Trek Online's Risa. "This is a shot of my Orion character as she ponders what she'll have to do for more Lohlunat Favors. Dance competitions, Horga'hn Hunts, meeting someone called Pavyl at remote locations on the island at night, all in order to earn a few Favors; it's just such hard work. Well at least there's been no mention of Jamaharon... so far." It's called "sex," Star Trek writers. You can use the word without giggling these days. Anyway, let's move on where more scantily clad flesh awaits! Continue reading One Shots: Swimsuit issue
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| The Daily Grind: What mistakes did you make when you first started in MMOs? Posted: 21 Jul 2013 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  I wasn't aware of guilds when I was puttering around in Anarchy Online in the early days. I think I played City of Heroes without slotting any enhancements for the longest time. And there were those initial World of Warcraft dungeon runs where I thought nothing was wrong with rushing into fights even though I was just DPS and the tank was over there beating his head on the wall due to my stupidity. But enough about me! Let's hear about you: What mistakes did you make when you first started in MMOs?  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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| Hi-Rez's Todd Harris argues Tribes: Ascend is a 'complete' and 'content-rich' experience Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, Interviews, MMO Industry, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, MMOFPS  Since launch, we added 54 new weapons. We added a new game mode, a new leveling system, custom servers, server browser, shielded base assets, 29 new maps - all free - and all that in a brief period of time. We also added an option for people to pay one price and get all the weapons. I don't know of any other free-to-play game, other than our own SMITE, that has that option. It's free-to-play, but it does have a twist. You can get all the gameplay elements for the price of a normal game. It's fairly complete in its content.Harris also tells RPS that a new tutorial would be only a "modest improvement as far as new people sticking with the game"; instead, he says, he hopes to facilitate community resources. But mostly, he appears to believe the game has already found its audience. "The days of major changes in the game are behind us," he says. What about insinuations that the studio bit off more than it could chew? Harris explains that the studio has three small teams working on multiple games and has learned "learned the value of focus." According to Harris, Tribes has supported itself commercially and profits were always returned to the game's development. Even so, the studio is focused on the MOBA space: "SMITE is doing well enough that it's justifying a large amount of resources on it . . . we see the biggest studio opportunity on SMITE."
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| The Tattered Notebook: Speculation's last stand for EverQuest Next Posted: 20 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, MMO Industry, New Titles, Free-to-Play, The Tattered Notebook, EverQuest Next  Hype is a powerful tool, able to work people into quite a frenzy. As often as we've been burned by unfulfilled promises, you'd think we we'd skip the hype boat, but that's not the case; we often book a ticket and hop on anyway. We just can't help but feel our heart strings pulled and hope renewed when a new title comes out flashing our favorite buzzwords. And EQ Next has offered a few: emergent gameplay, sandbox, innovation. From there, every little morsel of news -- no matter how few and far between -- has been like a drop of fuel to the fire, elevating our hopes and building expectations. Is the hype justified? We'll all have a better idea of that soon, though not soon enough. Until then, here's a recap of what we do know to chew on until the main course is served in two weeks. Then you can let your speculation run wild, even if I can't! Continue reading The Tattered Notebook: Speculation's last stand for EverQuest Next
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| The Mog Log: Final Fantasy XIV makes me happy in small ways Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log  Not everything I want to write about does that. There are a lot of things that I think the game does right that can't be discussed over the length of a column without repeating myself several dozen times. I don't want to write that column and odds are good you don't want to read it, either. What I can do instead, though, is compile several of those points into a single column. I want to look at the things that I like about the game that aren't big enough to merit a whole column but are big enough to be worth mentioning. Continue reading The Mog Log: Final Fantasy XIV makes me happy in small ways
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| Star Trek Online state of the game update talks Season 8, reputation, and more Posted: 20 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, News Items, Star Trek Online, Free-to-Play  Stahl does talk a bit about the Season 8 update which will release "later this year." It will focus on endgame missions for all factions as well as the game's first Space Adventure Zone. Also in the works is a new reputation system that represents a "major shift" from the current mechanic that Cryptic hopes will make it "more approachable than some of the previous systems." There's also a bit of info about Season 8's Feature Episode, as well as a mention of "a major investment in Gateway" to upgrade STO's web and mobile functionality. You can read the full letter via the links below. [Thanks matixzun!]
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