Recent Comments:
The Daily Grind: Would you check back in on Age of Conan for free? {Massively}
Feb 26th 2009 3:19PM I wouldn't try AoC again if they refunded what I paid for the box AND paid me $15/month to do it.
So much potential, so poorly implemented, so not ever getting installed on my gaming rig again.
The Daily Grind: Are you going to purchase Darkfall? {Massively}
Feb 19th 2009 10:52AM Sadly, it won't. Unlike the Dredlordz days of UO, there won't be a population of victims for them to prey on. People aren't stupid. No one pays to be a victim.
The Daily Grind: Are you going to purchase Darkfall? {Massively}
Feb 19th 2009 10:46AM Open PvP? Hell No.
Plus the "sandbox" stuff sounds suspiciously like AC2, where the game was rushed out the door, and players were asked to fill the roles of the absent NPCs "because you're rebuilding the world"
Didn't work then, not going to work now.
Do WoW players make better citizens? {Massively}
Feb 12th 2009 1:22PM Exactly my first thought. Anyone who has ever listen to Barrens Chat would never consider a WoW player to be a Superior Citizen.
John Smedley clarifies SOE's RMT policies {Massively}
Feb 6th 2009 11:40PM I cancelled every SoE sub I had when the RMT stuff came in. The card game was bad enough. It's a shame. Vanguard is supposed to be having some sort of Reniassance, but I'll never see it now. Smed, you need to step down. You don't have a clue and you're going to KILL SoE with this garbage.
Hell I was looking forward to MMOs on my PS3, but I just put it up on Ebay. Screw Sony.
Massively.com giveaway: Lord of the Rings Online giveaway {Massively}
Nov 7th 2008 8:31AM Definitely the books. So much more detail and background.
Anti-Aliased: Killing the auctioneers is a perfect reason to go to Northrend pt. 2 {Massively}
Oct 30th 2008 2:21PM Hmm. I like me some world changing events. Loved stuff that happened when I was playing Asheron's Call. Nuking of Lagwich, Shadow Invasion, Pookie attacks, Baelzaeron rampages, those were all good. Key: they were operated by game staff with a vested interest in creating an entertaining event and doing things that their targets ultimately ENJOY.
What I don't like is players being empowered to grief me or PvP me when I specifically select a PvE server.
In the AC events, there were occasional PvP elements that were available, but you had to FLAG to participate in those elements. No one was forced to endure ganker kiddies unless they wanted to.
Game designer story-line stuff GOOD.
Joe Pwnface fellow player random poop-flinging NOT GOOD.
Glad I stopped playing WoW way back before the first expansion, when they started talking about having PvP+ content on PvE servers.
Do queues make you more hardcore? {Massively}
Oct 7th 2008 8:30AM John,
It's different because these queues are artificial. They're a side effect of the service providers' infrastructure being inadequate to service all customers efficiently. Rather than spend money to have additional capacity available,
MMO publishers prefer to use queues as a (usually temporary) stop-gap.
I quit WOW long ago over queues. No other MMO I had played before (and I've played 98% of the Western market MMOs) had them, and I won't reward that kind of crap with a subscription fee.
If the lines at the supermarket are long, I expect management to get another register open. If they don't, I leave. I'm rarely disappointed, because at least supermarket management at the stores I go to understand the basic concept of reserve capacity and are capable of putting it into place.
That said, I haven't seen a queue in WAR yet, apart from scenario queues, which are perfectly understandable. With those I can still play the game. Waiting to log in? screw that, I've got other games to play.
N-Tune adds a tuner to your guitar's volume knob {Engadget}
Feb 27th 2008 10:33PM Kinda pointless, actually. Most decent effects pedal rigs have integrated tuners that give much better feedback than this.
Movies on a flash drive not apt to boom anytime soon {Engadget}
Feb 23rd 2008 11:01PM I enjoy having a physical object that says "yes I own this" and doesn't take hours of time to download when I decide to watch it.
