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- Rise and Shiny: Aura Kingdom
- One Shots: Parking the Enterprise
- The Daily Grind: Where will your favorite MMO be in 10 years?
- Sevencore is back and in beta
- Massively's winter holidays MMO roundup
- Pathfinder's latest dev blog outlines reputation, alignment
- The Mog Log: A week of Final Fantasy XIV's patch 2.1
- EQN Landmark video talks procedural content, visits Everfrost
- Norrathian Notebook: EverQuest Next Round Table roundup, round three
| Posted: 22 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Screenshots, Video, Business Models, Game Mechanics, Interviews, New Titles, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Hands-On, Casual, Humor, Family, Rise and Shiny, Livestream  I have more of an issue with the game's early-game blandness. Unless you are the type of player who is used to soft-grinds and fast leveling or Anime-styled games that are usually played in groups, you'd think that the game was literally nothing but the pressing of a few buttons. I certainly thought it was that for the first dozen or so levels. Luckily, the game opens up and becomes fun, but it takes a while to get there. I sat down with game producer Aaron Biedma to ask about the controversial packs, combat mechanics, and adorable dragons. Continue reading Rise and Shiny: Aura Kingdom
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| One Shots: Parking the Enterprise Posted: 22 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Star Trek Online, Guild Wars 2, One Shots, RIFT, Miscellaneous  Fun fact: This was just one of dozens of screenshots that Mark sent in February 2013 when we put out the Great One Shots Call for more pictures. A less-fun fact: We're starting to run out of community-submitted screenshots to share with you, and our well might be dry by the end of January. Remember, it's you who keeps One Shots alive! Continue reading One Shots: Parking the Enterprise
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| The Daily Grind: Where will your favorite MMO be in 10 years? Posted: 22 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  It also got me wondering where MMOs will be in, say, 2023. As futuristic as that number looks, it's only a decade away -- but a decade can be huge for an MMO's lifespan. So let's put on our farseeing hats today and try to predict where our favorite games will be like in 10 years. Will they still be around? Will you be playing them in a VR harness? Will they have a half-dozen more expansions and a feature set that looks a lot like your wish list today? What do you think?  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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| Posted: 21 Dec 2013 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, MMO Industry, News Items, Free-to-Play  The repurposed sci-fantasy title is in beta through January 13th, and you can sign up via the new website. You can read our impressions of the original game here. [Thanks Paul!]
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| Massively's winter holidays MMO roundup Posted: 21 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Culture, Events (Real-World), Events (In-Game), MMO Industry, Patches, Guides, Miscellaneous  If you're trying to catch everything in your favorite games, we're here to help. We've got a round up of the various winter celebrations across the gaming sphere all bundled together right here for you. If something catches your eye, hop in and join in the festivities! Continue reading Massively's winter holidays MMO roundup
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| Pathfinder's latest dev blog outlines reputation, alignment Posted: 21 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, PvP, News Items, Dev Diaries, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online, Buy-to-Play  If you missed this week's Pathfinder dev blog, well, go read it! It features an update/intro penned by GoblinWorks CEO Ryan Dancey, while the meat and potatoes concerning the fantasy sandbox's alignment and reputation systems are brought to you by designer Lee Hammock."Reputation is our system for measuring how a player behaves in game," Hammock writes. "We want to provide a means by which a player can judge the aggressiveness of other players at a glance." Pathfinder's rep "has no bearing on your interactions with NPCs, quests, escalation cycles, or other PvE content." Alignment features two components. One, the player's core alignment, is chosen at creation and "is the intended alignment of the character." Active alignment, on the other hand, "begins at core alignment values but changes based on player action." Specific examples and much more detail are available via the links below. [Thanks Chrysillis!]
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| The Mog Log: A week of Final Fantasy XIV's patch 2.1 Posted: 21 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, Endgame, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log, Dungeons, Housing  The point is that 2.1 is pretty dang huge, even if it includes one feature that's a massive blemish. So let's take a look at what the patch has to offer, how the various new features hold up, and where the patch falls down -- other than with housing, which is already a great big "fall down" that will be addressed all by itself. Continue reading The Mog Log: A week of Final Fantasy XIV's patch 2.1
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| EQN Landmark video talks procedural content, visits Everfrost Posted: 21 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, PvE, Free-to-Play, EverQuest Next, Sandbox  "We didn't want to create the world for Landmark the way we did in previous games. It needs to be giant, it needs to be huge," Michaels says. "So we couldn't go down the path of hand-crafting everything in the world. It would take way too long and people would consume that content way before we could create more of it." SOE's solution is procedural content, and the video attempts to explain how the firm's concept art, "field guides," and various assets fit together and enable devs "to basically press a button and generate a continent that looks hand-crafted." Continue reading EQN Landmark video talks procedural content, visits Everfrost
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| Norrathian Notebook: EverQuest Next Round Table roundup, round three Posted: 21 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Polls, Video, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Free-to-Play, Community Q&A, The Tattered Notebook, EverQuest Next, Sandbox, Norrathian Notebook  Did you participate in all the polls the first time through? If not, we've got them all right here for you. Go ahead and join in the discussions; it is never too late to voice your opinions! You never know when your comment might be the one that turns the tide of thinking or offers a new solution no one had considered before. Continue reading Norrathian Notebook: EverQuest Next Round Table roundup, round three
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